N OV . 2, 2016 • D ISASTER P REPARATION
He had attended Infantry
Advanced Non-Commissioned
Officer (Senior Sergeant) School.
Hawke was also certified as a para-
medic (NR-EMT-PM) and scuba
diver and attended training in sky-
diving with the Green Beret Sport
Parachute Club.
After Hawke left active duty to
attend college and raise a family,
he worked many jobs such as
bodyguard, private investigator,
and paramedic. Because of his
love of training and deploying with
his Special Forces brothers, it took
him eight years to earn a four-year
degree.
As a contractor, Hawke has pro-
vided training and services all over
the world.
During the Be Ready Disaster
Preparedness Expo, Hawke will
speak from 11 a.m. to noon on sur-
vival skills, relying on your own
resources and preparing for any
contingency.
For more information on Hawke,
go to www.mykelhawke.com.
5
LET’S DO THIS — TOGETHER
mergency Preparedness is
clearly an important topic of
conversation for all of us who
now recognize we live, in some sense,
in the shadow of the Cascadia event
that could result in a huge earthquake
followed by a devastating tsunami.
Some day, the experts say, trouble is
coming.
That kind of trouble can cut two
ways.
The optimists among us can too eas-
ily whistle as we pass the proverbial
graveyard, mindful that the experts
just aren’t sure of either the timing or
the impact. We have “just” a 30 per-
cent chance of enduring some event
within the next 50 years, we’re told,
and so we’re willing to roll the dice —
maybe it will take longer, maybe it
won’t be so bad.
And the pessimists among us can
easily become blinded by the light of
inevitability, freeze like the deer in the
headlights, overwhelmed by fear and,
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to create the most benefit. We can but-
tress our schools with seismic rein-
forcement and use our zoning and
planning to be sure that mission-criti-
cal facilities aren’t in high-risk areas.
We can prepare our own “go kits” and
help our neighbors with their prepara-
tions, too.
Whether you’re a Mapleton native
or a Florence transplant fresh from
California, we are a hardy, coastal
people, living here by choice. And we
can choose resilience.
Lane Community College wants to
help. We strongly support the Western
Lane Emergency Operations group
(WLEOG). We live and work here,
too. We can educate the next genera-
tion of skilled workers in health care,
in emergency operations and more.
This year marks 40 years at our Oak
Street location. Like you, we are root-
ed and grounded here in Western Lane
County.
Let’s do this together.
in the end, do nothing.
Neither response is useful or
responsible.
Here in Florence, Mapleton, Dunes
City and the surrounding communi-
ties, we ought to move squarely into
the responsible middle, staring our
fears in the face, refusing to pretend
they don’t exist or throwing our hands
up in despair.
Life offers no guarantees. But we
can stack the deck and load the dice in
our favor, really thinking through a
reasonable strategy for survival and
preparing appropriately for what may
come.
We can do this alone, of course, but
it is far better to do it together. In this
lovely land where “a river runs
through it,” we can join hearts and
hands to educate ourselves and to help
one another make reasonable prepara-
tions.
At the municipal level, we can iden-
tify regional resources and stage them
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