Director's Dialogue (May 2013)

">HELITAC TRAINING:

was held on Saturday, April 6th , hosted by the SAR Council. It is amazing, we had 26 sign up, 4 cancelled and we ended up with 31.… Lol. Go figure!It was a great turnout and we would like to thank Mike Ells for a very informative class.

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SHERIFF’S 10K RUN

March the 6th was the date of this run and we would like to thank all of our SAR personnel for their help. Most of the proceeds were going to go to the SAR Council, however at the meeting on the 20th it was determined and voted on by the Unit Reps, that we were going to donate those fund to S.E.A.T. to lend a hand to the deputy wounded in the Dorner shootings. We would like to thank everyone for supporting this worthy cause.

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OHVSAR HONDA COURSE:

for beginners will be held on June 22nd. A class will be held for a max of 8 riders on a first come, first serve basis. This course will be at the Cactus Flats OHV Area near Big Bear and will start at 8 a.m. For reservations please contact Mike Westover at 909-747-4115.

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BSAR MENTORS:

Please contact me ASAP if you would like to be a Mentor again if you have done this before for the overnight exercise on June 1st. If you are interested in doing this for the first time, contact me and we can discuss the requirements and qualifications so that you can participate. Call me at 760-831-5743. We are in need of 8 to 12 Mentors for the exercise.

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MSAR COUNTYWIDE TRAINING:

is scheduled to be held on May 18th. Hosted by the SAR Council, however Volunteers Forces will be helping us out with the meals that they are providing for the instructors and trainees this year. The IESARC’s MSAR Chairman Hap Hatch has planned a great day for your training and instruction. For further details please contact Hap at 951-543-8817. This training will be held at the new Heart Bar Training Facility.

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NEW ARENA AND CORRALS:

have been purchased. The SAR Council would like to thank the Apple Valley Posse, Bear Valley Posse, East Valley Posse, Morongo Mounted SAR, West Valley Posse and the Rodeo Committee for their generous donations to make this possible. It will be installed at the Heart Bar Training Facility. Work was started on April 20th and 27th with a little more to do on May 11th. If you are willing to help out let me know or John Amrhein at Volunteer Forces. In the meantime, if you have any corral panels, water/feed buckets, feeders, rakes etc that you would like to donate to the Training Facility, please contact John at… 909-387-0611.

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PR TRAILER:

is nearing completion. Ron Thy of the Victor Valley SAR Unit, who is donating his time and numerous hours of work, still has a few items to complete before paint, decals and lettering. However, with any luck the trailer should be on display at the next SAR Council Meeting. Keep your fingers crossed and we will keep you updated with its progress. As a reminder, if you would like to show your own units power point, slide presentation and/or videos, please start putting those together so that you will have them if you in-fact decide to use the trailer. Its great that this was completed within budget by the SARCouncil, our SAR Units and a number of SAR members without any cost to the department. Chairman Ron Pesch would like to thank everyone and all should be very proud of this accomplishment. Note: If your Unit did not make donation of $300 for this project, and you would like to be on the sponsor banner, please let me know ASAP or at SAR Council and we will add your Unit name.

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SAR COUNCIL MEETING:

The next meeting of the SAR Council will be held on May 15th at Headquarters. As usual the meeting will be held upstairs and will start at 7 p.m. Hopefully, as mentioned above, the new PR Trailer will be in the parking lot and on display. Again, it might not be, but we are trying to finish it by that date and if not it will be done by May 30th at the latest.

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SAR CHALLENGE:

Sharpen up your SAR Skills and grab the family! A weekend of fun, some friendly SAR Unit challenges, great weather and food are planned for July 26, 27 and 28. The gates will be open at the Heart Bar Training facility for overnight camping if you so desire on Friday evening and the activities for the SAR Challenge will start at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Put this event on your calendar! There will be activities for our members as well as the kids. The SAR Challenge Committee which is being chaired by Frank Kams, our IESARC Assistant Director, will be releasing more information about this as the time gets closer…plan on it! Its going to be a great event! If you would like to be on the committee please contact Mr. Kams.

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MAY FOR MEMBERSHIP:

Tom Henderson, our chair for the May for Membership Drive gave out a CD with some ideas on how to run a successful drive for membership at the last SAR Council Meeting to all of our SAR Units. If your unit would like to participate in who can recruit the most members during May please let me know at dnicolet@sbsar.org

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HEART BAR TRAINING FACILITY CLEAN UP

Once again Volunteer Forces is asking for the assistance of your SAR members for the clean up at our training facility. This will take place on May 11th at 8 a.m. If you would like to lend a hand, please get a hold of John Amrhien at VF or me as soon as you know.

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UPCOMING EVENTS - 2013:

April 27: Arena Installation at the Heart Bar Training Facility

May 4 & 5: BSAR

May 11: Heart Bar Training Facility Clean Up Day 

May 15: SAR Council Meeting

May 18: Countywide MSAR Training

May 18 & 19: BSAR

June 1 & 2: BSAR

June 22: OHVSAR Honda Course

June 29: Camp No Limits

July 17: SAR Council Meeting

July 26, 27 & 28: SAR Challenge/Family Day

August 9, 10, 11: TRBC

August 23, 24, 25: TRBC

September 18: SAR Council Meeting

September 21 & 22: BSAR

September 27 28 & 29: Sheriffs Rodeo

October 5: Helitac Training

October 5 & 6: BSAR

October 12 & 13: SAR City

October 19 &20: BSAR

November 20: SAR Council Meeting

December 14: Gift of Love

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If you haven’t heard, Deputy Marylee Brown has left Volunteer Forces and was reassigned to the Morongo Station as of April 6th. We all would like to wish her well, we enjoyed working with her and wish her the best of luck in the future. She will be missed. All of us for sure, want her and all of you to…….

Be Safe

Dave Nicolet, Director

Inland Empire Search and Rescue Council