It has been a long and trying week at work. It hasn’t been real busy, but the morale in our office is at an all-time low. I can’t go into detail, or it will come back to bite me, but there are many unhappy employees in our office.
There really has not been that much going on this week. I have had a few meetings, but no barn-burners. The treasurer for our REACT team resigned a couple of weeks ago and his last official day is tomorrow. It doesn’t really matter though, because his job sent him to Portugal, so he is basically gone. I have all the treasurer stuff, since I am Chairman of the Board. The good thing is, one of our other Board members has stepped up and agreed to be treasurer. He told me as long as I would help him, he would do it….so I agreed to help him. We have a Board meeting this Sunday, so 30 minutes before our meeting, I will meet with him and hand all the treasurer stuff over to him.
Our REACT team is getting into the season where we will be doing more storm spotting and working more events. During the Spring and Summer, we always stay busy. Not only do we still work events, we do motorist assists and continue with different types of training other things.
For the past three months or so, some of our team members have been doing “courtesy patrols” on Friday and Saturday nights. What we do is patrol the interstates and watch for stranded motorists. When we see them, we stop and see if we can assist them. We don’t charge them anything, but they are required to sign a release of liability form if we have to do change a flat tire, jump start their vehicle, or do some work on their vehicle. We have been successful and made many contacts via courtesy patrol, but nobody has gone out the last two weekends. We have been busy doing other things, plus, gas is so expensive now, nobody can afford to go out.
Tomorrow, our REACT team will be having a “garage sale” at the State Fairgrounds. This is a city-wide garage sale and it is only for non-profit organizations. It’s a great fund-raising activity for us, so we hope we can sell quite a bit of stuff. My biggest complaint is how so few of our members are involved in this. Out of 20 members, we have had only around 4 members donate items for the sale and there has only been a few of us that have been picking these items up. To top it off, we will have very few members helping us with the garage sale. I am glad we are doing this sale because we do need the money, but I wish more of our members would get involved.
Today is March 30. Today is also my daughter’s 19th birthday. It is hard to believe my little girl is growing up so fast. For the most part, she is making some very good decisions. She still lives at home and is going to college. She is doing great in college and has great studying habits. She is also working a part-time job to help pay for her car. She does chores around the house and has a multitude of friends. I am so proud of her and her accomplishments.
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