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President Helge Dordal
Helge has been married for 43 years, has four
children (Anita, Sonja, Susan and Erik) and seven grandchildren.
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is a professional engineer (civil and structural), with B.S. degrees in
engineering and business marketing. He was born in Norway and is now
a U.S. citizen. Helge's hobbies are
photography; fishing; coaching soccer, basketball, and hockey; and
hiking and skiing.
Scott was born and raised
in Washington
state. He places a very high value on the environment and health of
streams, gulches, green areas, nearshore, and wetlands in the
Commencement Bay/ Pierce County area. He has a Bachelors Degree in
Wildlife Ecology from The Evergreen State College, a Masters Degree
in Environment and Community from Antioch University Seattle,
a Masters Degree in Project Management from City University Tacoma, and is currently working on a Ph.D.
in Education (Training and Performance Improvement) from Capella University.
Scott has been coordinating restoration projects and studying the
eelgrass/nearshore area of the Puget Creek watershed for the
last 10.5 years.
Board Member Sherry
Graham
Sherry was a chiropractor for
25 years and is now in the Environmental Science and
Technology Progam at Clover Park Technical College.
She has been an avid hiker and cross-country skier
for 21 years, as well as a scuba diver and plans to
be part of the PCRS dive team. She has also been a
birder for eight years will help out on the bird
surveys.
Board Member Edward S. Winskill
Edward Winskill has a J.D.
from Willamette
University and specializes in the areas of personal
injury, insurance defense, and general commercial
litigation. He was named Washington Defense Trial
Lawyers’ Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2003.
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Vice President Mike Corsini
Mike was born and raised in Los Angeles,
California. He moved to the Tacoma area with his wife and daughter
in 1995. Mike became interested and concerned about the environment
in 1999
 when he teamed up with Scott Hansen. As Executive Director
of the Tacoma Neighborhood Networks Center, Mike collaborated with
Scott on a state grant-funded project that facilitated individuals
with disabilities becoming involved in urban stream riparian
restoration at Puget Creek. Involvement in this project introduced
Mike to the importance of the environment in the quality of life for
any community, as well as revealed to him the abuse that the
environment has suffered through unbridled development. Mike now
understands the need and importance for all members of the
community—including individuals with disabilities—to participate in
protecting natural habitat from further abuse/degradation and in
restoring habitat to its natural state. With two master degrees,
i.e., in the areas of education and public action, Mike is committed
to using his learning and experience in helping to restore and
preserve the environment. As a person of faith, Mike believes the
environment is a trust to humankind over which they are obligated to
exercise responsible stewardship.
Secretary Susan Penhale
Presently working in one of Pierce
County’s Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facilities, Susan
spends her time off reading, writing, fishing, and playing with
her daughter, Esperanza. A graduate of Pacific
Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and
English, Susan has spent time volunteering for various nonprofit
youth programs and has taught elementary, middle, and high
school. After four years in the Navy as a firefighter and lab
technician, Susan returned home to Tacoma, and found much of the
green spaces of her childhood had been taken over by
development; she went on to study at Clover Park Technical
College, completing an Associate of Applied Science with Honors
in Environmental Sciences and Technology this March. She has
participated in restoration events along Clover Creek and Puget
Creek, and planned and led a wetland buffer restoration at Flett
Creek. As a volunteer at Puget Creek Restoration Society, Susan
has assisted with GIS mapping, restoration activities, and eradication of invasive
species; she is also active on the Fundraising/Grant-writing
Committee. Her priorities as a new board member are learning
what issues face local green spaces, their preservation and
restoration, and in fostering a sense of stewardship in the
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