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HAPPY NEW YEAR! What a glorious year we had, so many new opportunities
and wonderful people came into our lives this past year. Our skydivers
make our drop zone what it is, and we thank each of you!
December has brought us people that we haven't seen for a while from all
over the world, such as Vladamir from Canada and Dwight Rapp from the town
of "working too hard". Richard Cole, long time old friend introducing a
new skydiver into our world Wendel Canete. Also Stan Mitchell from Northern
California and his sister Kari Mitchell from up in Washington brought their
sister, Kendra Rosenau for a tandem. Jim and Cheryl Kiely came from Washington
as well to visit during the holidays and got to spend time with Chie, Toshi,
Takahiro and Kohji from Japan. Tony Maybury from Dublin, Ireland, brought
back with him a few friends for skydiving fun!
Some of our local jumpers enjoyed Skydive California City's December's
weather by getting in some skydives as well. Mike Allmandinger, Roger Porter,
Dave Halverson, Dave Greene and Jerry Budnick got in a few 5 Ways. Kelcey
Gordon, John Aponte, Sonia Shepherd, and Chris DiCicco did some space ball
jumps. Nick Dominguez brought out his sister for a visit, and got in a
couple jumps. "Taz" Clark and Vinny Palmieri gave us a hand through the
month, while Kevin Kidd, Robert Smith, Lukic, Soko, Jason Anderson, JC
Coldren, Keith Lake and Jake Thompson even got a couple of fun jumps between
helping us out, we couldn't ask for a better staff.
Also in December, Goran Widenby, Peter Degerfeldt, and Katrina Ollicainen
from Sweden, with a production company from Canada, spent a week with us
preparing for a Leonardo Da Vinci's parachute jump in March. This has already
been done in South Africa, but this time they want to land it.
Dave Barlia brought out his new bird suit and was joined by Mario Richard
from Quebec City. At one time there were four "birds" in the air.
What better way to bring in the new year than to have a night jump? None.
So that is what we did! JC Coldren said "Out of the 100 plus night jumps
that I have done, this was the nicest night jump, and no one tried to kill
me". When Keith Lake was asked about the night jump he said, "Awesome,
we went to the dark side!" Those that jumped at the turn of the century
were Rick Fetter, Hank Kollross, Steve Zappacosta, Dave Thompson, Dave
Waltz, Rick Feese, Derek Parker, Dave Greene, JC Coldren, Soko, Lukic,
and Keith Lake.
Thanks
for all of your support
Skydive California City
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