NOTS Board

Deacon Craig LaGier

Founder

• Founder of NOTS in 2017
  
• Ordained as permanent Deacon for the Diocese of Reno in 1991
  
• To me, NOTS means a place of hope. I pray that NOTS gives people hope when they have lost all hope.​

Don Wingfield

President

Don is married to a wonderful and talented woman, Sandy. He has three children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. He grew up, primarily on his grandparents’ farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains, studied chemistry at Virginia Tech, and ultimately

moved to southern California where he received his J.D. and practiced law for almost 30 years. While there he also served as a pastor, a chaplain in a state mental hospital, and became active serving the local homeless community. Upon retirement, he returned to

school, earning a B.S. in interdisciplinary studies and a M.A. in Biblical Studies. He became licensed as a chaplain and began serving in the Carson hospital, both in the medical facility and in behavioral health, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, and

the homeless community. He began serving as the president of NOTS during the winter of 2025. He considers it a great privilege to get to know and serve those whose life

Linda Flaherty

Secretary

• ​Thirty years of experience in educational service, training and administration
• Bachelor of Science in Biology, Masters in Special Education, and an Educational Specialist Degree in Administration
• Certified Community Health Worker, loves working with others and collaborating in solving problems that beset our communities 
• Married to her wonderful husband of thirty-seven years
• Has an awesome son in Milwaukee and an incredible daughter in Sacramento
• Has two pets: Frosty; a Quaker parrot; and Mango, a Senegal parrot
• Loves to hike, bike, walk, read, see movies, and spend time with family

Nancy Haffey

Treasurer

• Business experience: Fourteen years in hotel management, nineteen years as an accountant and Controller, three years as a church business manager.
• Fifty years volunteering with non-profits and service organizations.
• Education: Bachelor in Sociology and Urban Studies, Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Theology.
• Married to my exceptional husband and grandmother to seven children.
• ​Currently retired and Treasurer at the Carson City Elks Lodge and actively teaching Stay Strong Stay Healthy exercise classes.
  

Lynn Berggren

I am a Native Nevadan and I was actually born in Carson City! I graduated from the University of Nevada Reno with a degree in nursing and have been an RN for 38 years,. I began volunteering with NOTS in the fall of 2020. I initially had heard of NOTS from the local newspaper and our family church St. Peters soon became an involved partner. Learning that four people had died from exposure to the cold in Carson City led me to want to be a part of the solution to offer the unhoused population a warming center in the coldest months.


I am passionate about helping people and animals and I want to continue to help make Carson City a safe community for our unhoused population.

Veronica Galas

Veronica Galas is an Episcopal Deacon, Spiritual Director, Registered Nurse and Adolescent Health Educator. Many of my life experiences shaped my faith and work interests towards social justice in action. From growing up in a household of nine living in a three-bedroom home, through college service trips that revealed poverty first-hand in multiple locations in the U.S, and participating in community needs assessments as a public health nurse needs around housing surfaced again and again. I am wholeheartedly committed to Night Off the Streets. I believe a shortage of affordable housing, incomes not keeping pace with housing prices, and inadequate intervention services are root causes of individuals going unsheltered. Systems fail and individuals are often blamed. Through its faith-based grassroots beginnings NOTS has shown that an engaged community of volunteers can make a direct and immediate difference with little more than the gumption of the volunteers themselves.

Barbara Ford

​I was born on August 2, 1947, at Bethesda Naval Station. I was a Navy brat until we moved to Fullerton, California when I was 10 or 11. I spent a lot of my youth at Disneyland (my dad worked there after retiring from the military). Went to Mater Dei High School and earned an AA at Western Nevada College. I have seven kids (one adopted). I was heavily involved in both Girl and Boy Scouts (adult leader training, Cubmaster, Troop Leader, Assistant Scoutmaster, day camp director, etc., etc. and etc.) I moved to Nevada (Johnson Lane) in 1972 and to Carson City in 2016. I retired from the State of Nevada five or six years ago. My last (and longest) job was at Western Nevada College where I made sure everything was organized for all the part-time instructors at the college. I briefly worked for Carson City at the COVID hotline and I am currently working as a team lead for the Carson City Fire Department’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) where we train folks to be prepared for emergencies and assist the city/fire department as requested. The last large call-out was to man the Fuji Park shelter during the Caldor Fire. I handled scheduling for CERT members and assisted those in the shelter as needed. Now, I just hang out with my two dogs Skittles and Rocco.

Pastor Kevin Dotts

Kevin Dotts is the pastor of First United Methodist Church in Carson City where he has served for the past three and a half years. Prior to serving at First UMC, Kevin served five years at Antioch United Methodist Church in the San Francisco Bay Area and also served several churches in the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Kevin is a graduate of The University of Findlay in Findlay Ohio where he received a BA in Religious Studies and a minor in Psychology. He is also a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore KY where he received his Master of Divinity. He has served on the NOTS board since January of 2025. Kevin has three children, Dorion, age 29, Faith age 12 and Maddison age 11. He also has three grandchildren, Owen age 11, Ryn age 4 and Violet age 3.