Updated 3-11-10

 

PRESIDENT	1st VICE PRESIDENT	2nd VICE PRESIDENT	SECRETARY - TREASURER
Francis Oliff	Ben Self	Edward Flynn	George Kenney
410-798-5011	301-577-4201	301-253-0729	301-567-3321
foliff@verizon.net	yourselfs@aol.com	fwii885@aol.com	irish508@aol.com

rfanews@comcast.net

 

"READY THEN - READY NOW"

 This is here for your use.

Please send anything you would like to add to rfanews@comcast.net

Retired Firefighter, Jerry Spence's Book, "The War" "361 Days, 27 minutes in Vietnam" comes out on February 2, 2010.

He was drafted from Engine 19.

http://www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore/book.php?w=978-1-61566-125-1

Income Exclusion for Retired Public Safety Officers
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p575.pdf

For distributions beginning in 2007, you can elect to exclude from income distributions from an eligible retirement plan that is a governmental plan if you are an eligible retired public safety officer. The distribution must be transferred directly to an insurance provider to pay premiums for accident or health insurance or qualified long-term care insurance for you, your spouse, or your dependents.

The maximum annual exclusion is $3,000. You cannot deduct these premiums as medical expenses or, if you are self-employed, health insurance costs. For more information, see Insurance Premiums for Public Safety Officers in Publication 575.

This months meeting will be at
 Champion Billiards
On the second Tuesday of each month

5205 Buckystown Pike
Frederick, MD 20704

NOON

March 9th, 2010

STATION 7 LUNCHEON
The first  Wednesday  of each month
NEXT: March 3rd, 2010

Station 7 Restaurant,

 Pittsville, MD

(checkout pictures from the Dec. meeting)

Let me know if you will be attending so that a count can be given to the restaurant. 

http://www.station7restaurant.com/

Ocean City Elks Lodge

4th Saturday of the month. 

DCFD members have been meeting at the on the 4th Saturday of the month. There are 120 members of a group called "Guns and Hoses" Police and Firefighters.  This picture was taken before the meeting was started so  a lot of the members were not present. 

The "Under Dogs" in Little River

and Surfside in Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach, SC area DCFD Retired group meets the 1st Monday of the month at 11:30 AM at different locations.

Contact Richard Hunley at:

843-399-2357  or itsmerhh@yahoo.com

NEXT: March 1, 2010

To order, click on the badge and print the form, fill it out and send to the address on the form.

Reunion Pictures

Taken by the renowned

Mexican Photographer

Marion Sanchez

Click here

Please keep the following members in your prayers:

William N. Ickes Sr. Appointed March 16, 1942 T-1 Retired August 1, 1966 E-19 W.D. Passed away February 26, 2010. Funeral services have already taken place in Tennessee. 

Bobby L. Fields  Appointed November 26, 1961 E-8  Retired April 22, 1994 E-18 Pumper Driver  Passed away March 8, 2010

A viewing will be held on Thursday March 11, 2010 6-8 P.M. at Williams Funeral Home 4270 Hawthorne Road, Indian Head, Maryland, 20640 Funeral service on Friday March 12, 2010 11:00 A.M. at Williams Funeral Home. Interment to follow at Trinity Memorial Gardens, on Mattawoman Road, Waldorf, Maryland, 20601.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION & PRAYERS

I got this from Joe Kirkpatrick. I know some of you already got it but am going to send it to everyone.    

joe & diana--

 sorryI haven't written--using other peoples computers is so confusing--especially laptops!! and not getting my usual laughs and jokes from you--could not just "reply"!!!  and trust me i need some laughs!!

Paul is completely bedridden and hates every minute of it as he is still so "with it" mentally--doesn't participate in conversations but throws out "one-liners" at every appropriate opening!!  with his eyes closed one forgets he is listening and aware of everything going on around him giving him a perfect opportunity to ease drop--and does not approve of talking about those not present!!  wants everyone to "get along"!!

our kids have been great!!  really have "stepped up to the plate"!!!  in fact, arguing over whose house he should reside in!!  we were at Dyans house for a month--are now at Paul and Vicki's in Chantilly!!  John comes up from Blacksburg four days out of every week--our youngest lives in Italy and has been here twice!!

On top of going through 2 terrible snowstorms--my drivers license expired 2 days ago--its like if anything can go wrong--it does!!  

looking back--Paul had cancer way before it was diagnosed--I'm talking several years!!  but then hind-sight is 20/20--I finally complained so many times to his dr. that something was "wrong"--that he finally did a body CAT scan and by then the  "ball-game" was over!!

every time we think the end is here he rallies one more time!!  the kids feel good that they can "give back" for all that Paul has done for them and here we thought they took everything for granted--and i guess they didn't!!

Paul's fondest memories are of the fire dept. and the camaraderie of the men working together--also being "wagon driver" was up there at the top of the list!!

I have thought of you guys often--but the days are so full of taking care of Paul physically (a 2 man job) and giving meds at the correct time!!  and me not being "Nancy nurse"!!  it takes total concentration--at least on my part!!

will keep you posted!!  pass the word along to anyone you feel might be interested!!

Shirley

Bill Mould reports that Lester "Jack" Fletcher is very sick.

Walter Cobak (Happy)   is having his leg amputated, well above the knee. He has been having a constant infection in his leg ever since he had a cancerous tumor removed from his knee years ago which never completely healed and he hasn't been able to get around very well. He went this week to get fitted for an artificial leg.  He will be in John Hopkins Hospital for 4 to 5 days. 

Retired F/F Zimmerman Roberts still fighting the fight down in Florida.
 Congratulations

Look at what else the Jacksonville Fire Dept. is doing.  http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/24936101