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PASCOAG HOSE COMPANY NUMBER ONE

Pascoag Hose Company #1 was formed on November 10, 1903, in the voting booth in downtown Pascoag. Its members were all Pascoag firemen who wanted to enjoy a social atmosphere while providing professional services to the community. In 1905, the Company moved its meeting place to the Sayles Avenue Fire Station, and in 1939 the Company moved to its current location at the Main Street Fire Station.

Pascoag Hose Company #1 currently has a roll of 28 members who act in a social capacity in addition to providing fire and rescue services for the Pascoag Fire District. Though all Pascoag firefighters must be members of a Hose Company, and Hose Company members must be Pascoag firefighters, the organizations are separate entities. Hose Company #1 members gather at the fire station once every month to discuss ongoing issues such as financial stability and upcoming events. Persons who join the Hose Company are probationary members for one year, after which time they are voted into full membership and are given full voting power.

Hose Company #1 is led by a set of five officers, who are given certain roles and responsibilities within the Company as described below.

2010 PASCOAG HOSE COMPANY #1 OFFICERS

President: George Rua

The duties of the President of Hose Company #1 are to preside at all company meetings and impartially enforce the rules of the Hose Company. The President also appoints all committees, ensures that all committees perform required duties, and calls special meetings to order. The President may serve no more than two consecutive one-year terms.

First Vice President: Adam Lee
Second Vice President: Alan Russell, Jr.

The First Vice President performs the duties of the President in his absence, and the Second Vice President performs the duties of the President in the absence of both the President and the First Vice President. The Vice Presidents are also responsible for the upkeep of the Fagan Memorial Auditorium and the meeting room after company-sponsored events. They are also responsible for the enforcement of the Company by-laws.

Secretary: Jason LeMaire

It is the duty of the Secretary to call the roll at all Company meetings, handle all Company correspondences, record the minutes of all Company meetings, and collect and submit all monies due the Company by Company members or other parties.

Treasurer: Kimberly DeFusco
Assistant Treasurer: George Gingell, III

It is the responsibility of the Treasurer to receive and handle all monies belonging to the Company, deposit all receipts to the bank, pay all Company bills, and provide a financial report at each regular Company meeting.

Company members are also appointed to the following positions:

Trustees	One Year: Two Years: Three Years:	Bernardino Colon Kevin Stockwell Michael Letoile
Sunshine Committee	One Year: Two Years: Three Years:	Kimberly DeFusco Adam Lee Thomas Walker, Jr.
Purchasing Committee	One Year: Two Years:	John DeFusco Jason LeMaire
Repair Committee	One Year: Two Years:	Randy Letellier Michael Letoile
Delegates to the Northern Rhode Island Firemen's League	One Year: Two Years:	Kevin Stockwell Kyle Newman
Alternate Delegates to the Northern Rhode Island Firemen's League	One Year: Two Years:	George Rua Alan Russell, Jr.
Auditing Committee	One Year: Two Years: Three Years:	Alan Russell, Jr. Craig Jennings Kevin Stockwell
Historians:		Jason LeMaire Michael Letoile

Below is the current Hose Company #1 roster:

Brendan Allan
Edward Blanchard
Michael Butts
Bernardino Colon
Michael Colonair
John DeFusco
Kimberly DeFusco
Matthew G. Dupuis
Thomas Fagan
George Gingell III
Ashley Haigh
Ericka Hannan
Sharon Jenks
Craig Jennings
Matthew Kerr
Kayla Laplume
Adam Lee
Jason LeMaire
Randy Letellier
Michael Letoile
Thomas Lindgren
Carrie Meinville
Cody Meinville
Mark Meinville
Kyle Newman
Richard Peck II
James Plante
George Rua
Alan Russell, Jr.
Kevin Stockwell
Thomas Walker, Jr.

Hose Company #1 holds many fundraising events throughout the year to support the continued sponsorship of league teams and other non-profit organizations throughout the area. These fundraisers include, but are not limited to: annual May breakfasts, annual Christmas lighting ceremonies, and annual boot drives. The Hose Company also sponsors blood drives in conjunction with the Rhode Island Blood Center. The company is also a member of the Northern Rhode Island Firemen's League and the Rhode Island State Firemen's League.

