David Newman  KB0NWT    was appointed as EC of Scotland County in District B

Don Vary  KD0HHN   was appointed as EC of Marion County in District B

Lyndall Newton  KD0BWP  was appointed as AEC for Webster County in District D

Welcome to each of you and glad that you have committed to making Missouri ARES® a better organization.

Jeff Young KB3HF  DEC for District C set up a District meeting during the Zero Beaters Hamfest in Washington, Mo on 7-17-11

Since this is an outside hamfest it was a little warm but a good meeting and I wanted to thank Jeff for his efforts to make it happen.  It was nice to have the chance to meet Jeff as well as some of the EC’s in person.

I am trying to get to each District for a meeting with the DEC & EC’s (all ARES members are welcome to attend) during a local hamfest or event.  District A, C, D, & E are done.  Hopefullly I will get to everyone by the end of the year.

One major idea, presented during the meeting, was to set up a place to collect presentation & training materials, etc. that would allow any ARES® member to download things and not have to “reinvent the wheel”

I think this is great and so I am asking any of you that have presentations, training materials, etc. that you have developed and not available from ARRL. for example, to send them to me.

We will set up a method on the ares-mo.org website under Training where you will be able to review & downlonad the materials so you can make minor changes — pertaining to your county — and use it during your meetings, etc.   I hope that we can help us help ourselves and have additional training aids.

The section roster is getting closer to completion.  I got the latest info from ARRL on 7-15-11 and I am checking it against the info that is on the section roster.  I do need the cooperation of all the DEC’s and EC’s to insure we have the correct information.  I would like to have this released by the end of August.  Likewise I will be using the roster to update the appointments that show up on the ares-mo website.  You should be getting an email yet this week with any questions I have related to your District.

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