Hometown Broadcasting News Tuesday 9/28/21
28 September 2021 News
Visitations Scheduled For FDL Police Officer
Visitations will be held at a Fond du Lac church the next two days for the 26-year-old Fond du Lac Police officer who died from complications due to COVID-19. Joseph Kurer’s family will hold a visitation for relatives, friends and fellow officers at Holy Family Catholic Church in Fond du Lac from 3 to 8 pm today. Another visitation will be held tomorrow from 9 to 10:30 am. Law enforcement honors and military honors will follow a mass being held at 11 a.m. Masks are required. The Zacherl Funeral Home in Fond du Lac is handling arrangements for the family. Kurer’s death was considered in the line of duty.
Four Injured In Town Of Ripon Accident
Four people were hurt in a two-vehicle collision on State Highway 44 in the Town of Ripon last Thursday morning. A school bus was stopped about 7:30 that morning with a semi behind it and a car behind the truck. Town of Ripon Police Captain Howard Stibb says that’s when another car driven by a 28-year-old Beaver Dam man rear-ended the car. Injured in the collision were the man, the 17-year-old girl driving the other vehicle and her passengers her two younger sisters. All three girls were taken to the Ripon Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. The Beaver Dam man was driven to a hospital in a private car he was not seriously injured. Stibb says the man was cited for inattentive driving, not wearing his seat belt, and driving without insurance.
Power Restored For Oshkosh WPS Customers
Wisconsin Public Service officials say power has been restored for customers in Oshkosh following an outage Monday night. The outage on the northeast side of the city started about 6:15 pm and affected about 3,200 customers. The power company says the outage was caused by an issue that affected a circuit inside a WPS substation. A crew was able to re-route power around the issue to restore service to customers at 7:35 pm. Company officials thank their customers for their patience.
DHS Supports Booster Shot Recommendation
Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services is supporting the recommendation that certain populations who have increased risk of exposure or transmission of COVID-19 receive a booster shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at least six months after having received their second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake says, “Booster doses are another tool at our disposal to stop the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant and slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities throughout Wisconsin.” Among the populations the booster shots are recommended for are those 65 years or older, all residents in long-term care, those 50 to 64 with underlying medical conditions. Those 18 to 49 with underlying medical conditions , and those 18 to 64 who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of their job or institutional settings may get the booster shots.
Wisconsin to Offer COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccine Booster Doses | Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Compassion Fatigue
The president of the Ripon Medical Center and Waupun Memorial Hospital says they are carefully watching those who care for COVID-19 patients at both SSM Health facilities. DeAnn Thurmer says their doctors and nurses are compassionate and care about the outcome of those patients. But she says they have lost a few patients to the pandemic and watched what families have had to go through to keep other family members safe from the virus. She says a second surge of COVID-19 is putting added stress on those front line workers so they are trying to keep the well-being of that staff in mind and work with them on that. COVID-19 activity has been high across Wisconsin for weeks and critically high in some areas including Green Lake County.
COVID Testing In Markesan Today
A free mobile COVID test center will be located in the rear parking lot the Markesan City Hall today. It’s being provided through the CDC, partnering with ETrueNorth and Thedacare. Hours are 8 am to 4 pm. It is a drive-up testing clinic so you do not need to pre-register; just show up and the employees on site will walk you through the process.
Task Force Could Be Reassembled
State Senator Joan Ballweg says one of the things they will take up during their current session is a bill that would reassemble an Urban Search & Rescue Task Force. She says funding for the task force was included in the state budget and once it is approved and signed into law the Federal Government will kick in funding for it as well. She says such a task force had an integral role in rescuing people after an explosion at the Didion Mill in Cambria in 2017. The state lawmaker from Markesan says members from the task force come from fire departments from across Wisconsin and their training goes further for building collapses, water rescues and other scenarios. She says some of the members from the previous task force are still available to serve on it. Ballweg points out the task force’s equipment is still available and is stored at Volk Field.
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