Raindrops to Refuge Board   Lisa Jo Frech, Executive Director Lisa Jo is once again the Executive Director of R2R. When the recession hit, she volunteered as E.D. for a year. After that year it became necessary to step down and focus on work that paid the bills. Lisa Jo is an independent consultant providing board and organizational development, facilitation, and mediation services to public and private clients in the field of natural resources and the environment. Lisa Jo also teaches environmental courses at Marylhurst University in West Linn and at Pacific University in Forest Grove. She is working on a book of journals about her annual treks along the Pacific Crest Trail in Oregon and Washington. Her love for her work, for Sherwood, and for this board prevents her from leaving the organization. This is a good thing. Alfred Dinsdale, President Alfred Dinsdale has lived just outside Sherwood with his wife Julie and three boys for the past ten years. He owns and operates Dinsdale Landscape Contractors Inc. and Dinsdale Nursery. He has been a landscape contractor for twenty years and specializes in private gardens with an emphasis on native and woodland plants. He also operates Dinsdale Nursery which supplies a wide range of plant material to landscape contractors and designers, as well as regional bioswale and wetland mitigation projects. As someone who makes his living from the land, he is acutely aware of the importance of water quality and availability going into the future. He is very excited to be participating in the activities of R2R and hopes to add value to their ongoing mission. Tracie Wickham, Vice President Tracie graduated from Oregon State University 1996 with a B.S. in Natural Resources and Wildlife Science. After college, she worked as a Wetland Biologist for an environmental consulting firm until taking time off to raise three children here in Sherwood. Tracie has lived in Sherwood since 1997 and has enjoyed participating in various local environmental activities in the community, such as tree plantings, park restoration, school programs, and volunteering for R2R. She looks forward to sharing her enthusiasm for our natural resources with other community members through her work with R2R. Emily McBride, Secretary and Treasurer Emily was born and raised in Billings, Montana. She is a graduate from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Emily has spent time living abroad in both Colombia, South America and Oviedo, Spain. Emily and her husband, Kevin, have been residents of Sherwood for five years. All three of their children attend the Sherwood Public schools where Emily is a frequent volunteer. Most recently the McBride family has been a recipient of an OWEB grant offered through the Tualatin River Watershed Council; with help from the Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District, they are enhancing part of Chicken Creek that runs through their property. Janet Bechtold, Member At Large Janet Bechtold lives and works in Sherwood. She has been a resident since 1978 and has worked for the school district as a Talented and Gifted Specialist since 1989. Environmental education has been her avocation for many years. She has served as co-president of the Friends of the Tualatin River Wildlife Refuge and as the education liaison to the Board. She is the advisor for an after school middle school Refuge Club and has worked closely with Refuge staff. Her grant work has resulted in a student produced field guide to the Tualatin River Wildlife Refuge and an Oregon Native Plant Profile book. She served on the Sherwood Sustainability Roundtable. She supports service learning in the district through grant awards that enable teachers and students to give back to their community through authentic learning experiences. She is a founder of Raindrops to Refuge. Emily Smith, Member At Large Emily was raised in Bozeman, Montana. She graduated from Humboldt State University with a Degree in Child Development. She has taught preschool and early childhood for the past 12 years, and currently serves as the Director for the YMCA Child Development Center. Emily loves working for a non-profit that gives scholarships out to those families that would otherwise be unable to afford quality child care. Emily has been a resident of Sherwood for three years and is committed to the community. She works regularly with the Rotary Club of Sherwood. Emily’s passion is sharing the outdoors with children and hopes to inspire each and every family she serves to fall in love with nature. Luther Boorn, Member At Large Luther graduated from Black Hills State University 1997 with a B.S. in Environmental Sciences. After college, he worked as a GIS specialist and scientist for the State of South Dakota Fish and Wildlife departments on environmental and watershed health projects. Luther continued to take graduate courses in hydrology, after accepting a position in Wichita KS working for Boeing as a software engineer. He transferred in 2004 to Jeppesen a subsidiary of Boeing in Wilsonville OR where he is currently an engineering manager focusing on mobile platform development for aviation software. Luther and his family have been residents of Sherwood since 2004 and while living in the community Luther has served on the Middle School Site Council, Sherwood Junior Baseball Board, and participated in many community volunteer activities. He looks forward to applying his knowledge of stream monitoring and digital mapping to help R2R improve the quality of life in Sherwood and the surrounding areas.