Imagine Lorna Smith’s lifetime of service as a three-legged stool: the first leg represents her business and nonprofit leadership, the second leg represents her community activism, and the third leg stands for Lorna’s 25-year career as a Snohomish County land-use and environmental manager.
Lorna’s three legs of experience create a perfect balance.
Lorna’s opponent has only one leg of that experience, in the business and nonprofit realm.
As a volunteer, Lorna helped establish Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge.
She was vice-president of the Olympic Forest Coalition, an organization in the “Our Sound, Our Salmon” campaign.
Lorna helped lead the successful coalition to ban net pen farming of Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound.
Together with Rep. Mike Chapman and Sen. Kevin Van de Wege, she spent countless hours strategizing, writing language for the bill, and lobbying legislators to get it passed.
Lorna has served over the last eight years on the Jefferson County Conservation Futures Committee and Planning Commission, most recently championing indoor-only gun ranges in Jefferson County.
Lorna is executive director of Western Wildlife Outreach and served on the board of directors for Washington Environmental Council and the Seattle Audubon Society.
Fluent in Spanish, Lorna is a community activist with Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates (JCIRA).
Put these examples of nonprofit leadership, citizen activism and public service together with the impressive skills she brings to any task and one cannot help but be impressed.
Vote for Lorna Smith for county commissioner and get that ballot in early.
Linda Brewster
Port Townsend