NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, April 24, 2015

INCIDENTS

No reports received.

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):

Flight 93 NM - Flight 93 National Memorial and its partners kicked off National Park Week and the Find Your Park Campaign over two days last week with the park's fourth annual “Plant a Tree” reforestation event.

Petrified Forest NP - A photo of a ranger on horseback at a park entrance station that was posted on Facebook in March has gone viral, with over 123,000 hits as of earlier this week.

George Washington Carver NM - On April 17th, George Washington Carver joined Harry Truman as the annual Legacy Award inductee into the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame.

Independence NHP - The Visitor and Resource Protection Division at Independence National Historical Park hosted an interagency active shooter threat response drill during the evening of April 15th at the Independence Visitor Center.

Delaware Water Gap NRA - Cathy Halainen, budget technician for the park's resource management division, and Bill Halainen, a retired NPS employee who edits InsideNPS and the Morning Report as a contractor, will both be retiring in September.

George Washington Memorial Parkway - Brent O'Neill has been selected as the district ranger for the North District at George Washington Memorial Parkway. He has been with the park since 1997.

Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (PA)

Cathy And Bill Halainen To Retire

Cathy Halainen, budget technician for the resource management division at Delaware Water Gap NRA, and Bill Halainen, a retired NPS employee who edits InsideNPS and the Morning Report, will both be retiring in September.

Cathy will bring to a close 20 years with the park’s Division of Resource Management and Science, where she has been responsible for almost all administrative functions for divisional staff. Before working for the National Park Service, she worked in a similar capacity for several colleges (the University of Massachusetts, Brandeis, and William and Mary) and government contractors, principally McDonnell-Douglas.

Bill worked as an interpretive and protection ranger, program manager and management assistant in various parks and offices from 1974 to 2007, during which time he created and edited the NPS Morning Report. He also became editor of InsideNPS in 2002, and continued editing both publications via contract after his retirement from the Service in 2007. He’s edited and published about 6,900 editions of the Morning Report since 1986 and about 3,000 editions of InsideNPS.

They will continue to reside in northeast Pennsylvania for now, but are considering a move to western Massachusetts.

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).

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