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It's Sunday night, I am home from Little American Lake (hey, the 15 minute commute **** near killed me!) and I am exhausted and need a shower.
But I just want to thank ALL of the racers, families and friends who came through and supported this new event for us. I especially want to thank the following:
-My Co-Chair Shane Burkhart, a new racer and the closest boat racer who lives by me who got the crazy idea a year ago about approaching JBLM about having a boat race on one of the biggest Army Posts in North America.
-Rick Sandstrom, Howard Shaw, and Mark Mallory for working their butts off as race officials, announcers, flag people, patrol boat operators and kept the whole thing rolling so smoothly.
-Dave Anderson and Carl Lewis for keeping inspection a well-oiled machine...well, Carl was certainly well oiled.....
-Kyle Bahl for Managing our Risk and dealing with me not being available to pit crew for him hardly any of the weekend while I kept the Army folks happy.
-Denise Johnson for organizing a GREAT scoring team!
-Sammy Wallick for stopping the Garrison Commander of JBLM from coming into the pits and insisting he sign the waiver and wear a wrist band.
-Oregon Race Rescue for fishing Dave Sullivan out of the drink THREE TIMES this weekend and a host of others (Joe Others?)
-Christine Gleason, who kept me smiling, worked weeks to get our house ready for the Saturday night Open House, shot some great pictures (wait til you see these) and more than I can think of, all with only one mini-meltdown when she thought the power had been out all night on the freezer full of barbecue meat and fixings she had bought for the Open House.
And everyone else, who left the park cleaner than when we found it, moved their vehicles when I asked them to, walked "The Green Mile" out to our authorized parking area, and worked with me and the MWR staff to pull this thing off.
You guys are the greatest. Thanks again!
R-19
But I just want to thank ALL of the racers, families and friends who came through and supported this new event for us. I especially want to thank the following:
-My Co-Chair Shane Burkhart, a new racer and the closest boat racer who lives by me who got the crazy idea a year ago about approaching JBLM about having a boat race on one of the biggest Army Posts in North America.
-Rick Sandstrom, Howard Shaw, and Mark Mallory for working their butts off as race officials, announcers, flag people, patrol boat operators and kept the whole thing rolling so smoothly.
-Dave Anderson and Carl Lewis for keeping inspection a well-oiled machine...well, Carl was certainly well oiled.....
-Kyle Bahl for Managing our Risk and dealing with me not being available to pit crew for him hardly any of the weekend while I kept the Army folks happy.
-Denise Johnson for organizing a GREAT scoring team!
-Sammy Wallick for stopping the Garrison Commander of JBLM from coming into the pits and insisting he sign the waiver and wear a wrist band.
-Oregon Race Rescue for fishing Dave Sullivan out of the drink THREE TIMES this weekend and a host of others (Joe Others?)
-Christine Gleason, who kept me smiling, worked weeks to get our house ready for the Saturday night Open House, shot some great pictures (wait til you see these) and more than I can think of, all with only one mini-meltdown when she thought the power had been out all night on the freezer full of barbecue meat and fixings she had bought for the Open House.
And everyone else, who left the park cleaner than when we found it, moved their vehicles when I asked them to, walked "The Green Mile" out to our authorized parking area, and worked with me and the MWR staff to pull this thing off.
You guys are the greatest. Thanks again!
R-19
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