The Independent-News, Volume 114, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 29 September 1988 — Page 1

THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS

VOLUME 114; NUMBER 18

WPLJ AMBULANCE BOARD NEWS The WPLJ Ambulance Board met on September 21, 1988 with the following members present: Elsie Heimer, Greg Williams, Richard Miller and Judy Hiler. Town attorney David Holmes was also present. The minutes were approved as read. OLD BUSINESS: Greg Williams stated that to date we have a deficit of $7,324.00 in the Ambulance Fund. The general concensus of the Town Board and the Ambulance Board is that the system, as it stands, is not going to work mostly due to the funding. The next pay to WEMSA will have to be the last, and service discontinued. We also have a problen with insurance coverage as our carrier says that WEMSA is a separate entity, and not a department of the Town. Therefore, they can't have liability insurance through the Town and will have to get their own. A number of cuts were made in our 1989 budget in order to help fund our ambulance service. Also the Board of Tax Commissioners has pointed out that we have county ambulance service. Kathryn Chrapliwy, WEMSA Administrator, said that although the next pay period for WEMSA would end on September 29th, she has a number of signed resignations that are effective midnight tonight. Greg Williams said that we did not have any choice, and that it would have to go back to a volunteer service to be workable. The Town of Walkerton will be immediately contacting St. Joseph County to tell them we will be using the county-wide service. We’ve made a number of attempts to get funding and according to Richard Jaskinski, president of the Board of Commissioners of St. Joseph County, we are not entitled to any funds from the amount budgeted for county service since we are EMT’s and not paramdeics. Letters to the Board asking them what type of service we can expect only result in questionnaires for us to fill out. We’ve tried a number of different things over the last two years to gain more volunteer help for the ambulance service from the area that it serves, and most of it has been to no avail. We were down to three local "EMT’s serving the community on a 24-hour, seven day a week basis, until we were able to attract outside help by paying more to WEMSA personnel. By the time all of the outstanding bills are paid out of the Ambulance fund, we’ll have an even larger deficit and there's not enough give in the budget to continue paying the higher WEMSA allowance this year. Attorney David Holmes said the WEMSA. as an independent contractor. may not even be able to get their own insurance. He had talked to our insurance carrier and they tried a couple of ways to work out coverage under the Town's policy, and couldn’t. Mrs. Chrapliwy asked if the Park Department, which is a separate board from the Town Board, is still insured. Attorney Holmes answered that yes, they are. The Town Board appoints the Park Board, and therefore they are deemed a subsidiary

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or a part of the Town. The problem with the ambulance service is that when you form an intergovernmental agency between the Town and Townships, it becomes a separate entity, and not a subsidiary of the Town. He feels that since St. Joseph County provides county ambulance service we have a right to look to them to do it. Community EMS response time would be approximately 22 minutes, and asking our fire department to be first responders on emergency calls was discussed. Mrs. Chrapliwy. speaking for WEMSA personnel, said that they are willing to cooperate with any plans the Board may come up with in the future. They also feel that part-time ambulance coverage would not work out. WEMSA agreed to continue service until midnight on Thursday. September 29, 1988, but can not guarantee full-time coverage as some personnel may decide to resign before that date. Motion to discontinue the ambulance service at midnight on September 29. 1988 was made by Elsie Heimer. Seconded by Richard Miller. Carried. The clerk was instructed to send a letter to each County Commissioner and the County Council president informing them that our ambulance service is being discontinued and that we will be needing county ambulance service. Greg Williams expressed his gratitude to all the ambulance personnel for their good work and asked that the Board’s thanks be given to each member. Kathryn Chrapliwy said that she will turn all paperwork over to the Board by next Thursday. The clerk was also instructed to send a copy of the letter we will be mailing to the County Commissioners to area newspapers. John Glenn School Corporation is to be notified since our ambulance is present at all ball games. Surrounding ambulance services are to be informed of our situation also. Dick Awald, a representative for the Fire Department, said that they would help out. They would like to be asked by the Ambulance Board for that help, and would like to meet with the Board as they have a lot of questions concerning insurance, supplies and qualified personnel. A meeting was scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on September 22, 1988 at the Fire Station. Mrs. Chrapliwy asked if there were any demands the Board wanted to make in regard to the ambulance bays. Greg Williams replied that after the last duty on September 29th, all keys should be collected and turned in and WEMSA personnel should collect Ml of their belongings by that time. Dick Awald asked if you had to provide 24 hour coverage to be a certified ambulance service. Greg Williams said that by having a county ambulance service, we would be covered in not having a 24 hour service. The head of the State EMS Commission is to be notified and asked for guidelines for setting up minimum service. Motion to adjourn was made by Elsie Heimer. Seconded by Judy Hiler. Carried. Coins cannot be made of pure gold or silver because they are not durable and wear out rapidly unless alloyed with another metal.

