Lindon City Preparedness Fair
Saturday, August 24, 12-6PM
Lindon Community Center
(25 N. Main St. in Lindon)
Saturday, August 24, 12-6PM
Lindon Community Center
(25 N. Main St. in Lindon)
The second annual Lindon City Preparedness Fair provides a chance for individuals and families to interact with first responders, disaster volunteer organizations, and vendors selling supplies and providing training. Not only will the fair help you prepare your household for emergencies, but the fair is wide-ranging so there's something for everyone. Topics cover everything from gardening to self-defense, camping, and home care. Educational break-out sessions will be presented throughout the event, and there will be hands-on displays and freebies. A children's area will be provided with activities and crafts.
If you wish to purchase items from our vendors, please keep in mind that some may only accept cash.
If you wish to purchase items from our vendors, please keep in mind that some may only accept cash.
FAIR CLASSES - Descriptions Below
12:00-12:20 - Wild Edibles
12:30-12:50 - DIY Freeze Dried Dinner in a Jar
1:00-1:50 - Personal Protection
2:00-2:50 - Self-Defense: Real Practice
3:00-3:20 - Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
3:30-3:50 - Gluten Free Food Storage
4:00-4:50 - Family Disaster Planning
5:00-5:20 - Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
5:30-6:00 - Water Storage and Treatment
12:00-12:20 - Wild Edibles
12:30-12:50 - DIY Freeze Dried Dinner in a Jar
1:00-1:50 - Personal Protection
2:00-2:50 - Self-Defense: Real Practice
3:00-3:20 - Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
3:30-3:50 - Gluten Free Food Storage
4:00-4:50 - Family Disaster Planning
5:00-5:20 - Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
5:30-6:00 - Water Storage and Treatment
VENDORS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Well Defended Women
Food Storage Made Easy
Garden Inspire
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
Gluten-Free Blends/Gluten-Free Preppers
Lindon Home Storage Center
Orem Fire
Be Ready Utah
Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
Beyond Sports Tae Kwon Do
PetCo
Lindon City Police
Walmart
Storage on Geneva
Inter Vivos
Prepify
radKIDS
SKAtenna
Utah County Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Red Cross
Recreation Outlet
Lindon City Drill / Everbridge Mass Notification Registration
Safe Community USA - First Aid Kits
Utah County Beekeepers Association
Thrive Life: Simple. Clean. Food.
Well Defended Women
Food Storage Made Easy
Garden Inspire
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
Gluten-Free Blends/Gluten-Free Preppers
Lindon Home Storage Center
Orem Fire
Be Ready Utah
Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
Beyond Sports Tae Kwon Do
PetCo
Lindon City Police
Walmart
Storage on Geneva
Inter Vivos
Prepify
radKIDS
SKAtenna
Utah County Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Red Cross
Recreation Outlet
Lindon City Drill / Everbridge Mass Notification Registration
Safe Community USA - First Aid Kits
Utah County Beekeepers Association
Thrive Life: Simple. Clean. Food.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
12:00-12:20 Wild Edibles
If you were ever stranded, what would you eat? Beuno Tomalino helps you identify, touch, taste, and learn how to prepare wild edible plants. A gardening coach, Beuna has 20 years of industry experience and a store in Bountiful called Basil & Rose.
12:30-12:50 DIY Freeze Dried Dinner in a Jar
Would you rather eat beef stroganoff and chicken tacos in an emergency or be stuck grinding wheat and soaking dried beans? In this class you will use freeze-dried foods to put together delicious, regular meals that your family can enjoy due to a natural disaster or just a busy night at home. Jodi is the author of the book Food Storage Made Easy and has been blogging about emergency preparedness and food storage for 11 years. Pre-register to put together your own meals-in-a-jar during this session at http://mealsinajar.net.
1:00-1:50 Personal Protection
In this seminar by Well Defended Women, you’ll learn to increase your situational awareness, make yourself a hard target, and create a personal protection plan. Become familiar with the top 3 non-lethal personal protection products which will be available to practice using all day at their booth.
