Board of Directors
Peter Landry, President
Peter Landry is a retired public affairs professional who led
government relations consulting and research services for one of Canada’s leading consulting firms. His client base crossed multiple sectors including health care, education and training, construction, transportation, pharmaceuticals, municipalities among others.
Prior to his consulting career Peter spent more than a decade with the government of Ontario holding various senior positions at ministries responsible for tourism, community and social services, and education and training.
Peter’s past volunteer board positions have included: Director and Chair of Margaret’s, a supportive housing agency which assists women experiencing significant mental health issues; Director of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada; Director and Chair of the Prince Edward County Affordable Housing Corporation; and Director of Toronto Workforce Innovation Group.
David Vigar, Treasurer
David Vigar is a retired senior healthcare executive with over 20 years as a Chief Executive Officer of small rural, medium and large size community hospitals in Manitoba and Ontario.
David has served on a number of non-profit Boards most recently as a Board member of the South East Local Health Integration Network, 2016-2019. Prior to that he served on the Board of the South East Community Care Access Centre from 2012-2016 where he was Chair 2013-2016. David has also served on the Board of a Children’s Aid Society and an Association for Community Living.
He also worked with Accreditation Canada conducting healthcare organizational reviews both nationally and internationally. David and his wife Cheryl have been residents of the County since 2008.
Mary Lynn Lester, Secretary
Mary Lynn Lester graduated from the Registered Nursing programme of Scarborough Regional School of Nursing in 1974. After several years of acute care nursing in various Toronto hospitals she moved to the County, where she worked at Kentwood Park as a Registered Nurse while raising four children.
In 1994 she accepted the Director of Care position at West Lake Terrace, adding her current responsibilities of Administrator in 2001. During her tenure at West Lake Terrace, Mary Lynn has actively participated in organizations such as Community and Hospital Infection Control of Eastern Ontario, Community Care Access Centre and as an ad hoc member on the Rural Health Medicine Council and she has lead the Accreditation process for West Lake Terrace through six consecutively successful awards over the past 19 years.
The most recent addition to Mary Lynn’s responsibilities is the proud Grandmother of eight grandchildren!
Barbara Proctor, Past President
Barbara Proctor, retired registered nurse, has a longstanding career in the delivery of healthcare in rural and urban Acute Care Settings. She coordinated delivery of care in surgical programs in the greater Toronto area for many years and played a leading role in the design and build of a surgical suite in a new hospital, the Headwaters Health Care Centre, which opened in 1998. Barbara accepted a position at York Central Hospital in 2000 to oversee the Surgical Program Capital Equipment planning and procurement of the merged 2 hospital site.
Relocating home to Prince Edward County in 2002, she enjoyed her career shift as a homecare nurse delivering care to many seniors in PEC. She was elected municipal councillor for her ward from 2010-2014.
Barbara has become an active advocate for appropriate, accessible healthcare for seniors in her community. She has served on Quinte Conservation Board, Hastings-Prince Edward Emergency Services Board, done committee work for development of a Residential Hospice in PEC. Currently Barb is a member of the Patient Client Partnership Council of the Hastings-Prince Edward Ontario Health Team and also serves on the Board of Directors of the South East Health Unit.
Barb is the Past President of the PROBUS Club of Prince Edward County, Past President of the Rotary Club of Picton and a Paul Harris Fellow. She enjoys spending time with her family and grandchildren, playing golf and is also an avid baseball fan.
Margaret Werkhoven, Director
Margaret Werkhoven retired from the Hastings and Prince Edward School Board in 1999 after a 35-year career in education as a secondary teacher, vice-principal and superintendent.
Since her retirement, she has remained very active in her community. Her extensive board work has always focused on supporting young people and seniors and in keeping connected to her teaching profession. She is an Executive Member of District 19, Retired Teachers of Ontario and a past member of the Board of the RTO Foundation. She serves on the board of Youth Habilitation and on the Parish Council of Christ Church. She is a past chair of the Board of Governors of Loyalist College; past Vice Chair of the Loyalist College Foundation; and a past member, and chair, of the Prince Edward County Police Services Board. She was a member of the first Board of Directors of the South East Local Health Integration Network. It was as a member of that board that she first learned of the great work being done by The Prince Edward County Community Care for Seniors Association to help seniors keep living in their own homes. When her term finished on the LHIN Board in 2010, she immediately joined the Board of Community Care! She has since served as Chair of The Prince Edward County Community Care for Seniors Association and its Foundation. She currently serves on the Patient, Client and Partner Council of the H/PE Ontario Health Team and on the PEC New Horizons Seniors’ Advisory Group.
