Thank You to FONSS' Volunteers of the Year!
A big congratulations and thank you to Bruce and Wanda Long, FONSS' 2011 Volunteers of the Year!
Bruce and Wanda are the Swiss Army Knives of the FONSS team. They always bring their big blue pickup and camper to a Site Summit work party and its jam packed with all kinds of tools. If an odd job needs an odd tool you can bet that Bruce and Wanda have the tool. Need a torch to loosen up a frozen garage door wheel - its in there!
Wanda jumps right in - throwing sheets of plywood around, painting, working on the lift, and anything else that has to be done. But when lunch nears Wanda disappears into the camper to cook up one of her famous lunches...sloppy joes, chili, chicken tortilla soup, cake, hot chocolate, coffee, soda, fresh fruits and vegetable, cookies, crackers, chips, etc. When Wanda is there FONSS crews are always well fed!
When the Project Committee was pondering how to best reach the high walls on the Launch Control Building, Bruce went to see Airport Equipment Rental. A few days later FONSS had a four wheel drive, three person lift delivered to Site Summit! And when FONSS' time was up and the lift had to go back, Bruce went to see EZ Rent. On the next trip up the mountain he towed a one man lift to finish work on the Missile Maintenance Building.
Bruce and Wanda's contribution to FONSS cannot be over stated and is greatly appreciated. Thank you to both of you.
Bruce and Wanda are the Swiss Army Knives of the FONSS team. They always bring their big blue pickup and camper to a Site Summit work party and its jam packed with all kinds of tools. If an odd job needs an odd tool you can bet that Bruce and Wanda have the tool. Need a torch to loosen up a frozen garage door wheel - its in there!
Wanda jumps right in - throwing sheets of plywood around, painting, working on the lift, and anything else that has to be done. But when lunch nears Wanda disappears into the camper to cook up one of her famous lunches...sloppy joes, chili, chicken tortilla soup, cake, hot chocolate, coffee, soda, fresh fruits and vegetable, cookies, crackers, chips, etc. When Wanda is there FONSS crews are always well fed!
When the Project Committee was pondering how to best reach the high walls on the Launch Control Building, Bruce went to see Airport Equipment Rental. A few days later FONSS had a four wheel drive, three person lift delivered to Site Summit! And when FONSS' time was up and the lift had to go back, Bruce went to see EZ Rent. On the next trip up the mountain he towed a one man lift to finish work on the Missile Maintenance Building.
Bruce and Wanda's contribution to FONSS cannot be over stated and is greatly appreciated. Thank you to both of you.
FONSS Planning a Winter Retreat to Work on Board Development
With the 2011 work season behind it FONSS is planning a retreat to improve the function of the board and plan for a transition into a new phase of operation. While preservation and stabilization work will continue for the foreseeable future FONSS must also plan for tours. Tour operations and preservation and stabilization operations are two different undertakings. Since FONSS' establishment in 2007 it has been a semi-formal organization focussed on advocating for the preservation of Nike Site Summit. With the completion of FONSS' stabilization requirements on the horizon, as required by the agreement with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, the organization needs to look at its structural, organizational, and operational requirements going into the future.
