[SaraHap] SARA Happenings May 2009

[Chris Hoare]

Hi All: 

SARA Happenings is issued to foster communication within the Search and Rescue community in Alberta. It is going to 226 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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COMMUNICATIONS ISSUE

Greetings....
  
A SAR Alberta strategic planning session was recently held on May 9, and communication was identified as a top priority - this should not be a surprise to anyone.
  
Jan Hurl and myself have been tasked with a communication project to improved the flow of information out to everyone. As you know, a lot of times there is a breakdown in communications along the way, so we are proposing that WHAT IF every team member on every team in the province provided SAR Alberta with their email addresses. Then the information could actually get to everyone. The information could include a quarterly newsletter, SARA Happenings, stats, conference info, training info and the list goes on and on.
  
SAR Alberta
- 38 teams with approximately 1500 professional volunteers
- 17 associate members
- removing the "what is SAR Alberta doing for me" by being able to communicate with every volunteer in the province and letting them know what we are doing and what's happening
- Being able to not have communication an issue within the SAR Alberta community - PRICELESS
  
We have already had some teams provide us their individual members email addresses - can we count on your teams support in putting the communication issue to bed?
  
Rodney Dietrich
SAR Alberta - Treasurer
accountinggod at shaw.ca 


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SAR BASICS COURSE

There is an update on the contact for this course.

Sundre VSAR is running a SAR Basics course in June 2009

June 13/14 and 27/28 2009
Sundre Arena meeting room
08:00 to 16:30 approx.
instructor ; Les Brace
Cost $150.00 p/p

New Contact;
Cerah Vincent Spoor, our new Training Director 
Our new email address is svsartraining at hotmail.com

Please contact Cerah for all info about this course.

We will see you all some where down the road
Thanks, Renny Norsworthy arms_rn56 at hotmail.com 


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SAREX 2009

Rodney Dietrich sends the following link to all information on SAREX 2009 at Yosemite September 10th to 12th 

http://www.sarex2009.com/ 


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GOOGLE EARTH USED FOR SEARCHES AND RECOVERY

Your editor came across this information in the international edition of Der Spiegel.

An article on Der Spiegel online edition April 28th gave some examples of the use of Google Earth data, including a recovery mission (unfortunately not a rescue) that might interest SAR members. 

The following missing person website concerns a light plane crash in the US. 
http://www.n2700q.com/ 

The Google Earth info and maps 
http://www.n2700q.com/googleearth.html 

The whole Der Spiegel Article, with more examples, can be found here: 
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,621645,00.html#ref=nlint  


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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. 
 
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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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