Quicklinks: Board of Directors | CBE Peterborough Committee | U-Links management Committee | Staff
(Names are in alphabetical order by last name)
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Board of Directors
The TCCBE Board strives to maintain a broad geographic and sectoral representation of Peterborough and Haliburton Counties. Meetings are held monthly to make policy governance decisions and provide strategic guidance and support to this incorporated organization and its staff.
Board members January 2011
Sara Atkins, Director
A graduate of the University of Toronto (BSc in Biology), the University of Alberta (BEd) and the University of Ottawa (MEd), Sara had her first career specializing in freshwater ecology and the impacts of mining on the freshwater environment in Yukon and western Canada. Her environmental impact assessment work included the Beaufort Sea oil and gas development, mining and pulp mills in Alberta and numerous regulatory issues. Committed to environmental education as the best way to ensure long term solutions, Sara taught in a junior high school and worked with Environment Canada and Health Canada on community capacity building. She worked with National Defense as a Learning Advisor and is currently External Relations Manager for Parks Canada in Central Ontario. She served on the Capital Region Community Health Council in Alberta, the Board of the Association for Community Living, St. Albert Potters’ Guild, and was a founder of several community organizations.
Jocelyn Aubrey, Ex-officio
Jim Blake, Director
David Hollier, Vice-President and Vice-Chair
David graduated in 1966 from the Naval Technical College in Esquimalt B.C. and has many years experience in human resources management specializing in both policy and development and long-term resource forecasting. His area of expertise was related to the engineering, procurement and construction industry with companies such as Bechtel and SNC-Lavalin. David relocated to the Peterborough area in 1983 and graduated from Sir Sandford Fleming College in 1986. He then spent many years in voice data communications and was instrumental in the Durham Region merging of medical facilities with Oshawa General Hospital. He is currently semi-retired and runs a small construction business.
Andy Laing, Treasurer
Heather Nicol, Secretary
Trish O’Connor, Director
Barbara Reid, President and Chair
Barb Reid has spent most of her career in the Consumer Products industry in Canada and abroad including senior marketing and sales roles for multi-national corporations, small manufactures and supermarket retailers. She has extensive experience in strategic planning, business development and brand management.
Barbara also has extensive experience with non-profit organizations including a recent project for Girl Guides of Canada where she co-developed a new business model for their cookie fundraising program. Barbara also works as a grant-writer/fundraiser for Romero House (Toronto Refugee Community Non-Profit Homes & Services) which provides transitional housing and settlement services for refugees.
Barbara has an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and earned her MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario).
Born and raised in Toronto, Barbara now lives on Gull Lake near Minden, Ontario and is active in the community as Reeve (Township of Minden Hills) and as President and Chair of the Trent Centre for Community Based Education.
Carmela Valles, Director
Since April 2008, Carmela has been involved in the Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration, a community initiative participated in by at least 50 community organizations aimed at developing an integration strategy for newcomers in Peterborough and area. Carmela is an experienced settlement worker and has over eight years experience of senior management of a settlement agency providing integration programs to immigrant and refugee families in the Peterborough region.
CBE Peterborough Committee
The CBE Peterborough Committee is the Local Community Advisory Committee for Peterborough City and County region.
Responsibilities
- To identify, convey and champion the needs and interests of Peterborough City and County through TCCBE programs and services from a broad group of advisors/contributors (e.g. citizens and community organizations in Peterborough City and County).
- Ensure all projects that are proposed by the community and accepted under the auspices of the TCCBE involve broad community benefit as outlined in the TCCBE Procedure: “Proposal Review Process.”
- Undertake periodic consultation with local TCCBE participants and the general public.
- Develop an annual work plan that outlines specific Committee activities for the coming year.
Membership
Members are drawn from local participants in TCCBE activities who live and/or work in Peterborough City and County, or individuals who can demonstrate a strong commitment to reflect the diversity of the community. The CBE Peterborough Committee represents a wide cross section of geographical communities, communities of interest and business sectors in Peterborough City and County and include two to three members from academic institutions for information and advice purposes. Membership will be subject to renewal on an annual basis.
2012 Committee Members
Dawn Berry-Merriam has over 30 years experience in community planning. She was the City of Peterborough’s first Manager of Social Planning, she worked for 13 years with the local District Health Council, where she was the Associate Executive Director, after which she assumed the position of Manager of Support Services first for Marycrest Home for the Aged and then the recently built St. Joseph’s At Fleming. In 2006, Dawn returned to her roots of social planning and community development and assumed the position of Research & Policy Analyst with the Peterborough Social Planning Council.
Al Brunger is a Professor Emeritus in the Geography Department at Trent University. His research interests are in historical cultural geography within both Canada and overseas. He has supervised numerous community-based student research projects throughout his time at Trent.
Amanda Dibbits earned her BA in Politics at Trent University and has since dedicated herself to the Peterborough community. She has been the Administrative Assistant to the CAO & Warden of the County of Peterborough for the past 3 years, focusing her work on community involvement and social politics. Also involved in the Peterborough Poverty Reduction initiative and the Red Cross, she enjoys working in teams and committees to brainstorm ideas and positive outcomes for the community.
David Hollier (Liaison to the Board of Directors)
Megan Hornseth holds a Bachelor of Science (Biology) from the University of Guelph (2005). After she graduated, Megan continued her love of biology by studying various wildlife species across North America. In 2007 she returned to research in a more formal program and she is now in her 4th year of a Ph.D. Program at Trent University in the Environmental and Life Sciences Program at Trent University. Her research interests include conservation biology, wildlife ecology and management, and landscape ecology.
Yvonne Lai is the Outreach Coordinator for the New Canadians Centre. She is responsible for promoting the Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration and the New Canadians Centre in the community through public speaking activities and community collaborations. Yvonne was born in Singapore and came to Peterborough in 1998 to begin her studies in Psychology and English Literature at Trent University. Her doctoral studies in Social Psychology at York University focused on factors which motivate immigrants’ participation and engagement in small urban communities. She has volunteered in various capacities with organizations such as the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre, YWCA Y’s Buys, and the Community and Race Relations Committee of Peterborough.
Ann MacLeod (Chair) earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from McGill University, and a Master’s in Public Health in Health Education from University of Michigan. Her nursing practice in adolescent and pediatric tertiary, residential camp and home-based settings in both urban and rural areas in Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. spurred her interest in health promotion and community based research. She has taught at University of Michigan, Lake Superior State University and in the Trent/Fleming School of Nursing since it’s inception in 2001. Her research interests are the use of arts in education and support for rural caregivers.
Cliff Moon joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) as a Clinical Assistant Professor and Instructor in 2005. Cliff teaches the Primary-Junior Science/Technology Curriculum Methods course and has also instructed in the Intermediate/Senior General Science Curriculum Methods course at UOIT. He retired from teaching, in the Durham District School Board, after 35 years service in June of 2005.
U-Links Management Committee
The U-Links Management Committee performs the same function as CBE Peterborough, except their focus is on the Haliburton County region. Click here to see a list of U-Links Management Committee members.
Staff
TCCBE Staff
Sarah Bailey, Bookkeeper
Todd Barr, Executive Director
Jason-William Clark, Librarian
Marjorie McDonald, Projects Coordinator
Christie Nash, Projects Coordinator (maternity leave)
U-Links Staff
Emma Horrigan, Community Researcher
Sonja Marx, Program Administrator
Heather Reid, Director
