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The Newsletter of the Adaptive Fly Fishing Institute
 
 
Updated:  January 31, 2012
 

 

 AFFI, Inc. has received final determination from the IRS of our status as a tax exempt public charity under section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code effective January 1, 2010. 
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Congratulations to our newest Certified Adaptive Casting Instructors and Certified Therapeutic Adaptive Guides:
 
Colonel Rick E. Morrow, Chaplain Corps, US Army
 
Colonel Morrow lives in Miami, Florida, and is a certified clinical hospital chaplain with the US Army Reserve and Veterans Healthcare Administration.  He earned a Masters in Divinity from Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, after attending the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Univerity of Texas at Arlington.  He is a former airborne infantry officer-turned-chaplain who has numerous tours of duty as both a staff and command chaplain with airborne and special operations units in Europe, the Baltics, Central Asia, and South America.
 

COL Morrow at the Salty Fly fishing tournament

in Tampa, Florida, in 2011.

 
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Cerified Adaptive Fly Fishing Practitioner Alex Bell of Sylva, NC, has developed and implemented a new adaptive fly fishing program within the Recreation Therapy program at Western Carolina State University that focuses on children with developmental disabilities, and will be expanding this program to the Physical Therapy program in 2012. 
 
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Tenkara Fly Fishing

 

A leading Scandinavian research physician has published a major study documenting how patients heal, on average, twice as fast and one third more effectively with significant exposure to outdoor environments when compared to patients who convalesce and rehab entirely in an urban clinical setting. 

 

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 Are you disabled and want to take a fly fishing trip?  Contact the Adaptive Fly Fishing Institute for a referral to one or more guides and outfitters who are either certified by AFFI or whom we know to be "special needs friendly."

 

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The revised 2012 Certified Adaptive Fly Fishing Practitioner (AFFP) examination is now in place!

 

Candidates for the AFFP now must complete casting instructor and fly tying instructor performance evaluations as part of the examination process.

 

The written portion of the test has been revised and updated as well.

 

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Are you permanently disabled?  The US Department of the Interior issues the All Access Pass to Americans with permanent disabilities, which grants the holder and up to 3 additional adults FREE entrance to all of America's national parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, museums, etc.

 

 

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AFFI, Inc. endorses the medical alert identification product...

 

 

 

 

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Introducing AFFI's proprietary adaptive fly tying device, the Loftin Adaptive Tying Arm.  Soon, plans will be available for download to the public via our website and user instructions will become available via our YouTube channel.