Stevenson Announces for Lock Haven Mayor
Lock Haven Mayor
Stevenson has spent many years working and volunteering in the Lock Haven community even before graduating in 1970 from the Lock Haven High School and then attending Williamsport Area Community College. Steve started out teaching youth baseball at Hoberman Playground for two summers while in high school.
Currently Stevenson is the City Council’s liaison to the LH Planning Commission, LH Zoning Board, and the Lock Haven Area Flood Protection Authority. Serving also as the alternate liaison to Downtown Lock Haven Inc., sitting on the promotions committee and the Lock Haven University Community Advisory Board. He is one of the original members of the Hometown Hero committee working on it as a project of the graduate class of 07/08 of Leadership Clinton County.
For the past five years, Councilmen Stevenson has been appointed by the Clinton County Commissioners as a representative to the Susquehanna Economic Development Agency-Council of Governments (SEDA-COG). He sits on the 11 County Region Board of Directors, the SEDA Foundation, the Board’s Local Loan Review Committee and the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy Committee. Stevenson also serves as the SEDA-COG EEO Officer.
As a member of Lock Haven City Council, he has also been active with the Pennsylvania Municipal League, a statewide organization of elected municipal officials. He has completed the required training in all four curriculum areas: Local government, Community Planning and Development, Organizational Development and Management, and Municipal Finance. Upon graduating from leadership training in 2011, he was the 27th elected official to do so since 2002. He serves as the alternate to the Board of Directors from the North Central District, one of six outreach ambassadors and a contributing review editor to the Municipal Reporter for the Leadership Book Series.
Volunteering is a big part of what Stevenson’s adult life has been. He is a member of the PA State Fireman’s Association 39 yrs, Central District Volunteer Fireman’s Association 44 yrs, serving as past chairman of publicity and reforestation committees, currently on Lapsation Committee and is the Clinton County Vice President. Steve has served as Vice President 4 years and (2) four year terms as President of the Clinton County Volunteer Fireman’s Association. He is a Life Member in the Citizen’s Hose Company # 5 of the Lock Haven Fire Dept. Positions held: Vice President 5 yrs, President 10 yrs, Fire Officer up to the rank of Captain and Trustee for many years. Steve is a past representative to the Lock Haven Fire Advisory Board to City Council and served on the Lock Haven Volunteer Fireman’s Relief Association. He spent many hours working for the Lock Haven Ambulance Association as a driver, EMS Officer serving in the positions of Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain. He was one of the first certified EMT’s in the State/Clinton County graduating in 1974. Steve spent 9 years as a Deputy Coroner in Clinton County.
At this time Stevenson is serving as the Coordinator of Emergency Management for the City of Lock Haven. A position he has held since 1980 where he has completed all the required training through the certification process. Taking many Federal Emergency Management Agency, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and National Homeland Security courses. He was the first in Clinton County to graduate to the highest Professional Certification Level. He also was certified as a emergency management instructor in 1987. He currently serves as a member on the Local Emergency Planning Committee / Local Terrorism Task Force, the Clinton County Communications Advisory Board serving 15 yrs as chairman and the Clinton County Gas Task Force.
Organizations Councilmen Stevenson is a member of:
Lock Haven Moose Lodge #100, where he has worked his way up through the chairs to Governor, serving two terms and now works as the Administrator for the Lodge. Steve received the Governors Award of Excellence, 1 of only 12 Pennsylvania Governors, out of 129 Lodges Statewide in 2011-2012 to receive this award. He holds the Degree of Fellow, is active with the 7 Lodges in District 7 serving as the Chair of Sports, Moose Riders and Moose Legion Committees. He is the Past President of the 18 Lodge Susquehanna 89 Region, the Chaplain of the Central District Council of Higher Degrees and is the Pennsylvania Moose Association 30 Lodge Northeast Director for the Moose Riders. Serves as a representative to the Clinton County Economic Partnership from the Moose Lodge. Member of the Lock Haven Kiwanis, currently serving on the executive board and has completed officer courses certified by the Kiwanis University. He is a member of the Friends of the Ross Library and the Piper Museum. Since 2007 Steve has been a trustee for the Retired Public Employees of Pennsylvania AFSCME Chapter 13 Sub-Chapter 8603. He is part of the Lock Haven/Williamsport Chapter of Team Red White Blue.
Other areas where Stevenson has volunteered for the public:
25 year CPR Instructor and Instructor Trainer for the Red Cross and the American Heart Association. As founder of the Clinton County CPR Instructors Association, Steve has certified over a thousand people in basic CPR, earning him the prestigious Clinton County Medical Society Benjamin Rush Award in 1985. Past board member Clinton County Red Cross and is a multi-gallon blood donor. Was a Life Boy Scout, Order of the Arrow and taught many merit badges for the local troops of Scouts. He has coached youth sports for years in the Lock Haven/Flemington Little League Baseball, Central Mountain Pop Warner Football and YMCA basketball. Additionally Stevenson helps out the Clinton County Partnership Tourism Committee by manning the booth at the Early Bird Sports Show in Bloomsburg for the past couple years. He also mans the check points at the Megatransect, the Hyner View Challenge, the Frozen Snot and the Great Island Adventure. Stevenson was a past Lock Haven Catholic School Board President and currently is helping on the school expansion committee.
Areas of other public certifications:
Monitors and reports to NOAA as a certified/registered Sky Warn Watcher (1991) as well as an Ice Observer (2003). Is a Highway Watch Instructor. Pennsylvania State Police Crime Watch and Amber Alert Observer. Is certified as a Professional Association of Diving Instructors International Advance Open Water Certified Diver.
Stevenson is employed part time by McTish, Kunkle & Associates, a consulting and engineering firm based in Allentown. He is certified by the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies for Highway Construction, The American Concrete Institute as a Grade I Field Testing Technician, the Northeast Center of Excellence for Pavement Technology as a Bituminous and Concrete Field Technician and as a Certified Concrete Technician for The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
He and his wife Patti have been married for 26 years. They are the parents of a son Michael, a Professional Fireman in Washington D.C. and a daughter Sandy, an accounts receivable associate for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. Steve and his family are members of the Holy Spirit Parish in Lock Haven. He is a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus and a member of the Color Guard.
Councilman Stevenson is dedicated to Lock Haven and its residents, enjoys being a member of Lock Haven City Council and wants to continue serving the City as its Mayor. He is asking for your support and vote in the May 19 primary.
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