Monday October 18th, 2010

An exciting night at the Sharon Civil Defense Garage. Our newly installed generator ran for the first time!! It was run late in the evening, and ran perfectly. There are still more work to be done, installing the exhaust pipe under the truck, mounting the remote start, hour meter in the cab and finishing wiring the 240v side of the generator.

Other projects that were completed was mounting our new white boards in the office and staff room. These boards replaced a old chaulk board in the office and a real slate board in the staff room. The slate board took 3 CD members to remove and carry out of the building.

During our office renovations last winter, CD members decided to install dual monitors to be used with cable tv and a computer. It was noted that during a storm, our cable system could go down, then not having acess to local tv news. It was decided to install a "over the air" tv antenna. This antenna was installed on our communications mast outside the EOC. The antenna was put up using our bucket truck and also using new tools that were purchased. The installiation went well and the tv's now can be switched to over the air tv if needed.

Also this night we had a guest not seen in many years. Cecil Horton, a long time friend of many members stopped by the garage. The picture below is Dir. Polimer and Traut showing Horton the newly installed generator.