BOARD MEMBERS

Janet Carroll
President

Educational Consultant: Carroll Coaching & Consulting
Certified BC Educator
Former Program Coordinator, Teacher Education Department – UFV
Former teacher, principal, district administrator – Chilliwack School District 33
Mixed Media/Collage Artist
Long time member of Chilliwack Players Guild (Director, Performer, Writer)
Former board member of Chilliwack Cultural Centre (Member at Large, Secretary, Vice-President)

Sheila Evani
Vice-President

A Partner with Waterstone Law Group
Admitted to the Bar in BC in 2005
Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Simon Fraser University
Second Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta
Specializes in Business Law, Real Estate Transactions and Banking, with a strong focus on Governance
Served three years as the Chair of the Vancouver Dance Centre
Served a secretary for the boards of the Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra and the Abbotsford Symphony Orchestra
An accomplished violinist who studied at the Academy of Music, and has performed with the Chilliwack Symphony Orchestra and the Chilliwack Metropolitan Orchestra
Proud mom to two little boys, and two exasperating dogs

Kim Lawrence
Secretary

Talent & Customer Experience exec at BC-based geophysics technology company.
30 years in the marketing and communications field, covering the private and public sectors, both in Canada and internationally, including 15 years leading teams within Canadian post-secondary institutions (including University of Calgary and University of the Fraser Valley) and 10+ years in the technology space. She spent much of her early career in Asia.
2018 Higher Education Marketing Team of the Year (American Marketing Association) and 2017 International Brand Master of the Year (first-ever Canadian recipients).
4+ years with Youth Performing Arts committee at Calgary Stampede, leading marketing and community engagement for the showband program.
11+ years as unit leader, camp advisor, sales, and distribution leader with Girl Guides of Canada, including resurrecting BC’s first-ever registered unit in Sardis, BC.
Education: Queen’s University, Capilano University, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour.
Mom of two fabulously artistic daughters, wife to an erstwhile musical theatre actor.

Rob Nicklom
Treasurer

Netty Tam
Director-at-Large

Peggy Walker
Director-at-Large

Teresa Kisilevich
Director-at-Large

Sandra Bonner-Pederson
Director-at-Large

Nicole Read
Ex-Officio: City Council Liaison

Councillor on Chilliwack City Council since November 2022.
Raised on a dairy farm in Chilliwack and was a part of her parents’ family-owned retail dairy store since she was seven years old.
Various entrepreneurial adventures included contract work for employment programs, online vacation home rentals, restaurant owner of an upper casual steakhouse, and a temporary to permanent employment staffing agency, before working for Community Futures South Fraser.
Councillor Read is deeply rooted to the Rotary Club of Chilliwack, allowing her to give back to the community that has given her so many opportunities.
Councillor Read represents her community as a member of the:
- Affordable Housing and Development Advisory Committee (Vice Chair)
- Chilliwack Arts and Cultural Society Board (Liaison)
- Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation (Liaison)
- Chilliwack Healthier Community (Alternate)
- Fraser Valley Regional District Board
- Fraser Valley Regional Hospital Board

Darrell Lindhout
Ex-Officio: City Staff Liaison

Director of Recreation and Culture with the City of Chilliwack
Serves on multiple Not-For-Profit Boards as the City of Chilliwack’s Staff Liason
Civil Technologist (AScT) with the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of BC (ASTTBC)
Education: British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC), California State University, Sacramento
Avid traveler, hiker, husband, proud father of three, proud grandfather of one