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Board election set for May 17
The Advocate
Candidates in the May 17 election for the MHCC District board include some familiar faces at the college.
Running for position seven, an at-large seat, is current board member Ralph Yates. Yates is a family and sports medicine physician in the Gresham area and has served three terms as an district board and serves on the Oregon Medical Board for three years.
His opponent is Jenni Simonis, an MHCC web design major and organizer of a labor negotiations student movement on campus. Her governmental background includes serving on the City of Gresham Fire Subcommittee, Rental Inspection Task Force, a northeast Gresham neighborhood association president, and was elected as a precinct committee person from 2000-2010.
Other open seats include: Zone Three, previously occupied by Duke Shepard who resigned in February due to personal reasons prior to the end of his term; Zone Five, occupied by Bob Morris and position six by Beverly Russell, neither of whom has filed for re-election.
Candidates confirmed from the Multnomah County Elections website include the following:
Zone Three
Maggie Nelson: a retired teacher and previously elected precinct committee person and house district captain.
Paul Capell: program manager for HDR Engineering, who has served on the Prineville City Council and as mayor in 1997-98.
Eric Flores: ESL/social studies teacher.
Zone Five
Robert Coen: president of BCI Group, Inc. since 1990.
B. Anthony Smith: U.S. Bancorp Financial Sales
Position Six
Diane C. Noriega: retired teacher and previous interim college president of California State University-Monterey Bay
James Zordich: retired curator of technological history
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