FRIDAY, March 19, 2010 MEETING NOTES Volume 44, Issue 25
We had 19 Optimists today. The Mystery Greeter was Milt Rewey who greeted Karl Sandry. John Dutcher, John Urness, Tom Nall, Hap Daus, Steve & Maxine Lane, Ron Weier, Ernie Thalmann and Charlie Clark wore their Optimist shirts today.
Today’s Speaker – Karl Sandry - Fire Safety Program at Southwest Tech
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Our own Karl Sandry spoke about the Fire Safety Training Program at Southwest Technical College today. He is the Program Coordinator and primary instructor. The program is to give firefighters the initial training they need. In order to be allowed to engage in active firefighting near, in or on a structure, a firefighter must be qualified with an Entry Level qualification after a minimum of 60 hours of training. There is another level called Certified after some additional training. A Certified Firefighter has reciprocity rights in 40 states where a Qualified (Entry Level) Firefighter does not. There is no difference in initial training for a paid versus volunteer firefighter. |
He works with the 58 volunteer departments in the District that includes Crawford, Richland, Grant, Lafayette, Iowa and parts of other counties. They generally schedule training in the evenings at the local fire stations, but are flexible based on who needs training and their schedules. Karl says he has up to 16 adjunct instructors to assist him. He spoke about the Southwest Tech expansion program. The Public Safety Center is one of the last areas to be worked on and they have learned from the mistakes of the past. One is the communication with the architect. One special area will be the burn facility. It will be a block building that can be set up for live fire training. It uses propane to help them with control, similar effects of a real fire and make the facility reusable. |
Karl says the facility will have the remodeled training classrooms for Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement. The outdoor area will not only have the area for fire training, but a shooting range and vehicle driving course. Click here for a look at the site plan. Click here for a look at the drawings of the "burn building". Someone asked Karl how he got started. He said his father was a fire chief and he became a volunteer at 18. He was an adjunct instructor at Western Tech starting in 2000 and became the Program Coordinator at Southwest Tech in 2003. Thanks for the wonderful speech! |
This Friday - Cindy Callahan - State Forensics
UPCOMING EVENTSMay 8 – SWIS Conference – WI Dells |
UPCOMING SPEAKERSApril 2 – TBD April 9 – UW-P Engineers Without Borders |
JOKER DRAWSteve Lane was the lucky one selected. He drew the 10 of Clubs and won $2. Good Luck to next week’s winner. MISCELLANEOUSMilt Rewey has the Scholarship Committee ready to review the 44 applications. We select 4 candidates and the school selects the final 2 who will get the $500 scholarships.
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April 30 will be a Fifth Friday social with the theme "Games People Play". They want to open it to both clubs to get to know each other. ORATORICAL CONTESTThe results of last week’s contest were sisters Saafia and Sumaia Masoom took the two first place awards with Angela Drefcinski very close. The Zone contest will be on April 17 from 9 - Noon at the Mound City Bank Motor Branch. Good luck to both! |
TRI-STAR BASKETBALLThe District Tri-Star Basketball contest will be on March 20. We have 5 kids going on to compete in that contest. Good luck to our representatives! BOARD MEETINGThe next Board Meeting will be on Thursday, April 8th at 7 AM at Badger Brothers. |
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