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Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:19 pm
by Mike Simanyi
Ladies and Gents!
We're desperately in need of additional safety stewards (and some renewals) and Saturday, December 5th is now on the schedule for the training session.
We're hosting the class at the La Quinta Inn, Ontario Airport location and can handle about 25 students. The class will start at 9:00 am and we'll provide lunch.
Please post here if you're interested and can make it or if you have any questions. If you're an existing SSS (license current or expired), you should attend to satisfy the "renewal training" requirement recently added or you will not be able to renew your license.
A few benefits:
- Guaranteed practice entry (when you're the SSS or backup SSS)
- Discounted practice entry is the norm for the SSS of record.
- Looking for free lunch? Join us at La Quinta Inn for SSS training!
- Licensed safety stewards are 82.64% more likely to understand trumped up statistics.
- Licensed safety stewards' drive faster and have more fun. (Except Bill.)
If you're one of our regular participants and would like to give something back to the community, we'd love to have your help.
Link to the venue:
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24 participants so far.
School entrants:
- Michael Palero
- Bill Shhhnecker
- Mako Koiwai
- Jonathan Lugod
- Michael Sullivan
- Quoc-Viet Dang
- Sebastian Rios
- Shauna Rios
- Ken Lord
- Tom Tanquary
- Renee Angel
- Steve Collins
- Mike Shin
- Lily Liu
- Brian Chmielewski
- Bob Jardine
- Glenn Duensing
- Bob Hempy
- Dan Shaw
- Carol Flaherty
- Ron Flaherty
- Daniel Yeung
- Mike Nakata
- Ron Tsumura
Mike
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:39 am
by Steve Ekstrand
Mike Simanyi wrote:. If you're an existing SSS (license current or expired), you should attend to satisfy the "renewal training" requirement recently added or you will not be able to renew your license.
Participation decision for 2010 now made for us.

Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:01 am
by Bill Schenker
Mike Simanyi wrote:
- Licensed safety stewards' drive faster and have more fun. (Except Bill.)
I will be there, and then later have more fun by driving faster than you and the WereRabbit.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:04 am
by Mako Koiwai
Do we need to sign up or just show up
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:04 am
by Craig Naylor
Damn.... working the LA Auto Show that weekend. Any alt day available?
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:14 am
by Mike Simanyi
Mako Koiwai wrote:Do we need to sign up or just show up
I need to know you're going to be there. We can only seat about 25 people if we retain the tables, and I think Brian would like to attract some S.D. people and AZ people as well.
Will you be joining us Mako?
Mike
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:14 am
by Mike Simanyi
Craig Naylor wrote:Damn.... working the LA Auto Show that weekend. Any alt day available?
Sorry Craig, no. This was the best day we could coordinate based on responses in the first thread (around 6 weeks ago.)
Mike
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:25 am
by Mako Koiwai
Yes, renewal
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:24 pm
by Jonathan Lugod
i think ill have time. You can count me in.

Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:35 pm
by Tom Denham
I am Planning on attending, depends on work schedule. I Will know soon and let you know.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 2:57 pm
by Bob Beamesderfer
Sign me up!
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:04 pm
by Daniel Y.
Mike Simanyi wrote:Craig Naylor wrote:Damn.... working the LA Auto Show that weekend. Any alt day available?
Sorry Craig, no. This was the best day we could coordinate based on responses in the first thread (around 6 weeks ago.)
Mike
Taking the LSAT on the 5th

. Is the training and Annual thing? Or a "have one when we're low on safety stewards" thing?
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:45 pm
by Michael Sullivan
Count me in Mike.
Regards,
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:54 pm
by Q V
I'll be there.

Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:07 pm
by Mike Simanyi
Daniel Yeung wrote:Taking the LSAT on the 5th

. Is the training and Annual thing? Or a "have one when we're low on safety stewards" thing?
More the latter than the former. I'll add this is the first session under our new Divisional SSS, Brian Robertson, and we may find that they happen more frequently going forward as the process is refined.
Mike
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:18 pm
by Mike Simanyi
Bill Schenker wrote:Mike Simanyi wrote:
- Licensed safety stewards' drive faster and have more fun. (Except Bill.)
I will be there, and then later have more fun by driving faster than you and the WereRabbit.
It's not a WereRabbit, it's a
Super Rabbit.

- SUPERRABBIT.jpg (41.11 KiB) Viewed 12725 times
He was eating dinner under my hood, sitting on top of the container that
held the repellent!
Back on topic, he won't be attending the training session. Who else will be joining us?
Mike
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:20 pm
by Sebastian Rios
Hey! I didn't get any entry fee discounts...
Shauna and I will be there to fulfill our requirement.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:20 pm
by Tom Tanquary
I'll be there.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:53 pm
by Kurt Rahn
I'll check the family schedule. I'd like to do it if I'm available.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 3:05 pm
by Michael Bradley
I'm in if there is still room.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:09 pm
by Q V
Michael Bradley wrote:I'm in if there is still room.
sorry, only room for 3 Mikes...

, j/k j/k.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:32 pm
by Kurt Rahn
Kurt Rahn wrote:I'll check the family schedule. I'd like to do it if I'm available.
Unfortunately I'm out. I'd love to hear about the next one, preferably with some more lead time.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:57 pm
by Gayle Jardine
Hi,
Bob is interested in the school. He renews in June and doesn't have access to his e-mail.
gayle jardine
please let me know when, where, what time - thanx
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:44 pm
by Steve Ekstrand
What pisses me off is that Stacey and I renew Feb 1. We have to have a class to renew, but its Dec 5th take it our leave it. That is the day of a big party planned 6 months in advance we can't miss, since we're throwing it. One date, take it or leave it.
Has National thought this through??? We're a big region, eventually we'll come up with more qualified instructors and have more options for classes, but it takes time to set in motion (too bad if you renew in Jan or Feb or Mar). By June I'm sure we will have lessened the problem. What are other regions going to do??? I think the whole SSS system is at risk right now. If they are hardasses about this requirement, you're going to see small regions across the country without an SSS to put on an event.
Even in the prosperous SW div they are asking AZ people to come to Ontario again with a one shot deal.
Have the damn SSC and Pete Lyons get together and put on a high quality presentation for renewals and video tape the damn thing and put it on the web. Its going to be 2010, this isn't hard. Its works at the state and federal level for all sorts of compliance training and continuing education. This is easy stuff.
Re: Safety Steward training session, December 5th!
Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:20 pm
by Tom Tanquary
Steve Ekstrand wrote:Have the damn SSC and Pete Lyons get together and put on a high quality presentation for renewals and video tape the damn thing and put it on the web. Its going to be 2010, this isn't hard. Its works at the state and federal level for all sorts of compliance training and continuing education. This is easy stuff.
Steve's right. If this is that important to SCCA, there should be a better way to make it happen. Video on the web is a great idea.