NCCC Atlantic Region Get to the Point Issue 5 Volume XVII

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Volume XVII Issue 5March-April 2011

Perry PointAtlantic Region

An NCCC Atlantic Region PublicationGet to the Point: The NCCC News


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Living In-Tents: Phoenix 1

Inside this Issue:

RodsRuminations

Upper left clockwise:Moose 5s Joseph DiCerbo & Claire Howe hammer in Delaware. Marcus Thibault of Raven 1scrapes at the VA. Preparing for lead paint at Habitat is Moose 2s Maria Medina. Raven 4 is logging it up at Kayam Farm (Hannah Easley & Owen Haller). While Buffalo 2s Patrick Skovira pulls out some weeds.Center: A few corps members at an ISP during CTI (want your photos to be on the cover page start posting to Picasa!...who knows your team could be next)

Phoenix 1 Update

Im a member of the National CivilianCommunity Corps, an AmeriCorpsprogram. N-triple-C members are 18 to24 years old and spend 10 monthsgetting things done for America whiledeveloping their own leadership skills.We serve on teams to help communitiesprepare for and respond to disasters,build homes, and help the environment.

Strengthen communitiesand develop leaders throughdirect, team-based national

and community service

Trivia Corner

Alumni Spotlight

Hulks PT

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AmeriCountDown

AmeriMeals

Shout Outs 9-11

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Specialty Roles

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The first round Phoenix team has been busy fighting fires, building houses andgenerally using our fire clothes, high-heeled boots and beards to impress thelocals. As your teams fire-people have probably already informed you, we had agreat time getting trained in Kinston, North Carolina by Steve Hubner and othercooler-than-us wild land fire fighters. Highlights of that week were watching theplanes full of fire retardant put out a wildfire just down the road, playing with driptorches and watching Macy teach us how to do Im a star. (ask your Phoenixmembers, your PT will never be the same)

Since then the ten of us rode up to Virginia driven by the warm, sunny weatherand cheerful, belated goodbyes of our dear Phoenix forty. Our first day in theswamp was deceptively hot and clear as we set up our tents and ate the first of fartoo many MREs. We quickly met and introduced ourselves to the 3 seasonalfirefighters who live at the Swamp with us; Bobby, Melissa and Adam. They areyoung, quirky and bizarre, we liked them right away. After a tour of thecompound we were left on our own to figure out our life under tents, beneath alarge, yellow, rain tarp. After the first night we quickly learned the methods of staying warm shrouded in thin sleeping backs and even thinner Nylon tents.

The heat and bright turned to cold and bleak for the next two weeks till now butthere have been several notable highlights that have kept us motivated and excitedto be a part of this composite group. Our first highlight came with the first clearday when we burned 40 acres of the understory of a local refuge. Ideally the plotof land would have been better burned on a drier day but our trainers thought itwould be a good slow burn to get us acquainted with fire behavior andsuppression. The thrill of casually walking through the flames only increasedwhen we burned 70 acres of dry grasslands the following week. (69 acresprescribed and 1 acre spot fire) There is no good way to describe the thrill of standing next to 20 foot high walls of flame that suddenly shift with the windleaving you running on adrenaline to escape what we can only reason to be themost intense heat we have ever experienced. But what we are doing is not simply for entertainment - it is for the good of dying breeds of birds, trees and thewell-being of a land ravished by our ancestors. It is an accomplishing feelingbeing members of the first wave of change to come in hundreds of years.

Tomorrow we leave for Maryland where we will work with our good friend FredAdams digging fire lines and burning more land if the weather stays clear. We arehalfway till completion of this round so we are eager to burn as much as possiblebefore we have to go back to the Point. Phoenix 1 asks all NCCC members toplease throw your cigarettes in the dry brush, grill recklessly outside in goodcombustible leaves and light whatever you can on fire. We really cant get enoughof this.

