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Upcoming Events
Angel Flight Southeast 3-way raffle!
Friday August 31, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM EDT
Angel Flight Southeast is holding a special raffle to help raise money for our life-saving mission of coordinating free air transportation for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs. The funds make sure the "lights stay on" to answer phone calls 24 hours, 7 days per week; even when calls come in the middle of the night!
Angel Flight Southeast Headquarters
Wing n Wheels
Saturday September 8, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (JAXEX) and Chapter 193 of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) will host the second annual Wings N Wheels event. This free, family-friendly event is for aviation and car enthusiasts of all ages. Event Highlights: -Static Aircraft Displays -Car Show -Plane Rides -Food
Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport (JAXEX)
Angel Flight Bahamas Fly-In & Dinner Cruise October 6 & 7, 2012
Saturday October 6, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Angel Flight Fundraiser & Dinner Cruise Two nights Freeport Grand Bahama Buy your tickets with your credit card using our PayPal account
Freeport, Bahamas
Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2012
Saturday October 20, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
Emil Buehler Center for Aviation Training & Research Melbourne International Airport www.FITAviationDay.com World War II WACO Biplane rides Discuss aviation history with the Tuskegee Airmen Kids Area, Food vendors and plenty more!
Melbourne International Airport
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Pilot tele-forum
For feedback, suggestions
and questions answered regarding missions
Moving to quarterly
Next to be announced
(712) 432-0080
949489# via join.me
These have been really well-received! Please send future agenda items to steve.purello@mercymail.org
Wings
Region-wide Wing meeting for Wing Leaders and interested parties:
2nd Tuesday of every month 7pm (712) 432-0080
Next one August 14
949489# via join.me
This will be for our wings to
be able to share best practices and learn how we can do a better job with local outreach and fundraising in our communities.
For more information on our monthly meetings, call the office at
(352) 326-0761
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Pilot Awards, Pairing Party &
16th Annual Golf Tournament |
It's going to be really BIG this year!
We're raising enough money so 250 children & adults can get the flights they need to the doctors that can
save their lives.
Pilot Awards Ceremony- Sunday, November
Mission Inn - Howie-in-the-Hills, Fl
This year the pilot awards committee, chaired by Shirley-Ann Lennox will be choosing awards in 11 categories:
Pilot of the Year: Northern Florida
Pilot of the Year: Eastern Central Florida
Pilot of the Year: Western Central Florida
Pilot of the Year: Southwestern Florida
Pilot of the Year: Southern Florida
Pilot of the Year: Louisiana/Mississippi
Pilot of the Year: Alabama
Pilot of the Year: Georgia
Pilot of the Year: South Carolina
Pilot of the Year: Transplant Mission
Pilot of the Year: Above-and-Beyond
We broke down the regions to help give out awards closer to the distribution of pilots and missions this year. Nominees will be notified in the fall so they have enough time to plan their flights to our Gala in November.
Pairing Party & Auction - Sunday November 11th
Mission Inn - Howie-in-the-Hills, FL
Pairing Party
Our chairperson of VIPs Michelle Pedde is off to a great start! We've now invited 32 ex-pro ball players and other celebrities to come to our party and play as fifth players in the golf tourney including: Bobby Bonilla (Ex-Major leaguer with the New York Mets), Dan Haggerty (aka Grizzly Adams) and Matt Robinson (ex-QB for the New York Jets) and our local Mayor. Sixth seats in the golf cart next to our VIPs are available by auction and will keep score for the team. The teams will be paired off by raffle Sunday night.
Live Auction
We are delighted to have Wade & Barbara West's American Fundraising Auctions hold our live auction this year. Prizes already include:
A trip for 4 with golf to Ireland
A trip for 4 with golf to St. Andrew's in Scotland
A Tiger Woods Watch
An Angel Flight Southeast hat worn by Astronaut Nicole Stott on the International Space Station
16th Annual Golf Tournament -
Monday (Veteran's Day) November 12th
Arlington Ridge Golf Club Leesburg, FL
Breakfast
Helicopter ball drop (win 25% of the collection!)
Shotgun start, scramble (best ball of the 5 players)
Lunch, golf awards & auction!
Fun all day!
Closest to the pin
Longest drive
Hole-in-one
Mulligans
Raffle
Silent auction
Tickets:
- Player (s) & Party Attendee (s) X $150
- Foursome (s) Party Attendee (s) X $600
- Awards & Pairing Party only X $75 Flight (s)
- Sponsor $____________
- (1) Ball Helicopter ball-drop raffle $5
- (5) Balls Helicopter ball-drop raffle $20
- (30) Balls Helicopter ball-drop raffle $100
Want to register for quickly and easily?
Visit tinyurl.com/cr4ujx5
If the foursome would like to split the tickets so one spouse does the evening event and the other attends the golf tournament, that's just fine.
To make these events a real success we not only need attendees and players, but we need corporate sponsorship.
Please review the below opportunities to help us reach the goal of 250 flights:
Sponsorship Opportunities
100 FLIGHT SPONSOR: $10K
- Namesake rights on all advertisements
- Hotel suite at Mission Inn Sunday night
- Large banner at Tournament
- Logo on AFSE parade float for one year
- Parade float usage for two weeks
- Two golf foursomes
- Full table at Pilot Awards & Pairing Party
50 FLIGHT SPONSOR: $5K
- Company logo on all advertisements
- Hotel suite at Mission Inn Sunday night
- Large sign at Tournament
- Logo on AFSE parade float for six months
- Parade float usage for one week
- One golf foursome
- Six seats at Pilot Awards & Pairing Party
20 FLIGHT SPONSOR: $2K
- Listing in advertisements
- Small sign at Tournament
- One golf foursome
- Four seats at Pilot Awards & Pairing Party
5 FLIGHT (PIN) SPONSOR: $500
- Special pin flag with logo
- Two seats at Pilot Awards & Pairing Party
(if paid by August 22nd) - add a foursome for $250 more
1 FLIGHT (TEE) SPONSOR: $100
- Sign on Tee (Max. two per hole)
Ask about sponsoring our hats, shirts or golf balls
Want to register for quickly and easily?
