Supervisor, Corridor Management (Transportation Engineering)

 

Josh is a husband to a beautiful, supporting wife and a new father to the cutest little boy on the planet.  He is very fortunate to have a life where he can do what he loves as a career and contribute to a beautiful community in the Waterloo Region.  He was born and raised in Kitchener but had an opportunity to work on engineering projects in New York City, where he lived for about five years.

 

Missing home tremendously, he moved back to begin a career in transportation at the Region of Waterloo.  During his employment with the Region, he was ecstatic to be selected to participate in the construction of Stage One ION Rapid Transit as a project manager.  This experience gave him a greater sense of the importance of community and how transportation is essential in connecting all of us.  He feels great pride in contributing to his neighbourhood daily, where he feels he is making a difference.  He is constantly looking for new experiences and enjoys meeting new people and helping others.

 

His wife’s aunt, Tracy Curtis-McGrath, is very active in the Guelph Rotary, and he often heard about the activities she is involved with.  He believe Rotary will allow him to contribute to a community that has given him so much.  He also thinks Rotary will provide him with a greater sense of connection to the community and satisfaction in giving back what he can.

 

Josh loves to read about current events, politics and history.  He has a strong interest in the outdoors and enjoys camping and hiking with his wife, son and golden retriever (Newman).  He also enjoy watching Formula One racing and anything technology.

 

P. Geology, Hydrologist

 

Boyd is a US citizen who grew up in Southern California and attended the University of Arizona in Tucson where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Hydrogeology.  He met his wife Colleen Dietrich when she was working for her long-time Waterloo employer, Conestoga Rovers (now GHD) on a temporary assignment in Tucson Arizona.  He moved to Waterloo in 2000 with Colleen where he worked as a hydrogeologist for a local consulting firm before he joined Lotowater in Paris Ontario in 2003.  He is currently an Ontario professional Geologist and principal owner at Lotowater where he works with municipal and industrial clients building and maintaining their municipal and industrial water well systems.

 

Boyd and Colleen have raised two children in Waterloo.  Their daughter Sydney currently attends Queens University in Kingston while their son attends St David’s high school in Waterloo.  Boyd and Colleen have been active volunteers and coaches with their children’s sporting activities including Rep hockey and baseball and spent many weekends at hockey rinks and baseball diamonds over the last 15 years.  

Boyd is an avid multi-disciplined cyclist.  You may see Boyd riding one of his bikes to the St Jacobs farmers Market, on a rural road with his cycling club buddies or riding the local mountain bike trails like the Hydro-cut.  He enjoys riding and supporting the cycling in Waterloo.

 

Boyd feels fortunate to have found a community like Waterloo to raise his family and is looking for a way to give back and try to make Waterloo an even better place to live and work.  This interest in giving back, and making the community better, as well as the impromptu encouraging conversations with his neighbor, Adrian DeCoo, has spiked his interest in Rotary.  He also has some direct knowledge of the impacts that Rotary has on the community as his niece (Rene Ruppe) is a KidsAbility graduate while his sister-in-law (Bernie Ruppe) is a long-term KidsAbility EA.   Boyd also has interest, and knowledge, in Hydro Philanthropy and bringing clean water to less fortunate communities in Canada and abroad.