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Our
Board members and advisors bring a wide variety of skills and experience
to the enterprise, including prior experience in developing and managing
housing projects, many years of experience in the health care system,
small business background, fund development/fund-raising skills, strong
ties to local churches and many years of community service to Pender Harbour.
Current members include:
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Paul
Cuppen
(Chair) is a Registered Physiotherapist (B.Sc.) in private practice.
In his professional capacity (about 40% of his clientele are seniors),
he hears on a daily basis from seniors who are trying to find solutions
to their own housing needs or those of even older parents. Before
coming to Canada, Paul worked for 20 years in Switzerland helping
to establish supportive living homes for the elderly in that country.
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Jackie
Ordronneau (Vice-Chair), DVM, is a practicing veterinarian
who, prior to moving to the Sunshine Coast, was a partner in an eleven
doctor practice in Seattle. She now practices small animal medicine
part-time at Sechelt Animal Hospital. She brings her superior planning
and organizational skills and her keen problem-solving ability to
the Area A Seniors Housing Project.
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Anky
Drost (Secretary) comes to us from a 25-year career as law
clerk and legal assistant in law offices in Ontario and Vancouver,
specializing in the field of wills and estates. She and her husband
moved to the Coast early in 2005. She has become involved in various
roles as a volunteer in the Pender Harbour community. As a retiree,
she has become concerned about seniors’ welfare and independent
living and is very interested in the Abbeyfield House concept of senior
housing. Anky is a key volunteer on our Outreach Healthy Meal project.
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Rose
Doepel (Treasurer) B.Comm. is the Financial Services Mananger
for the Pender Harbour Health Centre. Prior to that she was the manager
of the Pender Harbour Legion. She also writes the weekly Harbour Highlights
column for the Coast Reporter. Between her employment and diverse
volunteer activities, this 14-year resident of Pender Harbour has
come to know and care about the seniors in the
community and the challenges they face in maintaining their quality
of life.
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Linda
Curtiss, RN, has just retired from her position as Nurse/Administrator
of the Pender Harbour Health Centre. She has been a practicing nurse
for 36 years and has lived in Pender Harbour for 33 years. In her
work, she was in constant contact with seniors and brings to the Board
in-depth knowledge of the health and other related problems they face
on a daily basis. She also chairs the Pender Harbour Community Improvement
Foundation. Linda is managing the Outreach Healthy Meal Project.
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Jim
Woodward
has worked in the housing field with the non-profit, co-operative,
and public sectors for more than 24 years. His experience includes
10 years as a development consultant assisting with all types of affordable
and special needs housing. In 1992, Jim was the Secretary to the BC
Provincial Commission on Housing Options. For six years, to the end
of 1998, he was a director at BC Housing, the provincial housing agency.
He has worked as a private research & planning housing consultant
for 7 years.
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Gil
Yard is a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendant
with some 37 years of police experience in the 5 western Provinces.
Social issues of all types were common to the day-to-day responsibility
of delivering police services. Gil retired to Pender Harbour in 2001
and his concern for senior's housing is the result of first hand experience
dealing with family and inlaws.
The Board is assisted by a number of other community members:
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Jonathan
Paine
is a BC registered civil engineer and principal of Snow Country Consultants.
While located in Whistler from 1980 until 2003, he provided structural
engineering and snow consulting services to both local and international
clients. Jonathan’s development experience includes the design
and project management of several warehouses and a 23 lot subdivision
in partnership in Whistler. He now lives in Pender Harbour and recently
developed a commercial building in Madeira Park. He has agreed to
help on an “as needed” basis on our building sub-committee.
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Marg
Penney
is a freelance consultant with expertise in research and evaluation,
community development, and grant/proposal writing. She did some of
the initial research which led us to the Abbeyfield Model, and facilitated
the public consultation sessions which led to its endorsement by the
community. She is on contract to the society to write funding proposals,
but also donates substantial volunteer time to our undertaking.
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Carol
Cotter provides clerical assistance to the Board. She is
a long-time resident of Pender Harbour, with substantial small business
and administrative experience, including work with the Pender Harbour
Growth & Development Partnership and with the Pender Harbour Community
Improvement Foundation. She also volunteers substantial amounts of
time and is currently undertaking the development of a volunteer manual
to support our fund development campaign.
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