Thank you Alan, and all of the ROC board!! I'm looking at the bright side, I have more time to finish some rockets! John Sent from my old iPhone On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:23 PM, Allen Farrington <allen.farrington@xxxxxx> wrote: > There's not really much new on the BLM front, but here's the latest. > > The Application Permit was submitted and they signed for it today. I have > called my contact at BLM and he has not yet called back as Mondays and > Fridays are very busy for them. I will update the chat as soon as I know > anything further, but that could be a while since they technically have 30 > days to respond to our application. > > While I know that many of you are anxious to know what's next, I want to > caution you all to please refrain from contacting BLM. We've already had a > reporter stick their nose in this and while there's been no fallout, I want > to be a "good supplicant", if you know what I mean. > > In the meantime, I want to encourage everyone to visit our regional sister > clubs like DART, Tripoli San Diego, Tripoli Central California, FAR, and even > Tripoli Vegas. They have all graciously invited us to attend their launches. > I know from my own experience that launches with other clubs can be great > fun. I fly with Aeropac every year. > > Secondly, ROC has a trailer cleaning coming up on May 5th and that's a great > time to socialize with other ROC members and to give back to the club. > > Finally, I want everyone in the club to understand how many different ways > the board tried to navigate the laws, regulations, and rules towards > continuing launches uninterrupted. Despite our best efforts, we couldn't work > something out that wouldn't put the club at risk long term. We have Terry to > thank for that. Additionally, we have to thank Richard Dierking for helping > me with the application by doing a bunch of legwork on the land issues > beforehand. Next time you see him make sure you give him a big thank you. > > Allen > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > ROC-Chat mailing list > roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > //www.freelists.org/list/roc-chat > -- ROC-Chat mailing list roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx //www.freelists.org/list/roc-chat