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2 November 2015

Just a heads up with the coming Month (I will try and update the website). From the list of activities etc below it looks to be another busy month

Monday 2nd Nov (tonight) – Monday Night training @ 1900hrs– currently scheduled to be Responding to an Incident and Fire Over Run
Wednesday 4th Nov – Executive Meeting – If you have any ideas, suggestions, issues or concerns let someone in the Exec know
Thursday 12th Nov – Community Engagement activity at The Oaks school “Read Around The School”
Thursday 12th Nov – General Meeting @ 1900hrs
Sunday 15th Nov – Sunday Morning Training @ 0800hrs
Monday 23rd Nov - "Scouts" talk
Tuesday 24th Nov – Group North Meeting at Orangeville/Werombi @ 1900hrs
Wednesday 26th Nov – BA training @ 1900hrs

Out of Area (OoA) – We are scheduled on from 9th Nov to 22 Nov. Please let Colin know if you could be available

Maintenance Month is Deb & Jeremy – including running the trucks (a bit) and Chainsaws and Pumps etc

Some statics
October ‘15 had 8 call outs, long term average is 4.3. Only 1 was a non attendance (so far a total of 2 non attendances this brigade year);
We’ve had 30 Call out so far this Brigade year;
Running average is 5 Call Outs per month;
Pat is leading the attendance with 21 (70%), Jeremy is second on 17 (57%), unusual for Deb she is running third on 14 (47%), Thomas has come out of nowhere and is sitting in fourth with 13 (43%), jumping ahead of Colin on 12 (40%);

Calendar Year (1st Jan 15 to today)
Date 2nd Nov = Calendar Week 45 = day 306  (yep only 53 days until Xmas)
49 Call Outs
45wk or 306 days = 1 Call out every 6.2 days

Brigade Year (1st May 15 to today)
Date 2nd Nov = Brigade Calendar Week 27 = day 186 (still only 53 days until Xmas)
30 Call Outs
27wk or 186 days = 1 Call out every 6.2 days

Don’t forget that December is also a really busy month, with The Oaks Lighting up (Car Parking and Comm Ed trailer), Calendar Run, Santa Run, Xmas Lunch, Training, Meetings etc

Activities - This coming week
see above

Activities - Next Week and After

see above