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Weekly Update / December 2, 2011

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Upcoming Events

  

Volunteer Recognition Luncheon 


Sebring Air Show
January 19-22nd
Sebring Airport
Sebring, FL

January 28th
Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport
Challenge Air Event
Sign up here

 

February 4th

Texas Hold'em Tourney Arlington Ridge Golf Club

Leesburg, Fl

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February 25th

Texas Hold'em Tournament 

Orlando 

Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)

March 31st

Texas Hold'em Tournament 

Lakeland Airport

(Sun n Fun)

 

April 7th

Trains, Planes & BBQ

Tavares, FL

 

April 21st 

Texas Hold'em Tournament 

Tampa FL

Hard Rock Casino & Hotel

 

April 28th

Golf Tournament

Belleair, FL

Belleair Country Club

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Speakers

"EvANGEList" Monthly training every

3rd Thursday @ 7pm

Skipping December

(712) 432-0080 949489# 

via join.me

Next training is

Nov 17, 2011

 

Pilots

 

Pilot tele-forum

For feedback, suggestions 

and questions answered regarding missions

First Tuesday every month at 7pm 

Skipping December

(712) 432-0080

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WINGS

 

South Florida Wing

Last Wednesday 6:30pm every month 

Skipping December

Executive Airport (KFXE)

  

West Palm Beach Wing

First Thursday 6:30pm (next one 1/5)

 every month

Galaxy FBO

Galaxy FBO West Palm Beach International (KPBI)

 

Tampa/St. Pete Wing

Third Wednesday 

6:30pm every month

(next one 1/18)  

Location varies

Next meeting Tampa Executive (KVDF)

 

 

For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at 

(352) 326-0761

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pay it Forward- WFLM

A big thanks to Larry Lee and Jumpin' Joe for giving Angel Flight Southeast an hour of radio time on 104.7 "The Flame." Larry has a great charity that gives to a variety of non-profits, which now includes ours. Thanks for the check Larry!

We were really able to get the word out and have some fun. Special thanks to Bill Brooks for putting it together with Larry.

 

Steve, Larry Lee, Bill Brooks and Jumpin' Joe

WFLM 

Pay it Forward

 


Volunteer Recognition Luncheon
Saturday, December 10, 2011

12pm-4pm 

Headquarters: Leesburg Airport, Leesburg, Florida.
Mark your calendars!

We want to thank all of our volunteers; the ones who fly and the ones who work on the ground. This is a great time to meet new friends and put a face to the names you see all the time.  Come enjoy a delicious lunch, social time and a tour of our headquarters. 
RSVP "here."

 

Pilot spotlight

These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions.

 

Tom M. Cleland X2

Barbara Mathews 

Steven High X2

James Jordan
Charles Gould

Mark Nowicki

Harry Palmer

David Mauritson

Moshe ''Mookie'' Bahiri

Jack Fox

William Shivers

Elliott Ross

Mary Sittman 

John Leavitt
Don O. Bradford

Richard E. Bicknell

Frank Pugh

Delbert Hahn MD X2  

Pilots: Please send your photos via your smart-phones to: info@mercymail.org. We'll get them posted on our social networks so we get some additional PR. 
 
Thank you for all of your time and energy.

  

 


Volunteers needed 
Event volunteers
Please see the events scheduled in the left hand column. We need drivers, people to man our booths, help growing our wings and more!
If you'd like to chair your own event, we'd be thrilled! Just let us know.
 

Specifically, we need volunteers to run the Sebring Air Show January 19-22, 2012

Thanks Mike Winter- One down!

 

Specifically also, we need volunteers for our Tampa St. Pete Golf tournament.

 

For any of these positions, or to chair your own event please call the office at: 

(352) 326-0761

 
Angel Flight/Challenge Air
 
We have begun planning for our fly-kids event in January, partnering with Challenge Air. Jim Steenson, a retired Air Traffic Controller and volunteer mission coordinator has volunteered to be the Air Boss for the event, and I will be the Chief Pilot. Thanks Jim!

This is a crazy, but fun day. We are looking for pilots to take kids and their families on a 15-minute flight, exposing them to aviation and empowering them by hopefully taking the controls of the aircraft, even though they may have a disability that keeps them from having a normal life on the ground. I have done a number of these as a pilot, and just like doing Angel Flight missions, it is very rewarding!
 
Please let us know if you can volunteer. We will have a morning and an afternoon shift on Saturday January 28 at the Fort Lauderdale Executive airport. Sign up at www.challengeair.org. or give me a call at (352) 326-0761 if you have any questions.

 
Sincerely,
Steve Purello
Angel Flight Southeast
 
Nice note- thanks Bob!

To: Kathy Grange

Subject: RE: This afternoon's mission from KORL-1J0

 

Kathy, Bob was a God send. I was sitting in Showalter's waiting for arrival of the patient from Miami and getting sicker by the minute. I knew what a fix they would be in if I could not fly. Bob came back from a scenic flight and I was going to ask him to call you with the news. He immediately said he would take the flight.

 

Maybe in the next news letter that might make a good testimony to Angel Flight pilots. Boy, did he save the day.

 

Have a great day.

 

Steven W. High, Volunteer pilot

 

*Bob Showalter is part of the family that is very generous to us at Orlando Executive Airport

 

 

Question, comments or concerns?
Contact us at (352) 326-0761
or email us at info@mercymail.org