Paul Scott, WB6ARF restarted the ARES group in McDonald County, District D as the EC effective January 18th, 2012.  He will be assisted by newly appointed AEC  Jesse Weiberg, W0MIX.   The Joplin tornado and resultant communications problems has created real interest in Ham radio in SW Missouri and Paul & Jesse jumped in and got new licensed hams and restarted the ARES group.   Great job!

District C / Franklin county has a newly appointed AEC who will be responsible for their Digital Operations.  Please extend your congratulations to Chris Westrick KD0JVF.

Ken Baremore   W0KRB   SEC – Mo Section   1-23-2012

I am pleased to announce the appointment of 5 new AEC’s.  There appointments are effective January 7, 2012.  The new AEC’s are all from District C.

Craig Hirsh  K0CMH for St. Louis County;   Joe Buckley  KC0ICR for Jefferson County;  and Paul Hinrichs K0TPY,  John McReynolds KC0NRO, Paul Chambers N0BBD all from Franklin County.   Welcome aboard as part of the ARES – Mo. Section Leadership team.

An especially great day for me  is January 9, 2012.  This is the appointment date for a new Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator for the Missouri Section.  Please join with me in congratulations to Jeff Young, KB3HF in his new position.   Jeff is currently the DEC for District C and will retain that position as well as assuming new responsibilities relating to the entire Mo. Section.  Thank you Jeff for accepting this very important position.

The updated Section Directory will be completed and sent to all DEC’s before the end of the month.   I hope we have all the updates before the publish date.

Ken Baremore   W0KRB   SEC   ARES – Mo. Section    1-12-2012