From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sat Mar 16 22:54:55 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2H3stB49553; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:54:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust106.tnt4.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.46.106]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2H3spl49542 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:54:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001401c1cd67$7639a760$6a2ed343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net USNA-Net's Safe Harbor Program Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:54:34 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... Dear USNA-Net Family and Friends, Most of our members have expressed special gratitude and thanks to the Annapolis Area Sponsor Parents who have done so much for all of our Mids since our lists went into operation four years ago. We have heard many tales of the generosity of other parents who opened their homes to Mids traveling to far off locations for special functions like concerts and athletic events. And we have also heard from many parents thanking our list members for coming to the rescue of a stranded Midshipman who needed a ride or a place to stay while traveling. Many of our members who live elsewhere across the country have lamented that they wished they could host Mids in their homes as well, but live too far away from the Yard to be able to do so. Well... We put our heads together at USNA-Net and decided that we should do something about that. We have designed a program we have decided to call... The USNA-Net Safe Harbor Program. Now you, too, can play Host to a Midshipman who may need your help while away from the Academy. Here how it works... A Mid finds him/herself stranded in a strange city with a broken down car - without a room for the night or in need of local transportation or a home cooked meal or any one of a number of things. The Mid can call our 800 number and tell us where he/she is and what the problem is. We will locate a local parent who has volunteered to be of assistance and put them in contact with each other. If you're a Mid in a jam, just call our toll free telephone number. There is a list of locations where assistance is available all across the country on our web site at www.USNA-Net.org. Click on the Safe Harbor Life Preserver on the Main Page. If you're a parent who wants to register as a volunteer Host in your area, here's what's involved. A volunteer Host must be willing to be of reasonable assistance to ANY Midshipman who may require assistance in their area. This may include providing temporary lodging for one or more nights, providing local transportation, a home cooked meal or long distance telephone service. In general, whatever might reasonably be needed by a Mid who is traveling away from the Academy. The volunteer Host should fill out the Host Application on our web site. Just go to www.USNA-net.org and click on the Safe Harbor Life Preserver icon in the corner. Then Scroll down toward the bottom of the next page to where it says Click HERE. Fill out the on-line application and we will enter your CITY in our list of locations where assistance is available. Then when a Mid phones with a call for help, we'll get them in touch with you by telephone. To that end, we will need to have the Host Application filled out completely. We will maintain your complete privacy. No member information will be published anywhere and you will be contacted before your information is shared with anyone else. Right now the only CITY listed is Cleveland,OH because that's where Sandi and I live and we are volunteers #1 & 2. As other members add their names to our database of volunteer Hosts, I'm sure the list will grow. I am confident that our members will be overwhelming in their generosity and support for this program. We don't ask anything of our members except to consider what you would want another parent to do if your Mid was stranded and needed help. Maybe if enough of us volunteer as hosts, a lot of Moms out there will be able to rest a little easier knowing that there is another parents nearby who can come to their Mid's aid when they have car trouble or miss a flight or whatever. Please help us to help our Midshipmen. Mike and Sandi Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderators - USNA-Net Listservers *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Mon Mar 18 23:02:05 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2J425W70495; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:02:05 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust236.tnt3.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.35.236]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2J422G70467 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:02:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <03d601c1cefa$b2b47000$ec23d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net USNA-Net's Safe Harbor Program Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 23:01:03 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all USNA-Net Family and Friends... Well, it's been 48 hours since we announced the launching of our Safe Harbor program and we now have 187 Safe Harbor homes in 164 cities (in 43 states) and on three continents with more coming in all the time. That's really impressive. What a truly wonderful group of Parents here on USNA-Net. Give yourselves a HUGE pat on the back. Our USNA-Net members never cease to amaze me with their overwhelming kindness and generosity. Now that we are getting the Safe Harbor homes established, it's time for Phase Two of the operation. We have to let all of the Midshipmen know that this program is available for them. Soooo... we've put a together a special graphic on our web site which you may print out and pass along to your Mids. Here's how to get the word to YOUR Mid... 1. Go to www.usna-net.org and click on the Safe Harbor Life Preserver in the upper right of the main page or go directly to www.usna-net.org/safeharbor 2. Scroll down to view the Business Card graphic. 3. RIGHT Click on the graphic and select PRINT THIS IMAGE or RIGHT Click on the graphic and select EMAIL THIS IMAGE If you choose to PRINT the image, you can trim it to size, fold it in half and send it in the next letter to your Mid. If you choose to EMAIL the image, you can simply send it via email to your Mid and let him/her print it out, etc. It's fast, simple and your Mid will have instant access to this service and the kindness and open hospitality of so many of our member families. REMEMBER... This service is available to ANY Midshipman or recent Grad, whether their parents are/were members of USNA-Net or not. So spread the word to everyone you know who knows or is related to a Mid. Tell YOUR Mid to give copies to their roommates, classmates and companymates. Make sure they have This Safe Harbor business card in their wallets so that no matter what the emergency or where they find themselves, we can come to their assistance. One last note... If you haven't yet signed up, please consider joining our database of available Safe Harbor homes. Even if you find your location already listed, we ask that you still register, so that we might have several families in each location who may be called upon if there is a need. Thanks again for caring so much about our Mids. Go Navy - Beat army! Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Fri Mar 22 14:32:33 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2MJWX224294; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:32:33 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust117.tnt4.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.46.117]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2MJWUF24287 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:32:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <013c01c1d1d8$4dcce7e0$752ed343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" References: Subject: usna-net USNA-Net's Safe Harbor Program Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:32:25 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... To all of our Safe Harbor volunteers... The response to our initial appeal for Parents to participate in our USNA-Net Safe Harbor program has been overwhelming. We now have 335 Homes registered in 234 different locations across the country and around the world. Many of those who offered their assistance are located near large cities and so are listed under the larger City name rather than the smaller suburb's name. We do this because most people would know they are near Philadelphia rather than stranded in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, for example. We are, however still missing seven entire states. If yours isn't listed, perhaps you could consider joining our program. We have entered everyone's name and city information into our database and can locate assistance quickly when called upon. If you sent your information in, we have you on file. We didn't send out acknowledgements because of the huge number of you who responded so quickly. As a matter of fact, you probably won't hear from us until we have a Mid in your area who needs assistance. Please be sure to let us know if your information changes, you move, or wish to no longer participate in the program so that we can keep our records current. We plan on sending out annual reminders about that. Remember... ALL Midshipmen are eligible for FREE assistance under this program regardless of whether their parents are members of USNA-Net or not. Make sure they have our Toll Free Phone Number in their wallets before they venture too far from the Yard. It's on the web site. (While ALL Midshipmen are eligible for FREE assistance under this program, you must be a member of USNA-Net.org in order to participate as a Safe Harbor home. If you haven't signed up and wish to do so, please visit our web site for details - www.USNA-Net.org/safeharbor) So, on behalf of all of our members, their Mids and ALL Midshipmen who might ever need a little (or a lot) of help while away from home and the Academy, we wish to extend our sincerest thanks to all who have volunteered to help. To each and every one of you... Bravo Zulu. Thanks again, Mike and Sandi Zets Westlake, OH Moderators - USNA-Net Listservers Full information about the USNA-Net Safe Harbor program may be found on our web site at www.USNA-Net.org/safeharbor This is just another way our USNA-Net parents support our Mission of Parents Helping Parents. *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================ From owner-usna-net@usna-net.org Sat Mar 30 11:51:12 2002 Received: (navy@localhost) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2UGpCc65509; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:51:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: usna-net.org: navy set sender to owner-usna-net@usna-net.org using -f Received: from sandi (1Cust217.tnt3.cleveland3.oh.da.uu.net [67.211.35.217]) by usna-net.org (8.11.6) id g2UGpA865503 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:51:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <01a001c1d80b$18e84680$d923d343@sandi> Reply-To: "Mike Zets" From: "Mike Zets" To: "" Subject: usna-net FONAPasses Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:51:07 -0500 Organization: USNA-Net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-usna-net@usna-net.org A special message from your Moderators... Margarita, I spoke with the Academy about this very matter earlier this week. This is the "official" skinny on FONA passes. I paraphrase what was said... At this time the FONA (Friends of the Naval Academy) program is alive and working. It is designed to allow certain individuals who routinely drive to the Academy with vehicular access during normal operating hours. Of course, if you have a DOD sticker you don't need a FONA pass. Currently those who qualify for a FONA pass have loosely been identified as... Those individuals and businesses who routinely need access to the Yard several times each month; Plebe Sponsor Parents; and family of Midshipmen who live within reasonable driving distance of the Academy. Last week, the Pass and Tag Office completed the issuance of FONA passes to the first two categories. All of the almost 750 Sponsor Families have been issues their FONA passes along with a those other individuals who qualify as local businesses and such. The last group to be issued these passes will be Mid Parents but they are being asked to be patient. It takes significant time and effort to screen and process thousands of applications for the special FONA tags. There are only two full time employees involved in this project and just entering all of the information (names, addresses, vehicle identification, etc for several cars per family) takes time and has severely taxed the ability of the office to get them issued. Adding parents will tax them even more since there are so many more parents involved. Midshipmen are being conscripted into service to process the data into the computer system, using Mids from the Duty office to perform the task. I was told that an announcement would be made later this spring when the FONA passes will be made available (probably through a notice to the Mids to pass on to their parents or through Parents' Clubs in the areas involved). So there you have the inside skinny. The announcement made earlier this year was the announcement about the Sponsor Parent passes. Please be patient that make sure your Mid know to be on the look out for an upcoming announcement for regular Mid Parents.. Mike Zets Westlake, OH mzets@USNA-Net.org Moderator - USNA-Net Listservers SysOp - www.USNA-Net.org *** USNA-Net post by: "Mike Zets" ============================================ Have you visited our On-Line Store yet? Go to our new Web Site at www.USNA-Net.org Click on "On-Line Store" in the upper right. ============================================