Chris Rowe
Position: WHNC Board
member, Previous Acting Chair and former Vice Chair of the Santa Susana
Mountain Area Committee, researcher for the LADWP Advocacy Committee, involved
with Government Relations, Bylaws Committee
Email: Chris.Rowe@westhillsnc.org
Term Ends: 2014
Stakeholder type: Resident
Profession: Public Health
and Environmental Health Advocate; BS in Health Education, advanced course work
In Environmental Health; employed for 7 years in various hospital positions
including Nurse Aide, Unit Secretary, and Pharmacy Technician.
Background: A resident of West Hills for 31 years. I was active as a volunteer
in the LAUSD for about 13 years. I was the first Chair for the Earthquake Preparedness
Committee at Welby Way Elementary. I was an active parent volunteer—including
room mom, chaperone, and classroom volunteer at Welby Way, Portola Middle
School, and the Reseda High Math Science Magnet. I was a Den Leader, WEBELOS leader, Pack Committee Chair, Merit
Badge Counselor, Scoutmaster, Venture Crew Leader, District Scouting for Food
Chair, Commissioner, and Membership Chair for the Los Colinas District of the
Boy Scouts of America.
I have recently have been California Archaeological Site
Stewardship Trained. I have written Op Ed pieces for the Daily News and
contribute to OURLA.org.
Goals: My primary goals are to protect public health and to
protect the environment. I am a tireless researcher – always better seeking to
understand the health risks in our community related to contamination that is
the legacy of our aerospace, nuclear research, and defense history in the West
Hills and surrounding area.
I want to
protect the residential status of our community according to our community plan;
to protect the Pierce College Farm Center; to save the Southwest Museum; to
clean up the LA River; to assure the health and safety of the open space in our
Simi Hills; to protect the cultural aspects (Native American) of the Simi
Hills; and I want to help create a park at the Santa Susana Field Lab site that
will be a place to preserve and to educate our community about the Native
American history of this area, and
to educate about the history of aerospace and nuclear research at the Santa
Susana Field Lab site.
It is also very important to me that we support our local
food pantries, and we support and assist our American military, veterans, and
other first responders.
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