B. I. News on the 'Net, August 1-8, 2016
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 8, 2016
The nice thing about retirement is that you can sleep in, the bad thing about it is that one is getting older and does dumb stuff like accidently erasing all this post instead of posting it up. Soooo, starting over. Right now it's 64°, clear skies, wind is at 2 mph from the south, humidity is at 85% so it's a bit muggy, pressure is rising from 1019 mb, visibility is 7.2 miles, pollen levels are medium-high at 7.7, and the top allergens are grasses, nettle, and plantain. Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Light winds. Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows around 60. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south with gusts to around 20 mph after midnight. MARINE REPORT Today: Light winds becoming northwest 5 to 10 knots in the afternoon, then becoming northeast early in the evening. Sunny. Waves 2 feet or less. Tonight: Southeast wind 5 to 10 knots. Mostly clear. Waves 2 feet or less.
On this date of August 8, 2000 - The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.
Did you know that flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down?
Word of the day: presentiment (pri-ZEN-tuh-muh nt) which means a feeling or impression that something is about to happen; foreboding. Presentiment is a loanword from French, stemming from the obsolete verb pressentir meaning "to sense beforehand." It entered English in the late 1600s.
Our Lady at Fatima Visits Holy Cross
The symbol of holy miracles visited Beaver Island's Holy Cross Catholic Church yesterday, August 7, 2016. This symbol representing Our Lady of Fatima processed to the front of the church near the altar at the beginning of the service at 9:30 a.m.While the Baroque on Beaver Brass Ensemble played the entrance song. All of the music for the mass was provided by this brass ensemble. This music included two hymns dedicated to Mary and the Schubert "Ave Maria" for communion.
Following the regular Sunday Mass, there was another service and time for veneration and requests for indulgences. There was then a presentation about the travels of this symbol. This is the 70th anniversary of the original apparition.
"On 13 May 1917, the children saw a woman "brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun". The woman wore a white mantle edged with gold and held a rosary in her hand. She asked them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray "the Rosary every day, to bring peace to the world and an end to the war."
The presentation was given by one of the two men traveling with the symbol of peace. His presentation was similar to a sermon with requests for prayer, particularly the Rosary.
All those who stayed for the additional presentation and service were given the opportunity for veneration and for confession with Father John Paul.
Thank you to Deacon Jim Siler for making these arrangements for the visit!
You can read more about Our Lady of Fatima HERE
View video of the Presentation HERE
Conservation Partner of the Year
BEAVER ISLAND — Saving Birds Thru Habitat, an organization that promotes protection of habitat for North American birds, presented the Beaver Island community with the Conservation Partner of the Year award on July 21.
Jim Jones, board member for the Beaver Island Association, received the award for the island community. Beaver Island was doubly honored to accept a second award from Saving Birds Thru Habitat as the first island in the world to be certified for efforts to control invasive species and create healthy habitat for nesting and migratory birds.
The economic benefit of the Beaver Island Birding Trail to the island and region is substantial and will continue to be of value to the island economy and its birds, Jones said.
To showcase premier birding habitats on the island, the Beaver Island Birding Trail was created three years ago and has been visited by birders from across the country.
For more information about birding at Beaver Island, visit www.beaverislandbirdingtrail. org.
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 7, 2016
This morning we'll be offering up prayers for Maryann Ridgeway, who passed away last night.
Right now it's 65°, clear skies, wind is at 8 mph from the NW, humidity is at 82% and a bit muggy, pressure is rising from 1016 mb, visibility is 9.5 miles, pollen levels are medium-high, and the top allergens are grasses, nettle, and plantain. Today: Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds at 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest winds at 10 mph becoming light. MARINE REPORT Today: West wind 10 knots. Sunny. Waves 1 foot or less. Tonight: West wind 5 to 10 knots veering north in the late evening and early morning then veering east after midnight. Mostly clear. Waves 1 foot or less.
On this date of August 7, 1782 - George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart.
Did you know that dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 15 miles away?
Word of the day: spindrift (SPIN-drift) which means spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea. Spindrift is a variant of the Scots spoondrift, with the nautical verb spoon or spoom meaning "to run or scud before the wind." It entered English around 1600.
The 52 Lists Project #32
by Cindy Ricksgers
Saturday Morning
by Cindy Ricksgers
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 6, 2016
Another beautiful day in paradise! Right now it's 66°, clear skies, wind is at 9 mph from the NW, humidity is at 82%, it feels a bit muggy, pressure is steady at 1012 mb, visibility is 9.5 miles, pollen levels are medium-high at 7.5, and the top allergens are grasses, nettle, and plantain. Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Northwest winds at 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds at 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening. MARINE REPORT: West wind 5 to 10 knots. Sunny early in the morning then becoming mostly sunny. Waves 2 feet or less. Tonight: Northwest wind 5 to 10 knots. Mostly clear. Waves 2 feet or less.
On this date of August 6, 1945 - The American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. (8:16 am Japanese time)
Did you know that roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks?
Word of the day: bumptious (BUHMP-shuh s) which means offensively self-assertive. Bumptious may be a blend of the words bump and fractious. It entered English in the late 1700s.
Happy Heavenly Anniversary
by Cindy Ricksgers
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 5, 2016
Well, so much for our getting any of that rain. It completely skipped us and boy, do we need some rain! It's 72° right now, wind is at 7 mph from the west with gusts to 20 mph, partly cloudy, humidity is at 87% making it feel muggy, pressure is steady at 1007 mb, and visibility is 9.6 miles, pollen levels are medium-high at 7.4, and the top allergens are grasses, nettle, and plantain. Today: Partly sunny. Scattered rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds at 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the evening. MARINE REPORT: Today: Northwest wind 10 to 15 knots with gusts to around 20 knots. Scattered showers early in the morning. Slight chance of thunderstorms early in the morning. Slight chance of showers in the morning. Waves 2 to 3 feet. Tonight: Northwest wind 5 to 10 knots. Mostly clear. Waves 2 feet or less.
On this date of August 5, 1833 - The village of Chicago was incorporated. The population was approximately 250.
Did you know that the cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws?
Word of the day: cosmopolis (koz-MOP-uh-lis) which means an internationally important city inhabited by many different peoples reflecting a great variety of cultures, attitudes, etc. Cosmopolis is modeled on the word metropolis. Its first element, cosmo-, stems from the Greek kósmos meaning "world, universe," and its second element, -polis stems from the Greek pólis, "city-state."
B. I. Transportation Authority
Meeting schedule for August 9, 2016, noon, at BITA office
July minutes.................................Agenda
Dear Beaver Islanders, all are welcome, Catholics and non Catholics....
Dear Beaver Islanders, all are welcome, Catholics and non Catholics....
The Launch of the World Apostolate of Fatima’s U.S. Tour for Peace is underway and coming to our Parish! The historic tour, marking the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal, will feature the world-famous International
Pilgrim Virgin Statue, traveling worldwide for nearly 70 years. The tour runs through all 50 states and will be an extraordinary occasion of healing, hope, and grace. Any who have been in the presence of this special Statue (created in 1947 based on Sr. Lucia’s description of her encounters with Our Lady) know that.
