Attended Event: Saturday, July 19th 2025 at (1330-1900); 1:30pm – 7:00 PM, ESAR Volunteer- Pilots appreciation dinner; 9530 Nims Ln, Pensacola, FL

 John Thomas Winskas Attended Event:

Saturday, July 19th⋅1:30am – 7:00pm, ESAR, Pilots appreciation dinner, 9530 Nims Ln, Pensacola, FL

• Got a ride from Kelly Banks from the American Red Cross Shelter Simulation at the Milton Community Center to the ESAR building.
• Arrived at around 1:30pm
• Jim was cooking for the event
• ate a turkey sausage and had a burger patty along with simon.
• Brought around 30 strawberry muffins that I baked for the Pilots appreciation dinner
• put the strawberry muffins in the kitchen refrigerator. 
• listened to jim's wife talk for a while she prepped (deseeded) the water melon and met the care taker of Jim & his wife's (his wife who's name I keep forgetting) daughter.
• gave them a strawberry muffin to try.
• later gave them the pack of peanut butter crackers and belvita I picked up at the American Red Cross Shelter simulation in Milton.
• Handed out bottles of water to ESAR volunteers and guests
• Handed out the other peanutbutter cracker from the american red cross event to a mother for her daughter to snack on while waiting for the ESAR volunteers to finish cooking.
• Helped prep the for the Pilots appreciation dinner.

• Grabbed the box of ESAR cups from on top of the refrigerator and placed it near the coolers placing a few stacks of cup outside the coolers filled with beverages.
• Help carry food from the grill & deep frier to the serving tables
• Sorted the Fried fish, hush puppies, and fried shrimp into different sections of the food warmer.
• set out the buns for guests to serve themselves during the event.
• poured fries into the food warmer.
• Moved/placed Sonny's bannana Pudding and my muffing from refrigerator to the serving table.
• Found and set out serving utensils for the deserts and food along with other volunteers.
• Ate half a piece of fried fish, 5 shrimp, 1-2 hush puppies, a small piece of cheesecake 5-8 tbs of banana pudding, 2 strawberries muffins ( 1 from each batch); 2-3 tbs vanilla & 2-3 tbs chocolate ice cream, a small brownie & 10-20 fries; & watermelon from 4:30- 6:30pm
• Spoke with Tally and Mike about shelter ideas and other subjects.
• Helped cleanup after the pilots appreciation dinner
• folded and put away tables with other ESAR volunteers
• might have stacked a few chairs at the along the wall of the room along with other ESAR volunteers
• took a turkey sausage to take home for my father to eat.
• took my strawberry muffins home.
• Put away drinks from cooler into the refrigerator with the help of another ESAR volunteer.
• dumped ice from the coolers outside the ESAR garage door.
• Returned coolers to the serving table area
• Got a ride home from Jim after the Pilots appreciation dinner
• got home around 7:00pm to finish up what yardwork for my parents that I could.
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