Gloria Fantin
President, Membership
Gloria Fantin is a certified avian specialist (CAS designation through PIJAC Canada), a graduate of the Living and Learning with Parrots for Caregivers (LLP for Caregivers) course through Dr. Susan Friedman’s Behaviour+ Works, and has over 20 years experience with birds. Her feathered family include Congo African Greys, Timneh African Greys, Senegals, Green Cheek Conure, Red Lored Amazon, Blue Fronted Amazons, Moluccan Cockatoos, Umbrella Cockatoo, some of which are PRC foster and sanctuary birds. She is a founding director of PRC, presently residing on Vancouver Island.
Bill Foster
Treasurer
Bill Foster, business owner, brings his business expertise to PRC to handle the treasurer duties for the Centre and is a founding director of PRC with several years of bird experience. His life is shared with his wife, Judy, and two Congo African Greys, “the girls”. Bill is a driving force of PRC in Alberta.
Becky Morse
Secretary, Membership
Becky Morse has many years experience with Amazons and Cockatoos. With PRC she is secretary and manages our involvement at Pet Expo, Calgary, Alberta. She shares her life with Geronimo, an older Blue Fronted Amazon; Blackberry, a small dog and two older horses. During the flood in High River, Alberta a few years ago, Becky was the “go to bird person” with several dozen birds safely rescued and fostered in her home until reunited with owners.
Lee Hart
Newsletter Director, Membership
Lee Hart is a writer and editor of a popular prairie-wide farm magazine. From childhood, he has always been interested in animals and for many years was a caring pet owner. He has a particular fondness for birds and has experience with doves, finches, canaries, budgies and cockatiels. He has been a loyal supporter of PRC since its inception and is on the ground for PRC in Alberta.
Cheryl Rutherford
Website and Digital Design Director
A professional graphic and web designer, Cheryl has been volunteering for a variety of parrot-focused organizations since 2008, primarily by donating technical expertise, graphic design, facebook/website administration and photography. She is on the Advisory Committee with Echo Bonaire, an organization dedicated to conserving the endangered Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrot of Bonaire. In addition to helping parrots, Cheryl also spent a summer feeding and caring for wild baby birds and animals at the Burnaby Wildlife Rescue Center. In 2000, she helped care for wild birds who were victims of a Canola oil spill (Vancouver, BC). In Ontario, she is on the ground for PRC.