I hope you will be able to experience the blessing of gathering with others devoted to Our Lady when the statue visits our parish: Sunday, August 7th at 9:30 a.m. mass and for one hour following with
prayers and official tour explanations. All are welcome!
This epic journey across the United States is to allow Our Lady of Fatima, the Queen of Peace, to claim her dominion over our country and to bring the message of Fatima– the Peace Plan from heaven– to a world in need. Our Lord told Sister Lucia that He had placed the peace of the world in the Immaculate Heart.
The Pilgrim Virgin Statue has visited more than 100 countries, bringing Mary’s powerful and timeless message of salvation and hope to millions. Countless favors and graces have been reported wherever the Virgin Statue has traveled.
All are invited to attend mass 9:30 a.m. or after mass at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Cross to experience the miracle of Fatima.
St. James Township Meeting
August 3, 2016
View video of this meeting HERE
Timeout for Art: Underway
by Cindy Ricksgers
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 4, 2016
Supposedly today is going to be the worst yet for heat and humidity. So we'll see. Right now I'm showing 71°, clear skies, wind is at 5 mph from the south, humidity is at 93% making it muggy, pressure is steady at 1015 mb, visibility is 9.5 miles, pollen levels are medium-high at 7.6, and the top allergens are grasses, plantain, and nettle. Today: Mostly sunny. Patchy fog in the morning, Highs in the upper 80s. Southwest winds 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms likely after midnight. Lows around 70. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. MARINE REPORT: Today: Southwest wind 5 to 10 knots. Patchy fog early in the morning. Waves 2 feet or less. Tonight: Southwest wind 10 to 15 knots with gusts to around 20 knots. Showers and thunderstorms likely. Waves 2 to 4 feet.
On this date of August 4, 1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.
Did you know that armadillos can walk underwater?
Word of the day: paronomasia (par-uh-noh-MEY-zhuh) which means punning; the use of a word in different senses or the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect, as humor or a dual meaning. Paronomasia is a borrowing from Latin and can be traced to the Greek paronomázein meaning "to make a slight name-change." It entered English in the late 1500s.
The Law Regarding Emergencies
in the entire State of Michigan including Beaver Island
Perhaps an example may help in the understanding of this. Let's say that a patient walks into the medical center with chest pain. The medical center provider begins emergency care using the skills that these providers have. These skills are those called Advanced Cardiac Life Support skills specified by the American Heart Association training including skills for Advanced Care Providers. Now, they determine that this patient needs to be transported to the hospital. How do they legally get this patient from medical center to the hospital. Some might suggest that they take the patient out to the township airport and turn over care to Valley Med or Northflight. That would violate the law. Once a provider, FNP or physician, has been granted authority and responsibility for an emergency patient, they must accompany the patient all the way to the hospital. If they don't do that, the insurance companies and the legal term "abandonment" are in play. According to the law, the provider must accompany the patient all the way to the hospital since the medical center is NOT a licensed facility, which makes this an emergency patient and laws of emergency care and transportation must be followed. The medical center may NOT turn over a patient that has had advanced life support treatments to a basic life support ambulance with a licensed EMT. They may turn an advanced life support patient over to a paramedic because the paramedic is trained and licensed to provide advanced life support. NO, the providers at the medical center or a physician at the medical MAY NOT drive the emergency patient out to the airport in a privately owned vehicle, according to the law.
So, as has been stated in previous articles of investigative reports, if the East Jordan Family Health Center, with physicians, PAs, and FNPs, call 911 for emergency transport of emergency patients, why wouldn't our medical center do the same thing? As has been stated in previous investigative reports, why give your care to those who are not licensed to provide the emergency care and transportation of emergency patients. If you believe that anyone can interpret the law however they want to interpret it, then look for more complaints to be filed and more lawsuits to be lost. If one probation of a provider license isn't enough, go ahead and try for some more? Imagine the liability issues there will be for provision of emergency care outside of a licensed facility by someone NOT LICENSED to provide pre-hospital care or emergency care.
From PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT) Act 368 of 1978
What is an emergency patient?
(9) “Emergency patient” means an individual with a physical or mental condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including, but not limited to, pain such that a prudent layperson, possessing average knowledge of health and medicine, could reasonably expect to result in 1 or all of the following:
(a) Placing the health of the individual or, in the case of a pregnant woman, the health of the patient or the unborn child, or both, in serious jeopardy.
(b) Serious impairment of bodily function.
(c) Serious dysfunction of a body organ or part.
To whom is the emergency life support agency accountable?
(6) Each life support agency and individual licensed under this part is accountable to the medical control authority in the provision of emergency medical services, as defined in protocols developed by the medical control authority and approved by the department under this part.
Who can transport emergency patients?
Sec. 20920.
(1) A person shall not establish, operate, or cause to be operated an ambulance operation unless the ambulance operation is licensed under this section.
Who can transport patients in an ambulance?
(3) Except as provided in subsection (4) and section 20921a, an ambulance operation shall not operate, attend, or permit an ambulance to be operated while transporting a patient unless the ambulance is, at a minimum, staffed as follows:
(a) If designated as providing basic life support, with at least 1 emergency medical technician and 1 medical first responder.
(b) If designated as providing limited advanced life support, with at least 1 emergency medical technician specialist and 1 emergency medical technician.
(c) If designated as providing advanced life support, with at least 1 paramedic and 1 emergency medical technician.
(4) An ambulance operation that is licensed to provide advanced life support and has more than 1 ambulance licensed under its operation may operate an ambulance licensed to provide basic life support or limited advanced life support at a higher level of life support if all of the following are met:
(a) The ambulance operation has at least 1 ambulance under its operation that is properly staffed and available to provide advanced life support on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis.
(b) The licensed personnel required to operate at that higher level of life support are available at the scene and in the ambulance during the patient transport to provide life support to that patient at that higher level.
(c) The ambulance meets all equipment and communication requirements to operate at that higher level of life support.
(d) The ambulance operation that is unable to respond to a request for emergency assistance immediately requests assistance pursuant to protocols established by the local medical control authority and approved by the department under this part.
(5) Except as provided in subsection (6), an ambulance operation shall ensure that an emergency medical technician, an emergency medical technician specialist, or a paramedic is in the patient compartment of an ambulance while transporting an emergency patient.
(6) Subsection (5) does not apply to the transportation of a patient by an ambulance if the patient is accompanied in the patient compartment of the ambulance by an appropriate licensed health professional designated by a physician and after a physician-patient relationship has been established as prescribed in this part or the rules promulgated by the department under this part.
Who can say they provide an ambulance operation?
(2) A person shall not advertise or disseminate information leading the public to believe that the person provides an ambulance operation unless that person does in fact provide that service and has been licensed by the department to do so.
Who can transport patients?
- A person shall not furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise, or otherwise be engaged or profess to be engaged in the business or service of the transportation of patients in this state unless the person uses an ambulance licensed under this part.
- (2) A person shall not advertise or disseminate information leading the public to believe that the person provides an aircraft transport operation unless that person does in fact provide that service and has been licensed by the department to do so.
