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Theme Dress Days
April 8th – Plain Clothes Day
April 9th – School Spirit Day, wear something representing your favorite school
April 10th – 80’s Day, dress like it is still 1985
April 11th – Mismatch Day, whatever you wear, make sure it doesn’t match
April 12th – Crazy Hat/Hair Day, do your hair in a crazy style or wear your nuttiest hat
April 13th – Sports Day, wear something in support of your favorite sports team
April 14th – Regular Uniform Day
Open House / Picnic
On Saturday April 14th WSCDC hosted all the local public safety [personnel who were on or off duty for a luncheon. We catered food and decorated the Community Room where we served lunch to over 50 individuals from Elmwood Park, Oak Park and River Forest police and fire departments, along with our employees, family members, a trustee and an Assistant Village Administrator. During the Open House the Morale Committee ran a PowerPoint program that compiled pictures from the past week in the com center.
Bring Your Family to Work Week
Employees were allowed to bring a family member to work to sit along and see what it is like to be a Telecommunicator. The participants were mostly children, but we did have some spouses and parents in attendance.
Trivia Quiz
A quiz titled, “How Much Do You Know About Your Co-Workers” was developed and distributed to all interested employees. Seventeen very intriguing questions were sent out and the three submissions with the highest number of correct answers were presented with gift cards to Portillos. The winners were Lauren O’Boyle, Artelia Withers and Vanessa Underwood.
Emergency dispatchers, nurses and publicly funded health-care assistants will have easier access to workers’ compensation for mental-health disorders that come from work-related trauma.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019LBR0010-000695
While I was watching the KCS Local crew do their thing at the I&M, 33J left town and #256 got a signal to proceed east at Iles. I hoped to get a nice side shot of #256 passing thru the interlocker at I&M Crossing, but it just wasn't meant to be. (Why isn't that I&M St. Albans dispatcher inattentive when you need him to be inattentive?)
Instead I had to settle for this grab shot from my truck. #256 had yet another Trash 9 on the point, so no big loss on this shot.
NS 8913
An estimated 100,000 9-1-1 calls will be answered each year by the new South Island 9-1-1/Police Dispatch Centre, officially opened by BC Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth, the Capital Regional District (CRD), local police agencies and E-Comm, Emergency Communications for British Columbia.
E-Comm has operated British Columbia’s largest consolidated emergency communications centre, based in the Lower Mainland, since 1999, managing approximately 20 million 9-1-1 calls. The 70-member team at the South Island Centre joins 540 other E-Comm emergency communication professionals dedicated to helping save lives and protect property through both its 9-1-1 operations and public safety technology.
Emergency dispatchers, nurses and publicly funded health-care assistants will have easier access to workers’ compensation for mental-health disorders that come from work-related trauma.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019LBR0010-000695
Built between 1941 and 1944 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the USS Missouri (BB-63) was launched on January 29, 1944 and commissioned on June 11, 1944 to serve with the United States Navy in World War II. Active in the Pacific Theater of the war, the USS Missouri fought in the battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and took part in the shelling of the Japanese home islands. On April 11, 1945, the ship was attacked by a kamikaze pilot and was struck on the side below the main deck, with the ship suffering relatively minor damage, which is still visible today. On September 2, 1945, while docked in Tokyo Bay, a delegation representing the Empire of Japan surrendered to allied forces on the deck of the USS Missouri, bringing World War II to an official end, with documents being signed by Japanese and Allied leaders. The ship subsequently returned to New York after stops in Guam and Hawaii, and underwent an overhaul in the New York Naval Shipyard. The ship then headed on a training cruise to Cuba before heading back to New York and then east across the Atlantic Ocean, making a stop at Gibraltar before arriving at Istanbul on April 5, 1946. The ship then headed to Greece in order to assist in quelling pro-Communist groups in an attempt to contain Soviet influence in postwar Europe, demonstrating the commitment of the United States to European countries following the war. The ship transported President Harry Truman and his family between Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the United States in September 1947 following the signing of the Rio treaty, broadening the Monroe doctrine and establishing solidarity between nations in the Americas. Following the war, most battleships in the US Navy were decommissioned, but the USS Missouri was kept active due to sentimental connections between it and President Truman, as well as the ship’s status as a relatively new vessel. However, the ship hit a shoal near Old Point Comfort, Virginia on January 17, 1950, leading to it becoming stranded and needing to be refloated and repaired. Upon the breakout of the Korean War, the USS Missouri was dispatched to the Korean Peninsula on August 19, 1950, in order to support UN forces on the peninsula. The ship provided artillery support to South Korean and United States forces attempting to push back the invasion of North Korean and Chinese forces, and was active until the end of hostilities in 1953. The ship returned to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard after the war, being overhauled before going on a patrol mission in June 1954, returning in August 1954. After this mission, the ship was sent to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in September 1954, where it was decommissioned on February 26, 1955, ending its first period of active service. The ship became a popular tourist attraction during its period of deactivation, remaining in use as a museum ship until 1984, with the surrender deck having bronze plaques and an exhibit set up to commemorate the ceremony that ended World War II, which occurred on the deck. In 1971, the ship was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its remarkable state of preservation, and the very historically notable events that took place on and around the ship. In the summer of 1984, as part of an initiative to expand the number of active ships in the United States Navy under President Ronald Reagan, the ship was reactivated and sent to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for refurbishment and modernization, with many original features and weapons removed and replaced with far more advanced modern weaponry and systems. On May 10, 1986, the ship was formally recommissioned in San Francisco. The ship participated in patrols and naval exercises throughout the period between 1986 and 1991. During the Gulf War in January and February of 1991, the ship was utilized to assist forces pushing the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, with the ship’s missile and artillery systems being utilized against targets on land. After the end of the Gulf War and due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the ship was decommissioned once again on March 31, 1992, at Long Beach, California. The ship was returned to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, as part of the reserve fleet, where it remained until January 12, 1995, when it was removed from the Naval Vessel Register. The ship was not operated as a museum ship at this time, and was towed from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on May 23, 1998, before arriving at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor on June 22, 1998, opening to the public as a museum ship on January 29, 1999. The location of the ship in Pearl Harbor was chosen due to the significance of the harbor and the ship to the beginning and end of the direct involvement of the United States in World War II. The ship underwent an overhaul in 2009-10, which has ensured its continued preservation. The ship today serves as a museum to the operating history of the former military vessel, as well as the very historically significant ceremony on September 2, 1945, which ended World War II.
