The Reeve of Hanover is settling into his new role as Eastern District Director for Association of Manitoba Municipalities.

Stan Toews was elected to that post last week at AMM's annual convention in Winnipeg.

"It's quite an honour," says Toews. "And humbling in some ways for me to represent the whole eastern district, that they have faith that I'm capable of doing the job well."

Toews will be filling a vacancy and because of that it is a term position that ends in June. He can then run for re-election at the June district meetings. Toews ran for this position unsuccessfully last June.

"I thought I had lots of experience and I know a lot of these fellows around the table," explains Toews. "I'm willing to bring their concerns forward to the AMM so we can lobby the provincial government for certain changes."

He notes being a board member is not like being on the executive and so he doesn't expect it will be extremely time consuming and shouldn't have much impact on his availability as Reeve.