[color:"green"] SUCCESS! [/color]
The first 100 whistles will soon be for sale. I ended up getting quality pea type whistles on Ebay. They came with a coiled wrist bracelet and split rings. We then got a stack of trading cards from the SAR folks (the cards have basic instructions for lost children on the back) and laminated them. The final step was to have the ladies in my mother's club to hole punch the cards with grommets and assemble everything. Total expense is about $0.90 per unit and they intend to sell them for $3.00 with all profits going to CCSAR. If these are a success they are going to upgrade to imprinted whistles from a local trophy shop for just under $2.00 a piece and raise the unit price to $4.00.
If I can get a good picture of the finished product I will try and post it.
Chris