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Dean Romig
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 02:49 am |
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Regretfully I will not be able to make it. Conflicting schedules . . . thought we could fit both into our weekend itineraries but it is just not to be. Our daughters and their husbands had pre-arranged most of our weekend for us, reservations made, tickets bought, etc. for a birthday surprise for Kathy. We both wish we could have been with you all.
Dean
P. S. Take pictures please and post them here. Have fun and be safe.
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Pete Lester
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 08:29 am |
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| Why don't we get a head count. Who is planning to come shoot this Saturday? Please check in here. Last edited on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 08:30 am by Pete Lester
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 08:42 am |
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| you know i'am in. be there around 8:30. scott
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Dave Suponski
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 10:37 am |
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Sorry won,t be able to make it this time. We have a few baseball games to make up!  Dave... But please do it again!
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E Robert Fabian
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 06:42 pm |
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Larry, I have been talking to the regulars and we can do this any weekend. The date was picked on John's schedule at the time. So if you would like to work on a date that works out for a group of shooters coming up, that works for us. The club is under used most of the time. Will wait for everyone responses and go from there.
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 07:23 pm |
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| August 9th would work for Kathy and me - or any Saturday in September.
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 07:28 pm |
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| Bob, If another date works better for the group than we can make it another day. It sounds like John's not back yet anyway. I have reletives in NH and go up often so almost any weekend works for me.
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 08:38 pm |
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| Larry, Three to Four Parker shooters are there every Sunday shooting Skeet and Modern Skeet so if your in the neighborhood.
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 09:47 pm |
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| can't make it either as I'm covering at the shop for a colleague. can this be done In august as well?
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Posted: Thu Jul 17th, 2008 10:11 pm |
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| Any time Allen, Scottt, Pete, John, Bill and myself usually shoot every Sunday, Trap on Sat.
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 04:12 pm |
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Hey folks,
Just back - and trying to get caught up... The trip to Haiti was nothing short of amazing - but, damn - it's good to be home... Bob/Pete/Scott - you guys taking a head-count?? As well - I think I'll be bringing 4 or 5 Parkers. Weather for tomorrow looks fine in tha AM with only maybe scattered t'storms in the afternoon??
Best to all!!!
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Pete Lester
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 07:44 pm |
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| Hi John, I think the "Parker" shoot is limited to Scott, Bob, you and myself at this point. Scott told me this AM he considered it rescheduled to a later date. Seems we are at a point of needing an executive decision.
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E Robert Fabian
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Posted: Fri Jul 18th, 2008 09:31 pm |
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Offical cancellation. George and I are headed down to RI to look at his first Parker, a 1901 CH 30" F F . Stoping at Addiville and shooting a round of S C .
Bob
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Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 06:23 pm |
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Hi folks,
OK - let's reschedule for August?? This will be terrific! Also - I got a few PMs about what I was doing in Haiti, I'll skip my canned reply (".. I go for tourist season"..  ) and explain.. And since I started this thread - I'll interrupt it with what I was in Haiti for...
In short - I have a 501c3 that Jen (my wife) and I started about two years ago. We aren't associated with a church, mission, whatever - but - when I saw what was happening in Haiti a few years ago - felt compelled to try to help..? Anyway - this trip had several items;
1) I needed to look at the first of ten vo-tech training schools we have finished for 1200+ kids. And launch funding for the second of the ten..
2) Purchase an acre of land for the soon-to-be announced orphange for girls who will be sold off to Dominca or abandoned by their relatives as they have no parents and the families have no way to support them..
3) Here in the USA - two young girls collected over 4 dozen soccer balls for one of the orphanges (660+ boys) - so it was important to deliver them;
4) I had a program "Buy Your Mom a Block" for Mothers Day which raised about $6000 in 4 days. Part of what the Moms will get is a certificate. I took the certificates down so some at the orphange could sign them (about 70 certificates) and write a brief "thank you" to the Moms in that program;
5) Set up a program where kids in need can get a sponsorship for school and education and money food.
It's always been my "mantra" that if someone gives a $1 - a $1 is spent on the cause. There are no staff costs, no admin costs, etc. I just was never a great believer in "charities" that have a "paid staff and only about $0.60 goes to the cause (see why I set up my own 501c3?).
6) Anyway - as well on this trip... We dedicated another school.. The background is here:
http://www.rennwish.org/Pastor_Vilnor.htm
on my main website here:
http://www.rennwish.org/
And for this last agenda item - here is what I posted on another website I host, own and run....
