Canning’s community citizen of the year will join the council after being elected unopposed ahead of local government polls in October.

Linda Ross will represent the Nicholson ward after sitting councillor Steve Parkinson opted not to see re-election and no other candidates put their hand up.

Ms Ross was named community citizen of the year at a ceremony in January for her more than 10 years of volunteering at Bannister Creek Primary School and role in fundraising for the P&C Association.

Chief executive of the Australian Post-Tel Institute WA — a City of Canning-based organisation that provides savings and benefits to its members — she now volunteers at Lynwood Senior High School, as well as having helped a visitor centre recover financially after a cyclone, helped seniors and families

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