Who can fly patients off the island?
333.20932 Aircraft transport operation; duties; prohibitions.
Sec. 20932.
(1) An aircraft transport operation shall:
(a) Provide an aircraft transport vehicle with proper equipment and personnel available for response to requests for patient transportation between health facilities, as needed and for life support during that transportation according to the written orders of the patient's physician.
(b) Notify the department of any change that would alter the information contained on its application for an aircraft transport operation license or renewal.
(2) An aircraft transport operation shall not operate an aircraft transport vehicle unless it is staffed, with emergency medical services personnel or other licensed health care professionals as appropriate according to the written orders of the patient's physician.
Who is in charge of an emergency patient?
333.20967 Authority for management of emergency patient or management of scene of emergency; declaring nonexistence of emergency.
Sec. 20967.
(1) Authority for the management of a patient in an emergency is vested in the licensed health professional or licensed emergency medical services personnel at the scene of the emergency who has the most training specific to the provision of emergency medical care. If a licensed health professional or licensed emergency medical services personnel is not available, the authority is vested in the most appropriately trained representative of a public safety agency at the scene of the emergency.
(2) When a life support agency is present at the scene of the emergency, authority for the management of an emergency patient in an emergency is vested in the physician responsible for medical control until that physician relinquishes management of the patient to a licensed physician at the scene of the emergency.
(3) Authority for the management of the scene of an emergency is vested in appropriate public safety agencies. The scene of an emergency shall be managed in a manner that will minimize the risk of death or health impairment to an emergency patient and to other individuals who may be exposed to the risks as a result of the emergency. Priority shall be given to the interests of those individuals exposed to the more serious remediable risks to life and health. Public safety officials shall ordinarily consult emergency medical services personnel or other authoritative health professionals at the scene in the determination of remediable risks.
(4) If an emergency has been declared, the declaration that an emergency no longer exists shall be made only by an individual licensed under this part or a health professional licensed under article 15 who has training specific to the provision of emergency medical services in accordance with protocols established by the local medical control authority.
Who would be liable?
Sec. 20965.
- Unless an act or omission is the result of gross negligence or willful misconduct, the acts or omissions of a medical first responder, emergency medical technician, emergency medical technician specialist, paramedic, medical director of a medical control authority or his or her designee, or, subject to subsection (5), an individual acting as a clinical preceptor of a department-approved education program sponsor while providing services to a patient outside a hospital, in a hospital before transferring patient care to hospital personnel, or in a clinical setting that are consistent with the individual's licensure or additional training required by the medical control authority.
So, the question is simple. If an FNP is working in the back of an ambulance while transporting a patient and receiving advanced life support, does this constitute “gross negligence or willful misconduct?” It’s obvious that they are not covered under the liability insurance of the ambulance service. It’s obvious that they are not covered under the “Immunity from liability” portion of the EMS legislation. The immunity from liability only is present when the provider is following the medical control authority protocols and licensed to provide emergency medical transportation.
Another example might be in order here. Let’s say that EMS is paged to the home of a patient and the medical center provider is on scene. Who’s in charge of the patient? If EMS is paged to the scene, then someone has declared an emergency. The law is very specific about who is in charge at the scene of an emergency. Once again, if the medical center provider wishes control of the patient, contact must be made with the medical control physician, and permission and responsibility must to given to the medical center provider by the medical control physician. That would mean that the medical center provider would be required to accompany the patient all the way to the hospital unless the EMS paramedic declares that there is no emergency, gets a release signed, and gets approval from medical control to end the emergency.
Can we say this in another easy to understand way? Of course!
A physician, a nurse practitioner, a physician’s assistant, a registered nurse, and any other health care provider who is not licensed as a paramedic may not abandon the patient once they are granted the authority to provide treatment and granted the responsibility for a patient by the medical control physician. Once the responsibility is given, this provider MUST, according to the law and the administrative rules, as well as the medical control protocols, accompany the patient to a licensed facility for any emergency patient, and the definition of an emergency patient is specified by law. There is no “wiggle room.”
Please note that a provider in a doctor’s office or a rural health center CANNOT provide treatments outside of the medical control protocols and then turn the patient over to someone with a lower license, such as an EMT. The provider must be willing to accompany the patient all the way to the emergency room if any advanced care has been provided unless there is a paramedic. There is NO transfer from a doctor’s office or rural health center to a hospital because these entities are NOT a licensed facility.
Lastly, there have been more and more abandonment lawsuits for nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and physicians in the nation than lawsuits against EMS. According to the search using Google, the exact situation with an FNP or RN receiving telephone orders from a physician is the largest growing reason for these abandonment lawsuits.
Where, Next?
by Cindy Ricksgers
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 3, 2016
Looks like we're in for another hot/humid day. It's 7 am and already it's 70°, wind is at 9 mph from the SW, humidity is at 91% so it feels muggy, pressure is falling from 1018 mb, visibility is 9.4 miles, pollen levels are medium-high at 7.5, and the top allergens are grasses, plantain, and nettle. Today: Partly sunny. Scattered rain showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. West winds at 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds at 10 mph in the evening becoming light. MARINE REPORT: Today: West wind 5 to 10 knots. Scattered showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms early in the morning. Waves 2 feet or less. Tonight: Light winds. Mostly clear. Waves 2 feet or less.
On this date of August 3, 1936 - Jesse Owens won the first of his four Olympic gold medals.
Did you know that a group of whales is called a pod?
Word of the day: Fletcherize (FLECH-uh-rahyz) which means to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. Fletcherize is the verb form of Fletcherism, "the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass." The method gets its name from U.S. nutritionist Horace Fletcher. Both the verb and noun entered English in the early 1900s.
August Primary
August 2, 2016
Peaine Ballot for 08/02/2016
St. James Ballot of 08/02/2016
Results of Primary Election on Beaver Island
In St. James Township, 188 ballots were cast today in the primary election.
Bill Haggard received 76 votes on the Republican side for supervisor of St. James Township.
Diane McDonough received 88 votes, and Rich Gillespie received 56 votes on the Republican side for treasurer of St. James Township.
Jeff Powers received 82 votes, Travis Martin received 72 votes on the Republican side for trustee of St. James Township; Bob Tidmore received 55 votes, and Elaine West received 51 votes as well.
Kathleen McNamara received 25 votes on the Democratic side for supervisor of St. James Township.
Alice Belfy received 24 votes, and Dawn Mooney received 12 votes on the Democratic side for clerk of St. James Township.
In Peaine Township, 102 ballots were cast today in the primary election.
Bill Kohls received 58 votes on the Republican side for supervisor of Peaine Township.
Carla Martin received 66 voteson the Republican side for clerk of Peaine Township.
Larry Kubic received 54 votes on the Republican side for treasurer of Peaine Township.
Ernest Martin received 62 votes and Paul Welke received 61 votes on the Republican side for trustee of Peaine Township.
