Why do we belong to a club? This is an easy question to ansswer because it's nearly impossible to create a new flying site that is not on the outer fringes of King County. Due to the hard work of a few members we are lucky to have two flying sites not far from urban and suburban communities in King County.
Lending a hand to help other members with R/C advice is easy, but a main factor in the value of belong to a club. Volunteering your time for events such as the Delta Dart build or the Museum of Flignt RC Flying Model Exhibition takes a greater commitment to spend time away from the daily pursuits of your life.
Helping other members of our club or community above or beyond the usual neighborly commitments deserves to be recognized as much more than just a commitment to participate in expected club activities. When you recognize this situation and think it should be made known to our club membership that someone has gone above and beyond in providing help to others, then this is a place to make the situation known.
November 30, 2019 - I am Charlie Glasscock and I would like to make the following known to all members of the Lake Sawyer Hawks Radio Control Flyers Club.
For most of my adult life I was self-reliant and able to do almost anything with little or no help. Due to factors beyond my control I have become more dependent on others to get things done. When you are forced into retirement due a physical impairment and have a limited income it becomes difficult to hire someone to do the things I used to do.
Not too long ago, a few trees on my property fell and partially blocked my driveway. Unfortunately, I am not able to get out the chainsaw and cut the things up or move them.
On behalf of my wife and family, I would like to openly thank Randy Ling, Steve Ashmore, Peter McCowin, and Arnie Graham for coming over with chainsaws and a log splitter. Within a few hours these individuals cut, split, and stacked a chord of wood that I can use to help heat my home when things get cold and the snow begins to fall.
These gentlemen gave up their time without accepting payment of any kind (not even a cup of coffee) to help another club member who was in need. They deserve to be recognized for giving of themselves without being asked or asking for anything in return. All they want is for me to come out and fly and have fun.
Randy, Steve, and Peter also deserve thanks for another repair project headed by Randy. The siding along the front of my solarium and along the wall leading to my entrance door has deteriorated and fallen off exposing the internal structure to the elements. Randy bought and paid for the materials and recruited Steve and Peter to help him repair the damaged siding. Once again not one of them would accept even a cup of coffee for their efforts. Come fly and have fun is all Randy wanted.
For most of my life I've had very few friends. They moved forward with their lives when I moved or was shipped out. Now that I'm older, retired and disabled I don't get much social interaction. Randy and the Lake Sawyer Hawks have changed all of that.
Randy took me under his wing after I joined the club in 2016 and together, we worked to overcome my limited mobility issues and find the best training aircraft that met my needs. After two years of work, in October of 2018 I was given the green light to fly solo.
Thanks to Randy I am no longer a recluse hold up in my shop making classic wooden toys or doing wood carvings for people to hang on their walls. I now build and fly model airplanes as well as doing the other things. To quote a phrase from Dr Martin Luther King, "I'm free at last, I'm free at last" and it's all thanks to Randy Ling becoming a friend and the social interactions with other members of the Lake Sawyer Hawks Radio Control Flyers Club.
I can never repay you in full for what you have done for me. Thanks to you all.
Charlie