MBC volunteer board members
Past MBC Board Chairs
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Mike Saker
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 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 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 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
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20Lokman 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 - Anne Crawford 2012-2013 Dick Crawford 2003-2004 Moira Devereaux 2016 -2019 Scott Dorey 2010-2011 Bob Douglas 2000-2009 Georg Ernst 2009-2010 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 - Anne Harrison 2013-2017 Alan Parry 2011-2012 |
Veryan Haysom 2016 -
Chris Heide 2017 - Lynn Hennigar 2018 - Ralph Hennigar 2011-2012 Deborah Hickman 2000-2004 Mary-Ann Hiltz 2018 - Ted Hobson 2006-2017 Jeff Phillips 2018 - 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 Roxanne Lindsay 2011-2018 Suzanne Lohnes-Croft 2010-2012 Don Mader 2018 - Art MacDonald 2007-2008 Maria MacKenzie-Cann 2004-2007 Lettie Maloney 2018 - Kimble Meagher 2013-2014 John Merchant 2014 - 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 David Puxley 2000-2004 Lisa Rhuland 2018 - Matt Ringley 2003-2005 Denis Rostrad 2000-2001 Karen Runge 2003-2005 Mike Saker 2011-2019 Bob Sayer 2001-2002 Win Seaton 2009-2012 Paul Seltzer 2004-2015 Joanne Scobey-Sutherland 2000-2001 Jen Scott 2013-2014 Fred Slater 2011-2014 Bill Snyder 2000-2004 Derwin Spencer 2009-2010 Annette St. Onge 2010-2013 Helen Steenburg 2016-2017 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- Derrick Wickstrom 2000-2005 Kelly Wilson 2009-2010 & 2018- Norman Whynot 2019- |