| Board
of Directors Bill
Bradley - President
Bill is a long-time Organic gardener. He currently
lives in the west end with the many fruit trees that
he graphs new buds on to. Bill is a journalist, and is active
on several not-for-profit boards. Bill is also
active in the Ward 1 Community Action Network.
Bill has talked about permaculture for many years, and
is looking forward to becoming a certified Permaculture
Design specialist.
Tracy Gour - Treasurer
Tracy is an avid gardener, skills she learned from her
father who still gardened in his older years. Tracy
believes in food security from the perspective on
healthy diets, and planning for winter emergencies,
such as if the power was to go off. Tracy thinks
we should all learn how to preserve our bountiful
harvest. Tracy believes we have a lot of
potential to be locally food secure, but that it will
take public education and capital investment.
Cathy Orlando,
MSc BEd - Recording Secretary
Cathy's roots are in Northern Ontario but she was raised in Niagara Falls ON. Cathy relocated in 1999 primarily because her eldest child had asthma which abated once they moved to Sudbury.
Currently, Cathy has a part-time job as the Science Outreach Coordinator for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Laurentian University
www.lu-ltspp.ca . She is a founding member of the National Organization called the Let’s Talk Science Partnership Program (LTSPP). Volunteers in the LTSPP “empower youth to use science, technology and engineering to develop critical skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to thrive in our world”.
In April 2008 she was one of 250 Canadians selected to be trained to give presentation on climate change by Al Gore, David Suzuki and The Climate Project Canada. Cathy is an invited blogger on the CBC's One Million Acts of Green Website
http://greennexxus.cbc.ca/author/Cathy%20Orlando.aspx,, as well as on the LTSPP alumni page
http://www.letstalkscience.ca/main/the_lts_alumni_network/ .
Since becoming a Climate Project Presenter, Cathy has had front row seats to humanity's amazing response to climate change. A feeling she often has is "we are too connected to fail. "
Mike Penwarden
Mike is a soil scientist by training, having grown up with
a commercial greenhouse on the property. Mike
has contributed many long hours planting tomato
seedlings for community gardens in the area.
Mike has a passion for understanding what the
"keystone" is to move our community towards
greater food security, and is very committed to
supporting a more local food system for
Sudbury.
Stephanie Chevrette
Stephanie has a Masters degree in Social Work, and is
currently working in your field. Stephanie comes
from the heart, and feels deeply for the less
fortunate in our community. As part of the Do
The Math Challenge, Stephanie learned first hand
the need to improve access of healthy food to those in
need, and the Grow-A-Row program is an especially good
fit to improve our community's food sustainability.
Brittany Rantala-Sykes
Brittany was a participant in the Farm Yard Gardens
Youth Internship program in 2009. Britanny is
currently taking her B.Sc. in Biology at Laurentian
University. Britanny now coordinates the
Voyegeur Community Garden at Laurentian
University. Britanny is interested in
permaculture and all things "food
sustainability".
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