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BOARD MEMBERS

Our Board Members are all local Mendonoma military veterans and sons and daughters of veterans. Each member is dedicated to making the monument a reality. Please click on their individual names to read each of their bios.
Contributors

IDEAS & INPUT

Many people have played a role in the planning, advocacy and development of the Northern California Coastal Veterans Monument. Among others, we wish to acknowledge these community members for their support: Michael Alexander, John Bastian, Geoffery Beaty, Barbara Burkey, Colette Coad, Peter Dobbins, Drew Fagan, Jeff Hillier, Jon Loveless, Tim Lum, Mike Nelson, Steve Oliff, Peter Mullins, Larry Riddle, Louise Ross, Bob Schwein, and Sarah Williams.
Artists

STONE MASONS & ARTISTS

Renowned Stone Masons and artists John Fisher, John Shaw-Rimmington and Kevin Carman are responsible for the concept and design of this monument. We are honored and privileged to have them with us on this project.
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Kenny Jowers
Board Member

Kenny is the owner of Physical Gym in Gualala and the son of an honored veteran. As a non-veteran he is particularly interested in working to recognize our veterans, especially coastal veterans, for their time in service to our nation.

He has led the effort to organize and get the Northern California Coastal Veterans Monument built along with others in the coastal Mendocino/Sonoma communities who share this vision. Kenny feels this legacy project to recognize our veterans is one of the most important projects he has ever worked on and is honored to be a part of a team of mighty men and women working to get this completed.

Chuck Cappotto
Treasurer

Chuck is a Marine Corps veteran. He served in Viet Nam from 1966 through 1967. After leaving the military he completed his education a California State University at Humboldt and then went on to hold various positions in the business world and ultimately started his own business in the commercial fishing industry.

He retired in 2012. Since retiring he has stayed busy locally by serving on the boards of various civic, as well as national Trade organizations. He became involved in NCCVM Inc. in 2018.

Tim Balambao
Board Member, Joined NCCVM February 2019.

Studied Electronics engineering at Cal-Poly 1969 - 71. Served active Air Force 1971 - 75. Station in U.S. and Germany with deployments to other European countries and Middle East. Continued career with Federal civil service D.O.D. Navy and Air Force Maintaining Ground to Air radios, Airport Navigational Aids, Long-range radar, and radar digitizer. Arrived Point Arena Air Force Station in 1980 and retired as supervisor in 1996. Before retiring he started a small business in 1986, fabricating, servicing and installing custom electronics equipment. He and his wife have continued the business to this day.

Colonel Mary Margaret May
Board Member (Deceased)

Mary graduated from the University of Texas in 1975. Two years later, she began Officer Training School then served 30 years in the Air Force. After retiring in 2007, she worked for the DoD for 6 years. She is 4th generation military, starting with her great-great-grandfather who fought in the Civil War. Mary worked passionately on the Veteran's Monument Board for 5 years before passing from a brief illness in 2022.

Jim Iversen
Board Member

Veteran of the Army having served as an infantryman with the America! Division in Viet Nam. He has been a Gualala resident since 1950. He is now retired after forty eight years as an electrician, having owned his contracting business for the last twenty-four years. Jim and his wife Rosemary currently own the local Coldwell Banker Office. He became an NCCVM board member in early 2020.

Bruce C. Reeves
Board Member

Major U. S. Army Reserves. 1970-1990. Civil Affairs branch. U. C. Davis, Hastings College of Law. Private law practice Reeves and Seidler for 40 years in Alameda, Ca. Real Estate and general civil law. Chaired Housing, Parks and Recreation, Economic Development Commissions for Alameda. President Alameda Chamber of Commerce. Property owner on the coast since 2007 and full time resident since retirement in 2013.

Life member Reserve Officers Association, Marines Memorial Club of San Francisco. Past President, Trustee St. Andrews Society of San Francisco. Current Vice President Gualala Lions Club.

Hal Ferguson
Former Board Member

Hal enlisted in the US Navy at the age of 17 as an Electronics Technician. Home ported out of San Diego, he served two tours on surface combatants along the Western Pacific Rim. Honorably discharged in 1984, Hal pursued a degree in Computer Science at Cal State Fullerton. Through a 25-year career in Defense, Hal has held posts in Engineering Services, Data and Project Managment at Hughes Aircraft, Teledyne, Magnetek, Power Systems Group, and L-3 Communications. Hailing from Petaluma, Hal spent a good deal of time along the Mendonoma Coast in 1974-76 as unskilled teenage labor for a neighbor's general contracting and remodeling business, and relocated back to the Point Arena area in 2011.

Kent Busley
Board Member - Secretary

Kent has experience in Management, Finance, and Technology. After graduating from the University of Colorado School of Business, he worked in technology companies for the first fifteen years of his career. He held positions in sales, education, and management.

Then in 1991, he became a principal in a start-up company that was one of the first employment screening firms in the United States. Over the next three decades the company grew into a respected, successful international company. He retired from the firm in 2023.

Kent is the son of a decorated World War II Army Air Corp pilot. He is excited to be a part of such a worthwhile project to honor our veterans.

Sandra Regan
Board Member

Sandra has experience in law enforcement, social work, baking, and has served on several volunteer community organizations. After graduating from San Francisco State University, she worked in law enforcement at the county and federal level for the first 15 years of her career. Sandra continued to work in the court system for an additional ten years in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties as an advocate for disabled clients. In 2020 she retired and worked as a private investigator for a short period before relocating to Mendocino County.

Sandra currently volunteers in various social and community organizations and groups and is now a home based cottage baker.

Sandra is the wife of a US Air Force Veteran and a proud Blue Star Mom to a son who served as an Infantryman for the California Army National Guard. She is honored to be a part of the Veteran's Memorial Project in Point Arena.