Exeter Spring Clean - Up Next Two Weekends

PLEASE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO
CLEAN UP OUR TOWN!!!!!

The Exeter Spring Clean up will be held:

April 25th and May 2nd

from 8:00 a.m. until the dumpster is FULL!!

The Dumpster will be located at the city shop - 221 S. Burlington Avenue

Accepted Items include: Junk, bricks, small furniture, etc.

NO TIRES, NO APPLIANCES, NO BATTERIES, NO OIL OR PAINT AND NO SHINGLES

Grass clippings and tree limbs can be dumped along the sewer road as normally provided by the Village.

Ryan Harre Leading State in 100 Meter Dash in Class D

Congratulations to Exeter-Milligan Junior Ryan Harre who leads the state in the Class D 100 Meter dash at 10.9 seconds.

Justin Hall honored at York High school Honor Night

Justin Hall, son of Randy and Stacey Hall of York (formerly of Exeter), was honored Wednesday night at the York High School Honors night as the Man of the Year for the Junior Class.

Justin is also the grandson of Bernice Hall and Larry and Bonnie Cudaback.

Final section of the pool poured Thursday

Mert Christiansen, pool contractor, points out the grout that was poured under the new stainless steel gutters on Wednesday. He explained that with the grout in place the rest of the pool can be poured along with the decking around the pool. The cement will have to cure for at least a month before the pool can be painted and readied for pool season. He accounts the excellent winter for the good progress the crew has made.
This photo shows the final section of the pool freshly poured. The zero entry area was poured Thursday morning along with the decking between the bathhouse and the west area of the pool.

The Exeter GFWC Woman's Club host their Annual Welcome Event

Arbor Day is Friday, April 24th this year in Nebraska. For the Exeter Federated Woman's Club,
it has become a tradition to honor the new babies who were born since last years Arbor Day
by inviting them and their families to come to a party in their honor. This years observance will be held at the United Church of Christ Fellowship Hall at 10:00 AM. All of the honoree's family and friendsare cordially invited.

Exeter Woman's Club members and everyone in the community are welcome to come and enjoy
meeting these new babies. The second grade class from the Exeter School and their teacher, Mrs. Weber, will present a short program about Arbor Day. Members of the school administration, the Village board and the Woman's Club will also present a short program.

Seedling trees will be given to each family and the second grade students will also receive trees to be taken home to plant. A single larger tree will be planted in honor of all the babies of the 2008-2009 year.

Please feel welcome, everyone, to attend this celebration without further invitation. Bring along your cameras.

There will be extra trees available for children of past Arbor Day Celebrations, whose trees did not survive. These trees will be available by coming to the church on that day to pick up a new tree at about 10:45 or by calling 266-4461, or 266-4331, or 5763444.

Video Demonstration of new Rescue Equipment

Watch Alan Michl and Margaret Petro demonstrate the new AutoPulse machine.

Pool Project Progresses Some More

This is the door to the outdoor bathroom - they poured the pad this week that is adjacent to the door. This is in the south west corner of the building.
The pad behind the pump area was also poured this week.
The forms are set up and ready for concrete to be poured around the entire pool. This will make it easier to see how deep the pool is - the gutters which are the pool drainage system raised the depth of the pool over 12 inches.
The roof is nearly completed and plumbing work has been constant throughout the week.

Exeter-Milligan Senior Chosen for All-Star Game

Exeter-Milligan senior Maddy Emshoff was chosen by the Nebraska Coaches Association to play on a team for the All Star Softball game. Maddy was a member of the Fillmore Central/Exeter-Milligan softball team.

The All Star Softball game will be played on July 29th at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln . It will be a double header with the first game at 5:00 p.m. and the second game to follow at 7:00 p.m.

Roof Going Up On the Bathhouse

The green metal roof was being installed Monday down at the pool bathhouse. Also, the final fitting connections were being made around the stainless steel guttering systems. See "What's New in the Village" for more information on recent pool decisions.

New Equipment for the Rescue Squad

Your heart has stopped, the rescue unit arrives, they start CPR but have to stop when they load you onto the cart, they have to stop again while they are loading you into the rescue unit and compressions are very difficult in a moving ambulance. This scenario is what sold the Exeter Volunteer Rescue squad on a new piece of equipment, the AutoPulse.

The AutoPulse is designed to lay on the gurney under the patients head and upper body. A tension wrap is secured to the patient and then it automatically adjusts to the size of the patient. When it is activated it begins automatically performing the CPR compressions on the patient. The current recommended rate of compressions is 30 to two ventilations which can be very difficult to maintain over long ambulance trips. The AutoPulse also beeps to warn the EMT that it's time to do the ventilations and stops for the actual two ventilations. The AutoPulse is powered by a very large rechargeable battery which can last up to 45 minutes of continuous compressions.

The Exeter unit's automatic defibrillator was having some issues and after discovering the actual unit was going bad the group began to search for a replacement. Rescue Captain Alan Michl along with other members of the squad attended a demonstration of a automatic defibrillator and an Autopulse in Geneva and knew this was equipment that interested them.

After the trip to Geneva the group agreed that the AutoPulse was "very impressive but the price was prohibitive." They asked the Zoll Medical corporation representative Mike Saner to come to Exeter to give a demonstration for Exeter department. Over thirty members were present and unanimously voted that the department buy both the automatic defibrillator and the AutoPulse.

During a recent training session, over 20 Exeter Rescue unit members along with Dr. Robert McKeeman, the unit's medical advisor, had the opportunity to watch it work and practice with the equipment. McKeeman was impressed, "It's a tremendous addition to the EMT unit and it will probably save lives."

Michl reported, "What we are hearing from people that have it and use it in bigger cities is that they used to have a two to five percent save rate with CPR and now they are seeing a 10 to 20% save rate with this equipment."

Michl explained that "with declining manpower issues at certain times during the day this eliminates the need for sometimes four people in the rescue unit to properly do CPR. We had to have one perform the compressions, one to maintain the held tilt, one person on respirations and a lot of times one to hold on to the person doing CPR."

The two pieces of equipment together cost the department $27,000 and severely depleted their funds but Michl expressed, "The defibrillator has saved a few lives and even the amount to spent on this, I know there will be families that will be glad we have."