Board of Directors

Agnes was elected to the Sunrise Credit Union Board of Directors on January 1, 2019, and has previously served as Chair. She loves the challenge of contributing meaningfully to this well-organized and highly effective board.

Agnes had previously served as a director for the legacy Strathclair Credit Union for 15 years. She received the Canadian Credit Union Directors’ Association Certification. Completed the CUES Governance Leadership Institute program through the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto). In addition, Agnes completed several courses through Governance Solutions including Covid, Culture and the Board and Financial Governance for Non-Financial Leaders.

Agnes was born and raised on a dairy farm in the Netherlands. There, she received her diploma (top honours) from a business school (Detailhandel). Agnes is also a certified Chiropodist in the Netherlands. She speaks fluent Dutch.

In 1979, she immigrated to Canada with her husband, Paul. Together they established and successfully ran a retail/service store in Shoal Lake until Paul's retirement in 2018.

In 2005, Agnes realized her dream to become a licensed realtor and continues to have a successful career with Century 21 Westman Realty Ltd., based in Brandon. Her passion is providing exceptional personalized service to her clients. She is thrilled to have achieved Centurion status 12 times and placed in Canada's top 75 realtors multiple times. In addition, the Century 21 Hall of Fame inducted Agnes in 2014.

In addition to supporting several outreach and volunteer programs, Agnes faithfully served as a deacon for the Shoal Lake Baptist Church from 2008 to 2020.

Agnes is an avid reader, is creative, and loves exploring/traveling when time permits. She and Paul enjoy spending time with friends, family, and especially their precious four young grandchildren!

Agnes brings integrity, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude to all aspects of her life.

Craig spent 33 years as a public school teacher and was active with the Manitoba Teachers’ Society in various capacities, including sitting on the MTS Provincial Executive. He was a director of the Tiger Hills Credit Union from 1993 to 2008 and Reeve of the RM of South Norfolk and the amalgamated municipality of Norfolk Treherne for eight years. Craig has been the Chair or Co-chair of the Boyne Valley Water Initiative for more than 20 years. He is also Chair of South Norfolk-Treherne Non-Profit Housing Inc., sits on the MNT Community Development Corporation Board, and regularly volunteers in his community.

Craig’s experience with past amalgamations, governance development, and personnel issues aid him in being a productive board member. He likes being part of a consensus-driven Sunrise Credit Union Board of Directors, where members’ financial needs are satisfied with recognition of social responsibility. Craig has completed the Credit Union Director Achievement (CUDA®) training. Continuing education and training remain Craig’s priorities. He has recently completed a dozen courses from the CCUA Campus and participated in the Directors’ Forums and the CUES Digital High-Performance series. Craig has also attended the Rotman School of Management Program and the 2024 CCUA National Conference for Canada’s Credit Unions.

Daryll Logeot has been a Sunrise board member since it formed in 2008. Before this, he sat on the board of Hartney Credit Union from 2002 up to the amalgamation. He has taken numerous training sessions to upgrade his understanding as a credit union director along the way.

He is the owner/operator of DL Consulting, an independent agrology firm which he started in 2003. Before that, he worked two years for an agrology firm called Crop Tech after working 11 years for Agricore and one of its parent companies, Manitoba Pool Elevators. He also worked for four years as a seasonal employee for United Grain Growers beginning in 1985. Daryll earned the accredited designation of Certified Crop Advisor for the Prairie Provinces region in 1997 and has maintained that certification to the present day.

Daryll and his family operate a small beef operation, and from 1990 to 2011 ran a herd of Purebred Angus cattle under D-Bar Angus. Daryll served on numerous boards within the livestock industry, most notably, six years on the Manitoba Angus Association board, of which he was president for three years ending in 2002. The registered herd was dispersed in the fall of 2011, but they still maintain a small herd of commercial cattle. He and his family are quite active within the community as well.

Daryll completed the CUES Governance Leadership Institute at the Joesph L. Rotman School of Management, earning a CCUD (Certified Credit Union Director) designation.

Doug Van Damme grew up in Southern Manitoba and worked on his family’s farm. Upon graduating from High School, Doug attended Brandon University, where he earned his B.SC (80), B.ED (83) and Masters of Education in 2001. After graduating from university in 1983, he began his 32-year teaching career, with the last 23 years in The Pas as a school administrator. Throughout his career, Doug has been active in teacher and principal organizations at both the local and provincial levels. Doug served as a Director on the Council of School Leaders of MTS and its predecessor, the Manitoba Association of Principals, for numerous years.

