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From USUA's website (www.usua.org) Recognizing The USUA Club who has demonstrated an exceptional level of service to the Ultralight Community, as Well as the Local Community in which it operates. This year’s winner is: USUA Club #357 - Michigan Ultralight Association, Flushing Michigan As reported by Award winner Jerry Rosie in his February 2005 Around The Patch column, this year’s theme for many of the clubs seemed to be “Community Service”.
Many clubs have followed the lead of past Club Of The Year award winners such as The Georgia Sport Flyers, Flying Club 1 of VA, The Millennium Flyers of Chambersburg PA, and others, and have gone out of their way to promote activities and causes benefiting the local community. This year, USUA honors The Michigan Ultralight Association (USUA Club 357) for their outstanding efforts in supporting the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund, it is a trust fund established by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North in 2004, to help ensure that the children of American Service Personnel who have been killed, or permanently 100% disabled in Iraq, get a chance to go to college. This very praiseworthy cause extends far beyond the local community and crosses into the national arena. This unselfish gesture by our fellow ultralighters in Michigan, mirrors the compassion, and concern we as a nation have for the families and loved ones of our nations greatest heroes: those who gave all for our freedoms. And, by donating and serving this cause in the name of ultralighters, our sport is not only enhanced in the sight of the American public, it helps us as a community maintain our focus on the most resolute of priorities. Yes, we love to fly, but without the freedoms bought and paid for by our fallen and disabled heroes, we would not be able to enjoy that freedom of flight as we know it in the USA. These champions of our freedoms were helping us, and we in turn need to help their families. USUA gratefully acknowledges the efforts of The Michigan Ultralight Association, and proudly awards them the 2005 USUA Club Of The Year Award.
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