Oct / nov / dec 2015 - Chesapeake Antique Fire Apparatus Association

2015
Oct / nov / dec
Vol 46 Issue 4
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In this issue!
Presentation to SPAAMFAA for Archives
2015 Summer National Convention
Chief’s Buggy
Auntie Mo’s Ramble
Members News
Annual Lunch Notice
2015 SPAAMFAA Summer Meeting/Muster
Upcoming Events
For Sale or Wanted
Membership Application
The CAFAA members present at the banquet presented President Dundas with a check in the amount of $500 to be used for
the SPAAMFAA archive project.
Pictured: (l - r) Doug Graf, Malden Miller, Maureen Higgins, Lee Smith, Melissa Heaver, Mark Higgins, Steve Heaver, T Cosgrove Jones, Bill Dundas
Not pictured: Patrick Jones, Jeanne Jones, Anita Ford, Bob Ford, Frank Schmersal, Renata
Provance, Les Eser
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F. S. Tremel, President
I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season with family and
friends. It's hard to believe that almost a year has passed since we
hosted the SPAAMFAA Winter Meeting. At this time last year we
were all deeply involved in the final preparations.
CAFAA Officers
President
Frank Tremel
[email protected]
Vice President
T Cosgrove Jones
[email protected]
Treasurer
Betty Radisch
[email protected]
Secretary
Bernard J. Punte
[email protected]
Directors
Lisa Lessin
[email protected]
Malden Miller
[email protected]
CAFAA has received two requests for assistance in the planning of
events. The first is the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Alexandria,
Virginia Fire Department. The tentative date for this event is July 2016. Early
plans are calling for a short parade through Old Town Alexandria and pumping at
the park along the River. The second event is The NATIONAL FALLEN F/F
FOUNDATION'S Annual Stair Climb. The 2016 event will be held the end of
September at the National Harbor, Oxon Hill MD near the Woodrow Wilson
Bridge. Both organizations have requested a committee members from CAFFA
to assist with the planning of these events. Volunteers are needed.
Remember that the date of the annual dinner/meeting has been changed from
February to Sunday, March 6. The date change takes us away from Valentine’s
Day and hopefully the winter weather. We are requesting payment is with your
reservations as last year we had a number of members RSVP and then did not
attend. We provide the restaurant with a headcount based on the RSVP’s and
are committed to paying for the number of dinners in the headcount. Elections
will be held at this time
The Annual SPAAMFAA Winter Meeting is coming up in February in Houston . There is a 5 year planning session on the agenda. I would like to designate a spokesman from CAFAA to attend that meeting to represent our interests.
If you will be attending the Winter Meeting, please let me know..
One last item, the Annual Muster is coming up first Saturday in June in Westminster. We need committee members.
The January meeting is scheduled to be held Sunday, January 10 (3 p.m.) at the
Savage VFD station off Rt 1 in Savage MD. Hope to see you there.
Membership
Chuck Bollinger
[email protected]
Webmaster
Victor McEntee
Although this is the October/November/December issue of the Hose Reel, the
focus is on the 2015 SPAAMFAA Summer Meeting & Muster in Syracuse.
[email protected]
For those of us CAFAA members who are not also members of SPAAMFAA,
please pay particular attention to item #5 in the message from our own Steve
Heaver (SPAAMFAA Trustee) regarding required SPAAMFAA membership going forward to satisfy insurance regulations.
The 2016 SPAAMFAA Winter
Meeting will be held in Houston February 17 - 20. At the summer membership
meeting in Syracuse there was (as usual) heated discussion regarding attracting
(and keeping) younger members to keep the SPAAMFAA organization alive. It's
not just at the national level. We need members at the local level to step up and
start taking a more active role. At both the national and the local level, the 'old
timers' have been guilty of not making the newcomers feel welcome. Let's all do
what we can to change that in CAFAA and start making a difference!