The Hose Company celebrates its anniversary every November with a banquet that includes dinner, dancing and numerous raffles. At this annual banquet, the Company recognizes two members for their exemplary service to the Company. The first of these awards is the Jack Almeida EMT of the Year Award, named after a former Pascoag Fire Department EMS Captain. The second is the Nicholas Sabella Firefighter of the Year Award, named in honor of the Pascoag Fire Department's eighth Chief. Below is the list of all past recipients of both awards:

	Firefighter of the Year	EMT of the Year
1988	Paul Chevalier
1989	Jack Almeida
1990	Albert Kraus
1991	Michael SanAntonio
1992	Raymond Rabitaille
1993	Scott Shayer
1994	Bernardino Colon
1995	Arthur Houle, Jr.
1996	John DeFusco
1997	Arthur Houle, III	Norman Mainville
1998	Richard Peck, II	Carolyn Binns
1999	Thomas Fagan	Kevin Stockwell
2000	Adam Lee	Richard Brissette
2001	Matthew Dupuis	Adam Lee
2002	Jason LeMaire	John Lataille
2003	Donald Hatfield	John Lataille
2004	Michael Peck, Jr.	Kevin Deschamps
2005	Edward Blanchard	Jason LeMaire
2006	Michael Butts	Fernando Nino
2007	Jason LeMaire	Craig Jennings
2008	Richard Peck, II	Michael Letoile

ORGANIZERS

Francis Fagan

James Smith

Edward Collins

Frank Lewington

CHARTER MEMBERS

1903	Clovis E. Rounds	1914	†
1903	John Fox	1926	†
1903	Frank A. Paine	1932	†
1903	Fred Randall	1914	†
1903	Napoleon Brigham	1909	†
1903	Harris Gendron	1926	†
1903	Michael Bressette	1909	†
1903	Michael Secard	1909	†
1903	Walter Verity	1911	†
1903	William Brearley	1915	†
1903	Joseph A. Gendron	1907	†
1903	William Monahan	1906	†
1903	Herbert A. Rowell	1906	†
1903	Joseph A. Gervais	1907	†
1903	Charles Hoey	1922	†
1903	Peter Fox	1927	†
1903	William Legg	1917	†
1903	Clarence E. Esten	1928	†
1903	James Ducharme	1907	†
1903	Patrick Black	1927	†
1903	Amie Crepeau	1908	†
1903	Thomas Gallagher	1907	†
1903	Paul Desourdy	1908	†
1903	John Slattery	1927	†
1904	Remi Lange	1909	†
1904	George Fish	1917	†
1904	Warren Battey	1909	†
1905	Fred Sayles	1931	†

