Web Changes

This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first. Also check News Media for media coverage of BARC activities.

•  4/22/08  Raven attended K-9 Specialty Search Associates' Intermediate Cadaver class in Chico, CA in April 2008.
•  4/18/08 Karen Garvin, a student at Unv. of MD, presented a summary of a journal article that appeared in Forensic Science International on the use of cadaver dogs success rates on contaminated carpet squares.  The presentation cover slide shows BARC's K9 Tyler working a pallet pile for HRD and is posted on her blog.
•  2/20/08 Sue Keenan and K9 Quest join BARC.  Sue has been in SAR for many years and brings her certified K9, Quest, to our team.
•   2/13/08 Peggy Johnson, author of the Annapolis Capital's Dog's World newspaper column wrote about BARC's accomplishments.
•   2/13/08 pictures of abandoned building training weekend Feb 9-10, 2008 added to Photos section.
•   1/18/08 new pictures added - trainings fall 2007 & winter 2008: Nov 07 agility & trailer search, Dec 07 rubble, and Jan 08
•   1/9/08 K9s Red, Alley, and Raven respond to an apartment complex fire on Jan 2, 2008 in Gaithersburg, MD.  The Gazette newspaper covered the search and posted online 26 pictures of the dogs working the debris in their "We Spotted" photo gallery.
•  1/8/08 K9 Alley is one of 15 dogs featured in Marilyn Jeffers Walton's new book "Badge On My Collar".  Alley's chapter tells stories from past searches, from 9-11 at the Pentagon to a buried child to working with archeologists to the Space Shuttle mission to many other searches where Alley responded to help find those who were missing.   
•   12/21/07 K9 Raven certifies in Human Remains Detection.  Her first search is the apartment fire on 1/2/08.
•   10/07  Two BARC handlers participate in IPWDA Nationals 2007. 
  •   BARC K9 Red is shown climbing down the ladder at the police training grounds during WRAL's news story on IPWDA Nationals 2007 held in Fayetteville, NC.
•   10/07 BARC participates at the Kent County Parks and Rec Fall Festival
•   8/07 BARC participates in the Severna Park Library's "Dog Days of Summer" event and appears in the Severna Park Voice newspaper  (photo and interview - Sept 6, 2007)
•   9/07  The September 2007 issue of Dog Fancy magazine features Red, a BARC canine, as one of three Hero Dogs in the article "Everyday Heroes: Meet 3 brave dogs who make a difference" by Cherie Langlois. The story focuses on Red's work after Katrina as well as all her search successes, complete with several photographs.
•   7/07  BARC is a guest presenter at Washington College for the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth program.  The students participated in an interactive discussion and demonstrations on using dogs to detect human odor.
•    Training Pictures added: Water search, FEMA Eval, & more
•   Brian and Tyler pass their land cadaver evaluation & Water evaluation.  
•   Meet Susan and Blaze and see Blaze's first full weekend training at the BARC Open Training Weekend where teams came to prepare for the upcoming IPWDA disaster test as well as participate in general water training.
•   BARC attends IPWDA 2006 Nationals in Rhode Island
  •  Raven as a puppy at Rocky Point's burnt down structure rubble pile
•   Kent County Parks & Rec demo and other October training pictures
•   BARC assists LASAR for a Florida water search
•  See BARC canines' excerpts from Nona Kilgore Bauer's amazing book "Dog Heroes of September 11th" released for the 5th anniversary of 9-11. 
• Red was shown working Bay St. Louis, MS Katrina damaged areas in the May/June 2006 "Just Labs" magazine (pics on contents page and page 23).  Contents, page 22 & page 23
•  BARC's indications on a MS Indian mound in 2003 & 2004 were confirmed on 3/24/06 after the mound had been cleared of heavy brush and a week of downpours revealed pre-historical human remains.
•   One of BARC's founding dogs, Cassy, passed away after having a long successful career serving the community.
•   BARC responded to hurricane Katrina's aftermath in Bay St. Louis to help LaSAR Dogs & the BSL Fire Department in their search & recovery efforts.
•   BARC updates website to include 2004 pictures, including BARC working Indian Mounds in Mississippi (appx 1,000 years old).  Two MPEG video clips show Alley & Red working a full burial.
•   3/21/03 Bay Area Recovery Canines Establishes Internet Presence.

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