ANNOUNCE ACTIVITIES FOR FALL FESTIVAL The Walkerton Fall Festival, the “Great Pumpkin Festival’’, will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 7, 8 and 9. Many activities are planned for the entire community and surrounding area to participate in, let’s all work together to make this the best festival to date. There will be a pie baking and pie eating contest to be held at Ray & Kenny’s Super Valu; a pumpkin baking contest at the Masonic Lodge; pumpkin earning contest at Farmers State Bank parking lot; name the pumpkin contest at the Festival Booth; and there will be a talent show, pumpkin growing contest, coloring contest for the youngsters with entries to be turned in at the office of Miller’s Merry Manor, a tractor puli and of course the king and queen contest, so get your entries in early. Something a little different has been added to this year's festival, a corn fritter and carmel corn cooked over an open fire and a flour grinding mill demonstrations to be held. Compliments of Roy and John Wilcox, of Wilcox Supermarkets and Welco Truck Stop, they are furnishing the barbecue for sandwiches on Saturday, to be sold by the Walkerton Chamber of Commerce at their booth, which will be located in front of the now empty lot where the craft booths will be. next to Walkerton Preferred Auto Parts. The luncheon includes potato chips and Pepsi with most of the soft drink being donated by Pepsi. Other companies are also donating to the luncheon as well. NOTICE The Walkerton Medical Clinic will be closed October 3 through October 8 for vacation. Doctors will be on call and may be reached by calling 586-3114. 2t06 PROJECT SAFE SIGN-UP A sign-up for Project Safe will be held at the Liberty Township Ambulance Building, for people over 60, on Friday, September 30, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. John Glenn To Host Volleyball Invitational John Glenn volleyball teams will host a round-robin invitational tourney on Saturday, October 8, at the high school gym. The four schools are Culver, Knox, OregonDavis and Glenn. The first match beings at 8:30 a.m. Concessions will be available. Admission is $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for students. The first match will have Culver and Glenn playing followed by the Knox and Oregon-Davis match. The championship match winner will receive a trophy. ATTENTION “The Independent-News’* policy on photographs is that we will not pay for any photographs that we have not specifically asked to be taken. Submitted photographs are accepted upon our approval, but we do not reimburse those submitting unless we request 'the same. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1988

COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Marshall County cross country meet with John Glenn to participate. 4:30 p.m. — Urey 7th and Bth grade football team to host New Prairie. Walkerton American Legion Post 189 to meet. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 7:30 p.m. — John Glenn Football Homecoming game with Triton. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Walkerton Lions Board to meet. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3 4:30 p.m. — Urey volleyball team to travel to Bremen. 4:30 p.m., John Glenn junior varsity football team to travel to South Central. 4:30 p.m. — John Glenn cross country team to host Triton. 6:00 p.m. — John Glenn volleyball teams to host Knox. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 5:30 p.m. — Urey football team to host South Central at the John Glenn field. 6:00 p.m. — John Glenn volleyball teams to travel to LaViile. Walkerton Order of Eastern Star to meet. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5 4:30 p.m. — John Glenn junior varsity football team to travel to New Prairie. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 4:30 p.m. — Urey volleyball teams to travel to Wakarusa. 6:00 p.m. — John Glenn volleyball teams to host C.G.A. Walkerton Masonic ‘Lodge to meet. J.G.H.S. Plans Homecoming Activities This Friday, September 30. John Glenn High School will host its annual Homecoming game against the Triton Trojans. At halftime, the 1988 Homecoming Queen and King will be crowned. The candidates for this year’s queen and king are: seniors Michelle Mlekodaj and John Pinckert; juniors, Angi Rohrer and Rick Hummer; sophomores Laurie Dudley and Bryan Vandall; and freshmen Kellie Gunn and Ryan Peterson. Princesses and princes from Walkerton Elementary and North Liberty Elementary have been chosen by the second graders at both schools. They are Brandi Holderread and Danny Holmes from North Liberty and Misty Paschen and John Drews from Walkerton. On Thursday evening the Homecoming Parade will begin at 6:00 p.m. followed by a bonfire and pep rally at the football field. Following the game on Friday evening there will be a dance in the cafeteria until midnight and the cost is $3.00 per person. Avoid buying grapefruit with a soft and tender peel that breaks easily with finger pressure Theodore Roosevelt was the first US president to visit a foreign country while in office. Hot vinegar can be used to remove decals and freshly dried paint from windows and cupboards

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NOTICE TO JOHNSON TWP. RESIDENTS Johnson Township now has ambulance service available from LaPorte County Emergency Medical Service. If you need an ambulance, please call 1-362-7011. You will need to know your house and road number when you call. If you don’t know your numbers, please call me. Charles (Ted) Daube Trustee United To Hold ‘Great Phone Exchange’ Oct. 1 United Telephone of Indiana will hold the “Great Phone Exchange" for its customers in Plymouth. Argos, LaPaz. New Carlisle. North Liberty and Walkerton. It will be the first time in the 57 year history of the company that it has made such an offer. In the “Great Phone Exchange", scheduled for Saturday, October 1, at the Plymouth office, United customers in those areas will be able to exchange their old rotarydial rental telephones for new U-Touch rental telephones and save almost $28.00 in the process. The event, which will run from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., will take place in United's downtown Plymouth office, 213 W. LaPorte St. During usual exchange of this type, there is a service order charge of $11.20 and a central office charge of $16.75. During the six hours of the "Great Phone Exchange", United rental customers in the previously mentioned areas will be able to move from a rotary to U-Touch phone and won't be charged for either of those costs, which represents a savings 0f527.95. The monthly rent for a standard U-Touch phone is $2.00. The monthly rent for a rotary phone is $2.25. Silhouette U-Touch phones can be rented for $4.00 per month. A U-Touch line carries a rental fee of SI.OO per month. The U-Touch phones will also be available for sale that day. With U-Touch service, customers can take advantage of all of United’s custom calling features, call waiting, call forwarding, threeway calling and speed dialing. U-Touch also allows customers to be connected to Voice Mail, an exciting new service which does more than an answering machine and more than an answering service at a much smaller price. Also during the “Great Phone Exchange", the Epson personal computer United is offering will be on display and there will be free pop and popcorn. Voice Mail and custom calling features will be demonstrated. The “Great Phone Exchange" is only for one-party, private line, residential customers. For more information, call 1-800-257-3212. BLOOD PRESSURE CLINIC AT KOONTZ LAKE NUTRITION SITE A blood pressure .clinic will be held at the Koontz Lake Nutrition Site, on Thursday, October 6, beginning at 12:30 p.m.