2:00-2:50 Self-Defense: Real Practice
Tae Kwon Do Master Instructor and 6th degree black belt Taralyn Sorenson will show you how to defend yourself against attack, disarm an assailant, and extricate yourself from holds. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to move your body. This is real practice.
3:00-3:20 Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
Inter Vivos provides legal information about preparing for medical emergencies and property protection. Rather than being reactive to an emergency and not being prepared, it is better to have all your legal documents ready before it happens. This is a free class with Q & A for the audience to seek legal advice regarding medical and financial emergencies. Additionally, if any participants bring in their old wills, we will provide a free review.
3:30-3:50 Gluten Free Food Storage
If you need to or prefer to eat gluten free, this is the food storage for you. Priced affordably, Gluten Free Blends tastes great. GF Blends has been in business for 10 years and is a dedicated gluten free facility. Everyone who comes to the class will receive a sample packet of pancake mix.
4:00-4:50 Family Disaster Planning
Bryan Stinson teaches Be Ready Utah's four tenets 1) Making a plan 2) Getting a kit 3) Being informed and 4) Getting involved. With 12 years’ experience, he’ll help families know what to do to prepare for an unexpected future emergency, be it earthquake, wildfire, house fire, or extreme weather event. Q&A, handouts, and video clips.
5:00-5:20 Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
Inter Vivos provides legal information about preparing for medical emergencies and property protection. Rather than being reactive to an emergency and not being prepared, it is better to have all your legal documents ready before it happens. This is a free class with Q & A for the audience to seek legal advice regarding medical and financial emergencies. Additionally, if any participants bring in their old wills, we will provide a free review.
5:30-6:00 Water Storage and Treatment
You can only last three to four days without water. Learn how and where to properly store enough water for you and your family. Also learn how to find and make untreated water safe to drink when your stored water is gone. Handouts available.
12:00-12:20 Wild Edibles
If you were ever stranded, what would you eat? Beuno Tomalino helps you identify, touch, taste, and learn how to prepare wild edible plants. A gardening coach, Beuna has 20 years of industry experience and a store in Bountiful called Basil & Rose.
12:30-12:50 DIY Freeze Dried Dinner in a Jar
Would you rather eat beef stroganoff and chicken tacos in an emergency or be stuck grinding wheat and soaking dried beans? In this class you will use freeze-dried foods to put together delicious, regular meals that your family can enjoy due to a natural disaster or just a busy night at home. Jodi is the author of the book Food Storage Made Easy and has been blogging about emergency preparedness and food storage for 11 years. Pre-register to put together your own meals-in-a-jar during this session at http://mealsinajar.net.
1:00-1:50 Personal Protection
In this seminar by Well Defended Women, you’ll learn to increase your situational awareness, make yourself a hard target, and create a personal protection plan. Become familiar with the top 3 non-lethal personal protection products which will be available to practice using all day at their booth.
2:00-2:50 Self-Defense: Real Practice
Tae Kwon Do Master Instructor and 6th degree black belt Taralyn Sorenson will show you how to defend yourself against attack, disarm an assailant, and extricate yourself from holds. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to move your body. This is real practice.
3:00-3:20 Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
Inter Vivos provides legal information about preparing for medical emergencies and property protection. Rather than being reactive to an emergency and not being prepared, it is better to have all your legal documents ready before it happens. This is a free class with Q & A for the audience to seek legal advice regarding medical and financial emergencies. Additionally, if any participants bring in their old wills, we will provide a free review.
3:30-3:50 Gluten Free Food Storage
If you need to or prefer to eat gluten free, this is the food storage for you. Priced affordably, Gluten Free Blends tastes great. GF Blends has been in business for 10 years and is a dedicated gluten free facility. Everyone who comes to the class will receive a sample packet of pancake mix.
4:00-4:50 Family Disaster Planning
Bryan Stinson teaches Be Ready Utah's four tenets 1) Making a plan 2) Getting a kit 3) Being informed and 4) Getting involved. With 12 years’ experience, he’ll help families know what to do to prepare for an unexpected future emergency, be it earthquake, wildfire, house fire, or extreme weather event. Q&A, handouts, and video clips.
5:00-5:20 Estate Planning, Wills, Finances
Inter Vivos provides legal information about preparing for medical emergencies and property protection. Rather than being reactive to an emergency and not being prepared, it is better to have all your legal documents ready before it happens. This is a free class with Q & A for the audience to seek legal advice regarding medical and financial emergencies. Additionally, if any participants bring in their old wills, we will provide a free review.
5:30-6:00 Water Storage and Treatment
You can only last three to four days without water. Learn how and where to properly store enough water for you and your family. Also learn how to find and make untreated water safe to drink when your stored water is gone. Handouts available.
Want to be a vendor?
City Drill or Preparedness Fair Questions?
Contact Kelly Johnson 801-836-8522 or kjohnson@lindoncity.org
City Drill or Preparedness Fair Questions?
Contact Kelly Johnson 801-836-8522 or kjohnson@lindoncity.org
MAKE A NOTE!
The 2019 LINDON CITY DRILL Will Take Place
Monday, September 16, 2019
6:00PM to 8:00PM
HOW TO RECEIVE CITY NOTIFICATIONS
Register with Everbridge for texts/calls from the city during real emergencies:
http://www.lindoncity.org/everbridge-emergency-notification.htm
Lindon City Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/lindoncity/
Twitter for drill and other Lindon Police Notifications: @Police_Lindon
ALL DRILL FORMS can be found under the FORMS tab above.
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On the Night of the Drill Check in with your Block Captain 6PM
Amateur Radio Operators: training item and check-in with city net 146.56 MHz (simplex)
Amateur Radio Operators: training item and check-in with city net 146.56 MHz (simplex)
Special training for city officials 6-8PM
Public feedback meeting open to all 8:15PM at the Lindon City Building on the night of the drill.
Public feedback meeting open to all 8:15PM at the Lindon City Building on the night of the drill.
2018 Drill Report
THANK YOU ALL for your involvement! Lindon City is unique in all of the U.S. in its preparedness efforts!
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018
LESSONS LEARNED IN 2018
We have seen drastic improvements in both the speed and accuracy of your reporting over the last 9 years, as well as a continuing increase in participation. We do this drill in an effort to create a more resilient community in the face of a real emergency. The drill helps us get to know all of our neighbors and their special needs, and it helps us learn how to fill out necessary forms--the same forms we would use in an actual event. Associated with this special day of preparedness, schools and businesses also plan and carry out emergency drills. Additionally, we continue to do specific and important training for our police, mayor, and city council. This emergency management training gets a little more sophisticated and complicated every year, and every year they step up to the challenge!
We encourage you as individuals and families to create and practice your own emergency plan(s) on the day of the drill. No disaster response (or drill!) will ever be perfect, but with your help and participation, this annual event will help make us one of the most prepared cities in the world.
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018
- We had an overall participation rate of close to 88.5% citywide.
- The East and the West areas tied getting their tally sheets to the city fastest—West Area numbers came in by radio at the same time East Area numbers arrived by runner.
- The Central area was best at tracking volunteer hours.
- All three areas reported within 15 minutes of each other and all in under 2 hours.
- Lindon City net operators practiced complex information gathering via ham radio. A total of 42 “nonsense scenarios” were distributed through the city, and 37 of those (88%) were transmitted by radio back to the City EOC in good order.
- City officials (police, fire, elected officials and administration) set up a table-top exercise at a unified command post to simulate an operational and logistical response to a theoretical situation—in this case a large earthquake. City officials are to be commended for taking this exercise very seriously—discussing and creating plans pertinent to disaster response and planning.
- Independent evaluators—professional emergency managers from other jurisdictions—were brought in to observe, rate, and make suggestions for improvements.
- 5 Lindon City schools held drills during school hours—1 evacuation and 4 lockdown. Minor improvements were suggested in each with an emphasis at charter schools for reunification planning.
LESSONS LEARNED IN 2018
- Lindon City would like to support large and small businesses as well as group homes that want to create or improve business continuity plans, refine reporting mechanisms, and/or provide aid to the city in time of disaster. To join an early discussion group addressing these issues, please contact kjohnson@lindoncity.org.
- Lindon City wishes to increase significantly the number of residents opting-in to the Everbridge Notification System. Currently it is estimated only 30-40% of the city would receive emergency alerts through the Everbridge Notification System. Residents can choose the method of notification and what type of alerts they wish to receive.
- Lindon City would like to see individuals and families be prepared with 72-hour go-kits and basic response knowledge to disasters common to Utah: fire, flood, earthquake, winter storm.
- Lindon City would like to improve citizen response capability through ongoing Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training, continuing education and practice opportunities, and by creating an accurate and updated database of individuals who have particular skill-sets to contribute locally in a large-scale response such as but not limited to ham radio license, medical expertise, CERT trained, mass sheltering experience, search & rescue, etc. Information about these initiatives will be on-going.
We have seen drastic improvements in both the speed and accuracy of your reporting over the last 9 years, as well as a continuing increase in participation. We do this drill in an effort to create a more resilient community in the face of a real emergency. The drill helps us get to know all of our neighbors and their special needs, and it helps us learn how to fill out necessary forms--the same forms we would use in an actual event. Associated with this special day of preparedness, schools and businesses also plan and carry out emergency drills. Additionally, we continue to do specific and important training for our police, mayor, and city council. This emergency management training gets a little more sophisticated and complicated every year, and every year they step up to the challenge!
We encourage you as individuals and families to create and practice your own emergency plan(s) on the day of the drill. No disaster response (or drill!) will ever be perfect, but with your help and participation, this annual event will help make us one of the most prepared cities in the world.
Thank you for supporting the
2018 Lindon City Preparedness Fair
Thursday, August 30, 7PM at the Lindon Community Center
Offered in conjunction with information about the 2018 Lindon City Drill, participants had the chance to wander the main room of interactive displays addressing all sorts of preparedness topics, learning how to be more resilient in the face of personal or community emergencies. They had the opportunity to see what volunteer opportunities are available through established agencies like the Red Cross, emergency radio, the Medical Reserve Corps, and more.
A children's area was provided with crayons and coloring pages.
VENDORS, ORGANIZATIONS, and EXPERTS
Living Food Storage
LDS Self-Reliance Resource Center
Orem Fire Department
Para: Modern Preparedness Made Simple
American Red Cross
Fortress All-Weather Gear
Lindon City Police
Orem & Provo Cert
POLYMULE
Utah County Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Medical Reserve Corps
JB Custom Shelving
GF Preppers
Damsel in Defense
Lindon Cannery
Utah Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency Management: Be Ready Utah
Water Prepared
THRIVE
Food Storage Made Easy
Recreation Outlet
Garden Inspire
Canning & Preserving
Lindon City Drill (packet pick-up)
Utah County Beekeepers Association
2018 Lindon City Preparedness Fair
Thursday, August 30, 7PM at the Lindon Community Center
Offered in conjunction with information about the 2018 Lindon City Drill, participants had the chance to wander the main room of interactive displays addressing all sorts of preparedness topics, learning how to be more resilient in the face of personal or community emergencies. They had the opportunity to see what volunteer opportunities are available through established agencies like the Red Cross, emergency radio, the Medical Reserve Corps, and more.
A children's area was provided with crayons and coloring pages.
VENDORS, ORGANIZATIONS, and EXPERTS
Living Food Storage
LDS Self-Reliance Resource Center
Orem Fire Department
Para: Modern Preparedness Made Simple
American Red Cross
Fortress All-Weather Gear
Lindon City Police
Orem & Provo Cert
POLYMULE
Utah County Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Medical Reserve Corps
JB Custom Shelving
GF Preppers
Damsel in Defense
Lindon Cannery
Utah Department of Public Safety Division of Emergency Management: Be Ready Utah
Water Prepared
THRIVE
Food Storage Made Easy
Recreation Outlet
Garden Inspire
Canning & Preserving
Lindon City Drill (packet pick-up)
Utah County Beekeepers Association