Friends of the Marathon Fire Department

We invite all members of your EMS and Fire Departments to the Rick Lasky Seminar, Pride and Ownership. March 13th 2010 at the Marathon High School. Please download this registration form: Registration Form

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The purpose of this document is to recap the three day training session Paul Jaglinski and Craig Klumpyan attended in Appleton on February 20th-22nd, 2009 titled “Wisconsin State Fire Chief’s Association Chiefing 101.”

The seminar focused on a variety of leadership techniques and resource development tools.  The highlights included:

• An effective communication seminar
• A workshop on budgeting and finance
• An update and tip workshop on DNR & FEMA grant writing
• A Legislative overview
• Contacts with fellow Fire departments and EMS departments
• Contacts with Regional response teams and state assocations

The conference was held at the Raddison Paper Valley Hotel. We Attended a roundtable discussion that was a question and answer session with Edmund King from the Town of Neenah Fire department, Brad Liggett from the City of Beloit, and Randy Pickering from the City of Fitchburg. The knowled that these gentlemen provided was invaluable.