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MBC volunteer board members

Past MBC Board Chairs

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Lynn Hennigar -
​Chair 2018-2022

Lynn Hennigar is a Mahone Bay native who wrapped up a 30+ year career in 2017. She is a former owner of LighthouseNOW and former publisher of the Progress Bulletin community newspaper. Lynn is a former councillor for the Town of Mahone. Lynn is now working across a variety of organizations toward a positive future for Nova Scotia. Lynn is the daughter of the late Marg and Ralph Hennigar. Her father Ralph was a frequent user of the MBC. She continues to live in Mahone Bay with her partner Adrian Bohach. ​

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Mike Saker
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Chair 2015- 2018 
Michael Saker is past-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mahone Bay Centre Society.  During his seven and one half years on the board he has been involved in numerous capital improvement projects and served two years as treasurer and four years as chairman. He and his wife retired to Mahone Bay in December 2009 after his 35-year career in the Canadian Navy (in Victoria, Halifax and Ottawa) followed by 15 years in private industry.

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Paul Seltzer - Honourary Chair
Chair 2006-2015 
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Paul Seltzer was born in 1932, and raised near Washington, D.C., as the youngest of four sons. HIs academic degrees were earned at  the University of Maryland, Gettysburg Theological Seminary, and Drew University. He served as a Lutheran pastor for twenty-one years. In 1979 he began twenty years of business interests including food services, directing a conference center, and hospice leadership. In 1999, with his wife, Susan, the move was made to Mahone Bay and Canadian citizenship. They owned and operated the Edgewater B&B until 2014. He has served as President of the local Chamber of Commerce, and then as Chair of the Board of Directors of Mahone Bay Centre from 2004 to 2014. Currently, he serves as honourary chair of the Board, participates in other MBC activities, facilitates the MBC Quest group, continues to play trombone in the Swing Band, leads services at Indian Point Union Church, and is a Justice of the Peace for the Province of Nova Scotia.

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Keith Towse
Chair 2004-2006
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The Centre is thriving, and I’m so delighted. I moved from the UK in 1995 with two small children, a dog and three cats, and immediately became involved in the Town, volunteering with the Wooden Boat Festival and other activities. When the new school was being built, discussions started about what to do with the old school, and a group of us had the crazy idea that the building should become a community centre. We persuaded a somewhat reluctant Town Council to sell us the building for $1, and almost twenty years later the Centre really is the “Building at the Heart of Our Community”. The early days were frenetic … ripping up old tile floors to reveal the beautiful wood beneath, painting walls, applying for grants wherever we could find them, sweating about how we were going to pay the (huge) oil bills – for some of us it was almost a full-time (volunteer) job, but we had great fun as well. It’s wonderful to see how vibrant and busy the Centre now is – thank you to all of the volunteers who continue to make the Centre such a wonderful resource for the Town.

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David Puxley
Chair 2002-2004 
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​My mum's grandfather built a summer place near Clyde River, Shelburne Co. in 1903.  I grew up in Halifax. Many times we made that long drive.  It started in Armdale and followed every turn along the South Shore to Clyde River.  I loved the drive and paid attention to the details.  That was long before there was any Highway 103!
     We never have actually stopped in Mahone Bay, but we went through it each time.  I got to know it well.  I remember, for example, the year the overpass went in near Oakland Lake, and the road got straightened-out before going over the Mush-a-Mush River.  Sometimes I took the train to get to Port Clyde, or back to Halifax.
Those were happy days!
     Whether viewed from the car or the train, Mahone Bay never failed to interest me.
So, I was totally delighted to move to Oakland in 1999.
     Retired, I quickly got involved in many local initiatives.  One happened to be the steering committee which then morphed into the first board of the Mahone Bay Centre.
Nowadays, I often encounter colleagues from those early "Centre days".  Almost without fail, we end up patting ourselves on the back.  We had foresight, energy, and determination.  Sometimes, facing not-insignificant indifference, it was discouraging.  But we persevered.  And now look!  Our vision and effort have been rewarded.
     Thanks to all - both pioneers and late-comers - who've played a part in making the Centre the vibrant place it is today.

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Deborah Hickman 
Chair 2000-2004
Deborah Hickman is a visual artist with a specialty in weaving tapestry.  Her extensive career has included numerous exhibits both solo and in groups.  Although her studio has been in Mahone Bay, NS since 1983, much of her working life has been spent in Pangnirtung, NU.  There she served the Uqqurmiut Arts Centre in a number of capacities between 1980 and 2011: as arts advisor, training new Inuit weavers and arranging for tapestry shows across North America.

