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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b>*NEWS FLASH*<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Reduced manpower at the Wilmington, OH office of the National Weather Service is causing a significant reduction in the number of spotter classes this year. No county will have more than one class and counties are being encouraged to combine classes and they are doing it. Some counties will have no class this year. There will be no WARN sponsored training class this year. We are encouraging everyone to attend other scheduled classes. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hamilton County's class will be on Tuesday February 3, 2015 at 7:00 PM in Green Township at Nathanael Greene Lodge, which is large enough to hold about 200 people. We'll use this as the "WARN" training this year. For information on the venue, please visit <a href="http://www.greentwp.org/spotter.cfm">http://www.greentwp.org/spotter.cfm</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The entire spotter class schedule should be finalized very soon, before the end of January. That will probably be all of the classes that will be taught, so if you normally wait until later in the season to see if a more convenient class is scheduled, DON'T. To view the full training class schedule for the Wilmington, OH office of the National weather service and the 52 counties that they serve please go to <a href="http://www.weather.gov/iln/spottertrainingschedule">http://www.weather.gov/iln/spottertrainingschedule</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Mike Nie<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mike Nie – W8VMX<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Public Information Officer<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Weather Amateur Radio Network<br>Cincinnati SkyWarn<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>