Hose Reel Editor
Maureen Higgins
[email protected]
Auntie Mo
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CAFAA Annual Lunch
CAFAA Meeting Schedule
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Savage VFD - Savage MD
3 p.m.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
TBD
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Sunday, March 6, 2016 (Annual Lunch)
J Kings Restaurant
12 noon
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
TBD
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Sunday, May 15, 2016
Reece VFC - Westminster
3 p.m.
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Saturday, June 4, 2016 - Annual Muster
Carroll County Farm Museum
J Kings Restaurant - Gambrills
Sunday, March 6, 2016
12 noon
Buffet featuring
Roast Beef, Turkey, Garlic Mashed Potatoes,
Green Beans, Salad and Rolls.
And Deserts!
Cost is $25.00/pp
RSVP to Belinda Gertz
Email - [email protected]
Phone - 410-858-0552
No later than February 1, 2016
Payment is needed at time of RSVP
Message from our SPAAMFAA Trustee
Dear Chapter Presidents in the Mid-Atlantic Region,
2. The ‘Silver Trumpet’ will be issued only electronically
starting in 2016 unless you specifically ask for a hard
copy. I believe that there will be a charge of about $5 for
this service. The $5-6,000 that we save from this change
will help to pay for the new Archives now in Kansas City,
MO.
Greetings from National. We are steaming 2/3 speed
toward our Winter Meeting in Houston and I hope that
you will be there. In this email I’d like to mention a few
items, at random, that I hope you will share with all of
your members. Feel free to duplicate my email to them.
3. Please come to Houston, Texas, in February. At least
send your chapter president or a representative! You are
requested to send an official delegate to a special meeting
to be held on Wednesday the 17th February starting
somewhere between 10 and noon, in the hotel. We have
a long-range planning meeting planned to drill down on
where we want to be going for the next five years. These
decisions will have a significant impact on our budget and
our program. Pete West is requesting that you let him
know who is coming from your chapter as the rep. His
email is above.
Last August I swapped regions with Andy Leider since I
live in Maryland, famous for its CAFAA Crab and the
Winter Meeting earlier this year, and he lives in up North.
I will apologize for not writing earlier, but here we go. If
you have concerns or ideas about SPA issues, please
send them on to me, if you have not already contacted
an officer, and I will do my best to see the problem resolved or the idea passed along. We have about 2,200
members tonight and I understand from Candy that we
should be looking at 2,400 in a week or so. So here is
one of our problems: during the last year over 240
cheques from members were deposited, or maybe not,
but none were entered into the records. Candy has been
working as our Membership Sec’y pro temp. to get us
back on line. If you have members who sent in payment
for dues in 2014 or 2015 and have not been receiving
EE or ST, please notify Candy right away. Maybe send
her a photocopy of your cancelled cheque.
4. Dues will be going up with the renewal for 2016. We
have not increased the dues for about 12 years and we
are looking at building the Archives (more anon) and expanding the program to maybe, help student members
and families coming to meetings with children. The increase for an individual will be $5.
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Odds & ends
from
5. While I’m dealing the money issue, I may as well get
into a really unpleasant one, namely, whether members
of chapters should be required to be members of the national. This has been argued since I was President back
in the 80s, and there are pros and cons on both sides.
The point that I want to make here is that we no longer
have a choice (very un-American, you say, shades of
1776): the insurance company will require that the chapters using national insurance, will have all of their members be on the role of national. Bill and David have
looked into this for two years and it is an unmovable wall.
So we have a little time to comply and I urge you to start
handing out SPA application forms (copy whatever you
have at hand as long as the membership secretary’s address is changed to not be Avery Leider) at each meeting, show around copies of EE, talk about the archives,
and get the conversation going.
the 2015 Summer National meeting
Cosgrove accepting plaque
from SPAAMFAA President,
Bill Dundas
Malden displaying the
club 'colors' at the hotel. (AFTER his trip to
Canada with the Class
of '68
6. The Archives & Library has been moved from Hershey
where it was established 30 years ago, to Kansas City,
Missouri, at the HQ of the ATHS. We are paying them
rent and we are trying to raise money to pay for a parttime staffer so think about giving a little something to the
Lee Soderbeck fund with your dues renewal!! Teams of
members and friends have been moving about three tons
of material out there, setting up shelving, and next
(January 10-14) to re-shelve everything. If you are interested in helping in January, please contact me directly.