Millage Results in the Two Townships
| Millage | St. James | Peaine | Total |
| County Transit | Yes 110 No 41 | Yes 67 No 28 | Yes 177 No 69 |
| County Limitation | Yes 87 No 53 | Yes 64 No 28 | Yes 151 No 81 |
| County Senior | Yes 118 No 36 | Yes 60 No 36 | Yes 178 No 72 |
| County Recycle | Yes 126 No 25 | Yes 71 No 26 | Yes 197 No 51 |
In St. James Township, the EMS millage passed 124 yes to 21 no.
In St. James Township, the Historical Society millage passed 110 yes to 35 no.
View St. James Results from County Website HERE
View Peaine Results from County Website HERE
Accumulated Totals from the County Website HERE
Osprey Fledgling Stretches Wings
August 2, 2016
View a small gallery of pictures of the osprey fledgling HERE
In Full Swing with Advanced Life Support, Our Busiest Year Yet
A Chapter from "Rural EMS is Different" by Joe Moore
Into the 21st Century- In Full Swing with Advanced Life Support, Our Busiest Year Yet
In one particular Allied Health class, we were talking about the three trimesters of pregnancy. “One of the students in this class that we know and love beat the odds by being born during the second trimester of pregnancy.” The fifteen year old student was my colleague’s daughter that was the cause of one of my early ambulance runs. I then showed my class the video on “Emergency Childbirth.” Some of the female students had to put their heads down on their desks because it was overwhelming to them to view the process of birth.
This always amazes me. The process that billions of mothers have gone through, and we still have a hard time recognizing how natural a process it is. We still mask it in mystery, try to keep it hidden, and “protect” our teenagers from knowing about this wonderful process. I don’t know why that society wants this kept from them and even from the adults. I can’t imagine a more spiritual experience than being present at the moment of birth at which the child takes his/her first breath and becomes a breathing human being. Why do we hide this from our youngsters in their teenage years?
Another of my colleagues was in the work room just off of the Allied Health classroom, and she came out and said at the conclusion of the class, “I can’t imagine a better birth control video than the one you just have shown. Anyone that wants to go through that process after seeing it is just nuts. The girls will be talking about that throughout their high school career.” The students just took this in stride as another opportunity to learn something “even though it’s gross.”
And then there was my other female colleague who was out to dinner at one of our local restaurants and was going down a set of steps into a recessed dining area. She slipped and fell going down the steps, and we thought she might have fractured a hip. We helped her take care of her transportation to get medical help. I pass her in the hallway every day, and we play music together for holiday celebrations. Another colleague had a son with very fragile bones. He ended up with a fractured femur, and was transported by our local EMS.
The 2nd day of the very next year, one of my former students was on some scaffolding at a construction site. The scaffolding collapsed and this patient fell nine or ten feet to the floor striking his face. He was transported to the medical center by his co-worker. The patient stated that he did not lose consciousness, but that he “saw stars.” He stated that it took a couple of minutes to clear his head. He was complaining of cervical spine pain at the level of his C-5 and C-6 vertebrae when it was assessed by palpation. He also had jaw pain and cheekbone pain on both sides with some swelling. The nose was swollen, and there was a “slight trickle of blood.”
We found no other injuries, and there was no drainage from the ears or down his throat. The patient was fully immobilized with a cervical collar on a spine board, taken to the local airport, and flown to Charlevoix. It was quite difficult to imagine that this former student might have some severe injuries that could affect his ability to work for the rest of his life. Luckily for him, he did not have any cervical spine injuries, and he was able to continue his life without any limitations caused by this fall. The first call of the year was a basic life support run.
Beaver Island is blessed to have a college program here in the summer time. Central Michigan University from Mount Pleasant has a Biological Station here which is busy throughout the late spring, summer, and early fall. There have been several college students who have needed the services of our local EMS over the years. The director and his wife are good friends (retired now) to most of the Island EMS providers. My son and I played music down at the Biological Station at its closing party for more than ten years. We know the workers and some of the visiting professors.
On this springtime May morning at about lunch time, we were called to the biological station for a 21 year old female who was complaining of her “heart beating out of her chest….racing.. “ and then she could not see. She had a history of ovarian cysts according to her friend who was also a student. Another college student who was standing around stated, “She was unconscious for a period of about five minutes. When she went unconscious, we called 911.”
When she awoke, she was shaking. Upon EMS arrival, we noted that her hands were shaking. Her last menstrual period ended the previous day and was “quite heavy.” Oxygen was administered by nasal cannula at 4 liters per minute as a precaution. Her vital signs were elevated with pulse of 132, respirations of 20, and a blood pressure of 160/100. Her blood sugar was measured by glucometer, and the reading was within normal limits.
An IV was started, and based upon the possibility of an internal bleeding situation, the IV was run wide open to give a 200 milliliter bolus per protocol. A cardiac monitor was placed which revealed normal sinus rhythm at a rate of 100. The pulse oximeter reading was 99% on the oxygen. After approximately 30 minutes with the patient isolated from others in the back of the ambulance, and enroute to the local airport, the patient’s vital signs were within normal limits, and the IV was checked to make certain that it was at the keep-the-vein-open rate. The patient was transported by normal means to Charlevoix Hospital.
I need to do a little compare and contrast at this point in time. For the last few years and at least up until the year 2001, BIEMS had a fairly good relationship with the medical center providers. I think that once we became able to provide much the same emergency care out of the facility and without any physician consultation, which was required for the Physician’s Assistants, that a certain amount of jealousy may have developed, but this is only my personal opinion. The order of our health center providers was:
1. RN who became a Physician’s Assistant (PA) and who responded to all our emergency calls because he started BIEMS,
2. retired physician who was used to doing everything by himself except the transportation,
3. Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) who developed a close working relationship with the RN/EMT,
4. and then we went back to Physician’s Assistants.
The medical center board had finally discovered that one person could not provide 24 hour care to the island for 365 days per year. The board hired two PA’s to provide the coverage that one person had been doing for many years. One of these PA’s was married to a paramedic, and their whole family moved to the island which brought us another advanced prehospital person to help provide care when he was not working on the mainland. The paramedic was and still is a manager for Northern Air, and I did clinical time under him down in Traverse City. (He has since retired from this position.)
It was a true pleasure to work an emergency with him. Unfortunately, the wife was not very willing to work with BIEMS, and/or BIEMS was not much willing to work with her. The patient care took on a “who owns what turf” kind of gang warfare state. Unfortunately for this PA, we pretty much knew the law of the land, and we were quite capable of quoting it word for word, “and if she wants to get into a fight over who’s in charge outside the medical center, we’ll win,” one EMS member stated. “Furthermore, when she pages us and we arrive, we assume responsibility for the patient because there is no such thing as a patient transfer from a physician’s office to the hospital.”
The lines were drawn in the sand. BIEMS had experienced the best working relationship with the FNP, and now was experiencing the worst relationship with a turf battle as the reason. The second PA was hired in, and BIEMS was always made welcome in the medical center under the direction of this PA. The second PA was also a licensed paramedic, so she had both an institutional license and a prehospital license, and we worked well with her when the other PA was not around. (Perhaps, the first PA became jealous of the working relationship with the second PA?) I can only say that the busy, early years of BIEMS at the advanced life support level became a battle to provide patient care in this turf war. The patient did not see or experience any of this as far as I could tell. All of the tension was behind the scenes, and BIEMS would become subservient when necessary for the good of the patient.
