The upcoming Walker Board of Directors Meeting Agenda can be viewed at the following link:

WFPA Board of Directors Meeting Agenda

Hello my fellow Walkerites,

Cheers to another successful Walker Day. Walker Day is a great time for renewing friendships, making new friends and swapping mountain stories, (that usually end with “and we just barely made it out alive”). We title Walker Day as “A fund raiser”, but, it’s really a community celebration or pseudo block party. Every dollar we get in is just a bonus.

Special thanks to all the usual suspects that automatically show up to lend a big hand at virtually ALL these events. We also had a good number of new faces helping as well. I believe we served 250 lunches, pulled in $1300 from donated yard sale and silent auction items, over $1000 in merchandise sales and $167 form the 50/50 raffle. This year, we added a small art fair in the park that raised around $400.

I’d like to personally thank this years community sponsors like Gene Tomek for once again donating all the food, Conrad Walton for donating all the soft drinks under his company sponsorship, “survivor.com”, and the Walker Community Church for donating all the water, (they meet every Sunday off Sunday School Rd). Corporate sponsors were Trader Joe, Walmart, Fry’s, and Costco. They always give $25-$50 for miscellaneous supplies.  And as always, thanks to the “Guys With Day Jobs” for providing the music!

We will soon set a date for next years Walker Day so you can mark it on your calendars. Hope to see you all again next year.

John Ohanesian
Walker Day Chairman

The WFPA is reorganizing the bylaws review committee.  Victoria Morhous has agreed to Chair this effort and WFPA Board Member Steve MacIntosh will also be on the committee.   They would like to have anyone interested in participating on the committee contact them no later than July 12,2014.  Carla Keegan and Tim McFarland have already joined the committee.  The first meeting will be July 17. at 9 AM at the Walker fire station conference room.

The charter for the committee from the WFPA Board is to identify confusing and/or conflicting language in the Bylaws (such as the address change made by Yavapai County)

The process will be:

The committee will make recommendation for corrections/changes to the Bylaws to the WFPA Board.

The Board will make any adjustments it thinks are necessary and the proposed changes will be published to the WFPA email list and made available on the WFPA Web site.

WFPA Members will make suggestions about the language in the proposed changes.

The Committee will review the suggested changes make any changes necessary and forward the  new proposal to the BOD and the revised product will again be sent the Membership for review.

If the BOD approves the proposed changes the issue will be placed on the ballot for the annual meeting.

Again, anyone interested in participating in this process as a committee member should contact Victoria Morhous at (928) 443-7406 (vamorhous@gmail.com) or Steve MacIntosh at (623) 434-6924  (smacintosh@q.com)

The Web Master received the following note of appreciation for a good deed done one for him by an unknown neighbor.
I would like to offer a public thank you to whoever found my keys and hung them on a tree with a ribbon on Sheldon Rd. You are also free to phone me at 928-443-8871 if you like.
Thanks much!
John Pickett

Hey Folks,

Walker Day community celebration and fund raiser is this Saturday. The yard sale and art show starts at 9am and Walker Day goes from 11am-2pm. If you still have yard sale items to donate you can bring them to the fire station Friday after 5pm or Saturday after 7am. Please bring along your favorite lawn chair for added comfort.

Hope to see ya’ll there.

John Ohanesian

Walker Day Chairman

928-445-8358

BINGO AT THE WALKER FIREHOUSE

THIS SATURDAY JUNE 21ST

4:00 P.M. UNTIL 7:00 P.M.

BRING A FINGER FOOD DISH TO SHARE

LOTS OF MONEY TO BE WON

LOT’S OF FUN TO BE HAD

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -BRING SOMEONE WITH YOU

SEE YOU SATURDAY

Hey Walker folks,

Thanks for the great support for Walker Day. I have 8 new volunteers and the Conrad family has sponsored the beverages under their business name, “SURVIVOR.COM”, (emergency preparation food and supplies).
Check it out!

I am still looking for more cool “stuff” for the yard sale, (no more big, dirty couches or old TV’s PLEASE).
Feel free to bring it down to the station Friday the 27th after 5pm or early Saturday am.
Hope to see ya’ll and your friends at Walker Day.

Thanks much!

John Ohanesian
Chairman, Walker Day
445-8358
john_ohanesian@yahoo.com

The upcoming Walker Board of Directors Meeting Agenda can be viewed at the following link:

WFPA Board of Directors Meeting Agenda

Hi Folks,

I am in need of some additional help for Walker Day on June 28th. It’s really is a lot of fun to pitch in for a few hours and get to know a few more of your community members in the process.

I need two more people to assist in setting up and selling at the yard sale. We pull everything we’ve collected out of the old station out back, price it and sell it. It’s pretty straight forward. You can arrive around 7am and be done by 10. Did I mention the free lunch?

I also need a few people help sell tickets at the welcome table and a few more to help sell raffle tickets for the 50/50 drawing. This will be from around 11am-1pm. Again…did I mention the free lunch?

One last thing. Gene Tomek has again, generously offered to sponsor the food for Walker Day, and the Walker community church will sponsor all the water, (of live), for the event. I am still looking for a sponsor for the soda and other beverages at $150. We take these roughly $500 additional contributions and sell them off for about $2000. It’s all profit for the Fire department if it’s all sponsored. If you have considered boosting your financial support for this year, here’s a great way to do it…and sure, lunch is on me.

If you haven’t swept you house for items to donate, grab a box and go for it. Donations have been coming in very slowly for this years yard sale. Any good condition items like household and sporting goods, books, albums, clocks, tables, lamps, chairs, building supplies, tools, coats, etc…We can sell almost any good condition item.

Please contact me if you’d like to pitch in, sponsor the beverages, donate items or make a cake for Walker Day.

Thanks much and I hope to see you all at Walker Day 2014.

John Ohanesian
928-445-8358

The results of the election from the Annual Meeting are as follows. Thanks to all who attended or voted by proxy.

Russ Courtney, Bill Loughrige, Steve Macintosh and Terry Piske were elected to two year terms on the WFPA Board of Directors (by unanimous consent by motion and vote of the members present) (they were unopposed for the four vacant seats)

The proposed changes to the Bylaws failed to pass by a vote of 96 no to 46 yes.

Here is the makeup of the WFPA 2014-15 Board of Directors

Fire Chief           Roger Nusbaum                 (928) 778-2894   Fire-Chief@Walkerfire.org

Officers

President            Bill Loughrige                (480) 223-8034   President@Walkerfire.org
Vice Pres            John Ohanesian                (928) 445-8358   Vice-President@Walkerfire.org
Secretary            Russ Courtney                 (480) 831-1817   Secretary@Walkerfire.org
Treasurer            Vic Hencken                   (928) 778-0076   Treasurer@Walkerfire.org

Board Members
Rudy Erdman                   (928) 445-1310   Rudy@Walkerfire.org
Steve Macintosh               (480) 595-9969   S.Macintosh@Walkerfire.org
Terry Piske                   (623) 330-5565   T.Piske@Walkerfire.org