"Be dispatched to any threatened point in Central or South America with a minimum loss of time. Guantanamo, Cuba was selected as the most strategically located spot for the home base of this army, and the Fourth Defense Battalion the numbers
The Fourth Defense Battalion consists of three batteries of three inch anti aircraft guns, one battery of 50 caliber machine guns, one battery of 30 caliber machine guns, six, sixty inch search lights and six sound locators. There are four guns to the battery of three inch, forty-eight to the fifty caliber and sixty to the thirty caliber. The personel is about eight hundred officers and men. The machine guns are supposed to protect the three inch batteries from dive bombing attacks. This Battalion will be augmented by some two thousand Marines from Quantico, a broken down freighter, converted into a transport, and two obsolete destroyers for convoy work. Where the tanks, planes, and anti-tank guns are coming from God only knows. Perhaps we’ll just simulate"
From the Edward L. Parke Collection (COLL/5627) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
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The Waterloo Parade from Horse Guards Parade down The Mall, the spectacular culmination of the Waterloo commemorations both in Belgium and London.
Featuring Military Bands from 7 nations and 200 school children.
Power System Dispatch Manager Rob Witham, talking, and Raymond Vojdani explain WAPA’s interconnected transmission system and real-time operations to Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Cheryl A. LaFleur and FERC Technical Advisor Becky Robinson. FERC toured WAPA’s Rocky Mountain control center, Sept. 7, to get a behind the scenes look into WAPA’s operations and an overview of WAPA and its work with customers. Although FERC does not have jurisdiction over WAPA for most purposes, WAPA is a transmitting utility subject to FERC jurisdiction under section 211 of the Federal Power Act. Because WAPA is a major transmission system owner and provides wholesale electricity across the West, we voluntarily choose to follow many FERC rules. (Photo by Jen Neville)
The Pelotonia Finish Line at Kenyon College in Gambier on Saturday, August 5, 2017. [Barbara J. Perenic/Dispatch]
On Friday, February 27 at approximately 5:30 a.m. MCFRS Units were dispatched for a reported house fire at 17734 Norwood Road in Olney. Firefighters from Sandy Spring Fire Station #4 were first to arrive and reported a fire in the attic of a large single-family home.
The only occupant of the home, an adult female, was quickly located and indicated that she was awakened to the smoke alarms sounding and discovered moderate smoke in the house. She told Fire Investigators she heard the sound of something cracking and at that point initiated the 911 call for assistance.
First arriving Firefighters began an aggressive interior fire attack to extinguish the visible fire. At this point the fire had extended throughout the attic and through the roof. Additional fire/rescue resources were requested and dispatched to the scene which eventually escalated to a 2nd Alarm with approximately 100 fire/rescue personnel on scene.
The bulk of the fire was brought under control quickly although firefighters spent several hours working on extinguishing remaining “hot spots" and overhaul. In addition, personnel dealt with cold weather issues and frozen fire hydrants as temperatures hovered around twenty degrees. The MCFRS Medical Ambulance Bus (MAB) was utilized on scene and assisted with warmth & rehab for firefighters.
One firefighter did sustain a minor shoulder injury. As well, the occupant of the home, an adult female, was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries as a result of smoke inhalation.
Fire Investigators arrived on scene to conduct a cause and origin investigation. Preliminary, the fire appears to have started in the attic over the fireplace. Investigators determined that the cause appeared to be a compromised flue in the chimney/accidental.
Damages were estimated at $350k to the structure and $150k to the contents.
This diesel locomotive was a prototype; the first of only two locomotives constructed. SP47-001 was built in 1974 at the Cegielski workshop in Poznań, but, on finishing this locomotive, the decision was taken to terminate diesel locomotive production in Poland. The reason for this was the danger that Polish locomotives would compete with the Soviet locomotives; in fact the SP47 was far better than any Soviet locomotive produced at that time.
After a struggle, the second prototype was completed in 1977.
Both locomotives were dispatched to Olsztyn. The second prototype suffered a serious engine failure a few months after entering service. As a result, in 1991 it was set aside, and in 1998 taken out of service and scrapped in 2001.
SP47-001 ran until a serious engine failure in 1997. It is now the only SP47 in existence and is now displayed at the Koscierzyna Railway Museum.