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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Wednesday, February 4, 2015 INCIDENTS Grand Canyon NP Search Underway For Missing Visitor Park dispatch received a call on Monday reporting that a 21-year-old Texas man who was last known to be at the South Rim was missing. D.K. of San Antonio, who was reported missing by a family member, was a guest at Bright Angel Lodge on the evening of Saturday, January 31st, and checked out on Sunday. D.K. is 5'7” tall, weighs 140 pounds, and has brown hair and brown eyes. A search for him is currently underway in the park; a missing person investigation is also being conducted. Anyone with information on his location should call the National Park Service Silent Witness Line at 928-638-7840. [Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski, Public Affairs Officer] OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers): Civil War to Civil Rights Commemoration - In conjunction with a sesquicentennial commemoration at Appomattox Court House, the NPS and its partners are inviting communities across the country to join in a nationwide bell-ringing event to mark the end of the bloody conflict in which more than 750,000 Americans perished. Kobuk Valley NP - Native students in remote Alaska got firsthand experience of the life of a field biologist during a camping trip to the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes in Kobuk Valley National Park. Cowpens NB - More than 7,000 visitors attended events at Cowpens National Battlefield and in surrounding communities marking the 234th anniversary of the Battle of Cowpens. Information Resources Directorate - The most recent edition of Radio Connection Newsletter, which highlights actions occurring during the first quarter of FY 2015, is now out. A link is provided to the newsletter. Washington Office - Tracy Atkins comes to the Albright Fellowship after six years as a project manager in Denver Service Center's Planning Division, where she has managed a variety of complex planning projects. Delaware Water Gap NRA - Melanie Bond, a retired human resources assistant who worked in the park for more than two decades, was killed in a two vehicle accident on the afternoon of Thursday, January 22nd. To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites: NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/ The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov). --- ### --- |