Annual Meeting

• Election for Board of Trustees

NOMINEES FOR ELECTION TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Trustee-nominee Larry Ganders came to Lacey in 1986 as the Western Washington Bureau chief for the Tri-City Herald and McClatchy Newspapers based at the state capitol in Olympia.  He continued to be located here for 28 more years as an assistant to the WSU President for Government Relations, serving under Presidents Sam Smith, Lane Rawlins, and the late Elson Floyd. He left WSU in 2015 after supervising a statewide professional journalism internship program and working on a radio history museum for the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. He coordinated a UW-WSU capitol intern program in 2023 for the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. Before retirement in 2019, Larry was a sales specialist in appliances and millworks for Lacey Lowe’s. He is a board member and vice president of Olympia-Lacey Centennial Station, the only all-volunteer station in the U.S. that has operated for 30 consecutive years. He headed a project to locate, preserve and display vintage photographs of Thurston County train stations. Since childhood, he has been an O-Gauge Model Train collector and operator (GandersTrains.Com). He also compiled extensive family history web pages including SwissFamilyFraunfelder.Com. He is married to Robin Ganders, who was admissions director for Providence Mother Joseph for 28 years.

Trustee-nominee Denise Keegan

Trustee-nominee Tim McGuire moved from Snoqualmie, Washington in August 1967 to attend St. Martin’s College, became a resident fireman (Volunteer) for the Lacey Fire Department, and continued as a volunteer for a total of 12 plus years.  He graduated with a degree in accounting from St. Martin’s in 1971, and then went to work for the city of Lacey in 1970 and worked there for over 41 years.  Tim has also volunteered for the Supervisory Committee for Twin Star Credit Union and Crime Stopper’s both for over 15 years.  He is married to Terry, his wife of 53+ years, and together they have two children with 7 grand children.

Trustee-nominee Cynthia Pratt and her husband moved to Olympia from California in 1966 and bought their house in Lacey in 1973 where they have raised their daughter and son.  She worked for the Washington Departments of Fish and Wildlife and Natural Resources for 27 years, retiring in 2008.  She ran, and won a seat on the Lacey City Council beginning in 2010.  After three terms she retired from local government after serving as Deputy Mayor for 8 of the 12 years.  The City announced her as their inaugural poet laureate at her retirement, beginning January 2022.  She is active in Suffragette enactments around Thurston County.