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The Estrella Warbirds Museum has always been "the place to go" for local meeting, group dinners and company events.
If you enjoy working with people and groups and sharing your experiences, we are always in need of a few good docents to work in the museum and auto display plus gift shop workers. Don't worry about experience, we will gladly train! Just bring your smile!
Contact us today! We'd love to hear from you.
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January Dinner
Special Guest Entertainment
Jamie Waring
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
No Host Bar starts at 6:00 p.m.
Dinner starts at 7.p.m.
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Growing up in Southern California in close proximity to several military air stations offered no shortage of military aircraft crisscrossing his childhood skyline. That, coupled with his dad's service as a Marine helicopter, C-130, and civilian airline pilot, infused in Jamie a passion for aviation and service. After college, Jamie served as a Marine CH-53E helicopter pilot with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466, "The Wolfpack", from 1990-1997. After leaving the Marine Corps, Jamie worked as a public school English teacher for the next 16 years.
He had been feeling a burden for the veterans returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and was praying over how to serve them when through a series of events too coincidental to be anything but God's direction and plan, Jamie heard about Mighty Oaks and then met Chad in a "chance" encounter two days later. Chad invited Jamie to attend a Legacy Program graduation to see what the program was all about. That's all it took. Jamie began volunteering and helping where and how he could over the next couple of years. During this time, Jamie used his skills as an English teacher to help the Mighty Oaks team with editing of the various book projects they were working on.
Then, in 2016, with three books in the works, Jamie took a two-year leave of absence from teaching to focus on the book projects and some personal growth. God, and Chad, had something else in mind. The West Coast Regional Facilitator position was created and a one-year contract was offered to Jamie. The trap was set. That one-year contract evolved into a staff position.
As the Facilitator, Jamie is responsible for all the administration and logistics for programs conducted at SkyRose Ranch in San Miguel, CA. Jamie also oversees social media related to all programs, continues to help with the editing process on book projects, and speaks for and represents the Mighty Oaks Foundation on the West Coast and is the "local representative" in the Central California region.
Jamie and his wife, Kathy, leverage their 27+ years of marriage by serving as instructors for the Marriage Advance Program. They have three grown children and one daughter-in-law.
More information
can be found here
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Dinner is catered and open to the public ($25/person - special holiday meal), with reservations
required
prior to 6 p.m., Monday prior to dinner
, either
On-line HERE
or
call
805 296-1935.
Please NOTE:
No seating without prior reservations.
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With all the hustle and bustle and fanfare of the holidays and preps for the new year, we wanted to stop and take a moment and thank everyone whom has supported Estrella Warbirds Museum in any way during this past year. Without your help, we could not have continued to make the great advances which have transpired and helped to establish the plans for the coming year. We have continued to grow each year. This past year is no exception by any means.
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit museum, we have continued to not only remain solvent (without any tax dollar support!), but also continued to be debt free. We take great care to insure what we accomplish today will be here for future generations to enjoy tomorrow. This could not be accomplished without your help!
If you are not a member, we encourage you to take time this new year and invest in membership with the museum. Now is the best time to become a member, or to even upgrade your membership status.
Attached to this newsletter is a link to the January 2019 copy of our membership Eagle Newsletter. This is normally mailed out to all members each month. It will give you a good idea of some of the membership happenings during the past month. At the bottom of this email, there is a small paragraph about membership or follow this link for more information and sign-up.
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Betsy's Biscuit Bomber Will Be Heading to Normandy
Betsy's Biscuit Bomber is a C-47B which calls home, Estrella Warbirds Museum. The aircraft is operated by the Gooney Bird Group.
Next summer, she will take part in Daks over Normandy, commemorating the 75th Anniversary of D-Day.
In June, 2019, DC-3s and C-47s will unite from around the world to form the largest contingent of C-47s/DC-3s ever gathered since the days of the Normandy Invasion and pay homage to the thousands of men and women who shed their blood in the fields of battle of World War II. In addition, she has been invited to participate in the 70th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift (June 10-19), and Paratrooper Drops Reenactment during the summer of 2019 at Duxworth, England. Click on C47 picture to learn more.
During this past year, Betsy has been undergoing strenuous retrofitting and restoration to insure her flight worthiness for this multi-continent excursion.
For the past ten years Betsy's Biscuit Bomber has been part of our family at the museum. We are so proud to know she has survived over the years and will return once again to Europe, but this time under a completely different venue than she did originally during World War II.
There is still time to get involved. Take a moment to learn a bit more of this Douglas C-47B and also to learn and The Gooney Bird Group..
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Warbirds Wings & Wheels 11 MegaSwap Meet Coordinator
We are looking for a unique individual (or couple) to partner with our webmaster and the event manager for Warbirds Wings & Wheels, to assist in coordination of the MegaSwap Meet at next year's Warbirds Wings & Wheels 11 event in May 2019. We have access to many helpers and existing routines, we just need an on-sight coordinator for the swap meet event. We have more space available next year as the grounds for our newly acquired acreage next door is being prepped for additional vehicle and swap meet display area.The Mega SwapMeet has been widely received and has become an integral part of our annual event. If you are interested, we'd love to work with you, please
contact us via this link
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Save The Date
Click on poster to visit the site for more information.
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