{"id":27887,"date":"2023-09-29T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/?p=27887"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:08:20","slug":"i-know-a-guy-with-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/i-know-a-guy-with-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know a Guy With a Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

James Anthony Ellis<\/strong>
Editor<\/strong>, Legacy Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was in May 2010 when MDI member Allan Bartlett apparently had to choose between attending his son\u2019s high school graduation or complete his Sterling Men’s Weekend Production commitment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The June graduation was Monday at 7 p.m. The strike production ended on that same Monday at 6 p.m. The site of the graduation was in Portland, Maine. The Weekend was in Newburgh, New York, a mere 5-hour car drive. With his unalterable commitment to complete the strike production job, he was wracking his brain to see what he could do to solve this dilemma, but nothing was working out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so he decided to take the next inevitable step: he asked for help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just when it appeared that it would be impossible to make both desires a reality, just as the barriers seemed insurmountable, a man on Bartlett’s men’s team – Stan Snow – stepped up at a team meeting with the magic statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I know a guy with a plane.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the ticket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer present. Problem becomes no problem. Barriers dissolved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pilot Phil Bussiere flew from Portland to the airport in Newburgh where Bartlett, Snow and four others were waiting. The pilot flew them back to the Portland airport where another man on the men’s team was waiting to drive Bartlett to a local park and ride where he could get in his truck and head over to the Gray-New Gloucester High School’s Merrill Auditorium. In time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said Bartlett, presently the PTM of the Sterling Weekends, “The fastest I’ve driven that distance is four hours, and that is when I was really speeding. Once I heard the time of the graduation, I was asking myself, ‘How am I going to do this?’ It was beyond me. I could not figure it out on my own. I had exhausted everything I could think of, except for getting help from my men.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the next team meeting, the men inspected all possibilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n