LIFE FLIGHT HELICOPTER

Each year they hold here what is called the jubilee of trees.

They have been auctioning them off for the past few years so

they can earn enough money to get a life flight here for St. George.

Every School in Washington County donates a tree to be auctioned,

and they had people vote for their favorite school tree. Our tree won

and so for a prize we got the life flight helicopter to come and land at the

kids school it was awesome and the kids loved it.

It did a complete circle around the school.

It's getting closer.

here it comes.

Here it is starting to lower

and down, down, down, and all the kids started

screaming and yelling here they were so excited.

If you look at the top of this picture you can see the leaves flying from

the wind produced by the blades.

You can see more leaves flying here also.

Just about to touch down. And at this point the

screaming got louder and louder.

Here is Becca walking away after looking at it.

Each and every student got to go up to the helicopter.

What made it really special was some of the kids

at Red mountain knew some of the people flying it

because they were transported by fixed wing aircraft

for treatment in Salt Lake City.

This is the principle of the school and her name is Betty Barnum.

She is an awesome principle. And the kids just love her.

Here is Mitzy She is standing by a pilot--The guy in the red coat.

They said goodbye and up they go.

up, up ,up

and away.

Goodbye life flight and thanks bunches for coming to our school.

As it took off it circled the school once then shot across the sky and it was gone

within a matter of seconds. It flew faster than I thought it did. This helicopter

is currently on loan to us from SLC until St. George gets their own, hopefully next year.