Current News
Rope Rescue I, presented by Rescue Northwest added to the pre-conference line up
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 -- Rescue Northwest will be presenting a Rope Rescue I course in the week leading up to the conference. This course meets requirements for awareness and operations levels, and will provide the student with the ability to approach rope rescue situations safely and conduct rope rescue operations in low-angle situations, as well as practice safe rescuer skills in high-angle situations. For more information please see the pre-conference section of our website.
White Rose Inn stops accepting guests
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 -- We've just been informed the White Rose in is no longer accepting guests as of January 1, 2006. We have removed this establishment from our list of local hotels and lodging. We hope this does not effect the plans of anyone associated with the conference.
Entry forms posted for BEST of What's New awards
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 -- The Best of What's New awards has just posted entry forms on our website. If you believe your new product, invention, research, or photo is the best of what's new for 2006, go there right now, download the proper form, and mail it in today. Let the games begin!
Availability of RV Hook-ups clarified
Sunday, February 05, 2006 -- There are three choices available for onsite camping. For $10/night registered using the general conference registration form tents or RVs can camp without hook-ups. For $15/night registered using the general conference registration form RVs can camp with electrical hook-ups only. For $26/night registered separately through the fairgrounds at (206) 296-8888 RVs can camp with a concrete pad with electrical and water hook-up. Sorry, sewer is not available. See the camping and lodging section of our website for more information.
Pre-conference course "Urban Search Operations" canceled
Sunday, February 05, 2006 -- The previously scheduled pre-conference course titled "Urban Search Operations" has been cancelled. Those interested in this course are invited to investigate the existing pre-conference course titled "SAR Incident Management (Combined Wilderness/Urban)".
An online discussion forum has been added to website
Sunday, February 05, 2006 -- We've added an online discussion forum to our website where you can now exchange thoughts and opinions on all things SAR '06. Link to our new forum now to add your voice to out community.
Offsite restaurants listed on website
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 -- We've added a link to an excellent list of offsite restaurants and eateries maintained by Seattle PI to the meals and menu area of our website.
Information on lodging and camping added to website
Tuesday, January 31, 2006 -- We've added a new page to our website full of information on where to stay and camp during the conference. In addition, our list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) contains a plethora of common questions and answers on this and other topic.
Menus added to our website
Friday, January 27, 2006 -- We've worked very hard to provide delicious, high quality, meals for our general conference attendees, and we believe our professional caterer has outdone themselves. We've just added to our website at http://www.wasar2006.org/meals/ a list of the menus planned for the general conference.
Registration info added to the website
Friday, January 27, 2006 -- Information regarding general conference registration, along with downloadable registration forms, has been added to our website. Please visit http://www.wasar2006.org/registration/ for information on general conference registration.
RSS feeds added to website
Friday, January 27, 2006 -- We're happy to offer both the pre-conference course list and the current conference news as Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Each are available at feed://www.wasar2006.org/courses/?mode=rss, and feed://www.wasar2006.org/news/?mode=rss respectively.
Registration instructions added to pre-conference courses, and more.
Thursday, January 26, 2006 -- We've recently added course details and registration information to the pre-conference section of our website. We've also added many entries to our list of frequesntly asked questions, and started to list individule classes in the general conference classes section of our website.
Expanded list of courses and classes, and a FAQ list added
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 -- Several more pre-conference courses have been posted on the website, and more are in the works. A pre-conference registration form will be posted as soon as we can get it done. We've also started a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. Please check this out frequently as we'll be posting more and more FAQs as we pull together answers.
First pre-conference courses and general conference classes posted to website
Thursday, January 19, 2006 -- Four months to go and things are finally starting to be added to the website. We've just posted an initial list of topics and planned tracks in our section on general conference classes. We've also posted the first two scheduled pre-conference course titles in our pre-conference section. This is just a start and we expect to be adding much more in a very short time.
See you at SAR '05
Monday, May 16, 2005 -- Many of our SAR '06 Committee Volunteers will be present at both the pre-conference and general conference SAR '05 in Leavenworth, Washington. Please join us and enjoy the hospitality of Chelan County Sheriff's Office Special Operations SAR.
Welcome
Wednesday, February 02, 2005 -- Welcome to the official SAR '06 web site. Visit here often to catch the latest news as we plan for the Enumclaw conference. In the meantime, we'll see you in Chelan County for SAR '05.
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