Officials with the U.S. Forest say tell MTN that a fire burning in the Deep Creek Canyon area between Townsend and White Sulphur Springs has burned an estimated 200 acres.
Keeping that liquidity had been a key aim, he explained. A hard-won insurance claim of £691k against the cancellation of last year’s show cushioned the charity but they were looking at the flexibility of the business model for an events-driven charity with the show at its heart.
“We do need to invest in new incomes streams for TPEL,” he told members. These would fill the “trough” months and help put it on a firmer footing, he said.
“The year very much has been the impact of the
Outgoing SAA chairman David Nunn told members: “It’s been a very difficult year, and just a year of survival.”
Border deployment the latest in National Guardâs âroller coasterâ year
An Arizona National Guardsman direct visitors to the check-in at a COVID-19 testing site in Tonalea on the Navajo Nation in May, early in the pandemic fight. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Matkin/Air National Guard)
WASHINGTON â When Gov. Doug Ducey sent hundreds of National Guard members to help at the border last week, the move may have been unexpected â but it was not unusual for the troops that have spent a year shuttling from one crisis to another.
From stocking pandemic-depleted grocery shelves to fighting wildfires, from setting up vaccination sites to providing support in cities hit by civil unrest, the nearly 8,300 members of the Arizona National Guard have been constantly pulled in different directions.
Arizona PBS
April 27, 2021
WASHINGTON – When Gov. Doug Ducey sent hundreds of National Guard members to help at the border last week, the move may have been unexpected – but it was not unusual for the troops that have spent a year shuttling from one crisis to another.
From stocking pandemic-depleted grocery shelves to fighting wildfires, from setting up vaccination sites to providing support in cities hit by civil unrest, the nearly 8,300 members of the Arizona National Guard have been constantly pulled in different directions.
“I haven’t been bored one day since we started this,” said Col. Tom Leeper, who was charged with running the Arizona National Guard’s Task Force Medical last year.