SOLOS Board of Directors

SOLOS is supported by a Board of concerned volunteers. They include parents, youth advocates, community service veterans, child protection workers, business people, restorative justice visionaries, internet industry elders and national law enforcement agency representatives.


Gary Van De Keere, Chair

A quiet man by nature, Gary has been a SOLOS Board Member since 2005. He is a Supervisor of the Guardianship Team for the Ministry of Child and Family Development in Mission.

Fran Haughian, Past Chair
Fran has been involved with SOLOS since its inception, serving on the board for three years. As a community developer and advocate she brings to the board her organizing and networking skills. She may not twitter but she does understand possibilities, potential and the hazards that the internet may introduce to vulnerable or under informed people. An avid gardener, married, a mother of two grown children and a Jack Russell named Ruby, Fran has an optimistic out look as long as people are informed and given the tools they need to navigate the World Wide Web.

Shelley Janze, Secretary

Shelley Janze is the President of the Parent Advisory Committee at her teenagers' high school in Mission. She is proud to volunteer her time and support SOLO's, as this organization educates communities about the realities and dangers of life online.
Shelley is aware of how much time kids spend online, and believes that informed adults are the best defence against online predatory behaviour towards our children.

Louis Janze, Member at Large
Louis Janze, Member at Large, Louis Janze is a Certified Prosthetist with an established practice of 15 years in the Fraser Valley. He sits on a variety of National and Provincial Boards associated with the Prosthetic/Orthotic profession.  He is married and the father of  3 teenagers,  and believes in educating other parents and children about the appropriate and safe uses of online technology.

Heather McEwan, Treasurer

 

The Safe OnLine Outreach Society is a federal charitable organization (Canada #86021 9641 RR0001) and a registered non-profit society -(British Columbia #S45067.

 

Photo (l to r): Honourable Wally Oppal; Merlyn Horton; Byron Boucher, Superintendent of the RCMP ‘E’ Division

October 4, 2008
Merlyn Horton, Executive Director of SOLOS, accepting her Crime Prevention and Safety Individual Award

 

 

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