Featured above (right to left): Macy Lytle, Nathan Bishop & Erin Bruhn

CAP Zone 6


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The Trivia Corner: From Laura & Melissa (CRSTL/POSTL)

It is one of the most bizarre houses in the world. Theowner was convinced that if she stopped adding roomsto the house, she would die. Her mansion contains 160rooms and is located near San Jose. What is its name?(http://www.triviacafe.com)

Sudoku

Samantha Troemel, served as a Corps Member in Class XVI at the Atlantic Region- Recently, we caughtup with Samantha Troemel to find out her impressions on her service year and what she is doingcurrently. Samantha served as a Corps Member on the Raven 7 & Saint Bernards Project Composite Teamin Class XVI.

How did you find out about AmeriCorps NCCC? I found out about NCCC from a

girl I went to college with. She did it the year before me in Denver.What was the best part of your year? What are you doing now? The best partof my year was composite, getting thrown in with 10 people you don't know and goingto New Orleans (NoLa). Great experience, very real world Im currently working full time for family services of Northeast WI. I'm the LGBTQ coordinator for the Sexual Assault Center and I'm also a behavior managementspecialist for a residential treatment program. I'm living ALONE which was a must after AmeriCorps. Also,my Raven 7 team is planning a group trip to New Orleans (NoLa) in September to work with habitat and bunk in a hotel room as one big happy family.

Any suggestions for Class XVII? Don't get caught up in the small stuff, see the big picture. This is going

to be a year you always look back on and smile.

Alumni Spotlight: Samantha Troemel

Samantha Troemel pictured abover with her team Raven 7 on a few of their projects. Timothy Stowell our Induction Speaker in on this team too!

Samantha Troemel, Class XVI Raven 7& Anderson Cooper

Missing Pairs

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Trivia


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Getting things DONE for CAP & Media Upcoming Events:

A PRIL 8 TH -Moose 5 -City Year in Philadelphia should be very excited to see the difference in programs!

A PRIL 13TH -Raven 5- 2 EVENTS IN 1 DAY! Awesome! Do some great CAP-ping in Pittsburgh

Raven 7- Green Mountain College will be so excited to see AmeriCorps! Nice Work!

A PRIL 10TH -Raven 1 & 7 / Moose 3 & 7 / Buffalo 5 FreeState Youth ChalleNGe Career Fair!

A PRIL 14TH -Buffalo 1, 3, 5 & 6 / Moose 1, 2 &7 / Raven 1 & 4- Join Laura CRSTL in Balitmore for allsorts of events! Job Corps & Public Schools Career Fairs! Lets bring your A Game!

Special Thanks:

Raven 2 & Raven 7 & Moose 1 for allowing the CRSTL to tag alone on your great event

Raven 7s Ariel Keeton FIRST Completed Application of the Round!

Congratulations:

Moose 1, 2 & 3 / Raven 5 & 6- for their recent media hits! Excellent Work!

Raven 2 & Moose 1 HAVE COMPLETED ALL 3 OF THE REQUIRED EVENTS! AWESOME!

Specialty Role UpdatesWe are putting together out Where Are Our Teams... bulletin board and need a team photo fromyour team. Make sure it is a fun one that shows the work you are doing at your project.

11Days Until

Moose 2 GTTP

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Buffalo 2 GTTP

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CAP Paperwork

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Media Paperwork


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AmeriGourmet: The Cooking Corner

1 pound elbow macaroni, cooked (or other similarly shaped pasta-like small shells)

1 pound Ground turkey (or beef, chicken, sausage ortofu crumbles)

1 jar Pasta Sauce (26 ounces)

freshly grated Parmesan cheese

2 eggs

1 pound Ricotta cheese

2 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded

2 cup Veggies (diced zucchini, matchstick carrots, etc.)salt and pepper

Almost Lasagna

Brown meat/tofu and drain well, if necessary. While meat/tofu is cooking, stir together eggs, ricotta, gratedParmesan and salt and pepper. Mix cooked meat/tofu, macaroni, sauce and veggies. Add ricotta mixtureand blend well.

Coat a 9-by-13 baking pan with cooking spray or olive oil and spread half of macaroni mixture evenly overthe bottom. Top with a cup of mozzarella and a healthy sprinkle of grated Parmesan. Add the remainingmacaroni mixture and top with another cup of mozzarella and another sprinkle of Parmesan. Cover with foil.

