THE PINATA AUCTION - $14,150 RAISED!
2011 EAF GOLF TOURNAMENT
Thank you to everyone who participated!
ENROLLMENT DRIVE WINNER
Leslie Pierce, winning: Two full fare tickets on Alaska Airlines and Two nights at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Hawaii's Big Island.
Other winners were Michael Thune (one night at Hawaii Prince hotel)
and Jennifer Parker ($50 itunes card)
ONLINE AUCTION A HUGE SUCCESS FOR 2010 = $149,068
NORTHERN DELIGHTS' ENCORE
GOLFERS RAISE $64,000 TO BENEFIT EAF
THE ANGEL AWARD
The Angel of the EAF award is presented each year to an individual or group whose support of the organization goes above and beyond normal caring.
This year's winners are DeMarco Best, simulator engineer and duty manager; Video Producer Ken Boyer; Captain Larry Gray; Simulator Engineer Brian Kreiner; Flight Instructor Bill Morgan; and Nigel Sargent, manager of flight simulator operations.
The group was honored for volunteering their time and talent to offer a prize package for the annual EAF auction. It includes a ride in the airline's full-motion flight simulator, a commemorative certificate, keepsake album with photos, and a video of the experience.
With winning bids in the $800 to $900 range, the simulator package has raised more than $15,000 for the EAF over the years. "We usually schedule the rides for Dec. 26 because the simulator is not in use that day and many people buy the package as a Christmas present," Gray says. "We've had flight attendants buy it as a gift for their husbands, an employee who bought it for an 80-year-old man who flew bombers during World War II and high school students."
Gray says the simulator rides consist of a short flying lesson with the auction package winner at the controls of a Boeing 737. "We usually take off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, fly around Mount Rainer so they can check out the sim's graphics and then head out over Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula before shooting a couple of landings," Gray says. "If there's still time, we head up to Sitka or Juneau."
The pilots wear their uniforms to add to the sense of realism.