Barbara Dubuque was born and raised in Fall River where she has resided with her husband Michael for the past 32 years.  She is the owner of Spindle City Insulation Inc., a mechanical insulation company which she and her husband founded 19 years ago. For the past four years she has been an active advocate in the fight to stop the Weavers Cove LNG facility from locating in Fall River.  She is a former member of the City's LNG Task Force and previously served as treasurer of the Coalition for the Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities.  In her spare time she enjoys traveling, playing golf, and spending time with her family.  She is a proud mother of a daughter and two grandchildren.
 

Lorraine (Lori) Gagne is a Fall River Public School teacher currently teaching fourth grade.  During her tenure, she has taught at both the elementary and middle school level. She graduated with a B.A. in Humanities/Social Science from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Elementary Education at UMASS Dartmouth, which she will complete in December of this year. 

John C. Keppel was a teacher in the Stoughton Public Schools, Stoughton, MA for 34 years.  He holds a B.S., with distinction, from the University of Minnesota and graduated as the Dean’s Scholar with an MBA from Southeastern Massachusetts University, No. Dartmouth, MA.  In 2006 he was awarded the Lynch School of Education Exceptional Teaching Award from Boston College and was a semi-finalist for the Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Award.  He is in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2006, 2005, 2004, 1998, 1996) and was awarded the Tuft’s University Outstanding Teacher Recognition Award (1997, 1995). In 1993 he received an

NEH fellowship to study the Works of Adam Smith through the University of Northern Iowa.  He has been member of the Fall River LNG Task Force and served on the steering committee for the Coalition for Responsible Siting of LNG.  In addition to the field of education, he has worked as a regulatory consultant in the medical device industry and as a Senior Regulatory Specialist for Johnson and Johnson. 
 

Joan Leger is a life long resident of Fall River who grew up as a member of the Sacred Heart Parish with Susan (Guinen) Miozza.  She is a graduate of Durfee High School and attended Bristol Community College.  She is currently employed in the Insurance Industry and has attained an A.I.S. Certification and an A.I.C. Designation.  She has always been an avid voter.  This is the first political campaign that she has been involved with.  Quoting Joan, “Knowing Mike for over 30 years, it was an easy decision for me to volunteer to help Mike in his effort to become a member of the City Council.”  In her spare time, Joan enjoys her nieces and nephews and enjoys traveling in the Caribbean.
 

Susan (Guinen) Miozza has been employed by Catholic Memorial Home since October 1988.  Formerly a nurse’s aide, Susan is now employed in the Medical Records Department.  She is a member of the Coalition for the Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities.  She is the proud mother of Angela and Eric.  In her spare time she enjoys reading romance novels, planting and her two grandchildren Hannah and Nathan. 

Ronald M. Thomas, the oldest of five children, was born in Fall River and spent his early childhood in Taunton and latter childhood/adolescence in the South End of Fall River.  He graduated with honors from Diman Vocational High School with an automotive major.  He served a four-year apprenticeship at the Quincy shipyard and then worked in various management positions until the shipyard closed 1985.  During his tenure at the Quincy shipyard, he assisted in the manufacture and delivery of 8 LNG Moss type tank carrier vessels of 125,000 cu meters.  Mr. Thomas and his wife Ann

lived in the old village area of Somerset for 27 years, where they raised three children, before moving to the North End of Fall River in 1998.  He continues to work in the marine field as a Heavy Manufacturing Production Planner at the Electric Boat Quonset Facility.  He has been a member of the Coalition For Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities since its inception and currently is serving a second term as a board member.  He has provided both oral and written testimony at most LNG hearings on a variety of subjects but mainly on marine aspects of the project.