At our February 15 Annual Meeting, South Shore Clean Cities celebrated another year of progress for Northern Indiana in alternative fuels technologies and projects. Northern Indiana stakeholders joined us at the Avalon Manor in Merrillville to network, hear speakers, view the new Chevy Volt, the TH!NK City vehicle, and more.
Speakers included our own Carl & Lorrie Lisek, David Murtaugh from Senator Coats' office, Hodge Patel from Congressman Donnelly's office, Celina Weatherwax from Senator Lugar's office, Larry Speicher from General Motors, Tim Cunningham from Th!nk North America [pictured above], and Kelly Carmichael from NISOURCE. The new 2011 Board of Directors was also announced:
Co Chairs: Charlie Cate, City of Michigan City and Jeff Ludwig, Cummins NPower Treasurer: Tom Navarre, Family Express
Walt Breitinger, Environmentalist
Paul Cook, Caterpillar
Rick Gosser, Gosser Corporate Sales
Don Hadley, Lake Shore Ford Toyota
Mark Happer, US Steel
Stan Kalwasinski, Patten Industries
Jennifer Kharchaf, Clean Air Car Check
Cindy Lundquist, NIPSCO
Jared Riggers, Hiner Transport
Shawn Seals, IDEM
Steve Thomas, CountryMark Shawn Waggoner, Paulson Oil Company (POCO)
Alternate Board Members: Bob Giguere, Inland Power Group and Brian Houston, Clean Energy