I just saw this posted on the BAOC (Bay Area Orienteering Club) listserver and thought people here might find it interesting. The abbreviations used are:
FLO - Florida Orienteering Club USOF - United States Orienteering Federation SAR - Search and Rescue ONA - Orienteering in North America (an Orienteering publication) O'ers - Orienteers
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Clubnetters, FLO played a role in finding a lost jogger, stuck in a swamp not too far from a trail. There will be much more detail in ONA so stay tuned! If SAR sounds like where you'd like to make your map reading skills count, figure out whom to contact. I'll ask the USOF SAR director to help me find some of the contacts, such as the National Park Service, the Civil Air Patrol and your appropriate state or county agency. If you already have made some contacts, please let me know. Chuck Ferguson, USOF President
Dear Chuck:
We were going to sort of sit on this story for a few weeks and let Donna publish it in the next ONA, but now that it has hit CNN as well as our local papers in the following two links, feel free to circulate it through USOF channels.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/05/jogger.stuck.ap/index.html http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orl-jogger0506sep05,0,69956.story?coll=o...
Donna - Your ONA story will still be the real scoop, more definitive, with maps and complete details but these web-news blurbs will disappear soon.
Want to get the word around so as to encourage all O'ers to step out in courage to assist local S&R efforts where possible. The benefits can be incalculable. I know others have done so and would have continued to do so, but publicity of this sort is rare.
Thanks. Bob Putnam VP, FLO