MBC Volunteer Board Members

Lokman Abdullah 2009-2010
Kate Abriel 2001-2002
Ellen Agger 2000-2001
Jon Allen 2009-2011
George Anderson 2012-2014
Arlene Baillie 2003-2004
Angela Bamford 2003-2004
Russell Barton 2001-2003
Dan Baxter 2001-2007
Susan Beresford 2010-2011
Pam Birdsall 2013-2014
Tami Carlin 2005-2006
Penny Carver 2001-2005
​Emily Challis 2018 -2018
Iain Cocks 2007-2008
Carol Colby 2006-2007
Sandra Conrad 2017-2018
Meg Craig 2018 - 2020
Anne Crawford 2012-2013
Dick Crawford 2003-2004
Darrell Crawshaw 2021 - 2022
Moira Devereaux 2016 -2019
Scott Dorey 2010-2011
Bob Douglas 2000-2009
Georg Ernst 2009-2010
​Barbara Feeney 2020-
​Jeff Frampton 2020-
Jim Fox 2009-2011
Anne Freeman 2010-2012
Claude Gagne 2008-2009
Nancy Gallant 2012-2013
Mike Goodfellow 2004-2005
Darryl Haley 2006-2008
Matt Hall 2012-2014
Peter Hall 2018 - 2022
Anne Harrison 2013-2017



Veryan Haysom 2016 - 2022
Chris Heide 2017 - 2021
Lynn Hennigar 2018 - 2022
Ralph Hennigar 2011-2012
Deborah Hickman 2000-2004
Mary-Ann Hiltz 2018 -2021
Ted Hobson 2006-2017
Pat Joudrey 2008-2010
Phil Kenny 2010-2011
Margo Kleiker 2000-2001
Bill Kowalski 2004-2005
Sydney Lang 2003-2011
Carol Langille 2007-2008
Gary Langille 2001-2002
Rhonda Lemire 2021 - 
Roxanne Lindsay 2011-2018
Suzanne Lohnes-Croft 2010-2012
Don Mader 2018 - 2021
Art MacDonald 2007-2008
Maria MacKenzie-Cann 2004-2007
Lettie Maloney 2018 - 2020
Jason Martell 2020 - 

Kimble Meagher 2013-2014
​Allison Melnick 2022 - 

John Merchant 2014 -2020
Tim Merry 2021 -

George Munroe 2005-2006
Zane Murdoch 2008-2009
Greg Muzzati 2004-2009
Christine Nauss 2006-2008
David Nicholson 2008-2010
Francine O'Hagan 2010-2011
Helen Opie 2000-2002
Bryan Palfreyman 2005-2018               
Alan Parry 2011-2012
​John Perry 2012-2017
Teresa Patterson 2016-2018
Jeff Phillips 2018 - 2020
Julie Power 2020-2021

David Puxley 2000-2004
Lisa Rhuland 2018 - 2022
Matt Ringley 2003-2005
Denis Rostrad 2000-2001
Karen Runge 2003-2005
Mike Saker 2011-2019
Bob Sayer 2001-2002
Shannon Seaboyer 2022 -

Win Seaton 2009-2012
Paul Seltzer 2004-2015
Joanne Scobey-Sutherland 2000-2001
Jen Scott 2013-2014
​Lee Simpson 2022-
Fred Slater 2011-2014
Bill Snyder 2000-2004

Derwin Spencer 2009-2010
Dave Stephens 2022-

Annette St. Onge 2010-2013
Helen Steenburg 2016-2017
Terry Suelzle 2022-
Thorne Sutherland 2002-2005
Brian Swinamer 2006-2010
Keith Towse 2000-2007
Andrew Trivett 2000-2001
Bob Weld 2006-2007
Andrew Wentzell 2013-2014
Jake Wentzell 2007-2008
​Laura Wentzell 2019 - 2022

Derrick Wickstrom 2000-2005
Kelly Wilson 2009-2010 &
​                         2018-2020
Rod White 2021 - 2022
Norman Whynot 2019 -

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The Mahone Bay Centre Society sincerely thanks our staff, members, tenants, volunteers, community, the Town of Mahone Bay and the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg for their ongoing support.

Location

​45 School Street, Box 489
Mahone Bay NS B0J 2E0
902-624-0890
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