It was quite interesting to note that the medical center board ended up with a letter from the head of the Michigan Department of Health (not sure what it was called back then because it changed so many times over the last thirty years). The letter was from John Hubinger, the head of the department. The letter stated, “Once EMS is paged and they arrive at the location, in this case the Beaver Island Medical Center, the highest trained EMS person is immediately in charge of assessment and treatment of the patient as well as the transport of the patient. Once EMS is on scene, EMS is legally responsible for the patient and must follow the medical control protocols of the county. Patient transportation is the responsibility of the licensed EMS agency.”
Boy, did that make some people really angry, but the behaviors of the one PA changed. You know what the PA did? The PA waited until the last minute to call for EMS. She had completed all the treatments that this PA wanted to complete, and only then did she call for EMS. This went on for a few more ambulance runs until one night at about 8 pm.
A tall lanky young man called the PA for a cardiac emergency condition of his “heart beating out of his chest.” The PA responded to the medical center and found the patient in serious condition. The patient was pale, cool, and sweaty. His pulse was going so fast that it was “too fast to count.” He was going downhill fast. He wasn’t able to walk into the medical center, and had collapsed on the porch steps. The PA needed help, so a call was placed to the emergency dispatch center, at the time the Sheriff’s Department in Charlevoix. EMS was dispatched to the “ambulance garage and medical center for a cardiac patient.”
It took Bev and I less than three minutes to arrive at the medical center. Bev came from the other side of the harbor, and I came from half a mile away. Once we arrived, we helped walk the patient into the medical center with one of us on each side, and got him lying on his back on the exam room bed. The PA seemed quite frazzled. I grabbed the blue bag, our jump kit, from the ambulance. Bev started the IV while the PA was locating supplies. The PA came in and gave the patient an IV injection of a drug meant to chemically stop the heart temporarily, so that it could start back up at its regular rate instead beating so fast that it could not pump much blood to the rest of the body.
Unfortunately, the PA had not ever given this drug, and Bev looked at me, and I looked at Bev. I ran out to the ambulance and grabbed our cardiac drug box.
Bev said, “Okay, Joe, we need to give the adenosine the way we trained. I’ll draw up the drug. You get your 20 ml normal saline flush to get the drug in quickly.”
“I’m ready, Bev,” I said as the PA stepped back and gave me access to the IV. We put the needles into the two IV ports, the drug syringe ready at the closest port to the IV site, and the other port above that one.
“Okay, you kink the IV line above the port. On the count of three, we push. Ready? One, Two, THREE,” Bev said. On three, Bev pushed the 6 mg of Adenosine, and I pushed the 20 ml flush.
The heart rhythm seen on the monitor stopped. We had chemically stopped the heart. That was the longest eight to ten seconds! We saw some strange squiggly rhythms on the cardiac monitor and then the straight line showed up on the monitor. Bev had pushed the print button on the cardiac monitor. The heart had stopped electrical activity for those ten seconds.
“Damn, that was weird,” the patient said. “It felt really strange, but it didn’t fix it. I can feel it beating fast again.”
The patient was right. The monitor and the print-out showed the heart’s electrical activity and its beating at about 168 beats per minute. It was time to go to the next step in the protocol. Bev drew up the 12 mg of adenosine, and I drew up another 20 ml of normal saline.
“Just like last time,” Bev said.
“I’m ready,” I said.
“One, Two, THREE,” Bev said, and we both pushed the drug into the patient’s vein very quickly. The drug got into the heart and began the process of stopping the electrical activity of the heart. The monitor alarm went off signifying a change in the patient’s heart rhythm. The monitor and the print-out showed straight line, a lack of electrical activity.
I started counting out loud without realizing that I was. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven….It’s coming back. Yahoooo! We have normal sinus rhythm at a rate of 88,” I exclaimed a little loudly.
The PA said, “You guys DO know what you are doing! Good job! Let’s get this guy packaged for transport.”
I said to Bev, “Let’s get the pads on the patient, so we can be prepared in case something goes wrong during transport.”
“Good idea, Joe, and let’s get a twelve-lead on this rhythm to make sure nothing is going to surprise us during transport,” Bev said.
Bev and I went out to the garage to get the ambulance cot after pulling the ambulance out of the garage. While still in the rig, Bev said, “Good job, Joe. We did just what we learned in ACLS, and it worked. If we hadn’t been called when we were called, this patient could have gone into cardiac arrest. Instead, we fixed him, and he’ll get a night away from home and be monitored in the hospital for any other rhythm disturbances.”
Of course, the patient was flown to the mainland and was monitored over the night in the intensive care unit, but he was discharged the following afternoon. We got a nice thank-you from the patient when they returned to the island, but more important than that, we had a good experience of working with the PA that didn’t want us around. We hoped that this experience would improve the working relationship between the PA and EMS.
Now more exciting adventures of BIEMS in its ALS infancy stage.
At approximately 2 a.m. on a June morning, a knock came to the front door of my home. We always sleep with a fan running or some “white noise” to drown out the sounds of the cars going by our home at the intersection of Kings Highway and Carlisle Road. With the main highway on one side and a road to a bar on the other, there seems to be a lot of traffic even in the off-season (the non-day-tourist season). Thus there is a need to have some white noise to be able to sleep. The knock at the front door was not heard at first because of the white noise and because of our bedroom location. As the knocking became louder, and the person doing the knocking found the doorbell, my wife was awakened, and she answered the door.
“Joe, Joe, wake up,” my wife said. “One of the high school students is outside, and they need your help.” I am not easy to wake up in the middle of the night. It’s kind of interesting that I can wake up and be almost completely conscious very quickly when the pager goes off signifying and emergency, but to just wake me up in the middle of the night, I am very groggy. It took me about five minutes just to get dressed enough to go outside.
When I went outside, I was met by one of the high school trouble-makers who was very polite and explained, “There’s a girl in the car who tried to keep up with the island teens at a party. She tried to drink the same amount at the same rate as others at the party. We think she is really sick, and you need to…Check Her OUT,” his voice was slowly, but surely becoming panicky.
As I walked to the car to find her sitting in the front seat on the passenger side, several other of my students began talking at once. “Please, just relax and be quiet, so I can check her out,” I stated more calmly than my true feelings.
As I assessed the fourteen year old young lady, I could almost guess the ER diagnosis would include alcohol toxicity. “You’ll have to take her home, talk to her parents, and have them dial 911,” I said clearly to all of my students in the car. “She isn’t yet really in a life threatening situation, and I can’t do much without her parent’s permission. Please emphasize to her parents that, if she was my daughter, we’d be on the way to the hospital already. I’ll get dressed and go down to the ambulance garage and wait for the page. You get her home and convince her folks to dial 911.”
I went back inside the house, quickly got cleaned up, and made myself presentable. I got in my car and drove down to the ambulance garage to await the page.
