Mira Mesa CERT Newsletter

Good morning, here is the News:

Street Fair Sign-up—The Mira Mesa Street Fair is Saturday, September 15.  This is going away the best recruiting opportunity for our Mira Mesa Team.  What makes it work is the amount of action we can get going around the booth with interactive demos.  These demos serve us in two ways; they call attention to what we do, and give the impression that we are a local organization of dedicated volunteers (which in fact we are, so it works out).  Bottom line, the more people we have, the better it works.  This year we will do cribbing demos again, and log rolling, so dummy gets another workout.  I think we will add rescue carries, still working on that.  Many have requested wound care also, if we can fit that in we will.  Once again those amazing people in the Mira Mesa High School Air Force ROTC are going to help us out.  This will be fun.  For your two-hour commitment, you get to be part of a truly great hometown event, talk to really great people, and get some serious practice in on fundamental rescue skills.  Don't have quite two hours to spare?  We can work something out.  Don't really want to do the demos?  It's not required.

There is no sign-up for this on the website.  Drop me a note, let me know when you can make it (morning or afternoon is good enough), and if there is a particular demo with which you'd like to get involved.  Please help me to make our Team bigger and stronger.  We really need it.

Animal Rescue CE—We just got word of this, The Humane Society is sponsoring a class on preparing for disasters when you have pets.  This is good for Continuing Education.    Check it out:

http://www.sdhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=prg_HappyHour

Note that there is a $12 fee, and they are holding it this Thursday, two days from today.  Only the Preparedness class listed first is approved, not the First Aid for Dogs and Cats.    Those of you who just got the DSW card, time to start working on your renewal.  This isn't as far out there as you might think, we have a LOT of pets here in Mira Mesa.  Sometimes in a catastrophe these pets get separated from their human families.  WE might have to deal with them.  I don't think you need to have a pet to attend this class, they should be able to figure out why you are there if you are CERT.

All for this week.  Stay cool.

-Steve