About Us

District Staff

District Manager: Alice Halloran (ahalloran@westelcom.com)

Alice has a Master's Degree in Environmental Biology and has worked for the District for several years. Her previous work experience includes jobs as an engineering technician, Assistant Forest Ranger, Ski patroller, and land survey technician. Alice grew up in Minerva and enjoys adventuring in the Adirondacks and beyond.

Secretary: Lois Sayward (lsayward@westelcom.com)
Lois has been with the District since 2011. She is the voice you hear when you call. From dealing with paying for projects, to recording the meeting minutes, to making sure we are following contract terms, she makes sure we stay on the right path! Lois is often the gatherer of the information at the tire collections, which is invaluable for us to be able to continue to hold those events.

District Technician: Amy Calkins (acalkins@westelcom.com)
Amy joined us as summer intern in 2017, and started full time that fall. She has been doing a lot of work with our stream program, especially helping with project design, grants, and permits as well as helping with some invasive species issues. Aside from stream work, she is also very productive in getting rain gardens on the ground and organizes the tire collection events.

District Technician: Olivia Dickenson
(odickenson@westelcom.com)
Olivia was hired full time the fall of 2018. She started out as a summer intern doing our ARRA reports and is our GIS guru. Olivia also handles our newsletter and Facebook. She has been working at our tire collections, rain garden installation work, and much more. She is a great asset to our office and we look forward to working with her.

District Technician - (dberheide@westelcom.com) Daniel Berheide is our newest full time hire and is a graduate of School of Forestry, University of British Columbia. He is working grants for green infrastructures and storm water management/aquatic connectivity, participates in our tire collections, youth summer education program, AEM program, and forestry.

Summer Intern: Christopher McIlroy
Chris is our intern for the summer of 2019. He will be assisting on some of our projects this summer like our road side erosion grants, educational outreach, and various other projects. Chris is a senior at SUNY Plattsburgh, and is getting degrees in Environmental Science (B.S.) and Geology (B.A.).