Board of Directors
Henry KnackstedtI was born in Seward in 1961, and, have been a resident of the City of Kenai ever since. My family homesteaded in the Kenai area in 1948, so in my early years I was raised in a fishing family with a simi-subsistence lifestyle. With my wife Lilly of 32 years, we raised two professionally successful daughters here in Kenai. Professionally, I am a civil engineer, and have been working in the field for over 35 years. I am active as a member of the Kenai City Council, President of the Kenai Community Foundation, Commander of the Kenai Composite CAP Squadron, and board member of the Kenai Historical Society. My hobbies include flying, gardening, cooking, and fishing.
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Lisa GabrielDirector
gabriel1@alaska.net I was born in Soldotna in 1962. I was raised in Nikiski and since 1988 have resided in the City of Kenai. I attended Nikiski elementary, Kenai Junior High and I Kenai Central High School. After graduating I married my high school sweetheart in 1983. My husband Brian and I have three children who are grown with families of their own. We have 6 wonderful grandchildren.
In the summers, we commercial setnet fish on Kalifornsky Beach and spend our winters at our full time jobs. I am the Administrative Secretary at Kenai Central High School and have been employed with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District for 26 years. I am the Agency Representative for the City of Kenai on the Kenai Rivers Special Management Area Board, Secretary of District 30 Republicans, President of the Alaska Federation of Republican Women, Chair of Beautification Committee for the City of Kenai, a member of the Kenai Community Foundation and the Secretary/Treasurer for the Kenai Peninsula Fishermen’s Association. My involvement in my community is important to me and volunteering is a priority. I enjoy gardening, walking on the beach, agate and seaglass hunting, fishing from my dock,working in my greenhouse, reading a good book, working in my yard and spending time with my family. |
Dr. Peter HansenDr. Hansen and his family have lived in Kenai since 1967. He is a lifetime Scouter, Eagle Scout, and serves on the Western Alaska Council BSA Board of Directors. He has held academic appointments with numerous medical schools, teaching medical students and residents from across the country. He has sponsored Emergency Medical Services programs in the City of Kenai and Nikiski. Dr. Hansen has been elected to several national offices in the American Academy of Family Physicians and has served as its Vice President. He was Alaska Family Physician of the Year in 1991, and chosen one of the top ten in the United States in 1992. He has been recipient of the Silver Beaver Distinguished Scouting award, twice the Citizen of the Year “Log Cabin” award given by the Kenai Chamber of Commerce, and the Daniel Carter Beard Masonic award in Scouting. He is involved in international academia for Family Physicians and international scouting. He is a distant cousin of astronomer Edwin Hubble.
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Rick BaldwinDirector
rick@baldwinandbutler.com Rick Baldwin has practiced law in Kenai since 1974, initially serving as Kenai’s first full-time City Attorney. His practice focuses primarily on public utility, corporate, commercial and real estate law. He received his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973. His community service has included serving as President of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce, Kenai Rotary Club, and the United Way and as a director of the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce. He has been active in his church and in youth hockey and baseball. He and his wife Bobbie have resided in Kenai since 1974 where they have raised three children.
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Robert T. Peterkin IIDirector
robert.peterkin@rocketmail.com Robert T Peterkin II was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1968 and has lived in Kenai ever since. Robert, a 1987 Kenai Central High School graduate, started R&K Industrial inc. in 1988 and was president of the company until 2004 when he sold the company to ASRC. Robert was also the founder of Atigun INC. Today, Robert is a 50% owner of Triangle Recycling LLC., Metalizing Inc., North Wind Properties LLC. and M&R Properties. He is also a past president of the Kenai Chamber of Commerce and the Kenai Petroleum Club. Robert is one of the founders of the Kenai Peninsula Youth Foundation (KPYF), that owns the Kenai River Brown Bears, a junior A hockey team. Along with serving on the Board at Cook Inlet RCAC and KPYF, Robert sits on the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce board. Robert is also the vice president of Mattie Farm. He regularly attends Kenai Christian Church. Robert has an amazing wife Shannon, five awesome children Craig, Elisabeth, Jolie, Shaylie and Zac. As a proud father, his main interest is spending time with his children; however, he also enjoys the outdoors, mushroom hunting, fishing, boating, riding side by sides, and, of course, snow machining.
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June HarrisMy husband, Joe and I have lived in Kenai for 44 years, raised 4 wonderful daughters, and now enjoy 6 grandchildren. Currently I am president of Kenai Historical Society, secretary / treasurer of the Unocal Retirees, and a CASA volunteer for the Kenaize Tribal Court and state court. In the summertime I enjoy fishing, camping, gardening, and traveling Alaska. In the wintertime I enjoy catching up with friends, reading, knitting, playing computer games, and the quiet times. Year around I enjoy community volunteer work in Kenai.
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Joanna Hollier
Director
jmhollie@gci.net
jmhollie@gci.net
I arrived in Alaska Oct. 9, 1945 when I was twenty years old, after attending attend a trade school at the Radio Television Institute in Minneapolis, Minn. After a few months of training I was offered a Civil Service position in Seattle to train for an Air Traffic Controller position. After working for the C.A.A. at various stations in Alaska for two years, I married Edward E. Hollier in Talkeetna, Alaska in 1947. We later homesteaded on Beaver Loop Road in Kenai, Alaska in 1952. Our first child was born a few years later so I resigned my position, and I became a stay-at-home Mom for nine years. In 1960, I went to work for the airlines in Kenai for the next twenty-five years. When Vintage Point Manor opened in 1992, I decided to rent an apartment, and have lived in the same apartment for 26 years and loved every moment of it. I enjoy volunteering in different organizations and was an instigator of starting the original Methodist Church in the Kenai/Soldotna area.