Landing zone class set at Peabody
A landing zone class for Marion County emergency medical technicians will be held at 6 p.m. July 23 at the Peabody Elementary School. "The medi-vac helicopter people will come in and tell us how to set up a safe landing zone," JoAnn Knak, director of the county's ambulance service, said last week.
"Safe for them, for us, the patient," she said. This will be just one of the many education/information classes held each year for Emergency Medical Service workers.
She said a tactical medic class also will be held this month, in Newton. Participants will learn how to set up rehabilitation for law-enforcement personnel when they take down clandestine labs — meth labs, for instance.
Larry and Karen Larsen of Peabody will attend the Newton class. Both are paramedics, or rather, MICTs — mobile intensive care technicians.
Kansas and Hawaii are the only two states that use the term "MICT," Knak said.
Deana Olsen, office manager for the county's ambulance service, said last week that Leon, the "courthouse chicken," now has a home with a flock of his peers.
"He has a place, yes, but he's neither the high nor the low man on the totem pole," Olsen said. Leon is a part of Eileen Sieger's flock, on a permanent basis.
Fees for any title, for any vehicle, rose from $8 to $10 on July 1. The county still will get to keep only $2.75 of the total, just as when the fee was $8. The state will get all of the "extra" $2, according to Judy Houdyshell, vehicle department supervisor for the Marion County Treasurer's Office.
Next week in this space, I'll tell you about Deana Olsen's "preemy" (prematurely born) foal, a black miniature horse with a name almost as long as some of the crowned heads of Britain: CMH Snip Peppy Vic 96.
CMH stands for Cottonwood Miniature Horses, Deana and her husband Larry's ranch/business. CMH Snip is the newborn (now 19 days old) foal's dad, and his mom is Vixen.
— JERRY BUXTON
