News 06.20.18
20 June 2018 News
The City of Ripon received quite a bit of rainfall over a 3-day period. Ripon Water Department Director Chris Liveris says the total for June 16th through the 18th they recorded at the wastewater treatment plant over those three days came to 3.6 inches of rain. The City received 1.6 inches of rain on Saturday, 1.7 inches of rain on Sunday, and three-tenths of an inch of rain on Monday. Showers and storms continued to roll through the area on Tuesday.
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Three Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s deputies and Sheriff Mick Fink are being credited for helping resuscitate a Town of Taycheedah man who had collapsed and had stopped breathing. It happened on the afternoon of June 5th. Deputies Logan Will, Cody Sokolik, Greg Anderson and Sheriff Mick Fink responded along with Mt. Calvary Ambulance to the residence where Ron Bohlman had collapsed. He was in full cardiac arrest. Deputy Sokolik began chest compressions, while Deputy Will used an AED. During the rescue effort one shock was administered. Bohlman soon regained consciousness and began breathing on this own. Fond du Lac paramedics took him to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac. Bohlman is expected to make a full recovery. He will be meeting with the Sheriff’s deputies that saved his life Thursday afternoon at the Sheriff’s Office in Fond du Lac.
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For the first time in its history the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has a Community Service Officer program. The first two community service officers are from Beaver Dam. They are Easton Meier and Scott Anderson. The new program allows the sheriff’s office to hire young men and women on a part-time basis whose goal is to become a full-time patrol deputy in the future. Some of there duties will include; traffic control and direction, handling of minor complaints such as animal bite complaints, parking violations, abandoned vehicles and property, etc. This will allow Sheriff’s deputies to focus other tasks. Countryside Auto Group in Beaver Dam has generously donated a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox for the program.
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Hunters killed nearly 39,000 turkeys during Wisconsin’s spring seasons this year, the second-smallest harvest in the last 10 years. Preliminary data on the state Department of Natural Resources website shows hunters killed 38,886. The agency sold 212,781 permits. The smallest Wisconsin harvest between 2008 and 2018 came in 2013, when hunters killed 37,804 turkeys. The DNR sold 217,798 permits that season. Hunters took 43,305 birds in the 2017 spring hunt. The DNR sold 212,456 permits that season. Hunters took 45,501 turkeys in 2016; the DNR sold 212,772 permits that spring. They killed 40,975 in 2015, when the DNR sold 208,250 permits, and 41,815 in 2014, when the agency sold 210,496 permits.
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