Good morning, here is the news:
Team Meeting—Our meeting will be 9 February, 6:00pm in the Senior Center, on Mira Mesa Blvd North side between Reagan Rd./New Salem and Camino Ruiz. The parking lot for the Senior Center/EpiCenter is not connected to any of the others, so you really need to be traveling West on Mira Mesa Blvd. to get in there. We'll end promptly at 7:00. Wound care again, this is basically the same thing we did last year, and once again the emphasis will be on everyone getting actual practice. We have the Academy training kit, so there will be plenty of materials to practice with, but by all means bring your own for show and tell and if you want to try it out.
Calendar for 2012—Here is what we have for 2012. Please put these dates on your calendar, but remember that we need to be flexible. A date can change, or we can drop a meeting when it makes good sense to do so. Please look these dates over carefully and let me know if you see potential conflicts I may have missed.
9 February (Thursday)—posted above
17 March (Saturday)—St. Patrick's Day Parade. I'll have more on this in the Battalion News, there is a schedule conflict with an important CE. I plan to attend the parade, so it will count as a Team Meeting.
10 April (Tuesday)— At the Senior Center. We will do an Incident Command exercise.
9 May (Wednesday)—moved back one day to avoid Mother's Day. Annual FRS Radio Drill. We will end at our rally point in the Park near the Rec Center.
10 June (Sunday)—annual Battalion 5 joint rescue drill. This will probably be someplace else other than our rally point, very likely at the Carmel Valley Rec Center where we were last year.
10 July (Tuesday)—No exercise planned, but I really want to do the knock-knock drill we discussed before. The emphasis is on talking to neighbors and explaining your role as CERT in a real catastrophe. We might pair up where it makes sense to do so. More on this when I can spend more time putting it together. We have the Senior Center reserved, if we can't put together the knock-knock we'll look at doing something else.
9 August (Thursday)—We have the Senior Center reserved, no exercise planned yet.
15 September—Mira Mesa Street Fair. You'll get credit for a Team Meeting if you work an hour at the Street Fair. Last year we had just enough people (with help from Scripps Ranch) to do a few transport and cribbing exercises on the street in front of our space, which got us a large number of interested people, and as a result 4-5 potential candidates coming out of this next Academy. I call this "results". If you can possibly make this one, please do, we can use you, you'll most likely get a little rescue practice in, and we have a good chance of growing our Team.
10 October (Wednesday)—No Meeting Scheduled. We hope that we can pull off the Haunt drill again. I won't know about this until mid-Summer at earliest, that's when the Haunt Committee puts out their floor plan and I can write a proposal.
8 November (Thursday)—Moved to avoid the Veteran's day holiday. We have the Senior Center reserved. This will probably be my ever popular (in my mind at least) talk on electrical/gas/mechanical safety.
10 December (Monday)—No exercise planned, if we have this we'll probably take a look at the Calendar for 2013 and float some ideas. Senior Center reserved.
That's all for this week, Battalion News follows, probably late morning or early afternoon. Questions, comments, you know how to find me.
-Steve
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