Steering Committee

Bob Gardin, Chair bgardin@friendsofbigcreek.org
Mary Ellen Stasek, Vice Chair/Corresponding Secretary mestasek@friendsofbigcreek.org
Greg Cznadel, Recording Secretary

Thomas Coyne
James A. Gazda
Ann M. Kuula
Jeffrey Lennartz
Donald C. Martin
Alfred Penko, P.E.
Kim Petro
Dennis Petro

Advisory Committee

Regis Barrett,
Chair, City of Brooklyn Zoning Board of Appeals

George Cantor,
Senior Planner, Cleveland City Planning

Brian J. Cummins,
Councilman, Cleveland City Council-Ward 15

Sonia DiFiore,
Conservation Coordinator, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo

Mary Galinas
Councilwoman, Parma City Council-Ward 1

Kevin Kelley,
Councilman, Cleveland City Council-Ward 16

David Lincheck,
Director, West Creek Preservation Committee

Kathleen Pucci,
Councilwoman, Brooklyn City Council

Carla Regener,
Associate Senior Planner, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission

Janine Rybka,
District Administrator, Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District

Lester Stumpe,
Manager of Watershed Programs, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

Laura Travers,
Sanitarian, Cuyahoga County Board of Health

Andy Vidra,
Senior Environmental Planner, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency

Jim White,
Executive Director, Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan

For more information, contact us at info@friendsofbigcreek.org

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 609272, Cleveland, Ohio 44109
Phone: 216.661.4998

Friends of Big Creek is a community-based greenway advocacy and watershed stewardship group. The Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization, a 501(c)(3) organization, acts as the group's fiscal agent.

"Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure."

— John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day