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Member List:
Links Section
President:
Wina Briggs
V-President:
Margaret Baird
Treasurer:
Amanda Burns
Secretary:
Heather Conklin
Member:
Anita Edelman
Betsy Edelman
Emily Stalker
Patty Hall
Valerie Schmeichel
Colleen Miller
Patti Proper
Helen Seymour
Edna Smith
Maryann Roberts
Traci Stalker
HILLSDALE FIRE COMPANY #1
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We would like to welcome you all to the best website in town.
The Hillsdale Fire Company #1 Ladies Auxiliary is where it's happening.
Mrs. Byaly Bashford(Dot), Mrs. Marty Coons(Helen), Mrs. Samuel Dawson(Edna), Mrs. Mary Decker, Mrs.William DeGrosso(Frances, Mrs. Marie Dodds, Mrs. Raymond Edwards(Marion), Mrs. John Petith(Helen), Mrs. James Petith(Margaret), Mrs. Everett Shadic(Frances), Mrs. Vivian Shadic, Mrs. Owen Shultis(Jo), Mrs. Arthur Smith(Edna), Mrs. David Vincent(Evelyn), Mrs.Frederick Dimmick(Alberta, Mrs. Jack Mansfield(Louise), Mrs. Leland Edelman(Lois), Mrs. Joseph Ruggieri(Mildred), Mrs. Clayton Beebe(Louella), Mrs. William Jensen(Gladys), Mrs. Lloyd Wilbur(Maybella),
President- Wina Briggs- Member Since- Apr.1991, Vice President- Margaret Baird- Member Since- Aug.1987, Treasurer- Amanda Burns- Member Since- Apr.2002, Secretary- Heather Conklin- Member Since- Oct.2002, Colleen Miller- Member Since- Oct.1985, Emily Stalker- Member Since- Oct.2004, Anita Edelman- Member Since- Oct.2002, Betsy Edelman- Member Since- Jan. 1987, Sandy Arnholter- Member Since- Jan.1972, Valerie Schmeichel- Member Since- Oct.1959, Patty Hall- Member Since- Oct. 1969, Patti Proper- Member Since- Oct.1980, Helen Seymour(Petith)and Edna Smith(see Charter Members)
Think you might be interested in joining the Ladies Auxiliary. If you are 18 years old or older and reside in the Hillsdale fire District, give us a call: Wina Briggs-929-0049, Margaret Baird- 325-4128 or any other member. (View members list at left.) We are a Harassment Free Organization.
Annual Firefighters Convention- July 26, in Chatham,NY. Be there and cheer our hometown boys to a first place win for 2008. This year is the Ladies Auxiliary's 50th Anniversary. If anyone viewing this website has information regarding the first year- 1958- please drop me a line- Wina Briggs, 8551 SR 22- Copake Falls,NY 12517. I am especially interested in who was officers under President- Helen Petith Seymour.
Second Full-Column Section
As president of the Hillsdale Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary, I would like to take a moment to clear up some misconceptions.
We have recently had members of the auxiliary thinking that the behavior and philosophy not being what they thought it was when it was started.
There is nothing that could be further from the truth. We are and always will be here to support our firemen in all of their trials and tribulations. In whatever capacity that may be.
Some things have happened in the past few months that have tested that philosophy. When a person feels that they are above reproach and that they can say and do anything without consequences, it takes another to let that person know that it is unacceptable. And that is what has happened. A fireman thought that is was okay to belittle and defame the character of social members, who are also auxiliary members.
Like many companies in the country, we have a harassment policy in place and the social members, 1 being myself, exercised our right to file a complaint against this individual. Things that were said should never be said about anyone, and I don't feel I or my fellow auxiliary members, firemen- social or active should be slandered as we have been.
We will always be here to support the fire company in anyway that we can, but we DEMAND the RESPECT that is due us, no matter how we serve. If anyone wishes to talk to me, I will be happy to answer any questions they may have. Please feel free to call me- 929-0049 anytime. Respectfully, Wina Briggs, President, Hillsdale Fire Co.#1 Ladies Auxiliary
