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By George Ford

Happy Holidays!

What a great annual holiday dinner meeting we had last Saturday. 

Thank you to all that came out, drove so far, braved the traffic, found parking, bore the wet weather, a parade and still made it!

It would not have been a great night if it hadn't been for everyone plus the extra people that showed up. 

Congratulations to our award / certificate recipients, it's recognition you deserve.  Please hang your certificates with pride.

Also - congratulations to all of the raffle drawing winners!

2012 Christmas Party

It was a SELL-OUT!  Thanks to everyone who made this year’s dinner meeting a huge success and braved the cold wet weather. We had to navigate around a parade, in the dark and finally find parking.  It was almost like a trip to OSH KOSH.

Awards:

Arlington First place aircraft certificates – To Mike Proshold, Mark Cattell and Bill Heath

Chef hat and Certificate- Big Al Drewry

IRS Flight leader Award – Rustin Brewer

“Mother Hen” - Mike Proshold

Rookie of the year – Ethan Berry

National Attention Getter- Kelly Quick

Ghost Rider Award – Most Active Club member, Flyer, Helper,  Support, Most involved. Went to Jerry Sorrell

Top Gun Award- Mark Cattell

Young Eagles Wing man– Ground assistant – Scott Herold

Builder of the year – Loren Sivela

Bald Eagle Award – Mark Edwards

“Unsung Hero” – Judy Sorrell

“Iron Flight Award” = Jim and Mary Ann McClellan

Split–S Award – Randy Reinhofer

Lifetime achievement “Air Boss” Award– Dwight Irby

Treasurer Jerry Sorrell received a well deserved award for his efforts in all aspects of working on the club.  From Technical counseling, Financial business, work on our non-profit status, flight leader and daily care of our club house.  Jerry Sorrell does it all.  Thanks Jerry for your continued support of our club!

Our “Unsung” hero award went to Judy Sorrell for her hard work each club meeting.  Not only does she have to keep Jerry (above) inline she makes sure everything is in order at the clubhouse.  She’s quite the co-pilot as well on fly-outs.  Thanks for everything Judy.  We all love you.

Lower left -President Mark Cattell receives the “Top Gun” award for his hard work this past year on Tech counseling excellence and leading our club to major milestones.  Keep up the great work Mark!

 

 

Below -George Ford presents Ethan Berry the coveted “Rookie of the Year”  Ethan built his own Sonex  – then he Solo’d in it for his first flight.  Amazing!

George, using his usual outstanding talents, created these magnificent framed awards to present.  Unfortunately he conveniently missed one of the most well deserved awards, insisting that it wasn’t necessary.  This award was the “Press Corp” award for doing such an outstanding job on the club newsletter.  As result the club has been recognized several times nationally in the EAA Chaptergram.  George’s YouTube Young Eagle videos featuring our club have also had thousands of views.  A big Kudos to George for all the work he has done all year long to put our club on the map! – Mark Cattell