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The division was officially started by Cassandra N. Trueman MStJ, in 2018 when she was given command of the division by Romano Acconci (PC), Gino Simeoni (DPC) and Jill Wurflinger (Director of Community Services). We do not know the official date the division became known as Division 1307 Rogers Arena Operations, but before that time, Rogers Arena was run as a provincial event. As a provincial event, members from all other divisions would come to support events.
Under Cassandra Trueman, the division was very well run, and events were covered adequately by some of our 15 members, and members of other divisions who would occasionally offer their support. We were often running skeleton crews during events and much of the divisional work fell to Cassandra and her top leadership team to do. At that time, Cassandra would report directly to Steve Woo (DPC). Cassandra was subsequently promoted to Area Training Officer for the Lower Mainland, and the division was passed down to the next leader.
Philippe Lurol is the Division's 2nd official Superintendent, since February 15th 2023. He was personally trained by Former Superintendent Cassandra Trueman while serving as her Admin Officer. As of today, our division is currently 90+ members strong, with some members showing up to most events, and others members showing up every few months, when they are able to. Our membership is located everywhere in the province of BC, and we even have a member that resides in the USA and flys in to volunteer with us regularly.
Rogers Arena differs from other division in multiple ways but is also similar in many aspects. We have all the same departments within our division as most other divisions, with an administrative team, which includes communications personnel, including social media and volunteer welfare personnel to allow us to reach all of our members. We have our own website, Newsletter and Podcast, funded and managed by members of our division.
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We have our own training department which plans for and teaches MFR to our members, as well as provides our members online training modules monthly. We also have many online modules (created by our team) for our division specific training, which allows our members to take courses such as BOT1, OFA3 and event operations roles such as Dispatch or Duty Commander.
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We also have an operations team which ensure events run smoothly, including Logistics, Cadet Liaison (who will be in charge of caring for our younger members and coordinating with Cadet divisions who want to send some of their older MFR Crusaders to get some event experience at Rogers).
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We also have other departments like Event Coordination, which accounts for all events and staffing them, Emergency Response, when needed, and others roles like Medical Officer, and soon Nursing Officer.
As Rogers Arena provides most of our first aid equipment and paperwork, we run independently from SJA and are not able to take our kits out of the building, for training or other purposes. We are in the process of obtaining MFR training kits that we can take out of the building for our MFR classes. We do not have the benefit of a branch to house our division and are generally only allowed access to Rogers Arena approximately one hour before an event and are required to stay one hour after the event has ended. During that time, we are either treating patients or providing our new volunteers with a briefing before the event. As a result we borrow classrooms from other branches (generally Surrey) to train our members in AMFR or BLS.
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