TALL PINES VOLUNTEER NOTICE – Oct. 27/17

Volunteer registrations have been coming in steadily; we are now at 121. We need about 25 more for Friday, Nov. 24  and 110 more for rally day, Saturday, Nov. 25th, so if you have been procrastinating, please sign up ASAP. If you registered, but did not receive a confirmation email, it likely means that your registration did not go through, so please try again. If you have any problem doing that or have any questions about anything, contact the Worker Registration team at  worker_registration@tallpinesrally.com  and one of us will get back to you.

BTW how about convincing some others to come with you?
In particular we are still in need of help with HAM radio communications, stage timing marshals, traffic control marshals (blockers), crowd control marshals and media marshals.  
Note – we can accommodate those of you who can only help out for part of the day on November 25th.
So to recap - to register as a worker for this year’s event,  go to the Pines website at www.tallpinesrally.com then to the ‘VOLUNTEERS’ tab then to ‘Register’ and follow the cues from there.
 
Subsidized Volunteer Accommodations
Have you booked your room yet?  We can only hold those rooms for so long, then will have to let them go. The online subsidized accommodations registration process is now active. Remember – you must stay at one of the approved locations to receive a subsidy. Note – you must have logged into the website to see the full menu.
If you have any questions, Trish Groom, our Volunteer Accommodations Coordinator, is waiting to assist you. You can contact her at accommodations@tallpinesrally.com  
Accommodations Payment – you can sign up directly on the Pines website at www.tallpinesrally.com then follow the tabs to Volunteer Info Centre, Accommodations, then Accommodations Payment Form to purchase an accommodations package. Accommodations must be paid in full prior to November 16th.  Basically if you stay at one of the approved facilities listed on the website, you pay for the first night and the rally will pay for the second night. For approval of extra nights beyond that for people coming early, contact me directly at ross@tallpinesrally.com
If you have questions or need assistance with accommodations, contact Trish at  accommodations@tallpinesrally.com  Note – paying for the subsidized accommodations is a bit different than before, as we have switched to Paypal. But if you want to pay by credit card, just go to the bottom of the payment screen and pick the credit card you want to use. Second note – before payment will go through, you must click on the box agreeing to Paypal’s terms. This does NOT mean you have to create a Paypal account

Electronic Timing Training Meeting

We will be running another training/refresher meeting for electronic timing equipment operators. If you interested, send me an email ASAP. It will be run on Friday evening at 7 PM before the general Volunteer Meeting.


Volunteer Information Posted –

We are posting much more of the volunteer information in advance again this year,so  that you can access it before the rally and read it through carefully. In fact the entire revised Worker Handbook is now online. We urge you to read it completely. To access it, go to www.tallpinesrally.com , log in, then follow the tabs to Workers, Volunteer Info Centre, Volunteer Documents and then Worker Handbook.  

About one week before the rally, we will be posting all the volunteer assignments.



Volunteer Meeting

The official VOLUNTEERS’ MEETING will be held at Rally HQ at the Dungannon Recreation Centre at the  9 P.M. on Friday evening.


Other Tall Pines News

Check out the Entry List as it grows - under Compete then Entry List plus find many other details on the Tall Pines website at www.tallpinesrally.com .

Other Questions or Special Requests

Feel free to contact me at ross@tallpinesrally.com

Please excuse cross-postings of this message as it is being posted to multiple lists.


Ross Wood, Clerk of the Course

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