Pride and Ownership: The Love for the Job
Rick Lasky seminar to be hosted at Washington Township Fire Department

The Washington Township Firefighters Association, in conjunction with the Washington Township Professional Firefighters Local 3369, welcome Chief Rick Lasky (Lewisville, TX) to the Miami Valley.

October 3, 2009
Centerville High School Auditorium
500 E. Franklin Street, Centerville, OH 45458
Start time: 8 a.m.

$60 per person
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This program holds no punches. Chief Lasky takes a hard look at the fire service and finds it short on only one element that makes it effective: Passion.

Program Features:

• Our Mission
• The Firefighter
• The Company Officer
• The Chief
• Our Two Families
• Sweating the Small Stuff
• Changing Shirts - The Promotion
• What 9/11 Did to Us and For Us
• Ceremonies that Stoke the Flames of Tradition
• Marketing Your Fire department
• Making It All Happen and Taking Care of Number 1

Rick Lasky is a 28-year veteran of the fire service. He is chief of the Lewisville, Texas Fire Department. Chief Lasky began his career as a firefighter in the suburbs of southwest Chicago. While in Illinois he received the 1996 International Society of Fire Service Instructors "Innovator of the Year" award for his part in developing the "Saving Our Own" program.

Lasky served as the co-lead instructor for the H.O.T. Firefighter Survival program at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) for more than 10 years and is an editorial advisory board member for Fire Engineering magazine. He serves on the FDIC advisory board.

Rick Lasky contributes monthly to the Fire Engineering Roundtable column. He is the author of the book Pride and Ownership: A Firefighter's Love of the Job and the leadership series featured in Fire Engineering magazine. He is also host of the radio show "Pride and Ownership" heard on Fire Engineering Radio.

Find out more at Lasky's site: PrideandOwnership.com

All proceeds will be donated to the Miami Valley Fallen Firefighters Memorial Fund.

In Remembrance:
Dr. Robert Hedges 1952
FF Robert O' Toole 1998