Something from the National Weather Service--Aug 5th--Refresher/Training Course in Burlington County

If you are looking for something to do this coming Aug 5th, there is a
refresher/training course in Burlington County, right across the street
from the weather office. The listing is on the Skywarn Home Page:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/skywarn/training.html#sched

If you attend that one, there is an advanced training session same
place on Aug 26th. Remember, we are already down to "D" this July
on the hurricane name list!

Sincerely,

Harry

CERT training class to start on August 11th at the ESTC. Classes will be held from 7pm-9:30pm.

Burlington County OEM will be sponsoring a new basic CERT training class to start on August 11th at the ESTC. Classes will be held from 7pm-9:30pm.

These are the tentative dates:

Session I August 11th (Monday) CERT Overview,
Session II August 18th (Monday) Fire Suppression
Session III August 25th (Monday) Medical Operations Part 1
Session IV August 27th (Wednesday) Medical Operations Part 2
Session V September 3rd (Wednesday) Light Search & Rescue
Session VI September 8th (Monday) Disaster Psychology,Team Organization
Session VII September 15th (Monday) Terrorism
Session VIII September 18th (Thursday Disaster Simulation & Graduation

Skywarn Training

Burlington County may sponsor a SKYWARN Class at the ESTC if we have enough people interested in attending this class. SKYWARN is spotter training for individuals to work with the National Weather Service by observing and reporting adverse conditions. I believe this type of training can be very beneficial to our members. Class is approximately three (3) hours and will probably be held on an evening in late July or early August. Please canvass your membership to determine if they would be interested in this type of class. Please forward this information to my office ASAP.

Wayne

Another note from Wayne

The Farm Fair will be held on July 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th. Wayne has attached a copy of the schedule for all CERT/CART/MRC members. Please note that the parking passes for our volunteers will not be done until Monday. Once the passes are available, hopefully our members can pick them up at the Burlington County Health Department. Wayne will also attempt to deliver some of the parking passes to the Coordinators & Managers.
Additional information about the Farm Fair (location of trailer/table, parking, work procedures) will be sent out next week.

Thanks,
Wayne Comegno

2008 FARM FAIR SCHEDULE
MRC/CERT/CART

Event Commanders
07/23/08 Wednesday Colonel Lowe
Back-up Bill Gates
7/24/08 Thursday Zak Raab
7/25/08 Friday Wayne Comegno
Back-Up Mary Ann Flatley
7/26/08 Saturday John Carroll

July 23rd July 24th July 25th July 26th
10:00am-12:00pm
MRC Janet Siler
MRC Merle Tochterman

Fair opens at 12 noon today MRC Phyllis Worrell
CERT Diane Wood, Alex Elefante, Jack Gordon
CERT Ed Wood, Ron Weber, Joann O'Neill
CART
12:00pm-2:00pm
MRC Mary Ann Flatley,Janet Siler Phyllis Worrell
MRC Maryann Bufanio Diane Wood Marsha Cavender John Hobson
CERT Dianne Richardson-Conda Lena Counts Jack Gordon
CERT Joanne O'Neill, Ed Wood,Alex Elefante, George Marino
CART
2:00pm-4:00pm
MRC Janet Siler, Janet Siler,
Phyllis Worrell John Hobson
MRC Sylvia Davison, Sylvia Davison
CERT Dianne Richardson-Conda, Robert Davison,Jack Gordon
CERT Joanne O'Neill Joyce Waddington Sandra Gatto Jim Kollasch
CART Lisa Cliver Sue MacDonald

July 23rd July 24th July 25th July 26th4:00pm-6:00pm
MRC Anne Norton (5p-9p)
MRC -----
CERT Dianne Richardson-Conda Chuck Sansone (3 p- 6p)
Sandra Gatto, Sue Brudno
CERT Joanne O'Neill, Amy Fitzpatrick, Joyce Waddington, Joe DiPaolo
CART Lisa Cliver, Linda Chamberlain, Sue MacDonald
6:00pm-8:00pm
MRC Cheryl Fowler, Cheryl Fowler, Cheryl Fowler
MRC Claudia Storicks, Anne Norton
CERT Joanne O'Neill, Jim Kollasch, Sue Brudno
CERT Gerald Forand, Amy Fitzpatrick, Mike Panarella, Lisa Post
CART Cynthia Wilbur, Linda Chamberlain
8:00pm-11:00pm
MRC Claudia Storicks Mary Ann Flatley
CERT Debbie Tuno, Jim Kollasch, Jim Kollasch, Debbie Tuno
CERT Kevin Tuno, Carol Norton-Foell, Mike Panarella, Kevin Tuno
CART Lisa Post, Jim Capobianco, Cindy Lamon

A Note from- Wayne Comegno-Burlington County OEM

The NJOEM is sponsoring a CERT Mobilization Day on September 20th at the Sea Grit Police Training Academy. Only CERT units with a trailer (Mount Laurel, Pinelands Regional and Willingboro) are invited to attend and participate in this event. It is mandatory for these teams to attend. The CERT members will take part in several training and exercise scenarios. All equipment, food, water and ice will be supplied by the NJOEM.

