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Cutoff deadline to vote: Midnight Sept. 16th!
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Adopt & follow a flight
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The P-51 Mustang raffle is closed!
Drawing will be at the AOPA convention Hartford, CT September 22-24
Upcoming Events
Oct 8 -Sebastian Airport Latin Festival
October 9 - Poker Bike Run, Palm Coast
October 15-17 - Board Meeting/Fly-out to Bahamas
Register & buy your cruise tickets here
November 4 - Golf Tournament, Leesburg, FL
Early-bird special on tickets now!
November 12-13 - Stuart Air Show
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| Microsoft Grant for $15,300! |
We received this letter from Microsoft this week:
Dear Steve Purello,
At Microsoft, we believe technology can do amazing things. That's why we partner with thousands of organizations like yours around the world to help each one achieve its mission. Through our Microsoft Unlimited Potential efforts, we provide technology tools, training, and resources that can help change people's lives and transform communities. Congratulations on being part of our global community!
Microsoft is pleased to support Mercy Flight Southeast with a Microsoft software donation valued at US$15,300.00.
Now our new computers will have Microsoft Office 2010 on each one!
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| Lt. Dan Band Concert & 4-day event: Beaufort, SC |
Mercy Flight will be joining the Gary Sinise Foundation for a 4 day event and concert in Beaufort, South Carolina Sept. 14-18. Special thanks to Ernest Burdette and his wife, who will be flying a family of five including a Purple Heart recipient all the way from Houston. Mercy Flight Southeast will be bringing "Merlin", our 40-foot airplane float. The band will be to showing a 2 minute Mercy Flight Southeast video played during the concert. This will surely be a great weekend had by all that attend. Stop by our booth and say hello! Further information is below or on their website www.ltdanband.com.
On September 16th, 2011, The Independence Fund will once again host Gary Sinise as he leads his Lt. Dan Band in a concert honoring our severely injured veterans. In addition, the weekends festivities will include a family 5K run/walk through historic downtown Beaufort, a fully supported bicycle ride for the veterans, and Conflict Zone, a Photographic Exhibit featuring the dramatic works of some of the top photojournalists from Getty, the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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Our new backup aviation doctor
Thank you Dr. Steve Barasch for volunteering to be our backup doctor on call to Dr. Karl. It is always nice to have an extra person to answer questions in case one is away. Dr. Barasch has offered his services to answer our patient-aviation related questions when Dr. Karl is away.
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WE LOVE OUR VOLUNTEERS, but we are always in need of more.
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Current volunteer openings:
Social Networker -
What could be more fun than playing on Facebook and Twitter? We are looking for volunteers to update our Facebook and Twitter pages on an ongoing basis. Spending a little time each week updating our pages with volunteer information, upcoming events, etc. would be a great way to volunteer. By posting updates on our pages, we will get our mission to hundreds of people, and those who LIKE us will post on their pages where their friends see it and post on their page and so on. Wouldn't it be awesome to be part of the social networking team that gets our name to the family who has never heard of us and is in desperate need of transportation for a medical problem?
* Time commitment- ongoing as your time permits
Experienced Grant Writer -
FILLED!!
Thank you very much to Juanita D'Agostino-Rozzi, who was reading our weekly update, and took the position. Juanita, who lives in Allentown, PA took a flight with us down to New Orleans for treatment.
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Important:VOTE before September 16th!
More important: FORWARD to your friends to vote
With your support, we can win AGAIN in 2011. We hope you will take a moment to vote for us.
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A GREAT BIG THANKS to the following pilots who flew this week:
Delbert Hahn MD x 3
Jerome Hodgson
Richard K. Sorrell, Jr.
Jim Lambert
Peter Roode MD
David Walker x 4
G. Duncan Fraser, Jr.
Ernest Burdette
Jerry Trackman
Walter Givhan
Donald Short
Paul Cellecz
We could not do our mission with out you!!
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| Our condolences: Beulah Underhill | |
Our hearts go out to the family of Beulah Underhill, who at age 91, passed away on Aug 9, 2011. Beulah was kind enough to leave us a generous donation.
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