Tri County Ground Search and Rescue

Newsletter Vol 1 No 1 May 2009

In order to provide a little more communication on what is going on provincially with SAR, your executive has prepared a short newsletter that might be useful within your teams. We hope to be able to do this on a fairly regular basis. Hopefully, this type of publication can improve communications between SAR volunteers and make our provincial meetings less of information and one of more decision-making. Comments are more than welcome, and if you have ideas your would like to publishthrough this tools, please forward them at your convenience.

Unfortunately, we aren’t yet in a position to translate all the material, but I see no reason why articles contributed in French couldn’t be published that way.

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Afin d’améliorer la communicationau sujet des activités de recherche et sauvetage dans la province, nous avons préparé un bref communiqué qui vous sera peut-être utile dans vos équipes. Nous souhaitons le rendre disponible sur une base régulière. Esperons que ce genre de publications pourra améliorer la communication entre les bénévoles et permettreà nos réunions provinciales de devenir des sessions décisions plutôt qu’un simple exercice d’échange de nouvelles. Les commentaires sont les bienvenus, et si vous avez des nouvelles que vous voulez communiquer svp nous les faire parvenir.

Malheureusement, nous ne sommes pas encore en mesure de produire le document dans les deux langues, mais je ne vois pas de raison pour quoi des articles en français ne pourraient pas être publiés.

On February 21st, 2009, the Caledonia RCMP District 11 received a complaint of a 15 year old lost in the woods. He was out for a snowshoe walk with his dog and could not make his way back home and unable to call anyone. With the assistance of the Tri-County Search and Rescue, RCMP Police Dog and helicopters from the RCMP and JRCC from Greenwood Nova Scotia, the incident commander was pleased to report that the very cold teenager was found. The Greenwood helicopter airlifted the teenager to safety. The teen was then taken to the Moncton Hospital where he was treated for hypothermia and then released.

Tri-County presented its annual awards during our Christmas dinner on 07 DEC. Pictured here are Stella Walker, recipient of the President's Award - President Cedric Mallais presenting, and Dawn Chase, recipient of the Searcher of the Year Award - Vice-President Eldon Gilmore presenting.

The President's Award is presented in recognition of the member making the most significant contribution to the operational effectiveness of the Team. Stella was recognized for her role as team treasurer, and for the many extra roles and responsibilities she has undertaken during the year.

The Searcher of the Year award is presented annually to the member having made an exceptional contribution to the team's operational performance in the field during searches. Dawn was recognized for her strong contribution to the overhead team during actual search operations during the year.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and Headquarters Staff of the National Association for Search and Rescue (NASAR), we thank Joseph LaBelle for the dedication he has shown to our educational and certification programs. He was awarded this jacket for his tireless efforts of teaching more than 100 students the Managing the Lost Person Incident class. Its people like Joseph that further the nation in search and rescue education. We thank him for all that he does for SAR and NASAR.