Ed Peterson pulled everything together to prepare for the
move and he will continue to be our archivist. For the
next three months or more, until we get the system set
up, we will not be able to handle inquiries, and members
will not be visiting the stacks. After that there will be a
new digital catalogue that you will be able to access using your SPA membership code. The next step will be to
start digitizing images (this is where we especially need
money) and you will be able to search on line through
most of our holdings. An exception will be the pages of
books which can be accessed via the Library of Congress. Please note this important point: SPAAMFAA will
now own its archives once again. If you are considering
donating part(s) of your collection, please contact Ed at
your convenience. 2-D stuff only!
7. Finally, SPA is launching a much needed annual fund
drive. This will give the membership and the community
at large, a regular opportunity to contribute to our programming. These gifts will be tax exempt. A lot more information will be coming out later this month or early January when you receive your dues notice.
I know that I’ve covered a lot of material and I’m not going to sit here and say that one thing is more important
than another. I’d just ask that you read this over, and
think about one or two items that ring your bell.
Happy Advent! See you in February. I’ll write again.
Steve Heaver
410-235-6144 (evenings)
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2015 SPAAMFAA SUMMER MUSTER
By Mark Higgins
The SPAAMFAA Summer Meeting and Muster returned to Syracuse NY (possibly for the last time) from July 29 to August 1, hosted by the Belle Isle Reserve Fire Company. Tours included a trip on Thursday to the New York Museum of
Transportation in Rush NY for a display of apparatus by members of the Genesee Valley Chapter, a ride on a trolley,
views of their model railroad layouts and the streetcars and trolleys they are restoring. Then the bus took the group to
the Capen Fire Museum in Brockport NY, with lunch provided by the Genesee Valley Chapter. After that was a trip to
Rochester Fire HQ, where several pieces “stopped by” for photo opportunities. On Friday, Retired Syracuse Deputy
Chief Reeves took the group on a tour of Syracuse stations 12 (where “Big Bertha” still sits in the bay it used to respond
from), 3 (now a museum owned by Don Herb), 5 (home to Engine 5, Truck 3, Haz-Mat 1 and Chief 2) and the city’s
Training and Maintenance facility.
At the meeting, it was revealed that members will be getting Silver Trumpet electronically starting in 2016. If you still
wish a hard copy you will have to pay for it. Also, dues are being raised by $5.00 per year. CAFAA was given an award
for the excellent job the chapter did at the 2015 winter meeting.
There was a parade to the muster site (there are several videos on YouTube) and there was drafting (there are videos
out there for that as well).
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Check out Anita Ford's nationwide listing of parades, musters and special events on the CAFAA website
(www.cafaa.net)
My name is David Brown from Eastern North Carolina. I
am contacting chapters in search of a drivers side windshield for a 1976 American LaFrance Century Series
Pumper that I am restoring . If you have any contacts that
may assist me with this, please advise.
David Brown
919-422-1949
[email protected]
I have two wooden fire truck wheels with solid rubber
tires that if someone was interestes in them, they are
available to someone who will use them. They are extremely heavy and will require several people or a liftgate
to lift them. If you know of anyone who is interested,
please have them contact me at this e-mail address.
Thomas Harmon
[email protected]
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CAFAA Membership Application
(Use this form to pay your dues also)
Chesapeake Antique Fire Apparatus Association
NAME________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS_____________________________________________________________
CITY____________________________STATE________________ZIP_____________
TELEPHONE________________________EMAIL_____________________________
RIG(S)________________________________________________________________
Membership Class:
Active ( )
Three Year Membership:
$12.00
Spouse ( )
$1.00
Active ( ) $35.00 with Spouse ( )
Junior ( ) $1.00
$38.00
Make Check Payable to: CAFAA
Mail to:
Chuck Bollinger
236 Everett Road
Monkton, Maryland 21111-1010
2016 dues are due
Membership year Jan 1 - Dec 31
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