LEAVE SHARING FOR  DIANE FRIES
I spoke with Diane on December 23. She is in dire need of leave donations to carry her through the next few months, during which Diane expects to leave the Service via either Workmen's Comp or disability. She has been through hell since becoming sick in January 1994.

Her illness? After more than two years of incorrect diagnoses, it was confirmed she had contracted Brucellosis. It's highly likely that she contracted it while working a game road check in November 1995 in western Wyoming. In that section of Wyoming 34% of all wild female elk carry the Brucella organism. Can we learn from Diane's misfortune? You bet! Educate yourself about the many illnesses that can be contracted from fish and wildlife. Training by the Service has been inadequate to alert us to these hazards of our jobs.

See details on how to donate at the top of column two.

THE ASSOCIATION'S HOME PAGE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB keeps getting better and better. Have you logged on and visited it lately? If you haven't, you're really missing out. Web Guru Dick Hart is constantly improving the site and its many links to investigative tools and other informative web pages. Please note that, to view the FWOA Home Page in all its glory, you need a better web browser than Spry Mosiac. If your machine only has Spry Mosaic, take the time to download a free copy of Netscape Navigator and get with the program! If you don't know how to do this, talk to a computer guru in your local area for assistance.

CURRENT REGIONAL REPS:
JOE RAMOS (R­2); JERRY SOMMERS (R­3);
GEORGE HINES (R­4); PAT BOSCO (R­5); MIKE
DAMICO (R­6); JERRY CEGELSKE (R­7).

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES  NEEDED :
At the present time, Regions 1 and 9 do not have a
Regional Director (aka Regional Representative). I will
be contacting the membership in these two regions
to solicit nominations. I hope you and yours had a healthy, safe and joyous Holiday Season!

SA DIANE FRIES contracted brucellosis on the job
and has been unable to work full time. She is on new
treatment, so there is still hope for some level of recovery. Many of you know DIANE through the contaminants cases she worked including oil pits, RCRA waste disposal, cyanide heap leach mines, and pesticides. Also, numerous field personnel have been her   students in training classes including ``Pesticide Effects to Fish and Wildlife Resources'' and ``Environmental Crimes Investigation''. DIANE FRIES is a Certified Leave Recipient.
DIANE FRIES, now a Wildlife Repository Specialist, at the National Eagle Repository, Commerce City, Colorado, has been approved as a certified leave recipient.

Due to DIANE's continued medical emergency with brucellosis, we are requesting additional leave share donations. All donations in her behalf will help liquidate the leave­without­pay she has incurred as a result of this medical emergency.
Participation as donors in the program is voluntary.
The following restrictions or limitations apply to donations:
1. Only annual leave can be donated;
2. An employee may not donate annual leave to her/her immediate supervisor;
3. Donors must have an accumulated annual leave
balance at least equal to the number of hours to
be donated;
4. Donations cannot exceed half of the annual leave
earned by the donor during the leave year; and,
5. If the donor faces a use or lose leave situation, the
donation made cannot exceed the number of work
hours which remain in the leave. In determining the number of work hours left in the leave year, exclude holidays and expected periods of leave.
Normally, this would be a concern only during the
last two or three pay periods in the leave year.

Leave donations are confidential.To make a leave
donation, complete a Leave Donation Form (Optional Form 630­A) and submit to Beverly Teetes, in the Personnel Office. Copies of the form may be reproduced locally.
Submitted by Don Patterson, Richmond, VA.

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