American Red Cross: Public Information Officer

In addition to my professional career, I am a volunteer Public Information Officer for the American Red Cross. Here is another of my recent articles:

Home & Wildfire Prep Campaign Sparks New Career for one Volunteer 

March 10, 2020

By Betsy Senescu, American Red Cross volunteer

In October 2019, as seasonal Santa Ana winds fanned arid Riverside County, a fire ignited in the parched mountains of Jurupa Valley. No one saw it start. Residents reported, “It just started burning.”

Luckily, they were prepared ...

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Elegant Eight Metres

As seen in the pages of Sailing-World 

Elegant Eight Metres

At the 8-Metre World Championship in Toronto, a royal presence and a deep Corinthian spirit maintain the “class” in this classic fleet.

Sept 2017 -- Sailing is the king of sports, and the sport of kings. King Harald, of Norway, was lauded for making a concerted effort to attend the 2016 8-Metre World Championships in Toronto as an ambassador for the 2017 World Championship in Fredrikstad, Norway. 

Toronto skyline backdrops the fleet. Photo UltimateSailing

In Toronto he raced the distinctive green-hulled 8-Metre Sira, originally his father King Olav’s. It was transported across the Atlantic on a specially built cradle on 80-meter Royal Yacht K/S Norge, which graced the Toronto waterfront, and where King Harald admitted he was “on vacation.”

“One of the things I like about sailing is, to the wind, it doesn’t make any difference who you are or what you are — the wind blows on everybody the same way. 

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American Red Cross: Public Information Officer

In addition to my professional career, I am a volunteer Public Information Officer for the American Red Cross. Here is one of my recent articles on a campaign I worked on:

Sound the Alarm: A Volunteer’s Perspective

I arrived at the meeting place bleary-eyed, at 8:00 a.m. sharp. By some miracle, a crew of others had already established a small festival-like atmosphere, with registration and information tents, bagels and thankfully, coffee. 

As a volunteer at my first Sound the Alarm event, I’d signed up to help install free smoke alarms in one of our local communities, going door to door like Girls Scouts selling cookies. But, instead of hawking thin mints, we were peddling the gift of safety and life...

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