Honduras 2007
Update
Saturday, Feb 24
The
50th anniversary celebration continues this weekend. Friday night
there was a carnival atmosphere in the park
next to our compound. One of the events was climbing a
greased pole. On top was Lempira 1500 or about $75.00
To succeed they had to form a consortium to build a human scaffold to
reach the top.
Friday evening our team ate with a local American stewardship
missionary family. They are from TX, and have lived here for
seven years, developing a lumber processing business. They plan
to turn the business over to the locals to own and run. She
shared good insights into the culture of the local people, and why
'gringos' get frustrated when the locals don't immediately adopt our
'good' ideas. She also shared about the challenges of drug
trafficking through the country.
On Saturday was a parade that formed up at the runway, then wove
through town. The parade included two drum corps, about 10
floats, marching dignitaries, and the town honey wagon.
After lunch we responded to a call from Jim & Margie Haaga in Uhi
about a 1 month old female with 102.5 temperature, with no observable
source of infection. They request air transport to the Puerto
Lempira hospital. We called to Ahuas, the bush plane air
base, on the new 2M ham radio system we expanded to their hanger.
Wesley, the newest pilot responded to our call from his plane; he was
currently transporting a patient to Ahuas. He committed to next
come to Uhi for the 1 month old, and bring her and her mom to Puerto
Lempira. We met the plane at the runway and transported the
patient and mom to the hospital ER.
