Jerry Macy was born in San Diego and raised in the high desert town of Palmdale north of Los Angeles. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles before starting work for the Navy as a civilian at a remote research and development base on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains (still very much in the high desert). While working at the base he earned a Masters of Public Administration from California State University, Bakersfield.

During a 27-year career Macy worked in business administration, strategic planning and financial operations, serving as the Navy base’s Chief Financial Officer for the last seven years of his career.

In 1999 Macy took an early retirement from Federal service and relocated to the San Francisco Bay area to pursue a second career in public schools as a deputy superintendent for business operations. Among other things he was actively engaged in securing funding for and overseeing school modernization and new construction. Working daily with teachers, staff and school administrators to support and improve the teaching environment for thousands of students was the most rewarding work of Macy’s career.

Following retirement in 2009 Macy worked extensively with a local non-profit committed to helping disadvantaged middle and high school youth who faced (and overcame) extreme challenges to succeeding in school. His years of strategic planning and securing financial support for the non-profit were a key part in stabilizing and expanding this critically important effort.

The Macys’ ties to Pacific County go back nearly 40 years when Jerry’s in-laws purchased time shares at the Surfside Inn. For Jerry, Sally and (then) 5-year-old daughter Megan visiting the Peninsula was always a treasured retreat from the summer heat of the Mojave Desert. They always felt that no one treasures the cool green of the Pacific Northwest coast more than those who spend long, hot summer days where 115-degree temperatures are not unusual.

Jerry and his wife, Sally, became permanent residents in 2013. They enjoy their home overlooking Willapa Bay in Ocean Park as well as traveling, walks along the beach and spending time with their granddaughter.

Kathleen Sayce grew up in Ocean Park, Washington around several resource based industries, including oysters, fishing, cranberries and timber. She attended Ilwaco High School, where she played three sports and was a member of Torch Honor; she was also active in 4-H horse programs during high school. Sayce graduated from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, Bellingham, with a B.Science in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Geology. She graduated from Washington State University, Pullman, with a M. Science in Botany.

Returning to Pacific County, she led field research on the ecological impacts of Spartina alterniflora, smooth cordgrass, in tidelands of Willapa Bay for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and mapped the presence of Viola adunca, early blue violets, host plant for Oregon Silverspot butterfly, Speyeria zerene hippolyta for Washington Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. She sampled phytoplankton in local waters for more than five years, monitoring species that produce biotoxins for several state agencies. Sayce was the Science Program Director for the Willapa Alliance in the mid-1990s, where she organized annual science conferences, led the local science group, and edited Willapa Indicators for Sustainability. She was the Science Officer for ShoreBank Pacific, the nation's first environmental bank, and helped take the bank from less than $20m to more than $220m in assets. While at the bank she developed the bank's internal assessment tools, based on triple bottom line metrics, did the bank's carbon accounting metrics, and worked with clients to improve their energy and materials efficiency, and profitability.

On the community side, Sayce's board commitments over several decades include: Water Music Festival; Confluence Project, which raised more than $20M to place art designed by Maya Lin in six locations along the Columbia and Snake Rivers; South Pacific County Community Foundation; and Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris. She has been active in several groups, including: Friends of the Library; WSU Master Gardeners; native plant societies in Oregon and Washington; Swalalahos Natural History Society; Grassroots Garbage Gang; North Coast Land Conservancy, and Friends of Willapa Refuge.

Sayce is married to Pacific County Commissioner Frank Wolfe, and lives on Willapa Bay north of Nahcotta, Washington. In her private life Sayce enjoys hiking, gardening, boating, and flying.

Phil Allen, a licensed architect, holds a degree in architecture from the University of Oregon. His education, dovetailed with design and construction management interests, took him to West Coast building assignments from Long Beach, Washington to Palmer, Alaska; to California, from San Diego to Santa Cruz. Projects included churches, casinos, transportation support facilities and high-end residential designs.

Allen maintained professional membership in the American Institute of Architects, and served as a member of the AIA Jury on Institute Honors. Prior to his retirement from the Denver-based architectural firm, RNL, his career culminated with an invitation as "technical director" for an award-winning hotel design in Doha, Quatar, which he declined in favor of relocating to South Pacific County.

Allen is a member of a 6th generation Pacific County family significant to the promotion of the Willapa Bay oyster industry, the initial establishment of Ocean Park, and the development of early governmental facilities at Cape Disappointment. His family tree includes Pacific County natives, shipwrecked sailors, Quinault Indians and Oysterville pioneers. He spent childhood summers in South Pacific County, steeped in oral histories and local traditions.

Now residing in Long Beach, Allen spends time volunteering for local business interests, studying foraging for the bounty of South County's abundant seafood and fauna, and lecturing, teaching, and sharing those skills with others.

Kathy Freitas moved to Pacific County (Ocean Park) immediately upon retirement, over ten years ago. She quickly assimilated into the welcoming community and has thoroughly enjoyed the proximity to ocean, bay, coastal forests, and all the wildlife that co-exists within the Long Beach Peninsula.

She graduated with a liberal arts degree from Notre Dame de Namur University in the Bay Area, and her career path, which began with social work, transitioned into many years of executive support roles. Most recently, she enjoyed long tenures at the University of Portland and the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

Volunteer work has been a lifelong avocation for Kathy, with roles in, among others, the March of Dimes, adult literacy, a Lunch Buddy program, and a leadership position with the Friends of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. It was in that latter role that she learned about Pacific Community Foundation and became a staunch supporter of the organization. As a PCF board member, she now gets to leverage her love for her community by striving to impact the many nonprofit organizations throughout the area.

In her spare, “retirement” time, Kathy likes connecting on social media and in person with her far-flung family, reading, writing, birding, outings with friends, and beach walks with her husband, Joe, and one of the cutest dogs on the Peninsula (!).