Upon discussing this new information with members of both the Core Group and Design Team, we decided that our Field Day (use to be called a rodeo) will be postponed. The Field Day was scheduled for September 27th and will now be rescheduled for April 2009. Hopefully this event can be held on April 24th which is during Volunteer's Week.

Please forward this information to all your members.


Thanks,
Wayne Comegno

Meeting Minutes of July 16, 2008

AGENDA
July 16, 2008



1) Acknowledgment to all that participated during activation with Riverton July 4th parade : Ed Spooner, Marty Spooner, Margaret Genzano, Mary Lou Mascarin- Szesman, Ed Fay, Jim May, Lisa Threston, Joe Threston, Tom O’Donnell, Sheila Reynolds, Eileen Kennedy & new member Cindi Vee. Again everyone’s efforts were appreciated by the Riverton Police Department.

2) Hepatitis B shots after the completion of the series all documentation will be provided to each of you for your records. We will keep everyone posted as to the date of the next shot to be administered.

3) Farm Fair-July 23, 24, 25, & 26th If anyone is interested in volunteering your time to be available for this event-please advise and we will make sure that Wayne is made aware of your availability to assist. (we have a copy of the sign up sheet).

4) CERT TRAILER DAY- Sea Girt, New Jersey- September 20th

5) CERT/CART/MRC Field Day- September 27th-

6) Placemats are available and will be distributed to local business.

7) Skywarn Training- We have a list of ten- do we have any additional sign ups?

8) Shelter Drill to be held in Mt. Laurel-
will be sometime during the summer,while the schools are closed.Most likely a Friday night.It will give everyone a chance to have a “hands on” and get the experience to be prepared in the event of an actual event. Scout troops have beenrecruited to be on hand to act like our potential clients in the event of a disaster.

9)The NJSP will be hosting a second "Missing Person & Evidential Search Course" at the Burlington County Emergency Training Center in Westampton –date and time to be announced. As soon as we find out additional information we will get it out to you and then collect everyone’s names to pass along to Wayne.

10)CPR/AED Training- This will take place in
tentatively October. Do we have anyone interested in this?
If we have enough we might be able to have the training done here in Palmyra.

Questions / Comments – None

Remind all that meeting minutes and updates will be available on
Our team website

ADJOURN MEETING

In attendance: Chuck Young, Eileen Kennedy,Colleen Arndt,
Margaret Genzano,Diana Horen,Tom O'Donnell, Sheila Reynolds,Joe Threston, Lisa Threston,Wendy Haniman.

Absent: Jim Capobianco,France Carmody,Edwin Fay,
Carol Norton-Foell,Josephine Grimes,Glenn Guarino,
Cyndi Lamon,Jim May,Glenn Olszewski,Mary Lou- Mascarin Szeman, Ed Spooner, Marty Spooner,Cindi Vee.

Congratulations Marty and Jen Spooner

Tri-Boro has our second "Cert Baby"
Congratulations go out to Marty & his wife Jen
on the birth of their first baby Emily Rose.
More details to follow, and proud daddy has
promised to bring pictures to our next meeting.

July 16, 7:00pm--Team Meeting and Second Hepatitis B Shots

Just a reminder to everyone.

July 17 at 7:00pm is our next team meeting.
The second in a series of three shots for
Hepatitis B will be administered to those
that are interested at this time.

Hope to see everyone on the 17th

Thank- You from Chuck

Chuck asked me to send this out to all of you that participated during the July 4th parade, or as Wayne put it during our "Activation".

Everyone-Ed Spooner, Marty Spooner, Ed Fay,Jim May, Mary Lou Mascarin- Szeman, Margaret Genzano,Sheila Reyonlds, Joe Threston, Lisa Threston,new member Cindi Vee, Tom O'Donnell & Eileen Kennedy did a great job and both Chuck and Chief Norcross appreciated everyone's assistance.

Have a great weekend and we will see everyone
on the 16th at 7:00pm

July 4th

Reminder to all team members. On Friday Morning ( July 4)
We will meet at 7:30 at the Riverton Police Department.
5th & Howard Streets. Please make sure to bring your vest.
Again we are trying to look as uniform as possible
so if you have your team shirt-please wear it.
If you want to wear your baseball cap- then by all means please do so.

After the parade refresments will be located at the Riverton Fire House.