At about a quarter to three in the morning, the pager did finally go off for this patient, and within five minutes, the echo unit and an ambulance were enroute down the East Side Road to a rental cottage. Upon arrival, BIEMS found a fourteen year old female patient lying on the couch of this home. My other students had brought her home. The report was that she had consumed “10 beers and an unknown quantity of rum.”
At this point, the patient was only responding to painful stimuli, but had already had several episodes of vomiting, and was now at the “dry heaves” stage. Her blood pressure was 92/60, slightly low, with a pulse of 72, and respirations of 16. Her skin color, temperature, and moisture were normal. The assessment revealed a small bruised area under her right eye. The bystanders stated that this was caused by a “fall onto an unknown surface from a standing position.”
In other words, she passed out and collapsed and fell from a standing position onto her face. No other physical deformities or injuries were found on physical examination. The 14-year-old female had oxygen administered at 4 liters per minute, an IV established in her right hand with a 20 gauge catheter, and she was given a 250 milliliter bolus of IV normal saline which brought her blood pressure up to 102/82. We loaded the young lady up onto the BIEMS cot, did a finger stick for a glucometer reading, and wheeled her out to the ambulance accompanied by her mother.
The glucometer reading was within normal limits. The weather had again not cooperated, so we had to contact the USCG for a helicopter from Traverse City Air Station. It was really hazy-foggy out there, and we completely understood the inability of our local airline to provide the service. The USCG helicopter landed at the township airport where we were awaiting their arrival. The mother had to go with the daughter to be able to consent to treatment at the hospital. The basic EMT/swimmer was not comfortable taking care of the patient because of the IV. We took the patient into the terminal building knowing full well that our ambulance cot would not fit in the helicopter. We moved our patient, yet again, onto our folding cot, secured her to the cot, and helped load her into the helicopter.
Mom was already loaded by this time. Now, our BIEMS paramedic was required to fly to Charlevoix Airport with the patient, mom, and the whole USCG crew. That helicopter was loaded with not one ounce of deck space left for anything. The USCG helicopter landed at Charlevoix Airport at 0440. The patient was loaded into the Charlevoix EMS ambulance along with our BIEMS paramedic, mom, and Charlevoix EMS EMT, and transported to Charlevoix Hospital, where report was given to the ER staff and care turned over to them.
Now our BIEMS paramedic was stuck in Charlevoix for the next few hours before the first flight might be able to return him to the island. He was dropped off at a motel for the rest of the late night and early morning since we had an arrangement for direct billing for just such a situation. Unfortunately for him, the fog did not get much better, so he had to sleep until checkout time at 11 a.m. By noon, the weather began to improve and finally our paramedic was able to return to the Island on a return flight using the local airlines. Of course, the return flight had to be charged to BIEMS. So adding up the costs to BIEMS for motel and flight and lost time for the paramedic from work, BIEMS and the paramedic lost money on this emergency, but we would do it again in an instant to help one of our friends, neighbors, or visitors.
As you read this, you might be thinking that BIEMS doesn’t have very much trauma, and you would be right. Beaver Island is usually pretty good to its trauma victims. They are usually able to get help at the medical center for the minor trauma situation, and there are few really serious traumas. Here is one of the few.
We are paged to a gravel road named Gull Harbor Drive, which is a road out on the point in the northeastern hook of the Paradise Bay Harbor. The page included the following information, “Respond to a 21 year old male patient, a victim of a motorcycle accident.” BIEMS was responding to one of the few trauma situations that have here. Once again, the only two persons that responded to this accident were Bev and I. We arrived to find this patient a victim of a motorcycle-gravel-bush accident lying in the road with friends around him. One of the friends had his head in her lap. Patient was very loud, acting confused, and yelling obscenities at the bystanders who always stand around to watch what is happening.
The patient had laid down his motorcycle on the gravel road and skidded into a bush where he had been impaled on a branch. There was a 2.5 centimeter puncture wound in his left shoulder with a large amount of blood loss. There was a good radial pulse in his left arm. The patient had been incontinent with front of his jeans being wet. He was able to move all his extremities well, had good hand grips, and foot movement. No other injuries were found in the head to toe assessment, but a strong odor of alcohol was present. His friends stated that he had consumed “at least six beers.” The patient seemed oriented and was able to answer all questions, but he continued to ask us, “What happened?”
We, of course, had immediately placed direct pressure on the shoulder wound, and then we followed up with a pressure dressing on this wound. A cervical collar was placed, and the patient was fully immobilized on a backboard to protect his spine. He was placed on a non-rebreather mask with 100% oxygen, and an IV was started in the right forearm with the fluids running wide open to help compensate for the blood loss. The patient was loaded onto the ambulance cot and into the ambulance, and we were enroute to the local airport.
The patient remained stable with vital signs within normal limits throughout the transport. Because the patient had an IV running wide open as fast as gravity would put the fluid in, we had to monitor the patient’s breath sounds to make sure we were not adding too much fluid to his circulatory system. We loaded the patient into the aircraft and accompanied the patient to Charlevoix where we turned the patient over to Charlevoix EMS for further transport to the hospital. We made no effort to stop at the medical center for any assessment, evaluation, or treatment. An entirely different medical center/EMS relationship was evolving.
Once again, looking backwards into the history of ALS brings back great memories of our patients, the treatments we were able to provide them, and the cyclical nature of the relationship with the medical center. From the beginning of EMS on this island, we were completely working in cooperation with the medical center, then one provider wanted to take over and our working relationship dissolved. This has happened three times in the last thirty years of the history of the island’s medical care.
WRAP-UP FOR WELLNESS GARDEN WORK AND SILENT AUCTION
Just a little effort can go a long way when the Island community comes together to help with our project of beautifying and maintaining the BIRHC and Forest View surroundings.
This year we made great strides in adding more helpers to our Volunteer Garden group, as well as having a member arrange for the new entrance arbor, and then in turn, having these men donate their supplies and labor!! Thank you Andy and Sally Stebbins for the design, and craftsmen Ryan Smith and crew, Richie Gillespie and Ernie Martin, for our beautiful new arbor! Thank you, Phil Becker for restoring and perking up our picnic table and finishing the arbor as well as our benches. Thanks to Jim Wojan for getting us the cedar mulch this spring, felling dead trees, and mowing around the roadsides so the signage stays visible.
Sally Stebbins has redesigned Gail’s Garden and turned it into our kid-friendly garden. Sophie McDonough and Alexsis Coffell, with their moms, have assisted in maintaining Cheryl Podgorski’s Fairy Garden. It looks so cute!
And what about the Pink Garden? Jan Paul and Judi Meister are feeding our resident deer new flowers each month!! Can we ever get that pink ribbon to bloom all summer? We shall see! They have a new plan for next year. Jan also has the ever vibrant Butterfly Garden in great shape! The butterflies and hummers love you Jan.
Janice Freeman has brought the roses to life again with her special rose food and pest control. She and husband Bill have donated funds toward the purchase of the towering obelisks for our climbing roses, which have taken them to new heights.
