Rhoda Witherly was named chair of NWCC's Board of Governors, replacing Irene Seguin.
Witherly has been Prince Rupert’s community representative on the NWCC Board of Governors since 2007 and brings a wealth of experience to the board. She was a Prince Rupert city councillor for eight years and was a director with the Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District. As a community volunteer, she was on the building committee for the Lester Centre for the Performing Arts, has been a director of the Museum of Northern British Columbia, served on several health organizations and chairs the city heritage committee.
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In addition to a new Board chair, Donny van Dyk, who works for the District of New Hazelton, will serve until July 2012 along with two other new appointees, Prince Rupert resident and former mayor Herb Pond and Stephanie Hedley-Smith, a school principal on Haida Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands).
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