News and Information


Wanted: WMR Election Coordinator

This year is election year for Region Director for the Western Mass Region. To facilitate the elections an Election Coordinator is required. Last year Mike Noyes did a great job at this but is now busy with the Jiminy Peak Patrol. The region requires an Election Coordinator to ensure nominees who meet Regional Director requirements that are elected by the region patrollers in a fair and just manner.

Mike has provided the following job description for Election Coordinator:

  1. Set cutoff date to receive resume. List qualifications. Post on website.
  2. Collect nominanee resumes.
  3. Review resumes.
  4. Once all resumes been approved, send resume to PD's and ask to forward to all their patrollers.
  5. Have ballots printed.
  6. Get current roster from a Regional Officer.
  7. Collect dates for refresher and try to have a representive from the region there to provide credibulities of the voting process.
  8. Give roster and ballots to the Regional Representatives or the election coorindnator from the patrol. Check off names as ballot is given to them and collected.
  9. Have the region representive collect ballots and not count them untill three or or regional represntive are together.
  10. Once all refreshers are completed have get together to count ballots.
  11. Ballots are tallied by mountain according to total by: names; blanks; total voted;total not voted.
  12. Winner is notify. Loser too -- but hasn't happened yet.
  13. Information is posted on web site and also given to Rick Hamlin, Donna McGraw, and Don Weaver.

If you would like to help please contact Bryan Sinclair, WMR ARD. Your help would be appreciated.

Got some hot news -- that you'd like to share with your fellow patrollers? Send it along to the webmaster. If it is an event, please be sure and include the date, time, location and the phone and/or email of an individual who can be contacted for more information.

2008 OEC Class Registration

Are you, or someone you know, going to enroll in this year's OEC class? Well -- they need to register for the classes that start in September.

After completing the necessary paperwork, send the completed registration form and the check (payable to David Benoit) to Karen Mills at the address on the form.

Questions should be directed to Karen Mills at karen@kushiandmyers.com or kmills1@berkshire.rr.com.

Gettin' Ready for Next Season

Last season is just a memory, the gear has long been stowed away and it hasn't been cold enough to snow is quite some time. But your region staff is busy at work getting ready for next season.

As you can plainly see, the region's website has a new look. The move isn't complete and over the next few weeks, your webmaster will be working to complete the transition. Until then, a few of the pages are under construction. Plans are to keep all the features of the old website, in a slightly different form. Please bear with us until then.

Note to EMM Trainer/Evaluators

This season's EMM trainer/evaluator refresher will be held July 26, 2008. The time and place will be annouced soon. For more information, contact our Senior EMM Coordinator - Nicky Enhorning-Picton at nicky ep@yahoo.com. Note that this refresher is for new T/Es and is by invitation.

Eastern Division AMN Instructors Meeting

This year's Eastern Division Avalanche and Mountaineering Fall meeting will again take place at Northfield, Massachusetts on the weekend of September 5-7, 2008. For more information and details, go to amn08.nmnsp.org. Thanks to Bill Schweikert for this information.