A flowering tree and ever-blooming stella d’ora lilies have been added for Bob Banville, and the Bruce Struick rock garden is now complete, thanks to his daughters’ generous contribution. Perhaps you may have noticed the roses added to Grace Matela’s lovely spot also. Other family plantings are still in the works.
Dana D’Andraia has lovingly taken the Peace Garden to a special place! Her careful configuration of elegant white bouquets touched by a few purples and silver, have made this a stunning example of creative gardening. Thanks Dana!
Judy Jones worked tirelessly on the BIRHC South end under Wendy’s window and now we have perennials, flowering hydrangeas and spirea to admire. And don’t forget the Hollyhocks folks!!! They look like a fashion runway lineup.
Forest View has been tidied up and added to by the Andersons and Howells with Alana and Sandy working endlessly over there. It’s looking great, ladies.
Also, Betty Scoggin has rescued some new wildflowers for Elle’s walk, Sue Hawkins has been cleaning up the hedgerows, and Bruce Parker trimming and mowing every two weeks. Thank you all! Mary Jane Lawson and Nadra Johnson , thanks for joining us this summer!
Special thanks to Forest View residents Maureen Cull for giving the gnomes and fairies a fresh face in the Fairy Garden, to Diane and Rosalie for their rocks, and Glen LaFreniere for his labor.
Connie, along with her Board duties, will arrange for the fall cleanup, storage, winter decorations, and any need for damage control by weather or otherwise. She will continue to be the go-to person while we Snowbirds are gone this winter. Thank you, Connie!
Lastly, we are so amazed to have our fellow Island gardener, Ken Davis, offer to create a lovely stone wall around the perimeters of our Wellness Gardens. His insistence of “no extra help” from us, other than stones donated, has made our wishes come true. Ken, we can’t thank you enough! (Future news coverage of this project to come.)
As usual, we request any fellow gardeners to consider joining us because we all believe “many hands make light work.”
Before I leave you, let us thank all these donors for our auction which will help pay for the costs this year! :
Dana and Frank D’Andraia, Bruce Struick estate, Red Oak Foundation, Island Airways, Weathervane Inn, Weathervane Restaurant, East Park Tavern, Fresh Air Aviation, Allure Salon, Amical Restaurant, Quiet Moose,
Meyers Ace Hardware, Pinehill Nursery, Jan and Dave Paul, Delores Cochran, Leonor and Bruce Jacobson, Joyce Logan, BI Golf Course, Pat Rowley, Judy Jones, Mary Scholl, Jason Lome, Eve Reid, Charlevoix Ace Hardware, Sylvia Harwood, Diane Scripps, Sharon Long, Jane Early, and the Bounty Basket contributors: Pete LoDico, Alvin LaFreniere, Heidi Vigil, Deb Bousquet, Mark Engelsmann, Patrick McGinnity, Mary Ackers, Dyanne Tracey, Jacque LaFreniere, Darlene Dooley, and Bruce Jacobson.
Many thanks to all of you and all the bidders and winners this year!
Leonor Jacobson, for the Wellness Gardeners
Phyllis' Daily Weather
August 2, 2016
...and it's election day here, so get out and VOTE. I wish it were also the National election as I'm totally sick and tired of all these commercials, silly/sick news stories, Facebook postings, etc. In fact, if you're one of those who repeatedly posts political posts of Facebook, please, Please, PLEASE, do not include me. The good thing about today is that it's $2 Tuesday at the Pub. Anyhow, let's get on with the weather. Right now I'm showing 63°, clear skies, wind at 2 mph from the SE, humidity is at 93% so it's a bit muggy, pressure is steady at 1019 mb, visibility is 6.3 miles, pollen levels are medium at 7.2, and the top allergens are grasses, plantain, and nettle. Today: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Light winds becoming west at 5 to 10 mph in the afternoon. Tonight: Partly cloudy. A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. West winds about 10 mph in the evening, becoming light. MARINE REPORT South wind 5 to 10 knots early in the morning becoming variable at 10 knots or less. Sunny. Waves 2 feet or less. Tonight: South wind 5 to 10 knots. Chance of showers and thunderstorms. Waves 2 feet or less.
On this date of August 2, 1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator.
Did you know that most birds eat twice their body weight each day?
Word of the day: galluses (GAL-uh-siz) which means a pair of suspenders for trousers. Galluses is a variant of gallows meaning "suspenders; braces." It entered English in the early 1800s.
Tuesday: Exercises in Writing #9
by Cindy Ricksgers
Gospel Sing and Concert
August 1, 2016, 7 p.m.
Mike and Shelley Scripps
Mike and Shelley Scripps put together a wonderful full of the spirit gospel sing and concert tonight, August 1st, at the Beaver Island Christian Church. Approximately sixty people attended the event which had everyone involved in the singing of praises with songs that were quite popular.
The performers:
Mom and daughter, Ceska Sutton and "Izzy"
Bill Detwiler and Sheri Timsak
View a gallery of pictures from tonight's performance HERE
View video of the performances HERE
Video and BINN Report for July 2016
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Monday, First Day of August
by Cindy Ricksgers
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Holocaust Survivor Martin LowenbergVideo by Kaylyn Jones HERE |
Phyllis' Daily WeatherAugust 1, 2016August is upon us and it's going to be starting with a beautiful day. Right now it's 63°, wind is at 3 mph from the SE, humidity is at 95% and it feels a bit muggy, pressure is steady at 1019 mb, visibility is 4.6 miles, pollen levels are medium at 6.8, and the top allergens are grasses, plantain, and nettle. Today: Mostly sunny. A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80°. Light winds becoming northeast 5 to 10 in the afternoon. Tonight: Mostly clear. A 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s. Northeast winds at 10 mph in the evening becoming light. MARINE REPORT Today: Light winds becoming northeast 5 to 10 knots in the afternoon. Mostly clear. Waves 2 feet or less. Tonight: Southeast wind 5 to 10 knots. Mostly clear. Waves 2 feet or less. On this date of August 1, 1943 - In the Solomon Islands, the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat PT-109 sank after being hit by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. Eleven of the thirteen crew survived. Did you know that giraffes have no vocal cords? Word of the day: conciliate (kuh n-SIL-ee-eyt) which means to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over. Conciliate stems from the Latin conciliāre meaning "to bring together." It entered English in the mid-1500s. |
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Talking Threads Quilt Guild WEDNESDAYS
Talking Threads Quilt Guild invites all quilters, sewers, knitters, crocheters, weavers, spinners, and any other crafters to Peaine Township Hall on Wednesdays from 9:30 until noon. � Bring your projects, supplies, and enthusiasm. � Call Darlene at 448-2087 if you have questions , or just stop in on Wednesday.
Island Treasures Resale Shop
Open for shopping and donations
If you need help with your donation, call the shop at 448-2534
BIRHC Meeting Dates Set
The board of directors of the BIRHC has set these meetings for 2016:
All are Saturdays at 10 AM in the Community Room at the Center:
Sept 17
December 10 Annual Meeting
Career Pathway: Aviation
Paul Welke speaks about career opportunities in avaiation
(Picture taken from the video)
View video HERE
Beaver Island Internet Access Survey
The Beaver Island Association is working to improve Internet service on the Island. As part of this project, we ask all residents and visitors to complete this short survey on use of Internet while on Beaver Island. The results, posted at the conclusion of the survey, will be used to guide next steps in the project, grant applications, potential partnerships, and so forth.