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Hi all..
I guess I'm just going to write this post/thread as a "train of jumbled thoughts", since - every time I return from a trip like this, I find the words difficult to come by? So - maybe it's better, rather than attempting to do all in one post/thread, I'll try to do one "event" at a time?
For that - there are bunches of pics for this thread… And, in the next few days, Pat (from my Porsche website) and I will try to post others - similar, but yet different from the other events (certificates, soccer balls, Espwa, Technical School, etc.)? Same trip, yes. Different projects, events and people. You folks are doing - or rather "have done" so much for these projects in Haiti - you can not imagine…
For that - I know Patrick can imagine. He was there, in Haiti - seeing first hand all you have done. I am in his debt and he has my respect. Few - if any - would dare to go to Haiti. Patrick did. And for that, I think he saw a part of this world many can't imagine exists nor believe might exist as we go to our safe houses in our nice neighborhoods, and children - by the dozens - don't call out to you asking for food, or money, or note the color of your skin.
To Patrick: I respect you… And you have my thanks… More than you may know…
Anyway - here is the first topic from the trip - dedicating a school in a remote and impoverished village in Haiti. This school is the first the village has ever had. Children from that village are usually sent out to other schools, or sent to relatives outside, or sold off or.. Well - whatever. The school was dedicated on July 11th - but it was really dedicated the day the entire village came out to build "their school". We didn't "build it". Money didn't build it… That little village built it for Pastor Vilnor, the children and themselves. The pictures to date on Rennwish told of their construction efforts, so now - I'll try to tell the rest of the story…
About two months ago - there was nothing.
Today?
Here is their story….. Or rather your story….
Adrien and Pastor Vilnor hold up the plaque dedicated to the memory of Natalie L. Streather - to which this school is dedicated. Next September, there will be over 250 children enrolled, and this plaque will hang in the admission/administrative office. It was hand carved by a local artist for this event. It is wonderful. The words are from both Gail & Adrian Streather, and Pastor Vilnor:
And a close up:
Pastor Vilnor, Pat and I (and a few others? ) read the plaque for the first time..
The front of the school - where some final paint, walls, blocks are set a day or two before the dedication:
And a few workers.. This is their school - and they are proud...
This was taken in the Admin office (at the front). Yes, there is a bathroom. Yes - there are actual tiles. Yes - there will be running water and flushing toilets. Yes - they are proud of that as well:
I really need to explain this picture.. The woman in the picture has lived in the village all her life. In my previous pictures - SHE IS THE OLD WOMAN WHO WAS CARRYING THE BLOCKS.. When she saw me - she walked over, and while weeping - gave me a huge hug and simply went on with her thanks. You folks - who have supported this effort - have her sincerest thanks.. Forever... She is a wonderful village matriarch who never imagined... But - for all of you - she is alive to see the day her village was changed. That's to your credit and to hers...
Friday - the day of the dedication.... I was a little "detained" - so this pic is from my Mom... The ceremony itself? While I was speaking (which was also broadcast over Haitian national radio - who would have guessed?) a few hundred attendees. The dedication lasted the entire day - and there were a thousand or so through the day? I dunno...
And some of the attendees:
And villagers who built their school:
And the crowd in the church for one of the dedications:
And outside the church - which is...
Why we just do this:
Thanks for reading...
John
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E Robert Fabian
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Posted: Sat Jul 19th, 2008 10:32 pm |
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I don't think a lot of people in the states are aware of the poverty 50 miles from the US coast. John you and your wife should be proud, great job.
It was the poorest country in the western hemisphere in 80,s. when I was in the Coast Guard during the exodus from the island. It was a very eye opening experience.
Hope to see ya tomorrow Major Waldrons
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Mon Jul 21st, 2008 01:45 am |
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I am deeply humbled.
We didn't really know you John, most of us. You have my respect and admiration.
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scott kittredge
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Posted: Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 06:11 pm |
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| back to top. still on for this sat. the 9th ?
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Posted: Mon Aug 4th, 2008 09:20 pm |
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OK - if we do - I need to make a schedule change to take the day off from work (I work Saturdays?).. Sooo....
Who is "in" besides Scott & me..???
John
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Posted: Mon Aug 4th, 2008 09:36 pm |
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| Bob's in. Looking forward to it.
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