Coat a 9-by-13 baking pan with cooking spray or olive oil and spread half of macaroni mixture evenly overthe bottom. Top with a cup of mozzarella and a healthy sprinkle of grated Parmesan. Add the remainingmacaroni mixture and top with another cup of mozzarella and another sprinkle of Parmesan. Cover with foil.Heat your oven to 350 degrees F and bake the casserole for 20 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 10 to20 minutes until the cheese on top is lightly browned and bubbly. Serving 6-8

Step 1: From the applicant home page click on Search Listings in the column on the left. This willtake you to the Advanced Listing Search page where you will select AmeriCorps NCCC inthe Program Type drop down menu and click the big red Search button .Step 2: On the Search Results page select AmeriCorps NCCC example-Fall 2010 listing.

Step 3: Click the Apply Now button.Step 4:Complete the application certification . If you are under 18, please select the PRINT link,have your parent/guardian sign the form and mail it to:AmeriCorps NCCC at 1201 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20525

Note: The Apply Now button will not appear if you do not have a complete application

CAP Zone: Submitting an Application


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224Days UntilGraduation

In the Corner with The Hulk: Physical Training

The AmeriCount- Countdown

23Days Until

Round 2 Deploy

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Spring Break

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Return to the Point

Long Spike (a good game to play with another team or large group of people)

This game is an adaptation of kick ball. You will need a kick ball for this activity and a way to divide or realize the division of the play area.

One Team (B) will be behind one dividing line in two single file lines______________________________

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X X (Team B)

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The other team will be spread out in front of the Team Bs line with the kick ball. Team A will pitch theball. Pitching can either be done by one person each time or alternating. Once the game is on things can

get a little chaotic so its best to alternate.________________________________

X X X

X X (Team A)

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Game Play:A member from Team A will pitch the ball. A member from either line (right or left) of Team B will kick orspike the ball back to Team A. That individual will either run to the line behind Team A or go to the end of

the line of Team B. In order to get a point ,the member of Team B who returns the ball must run to the lineor barrier behind Team A and back without getting tagged by the ball. You can play to ten or alternatively you can play without points. To play without points each time a member from B successfully goes to thebarrier behind A and back they will gain a member from A.

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Rods Ruminations: Facebook

I have way too many Facebook friends. Lets be honest, you all do too. So, this week-

end I engaged in an annual event I alternately call my Yearly Facebook Audit or my

Great Facebook Purge.

This whole process is roughly analogous to the way a herd of animals is systematically thinned

to keep the group strong. I feel like, over time, my Facebook herd gets bloated and full of people I

never talk to or check in on. So, why am I their friend on Facebook? Im tired of my news feed is

clogged up with comments and events that I have zero interest in. Do I need to know how my

roommates cousin (who I met at a house party one time three years ago) did on her recent Bio final?

No. Do I find the comments about the crazy weather lately left by the weird guy I used to work with at

my high school job amusing or useful? No. Does the recent breakup endured by the cute girl who sat

next to me in my senior year psychology class mean anything to me? Absolutely that one does! But

yeah, the rest of those people need to be cut. Its for the good of the herd. So, on a semi-annual basis, I

scroll through my Facebook friends and de-friend the ones I feel like I dont need to communicate

with in the future.

Also, if a person invites me to a bunch of random events, they might get ousted too. No, I do

not want to attend your goofy roommates intramural tee ball championship game. I am halfway

across the country in AmeriCorpsthanks for noticing. Youre cut.

An alternate approach is to just never let it get to this point by screening your friend requests

and contemplating how much interaction you really plan on having with the person in the future. STL

Laura Mack has pioneered a strategy similar to this known as Facebook Purgatory. In this process,

when she receives a friend request she will either accept the person or just not respond to the request,

thus leaving the person in no-mans-land until she makes a decision one way or the other. This plan

allows one to contemplate an applicants Facebook friend potential for an extended period of time

without uncomfortably denying them or being forced to accept them in a snap judgment.

