Good morning, here is the news:
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October Team Meeting—10 October is a Sunday. Let's meet at our rally point, near the gazebo next to the Rec Center on New Salem Drive, just East of Camino Ruiz. I think we'll have a short administrative meeting, then we'll run at least one ICS scenario. Plan on starting at 3:00, unless a whole bunch of us want to do the morning instead, I'm flexible at this point. Bring a Lawn Chair, blanket, or whatever works for you.
Telephone Tree—We have had one volunteer drop out (moved out of the area). This involves calling about 7 people and precisely relaying a message that will be given to you. Please let me now if you can do this, it will really help us out. One way or the other, I am going to distribute the list by the end of this week. We will have a practice drill early next week. When we have that set up, we'll start working on texting. I have mixed feelings about the texting, while it is very effective, and may still run when other communications are down, I know quite a few of us have to pay for it.
Mira Mesa Town Council—I have attended the last two meetings. It's pretty amazing, small town committee government is alive and well and functioning just fine thanks. The next one is this Monday, starting at 7:00 in the Verne Goodwin Senior Center. Schools are the main topic, School Board member John Lee Evans and Superintendent Angela Bass will be there. They typically take write in questions from the audience. Discussion can be lively. Feel free to join me.
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Training Hours Due—Don't make life hard on your Team Leader (and me) by waiting on this. You are personally responsible for turning in your hours each month. I don't care if your Team Leader sat next to you at whatever you took, turn it in anyway. A submission has to include date, time, location, actual title of the class, and number of hours. When you attend a class, be very sure that you sign-in, and if they have a completion certificate for a Red Cross or other approved course, get one. Program participation is very important to us as we justify funding for our programs and training.
DSW Applications are due—No kidding, this is it for this batch. If you think you are up for a new card or a renewal and you have not been in contact with your Team Leader, DO THAT TODAY.
Continuing Education, Regional CERT Exercise—Saturday, 9 October, 8am-3pm. At Stu Segal Studios, 4705 Ruffin Rd. San Diego. Amazingly, this is still open. This is a County training exercise, good chance to meet some of the other CERT Teams. The County provides lunch. Sign up on the web site and download a copy of the flier:
NOTE—I don't think the County has notified anybody yet, but we can probably assume that everyone who signed up on the web site so far has been registered. At some point, they should fill up, and even if you registered on the site, you still might not get in, so if you are thinking about doing this one grab a spot. I'll see you there, it's my turn to get a little training in.
Occasional Rant—Thanks to all who participated in our Haunted House Search and Rescue Drill last week, I hope you learned something new. I learned quite a bit, even thought I just stood around and waved my arms. One thing in particular I want to talk about today, something Brian Kidwell said when a Team Member referred to one of the Victims . "That's not a Victim, that's your Patient" Brian told the Rescuer. Indeed. When we are helping them, they are no longer Victims. Going forward, I'll be using the word "Patient" . I invite you to do the same, and correct me when I fall back on my old habit (which I'm almost sure to do).
That's all for this week, questions, comments, contact your Team Leader.
-Steve
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