Margaret was a proud recipient of the Member of Parliament 150th Commemorative Coin Award in 2017. She is married to Harold, a retired dairy farmer; and their two children and four grandchildren are all residents of The County.
David Fox, Director
David Fox, born and raised on a family owned farm in Prince Edward, is retired from the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board, after a 36 year career as a teacher, school administrator and superintendent.
David is currently a volunteer firefighter, now in his 46th year in that role. In addition to that community service, David is past chair and remains as board member of the not-for-profit International Student Exchange which, among other responsibilities includes escorting students to Europe. He is past chair of the Prince Edward Police Services Board and is still involved with a committee that came out of the provincially mandated Community Safety and Well Being Plan. David is also a member of the local executive of the Retired Teachers of Ontario and a board member for The ROC Youth Services.
David and his wife Pat, have two married children and two grandchildren.
Barinder Gill, Director
Barinder has provided leadership, guidance, direction, vision, and strong values in community health, human services, and education over the last several years. He has carried a diverse portfolio with Addictions and Mental Health Services in a variety of progressively senior positions, including Director of Business Solutions and Communications, and more recently with the Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team as Communications and Engagement Lead. He is currently Executive Director of Prince Edward Family Health Team.
Barinder’s support and commitment to the local community is evidenced through his active participation on the Board of Directors of the Enrichment Centre for Mental Health, Victim Services of Hastings Prince Edward Lennox and Addington, and over the last several years, volunteering as a Personal Disaster Assistance Responder with the Canadian Red Cross. Barinder is also a member of the Rotary Club of Picton.
His strength lies in building and fostering relationships, and leading with transparency, passion, commitment, and respect. Driven by a strong conviction that every member of our community deserves equitable access to care, with an acumen and understanding of health care challenges.
Barinder holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from Davenport University Michigan. A believer in lifelong education, he completed the Health Care Strategy program at Harvard Business School Online and is working on an MBA in Organizational Management. He is also engaged, on a part-time basis, as College Professor with Loyalist College – School of Media Business and Access.
Pronica Janikowski, Director
Pronica has been a licensed pharmacist in Ontario since 1971. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Faculty of Pharmacy.
After a career in hospital and retail pharmacy both in Canada and abroad, Pronica and her family settled in Picton in 1979. She joined Medical Pharmacies, a Canadian company dedicated to supplying the needs of long term care facilities in 1990, and was instrumental in setting up the Medical Pharmacies store in Picton. For many years, she was responsible for looking after the needs of over 1200 long term care patients in 12 nursing and retirement homes in the Southeastern Ontario region.
Pronica has been a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist since 2001, and a member of both the American and Canadian Societies of Consultant Pharmacists. She received an award for Excellence in Senior Care Pharmacy in 2011.
In 2005-06, she was a member of the interdisciplinary committee of the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health which wrote the national Canadian guidelines for the treatment of depression in the elderly and continues to sit on the steering committee of the Coalition.
In November 2010 she was appointed to the board of the Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy in the United States for a 3 year term. She was the first Canadian to be appointed to this board as its scope became more international in nature. In 2013 she was appointed for a second term of three years and served as Chair of the Commission for 2015-2016.
Manson Slik, Director
Manson Slik is a lifetime re
sident of Prince Edward County, married to Lori (Fox), and has three grown children living in Prince Edward County. Manson is the cofounder of Gordon’s Downsizing & Estate Services, a real estate company devoted to working with seniors downsizing and estate executors, managing the flow of the many things that happen through a downsize or estate settlement. Manson stepped down as a formal partner at Gordon’s in 2022 to exclusively focus on building the full-service Gordon’s real estate brand and business model in the Quinte region. Manson is also a founding partner at MaxSold.com, North America’s largest online auction company specializing in downsizing and estate sales.
Manson has been involved in the community for many years, including past president of the Rotary Club of Picton and the Chamber of Commerce. Manson has advanced board experience being a former board member of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and Past President of the Auctioneers Association of Ontario.
