BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4315@lordspoint.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260529T192153Z URL:https://lordspoint.org/events/2026-may-annual-members-meeting/ SUMMARY:2026 May Annual Members Meeting DESCRIPTION:Lord’s Point Association May Annual Members Meeting Saturday\ , May 30th\nPer LPA by-laws\, members will be asked to vote to elect new m embers of the board of directors.\nAs requested in previous member meeting s\, we are sharing the list of candidates and bios (when available) with t he membership ahead of the meeting.\nOfficer candidates:\n\n\nPresident: N ancy Walker\n\n\n\nVP: Ray Thompson\n\n\n\nClerk: Peggy Roberts\n\n\n\nTre asurer: Jim Turner\n\n\nDirectors:There are two 2-year terms available and five people running: (Please see bios below)\n\n\n\n\nBill Gibson\nBryan Bentz\nMike Snurkowski\nPeter Chomowicz\nRich Drake\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\nTh ere is a one-year term that is traditionally filled by the outgoing presid ent\, Jen Daly McFadden. Write in candidates/nominations from the floor ar e accepted at the time of the vote.\n\n \;\nRich DrakeRich Drake lives at 32 James Street (the SE corner of James and Boulder) where he moved hi s family 26 years ago. Rich served on the board as Clerk (then called the Secretary) in the early 2000's and has served on the Dock Committee for th e past several years. He is a licensed professional engineer and retired f rom A/Z Corporation in 2021 to work with his wife Michelle in the company they co-founded\, Stonington Designs. If you've noticed several trailer hi tch covers around Lords Point\, those are one of their product lines. Rich and Michelle also both volunteered their labor to create the signs at the Bob Hollis Memorial Playground and the Pollinator Garden.\nRich and Miche lle (married 40 years this July!) have two children: Michael\, an Air Forc e pilot currently on active duty - his wife Donna and their two children\, Shelby and Charlie\, are fixtures on Lords Point\, especially when the we ather gets nice! Kevin lives next door to Rich (Rey Potter's old house) wi th his wife Lauren and their son Bennett.\n\n \;\nBrian BentzBryan Ben tz has spent every summer of his life at Lord's Point - at the last house on Lindberg Rd.  While he and his family don't stay through the winter\, they are on Wilcox Rd\, 500 yards away.He is in his second term on the LPA board.  For the Town of Stonington\, he served more than 20 years on the Board of Finance\, and is currently on the Board of Selectmen\; he is als o a Justice of the Peace.  He was an active Quiambaug Volunteer Fire Depa rtment fireman for 10 years.Bryan is a graduate of Stonington High School\ , class of 1977.  He received his Physics degree from MIT in 1980\, and a second degree in EECS in '82.  He has worked in applied Physics in subma rine-related technologies\, and in AI (starting in the 1980's)\, building systems to track quiet submarines\, and then moving into machine understan ding of language and speech.  He has run his own business in these areas since 1995.He loves history\, and maintains a website about Quiambaug Vall ey history (including a Lord's Point page)\, at http://qb.mindhenge.org/  He wrote software to enable the overlap of historical photos with curren t photos of the same location\, gradually fading back and forth\, some exa mples of which are on the Lord's Point page.He and his wife\, Dr. Mary Ann Bentz\, are raising their grandson Aidan\, age 8\, who loves the Point.Hi s main website is http://www.bentz-engineering.com/\n\n \;\nPeter Chom owitzPeter Chomowicz and his family (wife Jill and children Jay and Lucy) moved to Lord's Point in 2010 where they enjoyed summers while living in t he Middle East. They moved to the Point full-time in 2015 when Peter took a job as an R&\;D director at Electric Boat. For the last few years he' s been a professor at Brown University and his wife owns ReReads Bookshop in Westerly. Though the kids are grown he still enjoys all the reasons the family was drawn to the Point: dog walking\, all things related to the oc ean\, the block party\, and as he is fond to say\, "the Point is Mayberry by the Sea. There's just no other place like it." In his spare time he rid es his bicycle as much as possible and looks forward to serving our commun ity in any way he can.\n\n \;\nJim TurnerJim Turner\, of 39 Ashworth A venue\, has lived full time on Lord's Point since 2021 but has been a "reg ular" on the point as a member of the Smith family since the late 1990's. Jim is a member of the Dock Committee and has been active in the community as a volunteer firefighter\, Stonington High School Athletic Boosters Pre sident and coaching youth sports (soccer\, football and basketball). Jim r ecently retired from Pfizer after 32 years of service as the Groton Site L ead for the Global Workplace Experience team and was responsible for all s ite operations including utilities\, facility maintenance\, environmental\ , health &\; safety\, soft services\, security\, emergency response and real estate transactions. Jim was responsible for managing a $120M annual expense budget and supporting $50M in capital improvements annually by pr oviding critical services to the 2.75M square foot facility comprising of laboratories\, vivaria\,  warehouse\, office\, clinical trial manufacturi ng and support spaces with a site population of nearly 4\,000 colleagues a nd contractors. Jim joined Pfizer in 1994 after being with the Submarine B ase Fire Department for 5 years\, as a firefighter. He had roles of increa sing responsibility in the Pfizer FD as Training Officer\, Lieutenant\, Ca ptain and Fire Chief. Jim holds an AS in Fire Science Technology\, BS in F ire Science Administration and a Master's in Business Administration as we ll as many professional certifications.   Married to Lynn for nearly 27 y ears and Dad to Colin\, Hannah &\; Ryan\, Jim is looking forward to ser ving the Lord's Point Community in a greater capacity as a board member.\n \nAdditional Notes from the LPA : Materials for May Members Meeting\nAll\,  \n\n\n\nWe look forward to seeing you at the LPA May Membership meeting tomorrow\, Saturday\, May 30th at 5pm at the Community House.  \n\n\n\n In an effort to fulfill requests from members at previous meetings\, we h ave worked to get materials that will be discussed posted on the LPA webs ite ahead of the meeting. \n\n\n\nThese items include DRAFT minutes from the August 2025 members meeting and DRAFT minutes from the May 15\, 2026 s pecial meeting.  Please note these  DRAFT documents will be formally vot ed on during the Saturday meeting. As noted in the May 15 minutes there wa s discussion about LPA's lawyer Tim Bleasdale and his qualifications. You can find information on Tim's background here. \n\n\n\nAdditionally\, we have also posted the most recent list of members running for the LPA boa rd\, as well as bios for those who have submitted them.  \n\n\n\nSee you Saturday. \n LOCATION:Community House\, 29 Ashworth Ave\, Stonington\, Connecticut\, 063 78\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=29 Ashworth Ave\, Stoningto n\, Connecticut\, 06378\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Communi ty House:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR