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Show 7T- Hilltog TIMES UJt. AIR FORi Weekly Since 1948 , Utah 84056-5824 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 70 No. 6, February YjJ IN THE KNOW CHILL ON THE HILL Additional GPC tracking system in use by March 30 Outdoor Channel to visit Feb. 22-28 . On Feb. 25, Jim Bumworth will host a free hunting symposium at the Club Hill ballroom, I p.m.-3 p.m., where audience members will be able to ask the professional sportsman questions and he will provide general information about hunting and equipment. The symposium will make up part of the show that will be aired later this fall. ' The "Western Extreme" crew will also give away prizes during the symposium, such as Savage rifles, Nikon optics, Bowtech bows, arrows and hunting apparel. The host of the TV show is visiting Hill Air Force Base Feb. 22-26 to feature Hill Airmen on his program. . iifTtiis symposium is open to anyone with a Department of Defense issued identification card that allows base access. For more information about this event, contact Tech. Sgt. Keith Brumfietd at (801) 5861884 or via e-mail at keith. brumfield@hill.af.mil. PCOL to record purchases for accountability purposes BY MARY LOU GOHNY Hilltop Times editor A n additional system has been added to the tracking of government purchasing cards. All approving officials and supervisors will soon be required to track information through the Purchase Card Online System, or PCOLS. PCOLS is a Department of Defensewide, DoD-operated electronic system that GPC officials will use to improve the management and accountability of their GPC Program organization. Once the system is up and running sometime before the end of March, any unit or branch not using the new system won't be able to use their GPC cards. "This is an accountability issue. We must be responsible and remain accountable for how we manage and use the money provided to us by the taxpayers/' said Joy Dupin, 75th Contracting/Plans and Programs chief. Cheryl Simmons, GPC lead and Agency Organization Program coordinator, is conducting several training sessions for supervisors and approving officials. "This will help safeguard the taxpayers' dollars and helps to cut down on fraud and prevent misuse," she said. Simmons reports the advantages to the system are that it will enable supervisors and AOs to access information to capture, define the increased accuracy of GPC data that supervisors and AOs will be able to access at any time when the system is up and running — just as you would from a central processing system for as far back as has been entered into the system for their areas. "It will help them manage their accounts," she said. Black History Month luncheon Tuesday Friday, Feb. 12, a "Gospel Extravaganza" will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the 2nd Baptist Church in Ogden in conjunction with Black History Month events which continue through Feb. 23. The theme this year for events is The History of Black EcoViomic Empowerment" For information on the gospel event, call Henry McAllister at (801) 77^4257. . Tuesday, Feb. 16,10 am.I1 am., the Child Development Center will hold a children's reading activity and again Feb. 23. The key event planned in February is a luncheon, Tuesday, Feb. 16, with speaker, Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins, Defense Information Systems Agency vice director. The luncheon will be held at Club Hill at 11 am. For tickets, contact Capt. Donna Milfer at (801) 777-8000 or Staff SgL Jarkovey Jordan at (801 j 777-2154. Tickets are $11 for members, $13 for non-Club members. 11 Also on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 11:30 am.-12:30 p.m., a lunch and learn seminar, "Credit Counseling," will be held in the large conference room in the Airman and Family Readiness Center. For more information, contact Tammara Kirkman at (801) 777- Power outage set for Monday project There will be a power outage affecting muftiple facilities Monday, Feb. 15, beginning at 7 am. and lasting 10 hours, in order to install new cable racking and fire tape in manholes. Those facilities to be affected include; Buildings 249,250,245,252, 240 and 243. For questions or concerns contact Richard Nehring at (801) 775-3369. MARY LOU GORNY/Hilltop Times Breahna Muegge holds onto her sister Carina as she shuts her eyes while on a sliding disc at the Chill on the Hill event Feb. 6 at the Hubbard Golf Course. They are the children of Tech. Sgt. Brent Muegge, 508th Aircraft Sustainment Group. The 75th Force Support Squadron sponsored the Year of the Air Force Family event, and more than 290 attended. See page 5. Work will close one outbound lane at South Gate BY BARBARA FISHER ETMA awards lunch : Tickets for the Engineering and Technical Management AWards luncheon, Wednesday, Feb.. 17, at Club Hill, 11 a.m., are^available by calling (801) 586-2910. Tickets are $14 nonmembers/$12 members. See PCOL I page 6 75th Air Base Wing Public Affairs S tarting Feb. 20, one lane of the South Gate's outbound traffic lanes will be closed on a few weekends through June 20, to allow Hill environmental engi- neers to install groundwater monitoring devices and collect water samples. The lane to be closed will be the outbound, left-most turn lane, as shown in the accompanying diagram on page 3. The closure is necessary to allow a drill rig and a crew to work in the street. Work will also be done in the grassy area on the northeast corner of Southgate Avenue and Highway 193, but should not affect the traffic lanes. "We expect the work to take up to seven weekends to complete, but we will only See WORK I page 3 :' ' >V Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for > Base Theater Free Movies Friday, 7 p.m. - "The Box" : (PG-13) Saturday, noon - "Cloudy With a Chance of Meat;: balls" (PG) Saturday, 7 p.m. - "Pandor^um"(R) Sunday, 1 p.m. - "Coraline" H;. How are the new results bearing out side-by-side? Team Lean Challenge AAFES adds gun counter Check outtheHAWC Nest for basic info Ribbon cutting, drawings held at Base Exchange See page 7 See page 2 See page 8 New PT tests |