BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//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:20260608T153004Z URL:https://lordspoint.org/events/2026-may-annual-members-meeting/ SUMMARY:2026 May Annual Members Meeting DESCRIPTION:2026 May Annual Members Meeting\nLord’s Point Association May Annual Members Meeting Saturday\, May 30th\nPer LPA by-laws\, members wil l be asked to vote to elect new members of the board of directors.\nAs req uested in previous member meetings\, we are sharing the list of candidates and bios (when available) with the membership ahead of the meeting.\nOffi cer candidates:\n\n\nPresident: Nancy Walker\n\n\n\nVP: Ray Thompson\n\n\n \nClerk: Peggy Roberts\n\n\n\nTreasurer: Jim Turner\n\n\nDirectors:There a re two 2-year terms available and five people running: (Please see bios be low)\n\n\n\n\nBill Gibson\nBryan Bentz\nMike Snurkowski\nPeter Chomowicz\n Rich Drake\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\nThere is a one-year term that is traditiona lly filled by the outgoing president\, Jen Daly McFadden. Write in candida tes/nominations from the floor are accepted at the time of the vote.\n\n&n bsp\;\nRich DrakeRich Drake lives at 32 James Street (the SE corner of Jam es and Boulder) where he moved his family 26 years ago. Rich served on the board as Clerk (then called the Secretary) in the early 2000's and has se rved on the Dock Committee for the past several years. He is a licensed pr ofessional engineer and retired from 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 hitch 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 P ollinator Garden.\nRich and Michelle (married 40 years this July!) have tw o children: Michael\, an Air Force pilot currently on active duty - his wi fe Donna and their two children\, Shelby and Charlie\, are fixtures on Lor ds Point\, especially when the weather gets nice! Kevin lives next door to Rich (Rey Potter's old house) with his wife Lauren and their son Bennett. \n\n \;\nBrian BentzBryan Bentz 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 t he Board of Selectmen\; he is also a Justice of the Peace.  He was an act ive Quiambaug Volunteer Fire Department fireman for 10 years.Bryan is a gr aduate of Stonington High School\, class of 1977.  He received his Physic s degree from MIT in 1980\, and a second degree in EECS in '82.  He has w orked in applied Physics in submarine-related technologies\, and in AI (st arting in the 1980's)\, building systems to track quiet submarines\, and t hen moving into machine understanding of language and speech.  He has run his own business in these areas since 1995.He loves history\, and maintai ns a website about Quiambaug Valley history (including a Lord's Point page )\, at http://qb.mindhenge.org/  He wrote software to enable the overlap of historical photos with current photos of the same location\, gradually fading back and forth\, some examples of which are on the Lord's Point pag e.He and his wife\, Dr. Mary Ann Bentz\, are raising their grandson Aidan\ , age 8\, who loves the Point.His main website is http://www.bentz-enginee ring.com/\n\n \;\nPeter ChomowitzPeter Chomowicz and his family (wife Jill and children Jay and Lucy) moved to Lord's Point in 2010 where they e njoyed summers while living in the Middle East. They moved to the Point fu ll-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 walkin g\, all things related to the ocean\, the block party\, and as he is fond to say\, "the Point is Mayberry by the Sea. There's just no other place li ke it." In his spare time he rides his bicycle as much as possible and loo ks forward to serving our community in any way he can.\n\n \;\nJim Tur nerJim Turner\, of 39 Ashworth Avenue\, has lived full time on Lord's Poin t since 2021 but has been a "regular" on the point as a member of the Smit h 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 H igh School Athletic Boosters President and coaching youth sports (soccer\, football and basketball). Jim recently retired from Pfizer after 32 years of service as the Groton Site Lead for the Global Workplace Experience te am and was responsible for all site operations including utilities\, facil ity maintenance\, environmental\, health &\; safety\, soft services\, s ecurity\, emergency response and real estate transactions. Jim was respons ible for managing a $120M annual expense budget and supporting $50M in cap ital improvements annually by providing critical services to the 2.75M squ are foot facility comprising of laboratories\, vivaria\,  warehouse\, off ice\, clinical trial manufacturing and support spaces with a site populati on of nearly 4\,000 colleagues and contractors. Jim joined Pfizer in 1994 after being with the Submarine Base Fire Department for 5 years\, as a fir efighter. He had roles of increasing responsibility in the Pfizer FD as Tr aining Officer\, Lieutenant\, Captain and Fire Chief. Jim holds an AS in F ire Science Technology\, BS in Fire Science Administration and a Master's in Business Administration as well as many professional certifications.   Married to Lynn for nearly 27 years and Dad to Colin\, Hannah &\; Ryan \, Jim is looking forward to serving the Lord's Point Community in a great er capacity as a board member.\n\nAdditional Notes from the LPA : Material s 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\nIn an effort to fulfill requests from mem bers at previous meetings\, we have worked to get materials that will be discussed posted on the LPA website ahead of the meeting. \n\n\n\nThese i tems include DRAFT minutes from the August 2025 members meeting and DRAFT minutes from the May 15\, 2026 special meeting.  Please note these  DRAF T documents will be formally voted on during the Saturday meeting. As note d in the May 15 minutes there was discussion about LPA's lawyer Tim Bleasd ale 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 board\, as well as bios for those who have su bmitted 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