It will take less than 5 minutes of your time. We greatly appreciate your input. Take the survey HERE
Board of Directors
Beaver Island Association
House Party
A Letter to the Beaver Island Community
A letter to the Beaver Island community,
Let me quickly introduce myself. My name is Terry Grabill, Science Department Chair, Fremont Middle School, Fremont, MI. You may be familiar with me as I’ve been bringing FMS students to Beaver since 1999 as part of a summer science extension through Fremont Public Schools.
We call our program Beaver Island Group and it’s an immensely popular opportunity for our out-going eighth grade students. Our mission is to offer this extension as an opportunity for motivated kids to get an up-close-and-personal experience with field biology and geology. The program has evolved into exploration of the island’s colorful history and community service work.
B.I.G. is housed at CMU’s Biological Station, where we sleep, take our meals and have lab facilities. We partner with BI Historical society, in fact we developed a good relationship.. and friendship with Bill Cashman. Our group constructed and donated the replica gate for the Protar tomb and in 2006 our group performed the enactment of the Strang assassination in town. We partner with the Alliance for the Great Lakes for the past decade through their Adopt-a-Beach program to clean and perform water quality monitoring at the Jewel Gillespie park and Little Sand Bay.
Our program has been greatly successful, in part, because of generous support from our Fremont Area Community Foundation. The foundation, however, has re-assigned our grand eligibility and has cut our funding from $8000 annually to around $3500. I’ve always prided us on being able to offer the program to families with relatively little family contribution, allowing every family to afford to send their kid if he/she is selected for participation. With the decrease in funding, I’m in a position where I either double the family contribution or cut back on programming.
So, I’m asking for help. BIG brings a lot of kids to Beaver and I know lots of families come at the encouragement of BIG alumni. I would like to invite you to help financially to our cause. I’d gladly accept community donations to:
Fremont Public Schools, Beaver Island Group, Terry Grabill, SCI chair, 500 Woodrow, Fremont, MI 49412
Beaver Island---Special Conservation Partner of the Year
This year, the Community of Beaver Island was chosen as our Special Conservation Partner of the Year. The island was selected because of its dedication to maintaining healthy ecosystems by removing or controlling invasive species and by protecting island trees from disease and pests, such as the quarantine against bringing wood onto the island in order to prevent introducing the emerald ash borer. This jewel in Lake Michigan serves as a critical stopover site for birds migrating to and from the Tropics. It also hosts thousands of pairs of many Neotropical - and resident - nesting bird species. Three years ago, a birding trail was launched, drawing hordes of birders to the island. The trail, and subsequent activities and events celebrating birds, has served to significantly raise awareness about the need to continue protecting habitats needed by avifauna.
Jim Jones, Island resident and Beaver Island Association Board Member, traveled to Omena to receive the award. He also accepted a plaque designating Beaver Island the first island in the world to receive a Saving Birds Thru Habitat Certified Bird Habitat award. These awards will hang in the Beaver Island Community Center for all to see and appreciate.
Kay Charter and Jim Jones
On July 21st, Saving Birds Thru Habitat, an organization that promotes protection of habitat for North American birds, presented the Beaver Island community with the Conservation Partner of the Year award. Jim Jones, board member for the Beaver Island Association, received the award for the island community. Beaver Island was doubly honored to accept a second award from Saving Birds Thru Habitat as the first island in the world to be certified for efforts to control invasive species and create healthy habitat for nesting and migratory birds. To showcase premier birding habitats on the island, the Beaver Island Birding Trail was created three years ago and has been visited by birders from across the country. More information on Beaver Island birding can be found at http://www.beaverislandbirdingtrail.org . The economic benefit of the Beaver Island Birding Trail to the island and region is substantial and will continue to be of value to the island economy and its birds.
New Telephone Scam Circulating Charlevoix County
Sheriff W.D. (Don) Schneider would like to warn citizens of the latest telephone scam where suspect(s) telephone citizens posing as representatives of the Charlevoix County Sheriffs’ Office, even using the call back number 231-547-4461. The suspect(s) advise the citizen there are problems with their credit card account, therefore attempting to recover account numbers and information from their credit card account. The suspect(s) are very convincing on the phone while requesting this information.
Charlevoix Sheriff’s Office would never telephone any citizen requesting this type of personal information. A deputy would respond in person to the citizen’s residence.
Please do not EVER give out any personal or financial information over the telephone.
Great Lakes Unbridged Islands
Baroque on Beaver Continues
Tuesday, August 2 @ 7:30 PM – CMU Biological Station – James C. Gillingham Academic Center: “A Chamber Soirée” – Works of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Handel. SPONSOR: James Luteyn
Wednesday, August 3 @ 2:00 PM– Beaver Island Christian Church: “Vocally Yours” – A vocal recital with the Fourth Coast Ensemble and Festival Chorus. SPONSOR: Island Airways
Wednesday, August 3 @ 3:00 PM – St. James Marine Dock (weather permitting): “High and Dry Brass” – Popular favorites with the Beaver Island Brass Quintet. SPONSOR: St. James Marine and Fogg Towing
Thursday, August 4 @ 2:00 PM – Holy Cross Catholic Church: “Metallurgy” – The Beaver Island Brass Quintet plays Bach, Copland, and Arnold. SPONSOR: William Hill Estate Winery
Thursday, August 4 @ 7:30 PM – BI Community School Gym: “A Solo Spectacular” – Mahler Rückert Lieder with Martha Guth; Mozart Piano Concerto No. 15, K. 450 with May Phang. SPONSOR: Munson Healthcare Charlevoix Hospital
Friday, August 5 @ 7:30 PM– Holy Cross Catholic Church: “Nothing but Bach” – With the Festival Orchestra and Fourth Coast Ensemble. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147; Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. SPONSOR: Beaver Island Boat Company
Saturday, August 6 @ 2:00 PM– Livingstone Studio Grounds: “Pop-Up Performance**: Meet the Artists” – Featuring the Donegal Bay Winds. Come on by the studio and enjoy the music of the Donegal Bay Winds as you peruse the creative works of painters, potters, jewelry makers, sculptors, wood workers, photographers, textile designers and other inventivets. SPONSOR: Dudek Insurance Agency Group
Saturday, August 6 @ 7:30 PM– BI Community School Gymnasium: “A Black and White Opera Gala” – With the Festival Orchestra and Chorus. An evening of favorites featuring Martha Guth, Ricardo Lugo, and the Fourth Coast Ensemble. SPONSOR: SpartanNash
Sunday, August 7 @ 2:00 PM– BI Community School Gymnasium: “A Grand Beethoven Finale” – With the Festival Chorus, Orchestra, and May Phang, piano. Overture, “Egmont”; Symphony No. 7; Choral Fantasy. SPONSOR: McDonough’s/Dalwhinnie
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