Oh, and speaking of Facebook, please feel free to search for

and join the newly created Rods Ruminations group on

Facebook. This was brought about by a few members of the

illustrious Badger 4 team from last year, who wanted access to this

years Ruminations.


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Go Ahead, Make My Day...Give me a Shout OutBUFFALO 1- Thanks for the shout-out Agent Copper! I hope your spike is going great!Shout out to Rachel, Allen, Caleb and Amelia for the great night at Buffalo Wild Wings! Megan

BUFFALO 3-Got some throwback gear so when we take on any willing victims in a game of soccer or ultimate, we are going to look so official, cause we're fancy huh

B3!B3!!B3!B3!B3!B3!.....

BUFFALO 4-C-C-C-Combo breaker.B4 would like to give a shout-out to our new unit leader. Lead thecharge Sharon!

BUFFALO 5- Oh, the weather outside is frightful (below freezing, sometimes rainy), but the [camp]Oh, the weather outside is frightful (below freezing, sometimes rainy), but the [camp]Oh, the weather outside is frightful (below freezing, sometimes rainy), but the [camp]Oh, the weather outside is frightful (below freezing, sometimes rainy), but the [camp]fire is so delightful (especially when used for roasting steak and veggies), and since theres nofire is so delightful (especially when used for roasting steak and veggies), and since theres nofire is so delightful (especially when used for roasting steak and veggies), and since theres nofire is so delightful (especially when used for roasting steak and veggies), and since theres noplace to go (literally, we were in the middle of the woods), let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (itplace to go (literally, we were in the middle of the woods), let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (itplace to go (literally, we were in the middle of the woods), let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (itplace to go (literally, we were in the middle of the woods), let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (itdid snow for a second, but wed actually prefer that it didnt snow anymore).did snow for a second, but wed actually prefer that it didnt snow anymore).did snow for a second, but wed actually prefer that it didnt snow anymore).did snow for a second, but wed actually prefer that it didnt snow anymore).

BUFFALO 6-Buffalo 6 had a BLAST helping out Moveable Feast this week at DIVAPA-LOOZA!! Shout out to all the Buffalos at their SPIKE sights.

MOOSE 1-Shoutout to Moose Deuce- Moose 1 loooooved beating you at kickball on our team date- name the timeand place for the re-match!Shoutout to Moose 6- Grandpa and Momma miss you Josh! Also keep it strong Tommy! Rebekah and MJShoutout to all Phoenix Team- Shhh.. the fireman is comin! Remember to P,O,P,C. from Stephanie and Mike

MOOSE 2-Many thanks to Glen and to everyone else that worked hard to get us a shower!

MOOSE 3-Terrell, keep up the good work on Phoenix 1. Cant wait to get you back on the team.Jacob Brewer and Michael Wesley, I Love You BethanyHey Cowboy ;)Green Teamkeep it moving, happy plunging! Halfway there.

MOOSE 4- dear jj,

happy after birthday !

love moose 4

MOOSE 6-Moose 6 would like to send a whole lotta Moose Love to our gone but not forgotten member on Phoenix 1Rachel Lanther awesomeness! Tommy eagerly awaits the firetarians return because being vegietemporarian is not easy in her absence.JJ would like to thank everyone for the birthday love sent his way! Additionally, he is worried that he might have left his front doorunlocked and the burner on when he left during transition.From Moose 6 to Moose 1 (with love).Josh says, Yeahhhh Moose 1! Hi Momma! (and that was awkward for TL to write). Hashout out to Jay, Rebekah, MJ, and the rest of Moose 1! The swaggle moose keeps his beady eyes on the calendar awaiting the reunimoose 6 and moose 1. JJ would like for Katie to explain this swaggle moose concept when she has time.Moose 5 - what is this about a mulch pile bunny funeral that I heard about? Apparently Moose 6 never should have left you alone in

ware.

Karla sends a shout out to Roxx, Megan, and Evan on moose 3! Woop! Woop! LOL!(Continued on page 9)


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MOOSE 7- Team Work, Makes the Dream Work.

