The Executive Board of the Vero Beach Firefighters Association Inc. met on March 19, 2009 and elected the following officers. Joe Earman....President, Ron Angelone...Vice-President, Roger Dion....Secretary/Treasurer, Kenny Chatam and Andy Stenger...Members at Large.

The Vero Beach Firefighters is the charitable side of IAFF 2201 and oversees all charitable fund raising such as the Fair, Chilli Cookoff and any other events the Board wishes to participate in. If you are a member in good standing with IAFF 2201 then you are a member of the Vero Beach Firefighters Association.

Some of the items discussed at this meeting were establishing a scholarship fund for our members children and better accountabilty of all events and their funding.

This Board palns on meeting on a regular basis, so if you have an idea or a request to present to the Board contact Joe Earman or Roger Dion.

Your Executive Board for 2009-2011 are the following: President Wayne Schasane... Vice President (Dept Affairs) Kyle Wallace... Vice President (PR Politics) VACANT.... Secretary/Treasurer Mark Daniels.... A Shift Stewards Jamie Coleman & Ryan Krueger... B Shift Stewards Rick Villars & Stacey Zedek... C Shift Stewards Roger Lightle & Chris Thomas.... Vero Beach Firefighters Assoc. Inc... Ron Angelone.. Ken Chatam.. Roger Dion.. Joe Earman.. Andy Stenger.... Congratulations to all and please give them your support!

John O'Connor was recently named Vice-President for PR and Politics by the Executive Board. John replaces Joe Earman who did not seek reelection.....GOOD LUCK JOHN!

A lot of hard work and effort by some of our members and past members has finally produce our own local Indian River County Firefighters "Big Heart Brigade". The Big Heart Brigade will provide almost 150 turkey dinners for  people in need and Public Safety Workers that can't be with their families on Thanksgiving Day. But it will take some work time and help from everyone.

                              5^th Annual Big Heart Brigade Gives Big

Big thanks to everyone who helped with this year’s Big Heart Brigade. We are happy to report that our new cooker worked great!  We appreciate the efforts of  Steve Graul, Ed Prime, Bill Michel, John Freeman, Dave Dangerfield, Jimmy Holbrook, Nick Grasso, Brian Greenaway, Ryan Parker, Jeff Alter, Al Bibbler, and Henry Johnson for building such a studly cooking machine. Huge thanks goes to Chief King for allowing us to use the EOC as the cooking site.

Tuesday night was prep night and we had a great turnout. Thanks to Steve Graul, Kyle Luther, and Rich Vidal for loading the trucks in Martin County.  When the Turkeys arrived we were ready to work under the lights. Thank yous go out to  Ed Prime and daughters Lyndsay and Jackie Prime( champion turkey rollers),  Steve Graul, Joe and Sam Earman, Greg Budde, Ryan Krueger, Laura Vasquez and her family members Mathew Pacheco, Bobby Szoyka, and Amanda Quintero,  Stacy Zedek, Vinnie Nadolny, Bill Michel, Kyle Wallace, Donna Garofalo, Keith Chisholm, and of course, Robbie Young.

Wednesday was cooking, delivery, and meeting the press day. Both the Press Journal and the Hometown News arrived, and we appreciate their coverage of such a worthy event. Our chefs Rod Johnston , Greg Budde, and Steve Graul get a big thumbs up for a job well done. Their day began at 0500 hours and they cooked all day. To the packing and delivery crews of Blake Bartholomew, Kyle Wallace, Rick and Andrew Villars, Stacy Zedek, Wayne Schasane, Bill Michel, Dan Dietz, and Ed Prime, Russ Emerick and daughter  ( thanks for stopping by), and Eric Isaacson (Thursday),  A huge Thank You!!

And last but not least- Thank you Karen Rackard for calling all the charities, organizing the deliveries, and most of all, for keeping Asst Chief Prime in line. J

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!