After long successful careers working as educators in Northern Manitoba, Doug and his wife, Valerie, moved back to her hometown of Laurier in 2016.

Since joining the Sunrise Board of Directors in 2019, Doug has shown his commitment by graduating from the Credit Union Director Accreditation Program and the Rotman School of Management Institute Levels 1 & 2.  He is dedicated to making positive, meaningful contributions to this well-organized and highly effective board. Doug intends to continue serving the region with the same integrity and honesty he demonstrated throughout his professional career and volunteer work.

In addition to serving on the Sunrise Credit Union Board of Directors, Doug has kept busy as a volunteer and treasurer for the local Senior Centre.  He also worked as a substitute teacher for the Turtle River School Division until 2020. Doug has volunteered with the Canadian Red Cross during regional disasters and on the Personal Disaster Assistance Team in the Dauphin Region.  He assists on his relatives’ farm as an equipment operator during the planting and harvesting seasons.

Doug enjoys gardening, cycling, hiking, golfing, cross-country skiing, and curling. He has had a long association with the Credit Union System as a member in Laurier, The Pas, and he served as a director for the legacy Prairie Mountain Credit Union. Doug joined the Sunrise Credit Union Board of Directors on April 1st, 2019, and is currently a member of the Nomination Committee and the Vice-Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Fred graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture from the University of Manitoba in 1982 and worked in the Ag Credit field for 12 years, starting as an Ag Loans officer with the Virden Credit Union. He then moved to MASC, where he finished his off-farm employment as a Credit Manager. Fred began full time farming in 1994, operating a pedigreed seed farm with his in-laws near Reston.

The business has grown to include his children and their youthful enthusiasm and energy, which will continue a prosperous future for the family farm. Through the years, he has been fortunate to serve on the Board of Directors for Canterra Seeds, Manitoba Pulse Growers and Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers in addition to local community groups. The skills that he has learned in these positions have proven to be useful while serving on the Sunrise Credit Union board.
 
 

Jan has been a credit union director for nearly two decades. She served on the amalgamation committee, which was responsible for bringing five credit unions together to form Sunrise Credit Union.

Jan has several years of experience as a small business owner in conjunction with her spouse, where she was responsible for bookkeeping, inventory control and payroll.

She has 23 years of provincial government service, including 13 years as an administrative assistant and 10 in inspection services for the Petroleum Branch, where she was the first woman to serve in this position in the province. As an administrative assistant, she developed several significantly simplified reporting procedures and computerized the record-keeping function by writing programming. As a Petroleum Inspector, she licensed all provincial oil flow lines, developed guidelines for land use concerning mud spreading, over-seeing all oil industry activity in the regulatory capacity, and seconded as a Workplace Safety and Health officer about worker safety in the oil field. She also assisted in the development/revision of the Petroleum Regulations under The Oil and Gas Act.

Jan has several years’ experience chairing major community committees, including Centennial celebrations, School Reunion, the Deloraine and Area Christmas Cheer, Church Board, Westman Heritage Inc., Canada 150 Party, etc. She is active on many additional committees, including the local Palliative Care, Chamber of Commerce, Museum, Parent Council, Fitness Centre, Provincial & local hockey & ball tournaments.

Currently, Jan is self-employed in the healing & coaching industry and employed on a casual basis with Wright’s Auction Service. She is also a Trustee and the Administrator for Lowe McClelland Family Trust, and a director for 4785691 Manitoba Ltd, a holding company.

Jan completed the CUES Governance Leadership Institute at the Joesph L. Rotman School of Management, earning a CCUD (Certified Credit Union Director) designation. She also completed the Brown Governance Board Competencies course as well as the CUES 2017 Board Chair Development Course.

Scott Thompson co-operates a grain and forage seed production farm with his father on their family farm west of Minnedosa. Scott completed his Bachelor of Science, majoring in Agronomy at the University of Manitoba in 2009 and began farming with his dad that summer. He also attended U of M the following two winter semesters with a focus on finance and accounting.

In 2012, he married his wife, Brandi, who works as an Ultrasound Technologist with Shared Health Services at the Neepawa Health Centre. They live in the home they built on the farm with their two young daughters. Scott sat on the Minnedosa Credit Union board for six years and was vice chair in the final year before the amalgamation with Sunrise Credit Union. In his spare time, he is busy with kids and sports in the summer and at the hockey rink in the winter. He also enjoys travelling to foreign countries and learning about their culture and way of life.