R AVEN 2-Our team has mastered caulking at habitat for humanity

ALDI is awesome and has saved our grocery budget

R AVEN 3-Raven 3 worked with a group of students from Brown University and Middlebury College all week. Thevolunteers were excellent workers and many members of Raven 3 bonded with the students. They had a great timeworking while simultaneously listening to music and dancing on the job. The re-store workers had the opportunityto meet a local who claimed to have Jean Latiffes treasure map from the battle of New Orleans. The local was ex-tremely certain that there was gold buried under the re-store and he came well prepared with a metal detector andall. However, he did not take into consideration the number of metal objects that are stored within a warehouse.While the treasure was not found that day, he continues his hunt and promises to split the proceeds with New Or-leans Habitat for Humanity. Raven 3 is extremely excited for Jasmine Thomas to join them later this week. Raven 3wishes Peter Donovan the best of luck working in DC and would like him to continue with his Danny Boy wake upcalls. Raven 3 would also like to let Erin Bruhn know that we miss her a whole bunch and hope that firefighting isgoing well, and that they plan to start a fire in the bayou so you get sent down here immediately, if not sooner. Allis well on Painters Street, and everyone is looking forward to the 4 day music festival that awaits us at the end ofthe week.

R AVEN 4-To all those making pizzas everyday in their green shirts: Id rather be talking to you all than the chickens. Your ridiculous stories keepTo the team vagabond: Up up & away has become our team anthem. We cant wait for your voice to complete the morning chorus.M2: stay clear of bicyclesR4: You are my butterfly

R AVEN 6-This ones for you PaulAlabama ArkanPaul, I do love my ma and pa, not the way that I do love

Paul.Oh home let me come home, home is whenever Im with Paul. Oh home, let me come come, home is when-

ever Im with Paul. We miss you, come back soon!

Also, a thank you to Jen and Michelle for coming out and volunteering at Raven 6s community day.

R AVEN 7-Raven 7 learns more about one another every day. Gillian enjoys her new nickname Plum Gillyalmost as much as Sophia enjoys her new nickname Sofa. Colin shared a dark memory from his threeyears of bad luckthe worst of it being when he tried to get a Dr. Pepper out of a vending machine butgot a Diet Sprite instead. Zac managed to fall into the trunk when trying to sit in the back seat. Nickiand Dominique are in competition over who can chip away the most linoleum floor tiles. Ariel contin-ues to hold her own among the boys when it comes to original internal aromas. Rob likes hiding inbushes and seizing opportunities to scare the pants off Kitty. Carl proved an inspirational performer inhis first iCarl and continues to battle apathy on a daily basis. Julian watches over it all with his multi-tool in one handwait where did he leave that? and a can of foam in the other, I mean on the other,oh wait now its on the chair, ya that stuff is never coming off.

PHOENIX 1-Phoenix 1 had a great time burning 69 acres of grassland, plus one acre where we saw our first wildfire. Wehad a great time with Habitat for Humanity too!


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Buffalo 2- Im yearnin for you! Much love, AngelaBuffalo 7- Im burning for you! Patrick Moose 5- I miss you guys a lot. My new team is alright. MacyMoose 6- Laura and Bethany, stay posi! RachelRaven 3- I miss you guys you guys a lot, even though you neglect me. PS LeeAnn, youre still my favorite. and yellowbug! Erin

Raven 4- please dont eat the chickens. JakeRaven 6- Have fun in DC, hope youre learning relaxing, and playing plenty. Paul

STL S Melissa and Laura have spent their time, driving shuttles, doing office work and arguing over the fact that theyare not clever enough to write good shout outs...so this weeks shout out is to that affect Melissa: blah blah unclever comment Laura: blah blah unclever semi-ditzy comment Melissa: sings some more Bruno Mars Laura: unclever clever-ness Melissa: I would like to shout out to all Green Team that I miss your FACE! Laura: I miss faces too I mean greenteam! Ps, if you friend me on the book of face I might MIGHT accept...as you know its questionableOH & Also GREEN TEAM MAKE YOUR OWN PIZZA POTLUCK UPON YOUR ARRIVAL!

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