Consejo Municipal — Ciudad de La Habra Heights

Raised on a farm in Minnesota and learned to work hard

Ran a gopher trapline at 7 years of age to collect the state

    bounty of $.25 a gopher

Raised family (son and daughter) in Bay Area and then La Habra Heights.  Active

   in 4H, Avocado Festival, local trashers.

I am a retired technical director of an engineering laboratory specializing in failure analysis and accident reconstruction. My formal degrees are in Physics and Mathematics.  Over the years, I have preferred to serve my community in various positions that generate little personal recognition. I have, for many years, patrolled our city as a trained sheriff volunteer.

I am currently a member of Los Angeles County’s community-based Disaster Communications Service and was a member of our city’s Emergency Preparedness Committee (a team of FEMA-qualified, disaster service resident volunteers) until it was abolished by the council.

I am grateful for having had the opportunity of growing up in our unique rural community for the past 60+ years. The only way I can repay those who preserved the rural environment that I have loved so much is to work to ensure that today’s residents, their children and future generations have the same opportunity.

I believe the best way to judge whether candidates will keep their promises is to look at what they have done in the past.  I invite my fellow “Heights” residents to look at what I have worked for in our community, long before I ever considered running for city council.