Board Of Directors

The Board of Directors are members of our community and presbytery representatives who care about the welfare and well-being of their friends and neighbours.

The Board meets eight times a year to offer direction and make decisions on many issues concerning the House of Lazarus and our community.

Board of Directors Members

Nancy Colton

An ordained United Church Minister, Nancy has been involved on the Board of the House of Lazarus since 2004. A passion for justice, fairness and equality and a desire to serve the community brough Nancy to the board. Having lived in rural and communities across Canada, Nancy brings a broad perspective and experience that informs her understanding of what it means and what it takes to be community.

Daryl Last

Director since 2008

Hue LeBlanc

Hue joined the RCAF in 1956. He flew in the CF100 mainly. He received an honorable discharge in 1962 and became an air traffic controller with the Department of Transport. He retired in 1992 and moved to South Mountain. In 2000 Hue was asked to be a board member of the House of Lazarus and accepted. He is concerned with poverty in our area and this is what drew him to the Mission.

Vicki Simzer

Vicki began as a volunteer at the House of Lazarus in 2000, and joined the Board of Directors in 2004. Her love of board games and puzzle solving helps her to piece in committee and board membership for the mission through one of her roles on our Governance Committee. Vicki is passionate about good stewardship and community both, and has put her faith into action by serving on her children's school council, her local fair board, the CPHC, a regional youth ministry, and numerous committees and ministries within her local faith community. Vicki is currently studying Business-Marketing, and, upon graduation, plans to work in the non-profit sector serving the marginalized.

Wilson Freeman

Joined the Board in March 2010. He recently retired from Statistics Canada and he presently operates a small farm with his wife Gail.

Ed Dizazzo

Ed DiZazzo retired from the federal public service in 2009 after a lengthy career in various areas of Human Resources. A resident of South Mountain since 1973, he is eager to reconnect with his community by getting involved in local issues and responding to local needs. He is active in his church and looks forward to contributing to the goals of the House of Lazarus in any way that his talents can be used.

Doug MacKay

Doug MacKay is a retired United Church minister. He brings to the Board some knowledge about how non-profit boards function, having served on the Timmins northern branch of the Ontario Mental Health Association, and the North Cochrane Addiction Services Board. He also has a practical understanding of maintenance and planning, having worked in the planning department of a paper mill in the north, and having owned and managed two small apartment buildings in northern Ontario. He and Minnie moved to southeastern Ontario in September 2007.

Tim Edwards

Christine Lowson

Rob Walter

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