Area is West Wyoming, USARMSSSDR
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Area is West Wyoming, USA
| Date | Time and Places |
|---|---|
| February 3 | 8:00a.m. Vet Check at Snow King Ball Park |
| 6:00p.m. Banquet at Snow King Resort | |
| 7:00p.m. Dinner Mushers draw for starting positions | |
| February 4 | 9:00a.m. Ceremonial Start at Jackson |
| February 5 | 9:00a.m. start =Moran KOA finish = Dubois 40miles |
| February 6 | 9:00a.m. start = Dubois Sawmill Lodge finish = Pinedale 69-73miles |
| February 7 | 9:00a.m. start = Pinedale (Irish Canyon) finish = Lander 69-77miles |
| February 8 | 9:00a.m. start = Lander (Sink's Canyon) finish = Atlantic City Mercantile 40miles |
| February 9 | Travel Day to Kemmerer |
| February 10 | 9:00a.m. start =Kemmerer/Diamondville(Lake Viva Naughton) finish = Afton 64miles |
| February 11 | 9:00a.m. start = Afton finish= Box Y 60miles |
| Isolated stop:mushers will be on their own for overnight | |
| February 12 | 9:00a.m. start = Box Y finish = Alpine 30miles |
| February 13 | Travel to Teton Village 11:00a.m. Ceremonial Finish 12mile loop |
| 5:00p.m. Awards Banquet at Snow King Resort |
The Race to Immunize
The purpose of the International Rocky Mountain Stage Stop Sled Dog Race is to create vital community partnerships that effectively promote awareness and compliance with child and adult immunization programs. The race and its mission has attracted mushers from all corners of the globe. They, along with our generous sponsors, have helped to make this truly a Race to Immunize.
The preschool immunization rate in Wyoming is 78 percent - higher than the national rate 60 percent, but far short of the goal 90 percent set forth by President Bill Clinton for the year 2000. Nearly 1,500 of Wyoming's children two years old and younger are still vulnerable to serious vaccine preventable diseases. And in the nation as a whole, 1 million choldren in this age range are still inadequately immunized.
That is why Wyoming is "pulling together" with its first stage stop sled dog race. Just as the Iditarod Sled Dog Race commemorates the skill and heroism of the dogs and mushers who relayed diphtheria anotitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the International Rocky Mountan Stage Stop Dog Race is a race to help solve a different health problem. Immunizing a child isn't as easy as it used to be. Just ten years ago, a child needed then doses of vaccine through age twelve. Today that number has doubled, and most doses are needed in the first two years of life to protect against nine deadly diseases.
Just as the Stage Stop Race has its mandatory stopping places and times, immunization programs have their set checkpoints too: To be fully protected against various deadly diseases children shold be vaccinated at ages two, four, six and twelve months; the ideal best "finish" is at fifteen months.
Please make your local community another stage stop in this race to immunize when you return home. Find out what is being done in your own town and what you can do to help protect children everywhere against prreventable disases.
Race Director : Frank Teasley
Chief Vet : Sonny King, DVM
Race Marshal : Bill Smith
Public Nursing : Liaison Jayne Ottman RNMS
Treasurer : Phillip W. Newcomb
Stete Representative : Clarene Law
Div. of Public Health : Dr.Bill Letson, Administrator
DVM : Joe Donovan
AHT : Juliann Figueroa
Musher : Jack Beckstrom
Musher : Maria Hayashida
Marshal Mr.Bill Smith (Left) and Chief Vet Mr.Sonny King (Right)
© Daisuke Tomiyasu