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Upcoming Events
January 28th
Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport
Challenge Air Event
February 4th
Texas Hold'em Tourney Arlington Ridge Golf Club
Leesburg, Fl
Sign up here
February 25th
Texas Hold'em Tournament
Orlando
Orlando Executive Airport (KORL)
March 27th- May1st
Sun n Fun
@ the PilotMall Shop
(Air conditioning!)
Lakeland Airport
March 31st
5pm registration
Texas Hold'em Tournament
@ The Sunset Grill
(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
Belleview Biltmore
Golf Club
Sign up here
November 12th
Golf Tournament
Leesburg, FL
Arlington Ridge Golf 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
January 19
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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| 8 Minutes to save a life! | |
This morning at 7:08 am, the call came through.
The mother of an an 8 year-old girl, waiting four months in Jacksonville for a new liver, was told one had just become available.
Our team sprang into action and one of hero pilots, Andy Hoheimer, accepted the mission by 7:16am!
Andy filed the flight plan under the "Lifeguard" moniker to get special treatment by the air traffic controllers and flew his Beechcraft Baron to Miami where a taxi was waiting for this special passenger to take her to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Our prayers go out to the family that all goes well with the operation! | |
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Volunteer Recognition Luncheon
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Great food, and great company was enjoyed by all at our annual volunteer recognition luncheon on Saturday.
Special thanks go to Shirley-Ann Lennox, who had the event catered by Vic Embers in Leesburg, and all of the volunteers who prepared food for our feast.
Congratulations and thank you to: 2010 Pilot of the Year Mary Sittman (2011 Pilot of the Year to be announced shortly) Headquarters Earth Angels of the year Ken Jordan Sue Twofoot Kathy Grange Earth Angels with over 100 hours contributed Judi Betz Judy Carts Holly Clayson Priscilla (Pat) Getchell Shirley-Ann Lennox Bob Lipitt Ed McGarvey Tom Rockwood David Silseth Gloria Simonson Lori Zagorski John Goetz 
Ken Jordan receiving his award
Holly Clayson receiving his award
Sue Twofoot & Kathy Grange receiving their award
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Front page article this week:
Angel Flight transports Villager to VA program for sight-impaired veterans |
Posted: Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:00 am
By Jessica Greene, Daily Sun
THE VILLAGES - Thanks to Angel Flight and a special VA program, Village of Del Mar resident and World War II veteran Dick Egan touched a passion and celebrated two milestones this past Tuesday.
Just after 4 p.m. he stepped out of Steve Purello's Cessna Skyline and was welcomed by a group of friends and family, as well as his dog Max. Egan's adventure actually started five weeks earlier when he was flown free of charge to the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center. During his stay there, Egan participated in the facility's blind rehabilitation program.
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http://www.thevillagesdailysun.com/news/villages/article_2236b802-247c-11e1-9b1a-001871e3ce6c.html
 Dick Egan, of the Village of Del Mar, walks toward his friends and family Tuesday after getting off an Angel Flight Southeast plane. The organization picked Egan up from the VA Blind Rehabilitation Center in West Palm Beach and flew him back to Leesburg Municipal Airport
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| Suncoast Air Center spruces up Amelia with new banners |
 Facilitated by board member Steve King, Suncoast Air Center in Venice, Florida (KVNC) designed, purchased and hung new banners for Amelia to appear in parades. She needed them!
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Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions. Andy Hofheimer - Transplant mission! John Litchfield Edward W Hawk Jr Patrick W. Clyne
Steven High Robert D. Wall Dennis Dunlap We also coordinated 15 flights outside of our region as well this week! | |
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.
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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 for our Tampa St. Pete Golf tournament.
For any of these positions, or to chair your own event please call the office at:
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| 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
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