HONORARY MEMBERS

1903	Cyrus Dominique	1904	†
1903	Henry Desautell	1904	†
1903	William Gibney	1905	†
1906	Ephrem Pauquette	1912	†
1906	Joseph Coutre	1909	†
1906	Frank Keegan	1909	†
1906	James Gaffney	1909	†
1906	Joseph Gregory	1925	†
1906	John Keegan	1923	†
1906	Joseph Mullen	1908	†
1906	Dennis Ryan	1920	†
1906	George Baker	1913	†
1906	Arthur O’Leary	1928	†
1906	William Fox	1909	†
1906	Joseph Black	1918	†
1906	James Daley	1908	†
1906	Oliver Gervais	1919	†
1906	Peter McGuiness	1925	†
1906	Edward Cooney	1925	†
1907	John Waterman	1916	†
1907	Charles Wheater	1932	†
1907	Archie Paulette	1912	†
1907	Maglories Benoit	1916	†
1907	Charles A. Moore	1913	†
1908	Orrin E. Ballou	1910	†
1909	Thomas Stephenson	1916	†
1909	Charles Morrehouse	1925	†
1909	Charles Baker	1913	†
1909	Arthur Twichell	1925	†
1909	Charles Black	1916	†
1909	Arthur Dimery	1919	†
1910	William Barnet	1922	†
1910	John Black	1929	†
1910	William Conneally	1913	†
1910	Henry Gervais	1935	†
1910	John Reilly, Jr.	1935	†
1910	Michael Cruise	1922	†
1910	Michael Torpey	1924	†
1910	James Wall	1918	†
1910	James Daughtery	1922	†
1912	Alert Dart	1926	†
1912	Thomas Smith	1912	†
1913	William Mandigan	1920
1913	Howard Hopkins	1925	†
1914	Herbert Barnett	1917	†
1914	James E. Keegan	1918	†
1916	Armond Theirian	1919	†
1916	Walter Burnett	1922	†
1916	Thomas Hannon	1920	†
1916	Mark Conners	1919	†
1917	Melvin Dimery	1921	†
1917	Aberic Dandnneau	1925	†
1917	Eugene Mulgrew	1930	†
1917	Walter J. Conners	1926	†
1918	John Cahill	1930	†
1919	Walter Leduc	1934	†
1919	Francis Domnique	1931	†
1920	Rowand Gaunt	1934	†
1920	Dr. Thomas V. Daley	1946	†
1920	Lawrence Leclair	1933	†
1921	Richard A. Love	1935	†
1923	Raymnd Boucher	1934	†
1923	Thomas D. Goldrick	1934	†
1919	George Lister	1937	†
1922	Noe P. Boutiette	1942	†
1927	John Nicholson	1943	†
1927	Raymond Perry	1941	†
1929	William Connell	1943	†
1929	Antonio Perreault	1943	†
1929	Joseph Tellier	1943	†
1924	George E. Rivers	1945	†
1937	Arthur Gervais	1945	†
1936	Edmund Carlos	1945	†
1937	William Connealu, Jr.	1946	†
1935	Andrew J. Corrigan, Jr.	1946	†
1927	Daniel Smith	1946	†
1919	Alfred Lange	1947	†
1929	Richard Guthrie	1947	†
1940	Ambrose Moroney	1948	†
1930	Frank Croteau	1948	†
1923	George Logan	1948	†
1945	John O’Leary	1948	†
1941	J. George Levesque	1948
1943	Arthur Laferte	1949	†
1944	Roland Auger	1949
1937	Richard Hodson	1950	†
1938	Thomas Lace	1950	†
1941	John A. Kermack	1950	†
1923	Paul Auger	1951	†
1945	Peter Pytel	1951	†
1949	John Kaczynski, Jr.	1954
1942	William daughtery	1954	†
1948	Edward Riccitelli	1955	†
1944	Henry Cruise	1955
1949	Raymond Nolan	1955	†
1943	Leo Desautell	1956	†
1944	Arthur O’Leary	1956	†
1944	Harold McCabe	1956
1947	Philip J. White	1956	†
1949	Thomas B. Daley	1956
1927	Robert E. Looby	1956
1932	Victor Laporte	1957	†
1951	Harold Bates	1957	†
1944	Charles A. Gauthier	1959	†
1956	John Kaczynski, Jr.	1960
1932	James Cooney	1960	†
1949	Roland Beaudreau	1961	†
1953	Ernest C. Woodman	1961	†
1917	Fred Bailey	1962	†
1950	James Nicholson	1962	†
1957	Arthur Chaput	1962
1955	Roger Brissette	1963	†
1956	Ronald Ducharme	1963
1960	Gerald Turenne	1965
1944	Horrace Desautell	1966	†
1957	Thomas B. Daley	1966
1958	Eugene V. Franklin	1966
1927	Wilfred Tellier	1969	†
1949	Ronald Tellier	1970	†
1941	James P. Hurst	1970	†
1937	Charles Peck	1971
1959	Thomas Blanchflower	1971	†
1952	Robert Cochrane	1971
1958	William Hodson	1972	†
1950	Frank Pezzullo	1972
1967	John Fagan	1973
1948	Harold Wilson	1973	†
1966	Lawrence Collerton	1973	†
1967	David Peck	1974
1960	George Goujon	1974	†
1967	William Brtherhood	1974
1957	Raymond Nolan	1974	†
1969	Michael Robitaille	1974
1967	Robert Looby	1974
1967	John Fortier, Jr.	1975
1975	Mark Gagne	1976	†
1971	Timothy Finnegan	1976
1937	William F. Hodson	1977	†
1970	Bruce chaput	1977
1944	John Fortier, Sr.	1978	†
1949	Frank E. Peck, Jr.	1978	†
1966	Arthur Chaput	1978
1953	Edouard Levesque, Sr.	1979	†
1969	Donald Briggs	1979	†
1972	Thomas Daley	1979
1974	Donald Levesque	1979
1948	George Steiner	1979	†
1944	Alfred Gervais, Sr.	1980
1972	Gary Briggs	1980	†
1975	Albert Palmisciano	1980
1973	David Langlois	1981
1975	Roger Ducharme	1981	†
1969	Adrien Trudeau	1981
1976	Bernard Cooney	1981
1974	David Houle	1982
1967	John Lynes	1983
1973	Donny Schouboe	1983
1970	Barry Houle	1984
1974	Michael Peck	1984
1961	Joseph Gariepy	1985
1974	Russell Lacey	1985
1935	John Kaczynski	1986	†
1968	Edouard Levesque, Jr.	1987
1969	Donald Menard	1988
1959	Walter Gariepy	1989
1978	Joseph Makowski	1989
1982	Kevin SanAntonio	1989
1981	David Tessier	1989
1979	Edward Makowski	1990
1950	Joaquim Almeida	1991	†
1980	Michael Colonair	1991
1979	Jean Desmarais	1992
1979	Robert Gautreau	1992
1988	Richard Brunelle	1992
1957	Nicholas Sabella	1993	†
1980	Raymond Rabitaille	1994
1981	Albert Kraus	1994
1989	Christopher Toti	1995
1980	John Blodgett	1997
1991	Edward Boucher	1997
1993	Arthur Houle, III	1999
1989	Scott Shayer	2000
1991	Carolyn Binns	2000	†
1989	Richard Jenks	2001
1992	Robert Steele	2002
1995	Timothy Haggerty	2002
1983	Paul Chevalier	1991
1969	Richard Peck	2008
1996	Michael Peck, Jr.	2008
1968	Arthur Houle, Jr.	2009
2004	Fernando Nino	2009