We’ll go on trying until we do get through, and the Red Cross obviously has a good local network, and I’m sure those people will help us.

We’ve worked with the sheriff’s department for 60 years. It’s always been a verbal handshake agreement, but now it’s in writing.

We are trying to get (property owners) out far enough so they have reasonable access to the water but not so far they are building excessive encroachments into this public resource. It is the minimum...

This banquet is our major fund-raiser for our local and state units. The significance is simple: This fund is helping to pay for the freedom we have earned, and that’s a big deal.