Appointments to the National Capital Commission and the Canada Council for the Arts Announced
OTTAWA, August 28, 2000 -- Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps today announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of the National Capital Commission and the Canada Council for the Arts.Dana B. Clendenning, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Capital Commission for a three-year term.
Since 1982, Mr. Clendenning has been President of Clendenning Associates, a consulting firm specializing in Community Planning and Business development. He was manager of the New Brunswick Branch Office of Spatial Planning Ltd., a regional consulting firm specializing in Socio-Economic Studies and Urban Planning from 1980-1982.
Mr. Clendenning has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Hartland Tourism Recreational Facility. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Big Brothers--Big Sisters Association of Fredericton and Oromocto, Inc., and the Fredericton Transition House for Women. He has also served as Chairperson of the Keswick Valley Strategic Planning Committee.
Jeannita R-M Thériault, of Moncton, New Brunswick, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canada Council for the Arts, for a three-year term.
Ms. Thériault has had more than twenty years' experience in the field of public relations and the mass media. She has worked as a Communications Officer for several Provincial Ministries, such as Agriculture and Rural Development, Education and Training, Health and Community Services, and the federal Department of Employment and Immigration. Ms. Thériault was also director of the Greater Moncton United Way Campaign in 1989.
She worked as a reporter for Le Matin, a Moncton Daily, from 1986-1988. From
1981-1984, she was a News Director for Radio Station CHLR, in Moncton, and from
1977-1981 she was an announcer/researcher for the Société Radio-Canada, also in Moncton.
Information:
Krista Pawley
Press Secretary
Office of the Minister of Canadian Heritage
(819) 997-7788
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