Sweet Home City Council candidate Walt Volkers is running for much the same reason he ran and served on the council in the 1980s, because the council was hardly listening to the people.
The council was “hardly listening to the people,” Volkers said. “The people need to be listened to. They are the city.”
When he joined the council, “I listened to them,” Volkers said. “Now, they don’t.”
Volkers said that a councilman or a…