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| Board member recruitment drive | |
The Mercy Flight Southeast Board of Directors is seeking to fill two (or more) open slots by the end of 2012. The current board is made up of seven members, and our by-laws require a minimum of nine.
Board member expectations:
- Priority among their top three charities
- Fundraising activity/financial support
- Advocacy for the organization and its mission
- Service/Attendance
- Governance
- Knowledge of the organization
- Access to information and confidentiality
- Accountability
During our 29 year history, the needs for our board composition have varied according to that particular time. Currently, our operations are running extremely well but fundraising has been a particular challenge. In order to ensure that we keep growing, we now need board members who can "give or get" donations for the charity.
If you have the resources (and time) to dedicate for this very special organization, we'd love to hear from you. Please send a short bio and a few words about how you can help.
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Pilot spotlight
These are the very special pilots that volunteered to take one or more of our many weekly missions.
Frank Pugh
Darwin Floyd
Fred Cutting
54 mission legs were coordinated 7/21 - 7/27
Dee Cross
Donald Short
Lynda Cameron
Wiley Horton
Alan Hoffberg x2
31 mission legs were coordinated 7/27 - 8/3
Saturday's flight to Lynchburg, VA was the third time I had helped transport Steve back or forth from "HOME" in Columbia, SC to "HOPE" via Cancer Treatment of America in Philadelphia. Jim Barrett, my friend and fellow member of Main Street United Methodist Church in Kernersville accompanied us on this flight. Our flight was a most pleasant, very smooth, and the sky was unusually clear for an early day in May. Jim, a non-pilot enjoyed the opportunity to gain a little flying experience on the outbound and return legs without anyone else on board.
Our passenger, Steven had flown on helicopters before (Vietnam) and has become quite comfortable doing Angel Flights in small fixed wing planes. As on earlier flights, he seemed most content to do Sudoku games from the local paper he had acquired before leaving Philadelphia. Steven suffers from Leukemia and his treatments at Cancer Treatment of America are to "pump up" his white blood cells. He requires these transfusions every few months. Jim and I let Steve know that we would pray for his continued successful control of his cancer.
Doin' HIS thing,
Bob Oglesby
Jim, Steve & Bob enroute | |
Transfer at LYH
Editor to our pilots: Please take more photos so I can put them up here!
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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Get your tickets!
Raffle ends August 31st. | The winner will choose between:
- Air-to-Air simulated combat
or - A bombardier-seat ride on FiFi, the historic B29 bomber
or - A day of Skip Barber Racing school!
Tickets are $20 each, or 6 for $100
For more information, or to buy tickets, click here
Would you like to help sell tickets for us? You can print out the brochures or post electronically from this files: | |
Brochure
Brochure with page-turner
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Vote for us! 20 seconds could equal $10,000!
This year we are listed as our National affiliation "Air Charity Network"
Your Vote Counts! Click to Vote. | |
| Volunteer opportunities: | |
Any Wednesday at 7am in August Zephyrhills Rotary First United Methodist Church. Breakfast included (Speaker needed)
Oct 20 - Melbourne, FL Florida Institute of Technology - AVIATION DAY 2012 9am-4pm (Booth help)
Nov 9 - 11 - Stuart Air Show, FL. Witham Field (KSUA). Stuart Air Show. Nov.9-11 (Booth help)
Oct 20 - Dallas (Atlanta), GA. Paulding Northwest Atlanta (PUJ) (Booth help, have one, need another!)
Nov 11, 12 - Leesburg, FL. Arlington Ridge Golf Course. (We have 8-12 so far, but need about 30!)
If you can help with any of these events, please email to info@mercymail.org, or call (352) 326-0761 x1500 (have nine, need more!)
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| In memory of |
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Harold Douglas Hampton
Harold Douglas Hampton, my best friend and exemplary father, died on July 10, 2012, at 91.5 years of age. Flight was always his passion. One of my earliest childhood memories was sitting in Dad's lap pushing the throttle for take off. Dad earned his private license on Jan. 23, 1949. That day he bought a disassembled Luscomb that he reassembled and test flew on Nov 22, 1949. In May, 1951 the Luscomb was destroyed when a crop duster taxied through it while it was tied down. Since then, Dad has flown an assortment of planes from Stearmans to
Bonanzas. He earned his commercial, instrument, sea plane (at age 80), and helicopter (at age 79) ratings as well as the A&P and IA Licenses. Dad was an engineer with NASA, working in the manned space flight program from the first flight through about the first 3 years of the Space Shuttle. Being responsible for the space suit environmental control system, he worked directly with the astronauts. He
was a member of the investigation team after losing his good friend, Gus Grissom, in the pad fire and later was a member of the Panel of Five charged with getting the
Space Shuttle on track for its first launch before Congress pulled funding.
When I was in high school, a friend suffered a spinal cord injury in a surfing accident. He could not be moved but the expertise for treating his injury did not exist at that hospital. Dad and a friend flew a neurosurgeon from Shands to our
hospital to treat my friend. The result was total recovery. This act inspired me at the time and has stayed with me all these years. It is also why I value the mission of Angel Flight.
Mike Hampton
Mike's family and friends have chosen to make donations to Angel Flight in memory of Douglas Hampton and we are deeply grateful.
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