Red Letter Dates in History

Shall we look in the Book, hmmm?



Glenn unearthed three volumes of old Wolfskin Fire Department minutes. I shook out the mouse coprolites and selected a few entries.

From the Oct 1978 meeting discussing the formation of WVFD. Note the last paragraph. The more things change, the more they stay the same! Do you know, they used to call themselves Wolfskinners.



Here are some nice tidbits from Nov 29 1982. The first truck? The very file cabinet from which Glenn recovered these records, "kept in a safe place" all these years! And we still have that desk, too, though it's lost one drawer sometime in the last 27 years. No telling what was in it.

Early safety issues; and oh that barbecue shelter. We finally filled it in two years ago.



O tempora, o mores!



An early attempt at inventory, June 4 1992. And look who makes their first appearance! I believe we had just completed our training so we'd been around for six months already.



Astute observers will notice the doubly crossed out name.

Annual Smokey Road Parade

Saturday, 12 December 2009, was the annual parade down Smokey Road in Crawford. This year Queen Lewis took over the directorship from Delbra Favors and the route of the parade was reversed, but otherwise it was the usual event. Mostly Fire Engines, Ambulances, Rescue, Sheriff, Muscle Cars and an odd float or two. There was an empty Athens Transit bus towards the end of this year's parade.

The local Fire Departments of Crawford, Arnoldsville, Devils Pond, Beaverdam, and Wolfskin each brought a pumper. I was unable to identify the second pumper in line. It was probably a second Crawford pumper but my apologies to another department if was theirs.

Josh Adams rode the back of the Wolfskin pumper. Brian Mixon drove and Jack Adams and I were passengers.

We Have a Board

We have a Board!

Our annual business meeting was held last night. The bylaws, largely boilerplate tailored to the specific needs of the department, require *three* meetings with specific agendas. The arcana were detailed by Glenn, our parliamentarian, in the post below and occasion moments of mirth as we inevitably mess up.

So here are the members of the Board of Directors for 2010:

Chief	Ed Frey
Asst Chief	Wayne Hughes
Treasurer	Cary Fordyce
Secretary	Lisa Vaughan
Community Member	Alan Kotch
Community Member	Bill Cosgrove
Firefighter Member	Brian Mixon
Firefighter Member	Jim Kitchens

In addition to electing a slate of the Board of Directors, the second meeting, of firefighter members, voted for Firefighter of the Year, and this year that turned out to be me. Brian will turn his tiara over to me in February.

In other news, Ed unearthed several old disks that contained some historical training and officer records dating back to the department's inception in 1982. I've placed these on the right sidebar with the option of an excel download or a webpage format. I've added the appropriate meta tags so that these files don't get indexed by search engines. There are some holes in both documents so please feel free to email me with additions and corrections.

And I would guess it was John Wampler, bless his heart, who reconstructed these records.