[SaraHap] SARA Happenings November 2006

[Chris Hoare]

Hi All: 

This is our regular mailing intended to improve communication within the Search and Rescue community in Alberta. It is going to 328 e-mail addresses that are listed as the primary contact of SAR Alberta member groups or which were requested to be added to the mailing list.

Subscription and unsubscription information is at the end of the newsletter. 



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SCENT DOG NEWS

The June-September issue of the quarterly newsletter of the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta is available as a .pdf download from their website. Follow this link:- http://www.sardaa.ca/ScentDogJune_Sept06.pdf 

Michelle L. Limoges udcdoberman at shaw.ca Search & Rescue Dog Association of Alberta Web site - http://www.sardaa.ca 


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CALLING ALL SAR GROUPS

Rocky SAR sends a request out to ALL SAR groups in the Province to send them a digital copy of their crest and/or Logo. They are putting on the SAR Alberta conference in 2007 (more details for this to come soon) and are planning a presentation involving all of the groups' crests. 

Please e-mail responses to rockymountainhousesar at yahoo.ca .

Edward VanHeeren, Past -President, Rocky SAR.



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EARLY CHRISTMAS GREETING

Michelle wanted me to post a Power Point file called "I Believe" as a good pre-Christmas message to all, but it's 1meg in size, and I know not all members want such a file to hit their mailboxes. I tried pasting one slide, but that doesn't work. As a sample, the wording on that slide is:-

"I Believe . . . that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become."

The best I can do, Michelle, is to post your address and ask those interested in seeing it all to mail you for it. Michelle Maschke mdmaschke at yahoo.com 

While I'm on the topic of files and sizes, I'd like to ask members who send items for SARA Happenings to try to avoid sending me fancy fonts and formatting. If I have to paste your messages into the newsletter it sometimes takes me considerable time to eliminate codes which could turn subsequent items blue, red, underlined, and Lord knows what else. Thanks.



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REQUEST FROM SARVAC

Request For Pictures and Information.

>From Reese Wolsey <westpem at telusplanet.net> Please send pictures for SARVAC and answer the questions as per your region. If you send the info to me I will send one package to SARVAC.

The original message came from Charlie Strickland at SARVAC, charles.strickland at ns.sympatico.ca and the request is as follows:-

One - Pictures for SARVAC

I have an assignment from SARVAC to create a library of digital pictures for use in brochures, the Website and for other SARVAC uses. 

- This requires high resolution pictures (i.e., the bigger the file the better) if at all possible 

Two - Civil Emergency Response (CER)

I have been tasked by the Search Management Advisory Committee (SMAC) - which is an advisory committee to the Emergency Management Office (EMO), Nova Scotia to find out about the involvement of GSAR volunteers in each Province and Territory in CER. 

1) What kinds of CER type services are your team or teams providing or performing? 

2) What is your association considering for the future or has under development re CER? 

3) What present needs or anticipated needs have the agencies you work with requested or would want you to be able to deliver? 

4) What training courses have you developed or have planned to support your people in CER? 



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STATE FUNERAL PETITION

The Dominion Institute has an online petition requesting that Canada's last World War I veteran be given a State funeral. Any members interested in this can access through the following link:-

http://www.twenty-twenty.ca/auteurs.phtml?PHPSESSID=960fa353ebc3e885257223d4a38c8971 

An article can be read on the Dominion Institute's website, at http://www.dominion.ca/ 

Original message from Bob Pell reddeersar at hotmail.com 



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SARA HAPPENINGS SUBMISSIONS 

Our regular publication date for mailings of SARA Happenings is the middle of each month. Please note that the deadline for material is the 14th of each month. 


Does your group have an event posting for the SARA Happenings mailing? If so, please send information 1-1/2 months prior to the dates you wish advertised. It will then give ample time for those reading it to respond. 

Please send all material to the editor; Chris Hoare at choare at shaw.ca PLEASE DO include contact information for members to gain further information.



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