Fw: MPA Update (2)
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February 4 - Deadline for Comments regarding Kalispell City
Airport - I'm sure that many of you have flown into the Kalispell City
Airport located in downtown Kalispell. Jim Pierce with the Flathead
Hangar of the MPA needs your help to maintain this airport and protect
it from local activists attempting to shut down airport operations.
Please read the following. You will find a link at the end of this
document that, when clicked on, will enable you to send an email to the
Kalispell City Council in support of the Kalispell City Airport. I
will send you a copy of the email I just sent as an example of what we
can and should do to maintain this airport for our use in the future.
This isn't just about saving this airport for the "locals". Besides
being a great place to fly into (if you have not done this, ask me about
it sometime!), this airport, if closed by a band of self-serving locals,
would set a precedent for future closing in our state and others. Our
freedoms are just as important as those of these local residents. Your
voice can help save Kalispell City and perhaps many other airports that
you fly into to. Attached above is Jim's request. Chuck Flynn, MPA
Legislative Committee Chairman
Link to the City of Kalispell's "Hot Topics" which lists all the
questions raised at the first Scoping Session and the answers provided
to them..... http://kalispell.com/downloads/airportinformation.pdf
Link to the Kalispell City Airport Site for the history and me
other facts related to the "Upgrades" to the airport......
http://kalispellcityairport.com <http://kalispellcityairport.com>
Click on the following to send your thoughts to the city
council: citycouncil@kalispell.com
<mailto:citycouncil@kalispell.com>
* Go to the website www.montanapilots.org
<http://www.montanapilots.org> for the Calendar of Events and the
current Jan/Feb 2010 Heading Bug.
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Help! The Hangar of the Year Award (Prop) still needs a ride
from Lewistown to either Helena, Missoula or Seeley Lake as soon as
possible. It needs to be lettered and ready to present at the
conference. Is anyone able to help with this?
* The website is still a work in progress and some members have
experienced some difficulties logging in to their information. (1) One
problem is your email address may have been wrong in the old system and
needs to be updated in the new website. You need to contact me or Will
Stene to update that so you can log in. (2) Paying with PayPal has been
confusing - after clicking Pay With CC, it takes you to the PayPal site
where you need to click the really tiny, blue, continue below the
pictures of credit cards. I have received messages for some members
saying that payment was "submitted" but they are never completed. (3)
Some members have evidently created new memberships instead of logging
on to their old one. That is fine, but when I went in and deleted the
old membership, I noticed that the password had been changed on the old
membership but not the new one. Hopefully I caught the only one with
that issue, but if you have problems let me know. (4) Another member
kept getting a Page Cannot Be Found Message - let us know if you get
anything like that. Will is working on archived articles from the old
site and the photo gallery. Printable membership rosters for hangar
officers has not been forgotten. I will try to send something out to
you during this construction phase. We appreciate all of the time
that Rob Duncan of Airbase1 has spent on this project. He has put in
countless hours on this project and has personally donated over 50 hours
of his time over and above our contract agreement.
* Since I haven't mailed out membership renewals other than in
the newsletter and via email, we are way behind on membership renewals
for 2010. You have a very good chance to be drawn as the sweepstakes
winner (a PLB) at the conference , March 6. I genuinely encourage you
to renew your membership as soon as possible either online using a
credit card or by mailing a check. Remember, your name is also added to
the drawing additional times for each new member that you sponsor, even
the Free 1st Year Solo Student members.
* I apologize for some of you receiving multiple emails. I need
to fix something and will ASAP. It will help alot if everyone goes
online and makes sure their email address is correct. Thanks!
Geanette Cebulski
MPA Secretary
P O Box 1178
Seeley Lake, MT 59868-1178
406-677-3423
mpasecretary@blackfoot.net