January 15, 2015


The meeting was called to order at 7am by President Tom Whitfield.  We had 19 members plus one guest. 


John won the 50/50 and donated it to Feed Cheney.


Three new members were presented to the club and spoke briefly about themselves and their interests.


Margie reported that the membership campaign will continue through January and the prize drawing will be on the 1st Thursday in February.  Whenever a member brings a guest, that member gets one entry into the drawing; prize is one-half of one year's dues.


At the January board meeting it was decided that the 1st quarter 2015 'quarter cup' donations will go to Cheney Outreach.


Fred announced that this Wednesday at 5:30 the Cheney HS FBLA will have social media/networking training available to community members.


Our speaker was Rande Lindner, who presented information on Civil Air Patrol.  He explained that CAP has 3 primary functions:  search and rescue, emergency services and  cadet leadership training.  It is for high school age students, is an auxillary of the Air Force and owns about 1000 aircraft nationwide.  He explained that search and rescue activity is down due to cell phones and emergency beacons.  When search and rescue happens, the county sheriff has ground control, the state aeronautics board runs the air search and the local fire districts provide medical care support when a rescue occurs.  Emergency services include making sandbags when flooding is expected.  He showed slides of some past airplane crash searches he participated in and we could see how hard it is to spot a crash from the air.


The meeting was adjourned at 8am.