Monday 7/2/18
2 July 2018 News
Highway 23 Project Will Lead To Detours
Governor Scott Walker recently approved $5 million to improve 8.25 miles
of State Highway 23 from Lafayette Street in the Village of Rosendale to
Townline Road in the City of Fond du Lac. The project is scheduled to
begin July 9th and finish in late October. Highway 23 will be closed and
detoured for a portion of the project. Northeast Asphalt of Greenville is
the prime contractor. Improvements will include resurfacing of Highway 23
and overlaying the existing bridge over the Fond du Lac River. Highway 23
will be closed from July 9th through August 31st and traffic will be
detoured. The eastbound detour will take traffic north on State Highway 26
to I-41, then south on I-41 to Highway 23. The westbound detour will take
traffic north on I-41 to State Highway 26, then south on Highway 26 to
Highway 23. From August 31st to late October Highway 23 will remain open
to traffic using lane closures and flagging as needed.
FDL Man Sentenced For Memorial Day Drunken Driving Incident
A Fond du Lac County judge Friday morning sentenced a 31-year-old Fond du
Lac man to four years in prison and five years of extended supervision for
a Memorial Day drunken driving incident. Judge Gary Sharpe sentenced
Andrew Qualls to three years in prison, but an additional year was added
after Qualls’ extended supervision was revoked from a fourth drunken
driving incident. District Attorney Eric Toney says Qualls put many lives
at risk on Highway 23 that day including that of Sheriff’s Captain Ryan
Waldschmidt who was off duty but saw Qualls reckless driving and followed
him relaying information to County dispatch until marked squad cars were
able to take Qualls into custody. Qualls nearly hit Waldschmidt’s vehicle
head on during the May 28th incident.
Ripon School District Safety Grant
The Ripon Area School District recently learned it will be receiving a
$161,447 grant from the state’s Department of Justice to improve safety at
its schools. District Superintendent Mary Whitrock says they have been
working with Ripon Police a long time on ways to improve safety at their
schools. She says former Ripon Police Chief Dave Lukoski used to say about
safety improvements, “We’re not looking at dollars, we are looking at best
practices.” Whitrock says the money will help pay for improvements they
hadn’t budgeted for and should be completed by the end of October. She
says, “We would like to accomplish actually as much as possible. Their
original goal was to have everything done by the start of the school year
and then through the grant application process the Department of Justice
extended that deadline for us through the end of October.” Other area
school districts that received the safety grant included Fond du Lac,
Waupun, Oshkosh, North Fond du Lac and Montello.
Berlin Police Chief Talks About IRS Scam
Berlin Police Chief Dennis Plantz says the IRS scam continues to plague
residents. It works so the scam persists. Plantz says if someone call you
on your cell phone and claims to be with the IRS and that you owe them
money don’t believe it. He points out the IRS is not going to call you on
the phone and how would they have access to your cell phone number. He
says,“When I fill out my taxes I can’t remember anywhere where it asks for
my cell phone number, but if the IRS is going to get a hold of you
reference a concern about your taxes you’re going to get that by mail.”
Sometimes the IRS scam involves a prerecorded message that gives you a
phone number to get details on how you can pay what you owe. That usually
involves purchasing cash cards the scammer redeem by getting the card
numbers from you.
Fire Drill At Waupun Memorial Hospital Tonight
Officials in Waupun will be running a fire drill exercise in the secured
Department of Corrections Unit at Waupun Memorial Hospital. It is a
collaborative effort involving the DOC, the hospital, and Waupun Police
and Fire Departments. Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa says they will get a chance to
use equipment like a med sled, which would be used to get a patient down
the stairs. No actual inmates will be participating in the drill. DeMaa
says they will run the exercise at 7 pm a time when there is minimum
staffing at the hospital, which will give them an opportunity to train
with employees that normally don’t get that type of practice. He says,
“This provides an opportunity to work on any call-in procedures that they
would have and then again people that normally wouldn’t fill roles to be
having to fill some different roles to begin the patient evacuation
piece.” DeMaa says it is great to be working alongside Waupun Memorial
Hospital for the second year in a row on a large scale exercise.
Event Filled Fourth Planned In Omro
Omro is having their Annual 4th of July Celebration Wednesday at North
Scott Park on the Fox River. Dana Racine is the Community Development
Director for the Future Omro Chamber. She says the parade will be at noon
and there is an arts and craft fair from 9 am to 5 pm in Scott Park. Other
fun includes balloon typing courtesy of Moment in Time Daycare and there
will be live music. Sonic Circus will perform from 1:30 to 5 pm. in the
large pavilion and Richard Grant will be in the circle area from 5:30 to
8:30 pm. Racine says there will be some pyrotechnics. She says, “Fire
artists will be coming breathing fire, twirling fires and we will see the
Quacker 500 Duck Race in Scott Park, ducks quacking at 8 pm and finally
the Grand Finale of the fireworks.” You can get more information on the
event at our website on the Hometown Calendar.
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