April 12 newsletter

The Moorjock April 2012

May Fundraiser

As well as Matt giving us his time for free our sponsor for the night is Thompson Fertilisers.

Thompson Fertilisers was set up by Bill Thompson nearly 45 years ago. It was then based at North

Grimstonnear Malton. Over the years the business developed, catering for arable and grassland

farmers looking for various types and quality of fertilisers. It now has over 550 customers. Angus

Langworthy joined Bill in 1995 after doing an HND in Commercial Horticulture

at Writtle Agricultural College in Essex. He had gained 5 years experience in the horticultural industry

before moving into the agricultural sector.

In 1998 the business moved to its current premises at Thorpe Bassett, Malton where in 2005 Bill

retired and Angus carried on developing the business. Thompson Fertilisers Ltd is grateful to all its

suppliers and loyal customers and endeavours to continue the ethos of the business in providing a

personal and competitive service to all its customers, old and new.

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What have we been up to since the last newsletter?

Activities in March

• 2nd

April – Training evening

• 4th

April – Rescue, car trapped in snow above Egton Bridge (two vehicles

attended)

• 4th

April – Open and recruitment evening

• 10th

April – Training sub committee

• 14th

April – Search, missing walking in sight of RAF Fylingdales. Found by MOD

police as team got into the area.

• 15th

April – Training day

• 16th

April – Training evening

• 23rd

April – Domino Drive at the Stiddy Lythe

• 25th

April – Committee meeting

• 28th

April (evening) - Ravenscar half marathon preparation

• 29th

April – Ravenscar coastal half marathon

• 30th

April – York Medical Student (limited attendance)

• Planned activities in April

• 1st

May – Assessment evening

• 6th

May – potential new members induction

• 9th

May – Equipment sub committee

• 14th

May – Ops group

• 15th

May – Training evening

• 16th

May – Marketing and Fundraising sub committee

• 20th

May – Training day

• 25th

May – Chicks, Chimps and Chinchillas – Milton Rooms, Malton

• 26th

May – Training review

• 30th

May – Committee meeting

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York medical students suffer a tragic accident

Each year medical students from York University spend a day on the hills with

Mark Reid of ‘The Inn Way‘ fame learning navigation skills and an appreciation

of medical care in ‘wild and remote places’.

When practical we end the day demonstrating how Mountain Rescue deal

with injury or illness in exposed area.

On the evening of the 30th

of April as the expedition approached Levisham

one of the students suffered a simulated lower leg injury while a second

started to suffer from the effects of hypothermia.

Three search parties attended and here we see Megan, one of the finds,

bundled up a ready for the carry out. Mark Reid is standing top right.

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Raising funds in wild and

remote conditions

Adverse weather conditions did not prevent

Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue team

hosting their successful annual Ravenscar Coastal Half

Marathon Fundraiser this weekend.

The popular, yet demanding, all terrain event starts from

Ravenscar village hall and runs south to Cloughton along a

combination of roads, public footpaths and the old

Whitby Scarborough railway line before returning along

the scenic cliff path to Ravenscar.

Despite a strong north easterly wind and driving rain

reducing the temperature to something feeling close to

zero degrees centigrade the event attracted some ninety

entries.

The race was started by Geoff Mortimer of Construction

Marine Ltd, Leeds who was kind enough to sponsor the

event this year.

The first runner, Andrew Huddleston was back in a very

respectable time of 1:31:57. The first lady, local resident

Cathy Wood, finished in an equally impressive time of

1:50:35.

For a number of runners this was their first event since

last week’s London Marathon and for one, Anthony

Corbett it provided the opportunity to present the team

with a cheque for £75 raised in sponsorship last weekend

when he was running on behalf of Mountain

Rescue. Anthony tells us he has similar gifts for a number

of other teams in the North Eastern Search and Rescue

Association (NESRA).

Prizes were awarded to the two winners by Geoff

Mortimer of Construction Marine Ltd, Leeds and Assistant

Chief Constable Sue Cross of North Yorkshire Police and

President of North Eastern Search and Rescue

Association. Sue is a long-time supporter of the team and

the voluntary Search and Rescue service we provide.

A full listing of results is available on the team web site.

Team fundraising walks

2012

Monthly update

We hosted a very successful Falcon Flyer in March. Along

with a very wet but popular ½ Marathon in April.

Our last challenge event of the year is the Saltergate circuit

– Saturday 6th

October

Please make sure the 6th

is in your diary. Remember we

need 13 staff to man the base, control, vehicles and sweep

the route before we cover any check points.

We also need people the night before to set up the venue

and the equipment needed for each check point.

We have approached a number of companies for

sponsorship but perhaps team members could suggest

other opportunities? The Raven Hall hotel sponsored part

of the costs of the Falcon Flyer and Construction Marine

Limited sponsored the ½ marathon.

Please advertise the events to friends, colleagues, clubs and

organisations.

Remember entry fees are refunded if individuals raise more

than £50 sponsorship for the team.

Entry forms for the events are on the web site. We are also

advertising with running club and walking groups. Let’s

hope they all turn into entries.

We saw a significant increase in entries for the Saltergate

circuit last year and the Falcon this year let’s see if we can

continue that sucess.

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Ian Hugill

May 2012

Notices April training day

This month’s training day took place in the forestry around

Yearsley moor and was organised and run by Roger and

Drew. For the morning activity they took parties around the

forest running around six mini scenario, each giving the

team lots of time to practice each of the roles within a

search party.

Peter’s patch

"Rowathon" Saturday 16th June 2012.

We have planned for this event to take place in the

Brunswick Centre Scarborough, starting at 0900 through to

1800.

I am looking for volunteers to take a turn on the rowing

machine for periods of 20 mins. The aim is to row a total

distance of 100km throughout the day.

Please contact me if you can help at anytime during the day.

When I have numbers I can make out a rota. If you dont feel

like rowing there will be collecting buckets to manage etc.,

this event is open to all volunteers and their families.

Filey Emergency Services Day Sunday 12th August.

Team Demonstration of a search and rescue incident.

A perfect chance to raise the Teams profile within the

community. We will need a large numbers of team members

to stage this demonstration.

Please contact me if you can help on the day. We expect to

hold the demo twice during the event. Again this

opportunity is open to all volunteers and their families.

There is something for all ages at this show and is well

attended by the general public.

Look forward to hearing from you all, regards Peter Holtby.

Training review

The committee, Training sub committee, Incident controller

group and honorary medical officer are holding a review of

the training scheme on the 26th

of May.

The current scheme has now been in place for a full training

cycle and in a spirit of continual improvement it is time to

review the content of the modules, any duplications or

omissions and how we demonstrate knowledge and

compliance.

We, the team, already have the opportunity to comment on

training at the end of each session, by anonymous feedback

via Russ’s coffin in the training room or simply by speaking

to Russ and his subcommittee. However there is an option

for you to provide input into this process by making your

views known to any one of those attending this review.

Above Egton Bridge 4th April 2012

Following lunch we embarked on a team line search

looking for a domestic heating engineer overdue for an

appointment. After a brief, yet demanding, search he

was successfully found and quickly and reunited with his

tools