HDSCBA Board of Directors

Ila Stanek works as Corporate Receptionist and Trust Department Administrative Assistant for Riverview Community Bank. From her 9th Floor location she has a view of ongoing downtown development and is hoping to see similar growth in the unincorporated area served by the Hazel Dell/Salmon Creek Business Association (HDSCBA). Since she returned to Hazel Dell and created The Word Works, Inc. (a secretarial and business support service) in 1984, this part of Clark County has had her full attention. Ila also worked for the United States Postal Service, leaving as an Associate Supervisor, and maintains a small data management and editing service, Westergard Northwest. She inherited a pioneer family farm in Cando, ND that has been returned to native grasses and now functions as a wildlife preserve.

Ila has been active in the HDSCBA since the mid-1980s, serving as Secretary, Vice President, and now Treasurer. The new local non-profit, Three Creeks Community Partners, is another focus of her energies and she is the Treasurer. She serves on the Highway 99 Corridor Revitalization Team (“Team 99″) and as its Secretary and Communications Rep. This group assesses the current use, appearance and accessibility of Highway 99 and recommends improvements on a case-by-case basis now that the Highway 99 Corridor Overlay District is in place. In conjunction with that project, she served on the Mixed Use Committee advising Clark County’s development code. Ila is the President of the West Hazel Dell Neighborhood Association and its Neighborhood Association Council of Clark County (NACCC) rep. She participates in the West and Central Precinct Sheriff’s Citizens’ Advisory Board and committees for Clark County Fire District 6. She has been actively involved on the board of Friends of Clark County for several years.

Association President. Sharif Burdzik works as a Vice President and Branch Manager over both the Hazel Dell and Salmon Creek branches of Riverview Community Bank.

In 1991, after graduating from the University of Kansas, he started his career in banking in that state, where he was born and raised. Moving to the metro area in 1996, Sharif has served on the board of the HDSCBA since 2005 and is in his fourth year as President.

Currently an active member of the Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Sharif also serves on the boards of the New Day Community Dental Clinic (as President), the Salvation Army (Chair), the Clark County Skills Center Foundation (Treasurer), and the WSU Vancouver Diversity Advisory Board. He is one of the founders of the International Festival on Fourth Plain and also actively participates in the Clark County Sheriff’s Citizens Advisory Group and the Three Creeks Advisory Group as an alternate. A proud graduate of the Leadership Clark County class of 2009, he remains active in that organization and was named their Alumni of the Year in late 2011.

In his personal time, Sharif enjoys skiing, hiking, and especially spending lots of time with his son Alex.

Mitch Canton is Director, Digital Marketing for Live! Local Media, a local ‘digital publisher,’ creating new-media based content for a network of local websites and other businesses throughout SW Washington.

A serial-entrepreneur, Canton and the Live! team have launched multiple hyper-local internet sites over the past seven years, with further expansion on the immediate horizon.

A Clark County native, and part of a family that runs SIX generations deep in Clark County, Mitch is a strong ‘local’ proponent. His team has had extensive focus on using digital media to assist local businesses not just survive, but thrive in the new economy.