Words in the Wind, Vol. 1 Issue 7

AIC CERT TEAM COMPLETES TRAINING PROGRAM

The new Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) members include Billy Frazier, LVN, Team Leader, Vicky Frazier, Granny Cheryl Helmers, Jan Davis, Cheryl Crist, RN, MSN and John Paul Sanchez.
The four day training program finished with a graduation ceremony August 14, 2010. The new CERT Team will serve Andrews County to support and assist Fire Department and Emergency Services under the direction of Andrews County Emergency Management Coordinator, Mike Cook. The training included light search and rescue, triage of victims with medical emergencies, CPR and first aid, organized searches and documentation of findings to assist professionals.
We all look forward to future training inlight fire suppression and in depth CPR Training. Congratulations Team ~!

AUGUST HARVEST

A goodly amount of organic pumpkins have been grown in the communal garden on Crisarosa Ranch and are ready for harvest. We will have plenty on hand for pies and goodies for our traditional Thanksgiving Feast this year.

SECOND ANNUAL YARD SALE FUNDRAISER HELD

Sat., Aug. 21st, our second annual Back-to-School Yard Sale was held at the Lowe's Grocery store in Odessa on 42nd St. & Dixie from early morning til dark-thirty. Our thanks to the car lot across the street for allowing us to have items dropped off there, to Lowe's management for use of their "front porch" and to all who helped organize this event. We sold hamburgers and hotdog plates and lots of school clothes.
Enough money was made to cover expenses and fund several projects in the near future. An added benefit is the fact that we now have clean, organized boxes of good, used clothing and household goods to use for many of the charitable events before the holidays.
Last year we donated warm clothing to the homeless in Odessa, stuffed animals to children in the court system through CASA Volunteers, business clothes to the Women's Crisis Center, and much, much more. All in all, we had a succesful sale ~!
A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to all who worked to hard to make this happen. We look forward to doing it again, next year, too.

HUNTING PARTY FORMING ~!

We are looking into putting together a hunting party to supply our members with fresh deer and rabbit meat this winter. If you are interested, or can help in any way, contact: Billy Frazier 432.416.6197 or Cheryl Crist, 432.524.4678.

CLASSES:

BEADING CLASS -- we now have beautiful, handmade cedar beading looms for sale for only $l5.00. A class is forming in Andrews with a limit of 10 students. The fee is $39.00 which includes: loom, all beads, thread, needles, design notebook and supplies (for students to keep).

CPR CLASS -- Billy Frazier, LVN, CERT Team leader, will offer a CPR class in the near future. If interested, call Billy at 432.416.6197.