PO Box 357,      Strawberry, Arizona      85544
March 2000
 

Expo and Fund-raiser   

       The raffle ticket sales seem to have either bogged down or never gotten off yet.  As of 03-25-00 a grand total of 337 tickets is all that have been sold.  Don Peters has sold over half of them.  I must admit that I am guilty of not selling as many as I should by now.  As you well know, we must sell all of them if we want to make the money we are hoping for.  If you have not gotten any tickets you can get them from Don Peters 472-7457 or from Ron Crimmins 476-4941.  Get a handful from them and help in the raising of funds for our squad.  Don, Patt and the committee have made up a tentative floor plan for the booth at the Expo and things seem to be progressing well.  If anyone can solicit any other prizes they will be a welcomed addition.  The more prizes to be given away, the more incentive for people to buy them.

Mission Debrief   

       On Feb 13, 2000 a mission was called to locate an overdue male subject.  The subject had last been seen in the afternoon west of the water treatment plant on F/S Road 406 in the area of American Gulch.  The subject had also been a surgery patient about two week’s prior.  DPS helicopter located the subject and he was transported out by ATV.  He advised that he had gotten disoriented and was expecting to spend the night.  Twenty squad members responded expending 69 man-hours.  Good job folks.

Training

       I have very, very good news to report in the training department.  We now have five, just count them, (5) newly Certified Rope Technicians!!!  We want to congratulate them all.  They are in order of TR number: TR-23 Dave Pirtle, TR-32 Ira Gibel, TR-51 Colleen Dirren, TR-52 Fred Bemeche, and TR-66 Larry Pirtle.  Also completing the classroom portion of the class were TR-7 Cathy Pirtle and TR-57 Doug Conklin.  Our new Vice-Commander TR-19 Vynette Sage and Cliff Sage TR-16 also sat in on the classroom.  A round of appreciation to all that came to the hands-on at the Squad building and at Pine Creek Canyon Narrows.  We could not have done without your help team members!!!!  A BIG THANKS from Dacey and myself.  And HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS to all whom attended the course.  Not as bad as you thought it was going to be was it????  Great class with great students and assistants.  Thanks everyone!!!!!!  It might be known that Fred was tops in the written test.  That’s probably because he bought his harness and gear several months ago in GREAT anticipation.  Congratulations Fred.  Now you have a use for all that STUFF!!! 

Several of the squad members attended the SAR Academy.  Due one of the instructors not being able to attend, the continuation and final portion of the class will be on April 1, 2000 at 0800 hours.

Rope Training at Pine Canyon Narrows is scheduled for April 8, 2000 at 0800 hours.  Everyone is invited to attend.  Come on out and have some fun.  There have been some requests and suggestions.  We do appreciate them.  We take all suggestions and requests to heart.  Just you wait and see!!!!!!  It will be fun.  Hope you all can attend.

Next meeting:  April 13, 2000 at Manzanita Manner, See ya there.