Recovery Team "To Do" List

This Grumman F6F Hellcat went down near Mumbo Lake in November of 1945 and is shaping up to be our next "job". After our B-24 project which opens at the Sisson Museum this Friday night April 3 it seems we have a series of warbird accidents in or near Siskiyou County to survey in addition to the Navy plane above: A PV-1 / RB-34Commando on Herz Mountain and a Curtis C-46 near McCloud. Both were in 1943, the same year as our B-24.

We will have a Power Point presentation for our bomber and several people on our recovery team will be on hand to answer questions. We hope to have a guest of honor as well, Verne Kendall who was 8 years old when it passed right over his house. One of the survivors came to his front door asking for a ride to town just after the crash.

History Night is the museum's annual fundraiser so we hope you all can make it. Tickets are $15 and are available at the MS Chamber, Village Books, and at the door.

Bruce

History Night, Sisson Museum, April 3

The Sisson Museum is located at the historic fish hatchery in Mt. Shasta and they are opening their 2009 season with their annual fund-raiser, History Night. Tickets are only $15 and they can be had at Village Books and the Chamber of Commerce, both in Mt. Shasta, as well as at the door.

The main exhibit will feature the Italian American influence in our area and several other new displays. One of those will be an exhibit featuring the B24 bomber that crashed here in 1943 and which I have written about in this column.

I will be giving a short talk about the incident and several members of our team have donated their time to put our artifacts on display for your enjoyment. It will be modest in size but heavy with significance as we hope to dedicate it with a plaque to the six who perished.

Wine will be sold by the glass and raffle tickets for valuable prizes will also be available for only a buck.

So mark your planners . . . that's 6:30 Friday night April 3.

See you there.

Bruce

Lunch Today is Cancelled

Two key players, the Humane Society Shelter Manager and Dr. Baker, the co-owner of Shasta Animal Hospital are unable to make the lunch scheduled for today at Strings Restaurant in Mt. Shasta. We will announce a rescheduled date and time here on the blog.

Change of Date

A few pet owners are going to meet Wednesday March 11 at noon at Strings Restaurant in Mt. Shasta and talk about what can be done to provide emergency after hours veterinarian care here in Siskiyou County.

Several have watched their pets suffer pain and discomfort waiting for an office to open and the manager of the Siskiyou Humane Shelter in Mt. Shasta who sees more of this than all of us combined will be there also.

Anyone with interested is invited. It will be dutch treat and no reservation so we'd love to have you there, too! If you have any question about this or our doggie park project please call me at 938-0385 or send me an email, batchelder@gotsky.com.

Editor