Fundraiser for RCVFD
Windsor Dairy Cheese Fundraiser for
Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department
August, 2012
Windsor Dairy Cheese Fund Raiser for Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department all of August, 2012.
The High Park Fire was a catastrophe. This picture, taken during our family’s post-fire tour up Rist Canyon, symbolizes the loss of homes.
Many thank-you signs were posted by truly appreciative residents of the fire area. In fact, the national Fire Chief said that the veteran firefighters really appreciated our outpouring of salutes and thank-you signs. They dubbed our community the Friendliest and Favorite Community they had ever fought in!
The fire was within 2.0 miles of our home in LaPorte on 10 June. It was really in our backyard. Fiona has friends in school that were evacuated from their homes. We hauled our beef bulls nearer to the fire on 22 June when they had run out of grazing in Windsor. They reside now about .25 mile from the eastern border of the 87,000+ acre fire! Our cheeses Buckhorn and MacIntyre are named after locations in the fire area.
We are thankful that the rains of 5-8 July finished the fire that 2000 dedicated firefighters and millions of dollars could not put out. We are thankful to the firefighters from all over the west that helped to save many homes.
Rist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department, http://www.rcvfd.org/, at the heart of this fire, was exemplary in its dedication to the fire war. These guys are volunteers, and many left jobs for weeks to continue the fight. The RCVFD spent much money it did not have to save homes. We want to help them in a small way, with an act of thankfulness from Windsor Dairy.
Windsor Dairy is having a RCVFD cheese sales fund raiser. All of our cheeses are included. For each and every pound of any of our cheeses that you buy during August, we will donate $1.00 to RCVFD.
THANKS to the RCVFD!
