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Making Fond du Lac County Great

Monday Morning

There were 20 members and two guests present at the Monday meeting. Allen Buechel was the guest and speaker. Curtis Carter was the guest of Dan Leeds. Vicente was installed as our newest member. Jim did the grace. Mark was our greeter. Charlene did humor for the day. Happy dollars, Pete was happy for a great Midwinter. Gary was happy for our newest member. Mark was happy to take his family to Lion King.  Steve is happy to celebrate his daughter’s birthday. Pete bought four awards home for our club from Mid-winter. For interclub we got the Round Robin. We earned the Distinguish Club award for last year. Mark was winner and loser. He picked the two of diamonds. There are 43 cards left with a pot of $130.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, you can like our page.  

Fond du Lac County Update, Allen Buechel

Allen has been supervisor and county executive for around 43 years. Allen presented the new plan for new intersection of Hwy 23 and K. Good news; the state should start work on Hwy 23 this year in Sheboygan County. They have $19.4 million to start this year. Bad news, they wouldn’t finish at Hwy K until 2022. The County hopes to start the railroad overpass at Hwy N (Kinker Rd.) this fall. It will cost about $4.5 million but will stop the blockage of roads North of Fond du Lac by trains. Take a ride to South Hickory to see the new County Garage. This will replace the one on Dixie St. In addition it will have an outdoor shooting range; Sheriff’s impound lot and storage for Senior Service vehicles. Around May 1st the County/City building will have new security check point entrance. All traffic will enter thru the North door.

Fond du Lac County Plans Projects Aplenty for 2018

Monday Morning

There were 16 members and three guests at our Monday meeting. Allen Buechel was our guest speaker. Nathan Arkon and Rachel Hays visited us from the Fond du Lac Key Club. Harry and Sharon were our greeters. Sharon had grace.  Gary, Mark and Pete had a happy bucks Welcome back Mark.  Charlene had humor. Charlene needs candy for the Cardinal Singers. Gary Miller was our winner and winner. He drew the five of clubs for $5.00. There are 47 cards left and a pot of $82.00. Remember that we have a Kiwanis web page and Facebook. If you are on Facebook, like our page.

Fond du Lac County, Allen Buechel

Allen is the Fond du Lac County Executive. In order to please the Federal judge, they will update the traffic counts on Hwy 23. The state hopes to restart construction in late October 2018 in Plymouth. There will be interchanges at G, UU and K. They are planning a new county garage at South Hickory at the bypass. In 2019, a new roundabout will be added at the K/C Hall on Fond du Lac Avenue. Mercury Marine report, their $50,000,000 loan has help grow employment of 1,526 to 3,100 in eight years. With Alliance Laundry’s $6,500.000 loan, it helped grow the company to1,000 employees. The opioid drug epidemic impacts schools, law enforcement, Social Services, court system, jail, and drug abuse programs. In response, the county is suing the drug companies to help fund these problems. For more information, go to the county web page or visit the monthly county board meeting.

County Medical Examiner Speaks to Kiwanis


Monday Morning
We had 17 members at our Monday meeting along with our guest speaker, Dr. Kristinza Giese from the Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner’s Office. Bonnie Baerwald had a “Happy Buck” thanking everyone that helped at last Friday’s Relay for Life Brat Fry. Gary Miller is putting together an InterClub to the FDL Evening Club on Wednesday evening, August 14th to hear about a Police Department program on Internet crime and how the local Kiwanis Clubs might be able to help. Jan Krug was the 50/50 Raffle Winner and she drew the Nine of Hearts, not a winner. Next week’s drawing will have 14 cards, four pay cards and a pot of at least $489.

Dr. Kristinza Giese, FdL County Medical Examiner
Dr. Giese is a forensic pathologist and has been in the FDL County Medical Examiner’s (MEO) office for about a year. She went to medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin and did her pathology residency in Washington State. According to Dr. Giese it takes about 13 years of training to be certified as a forensic pathologist. The Medical Examiner’s Office determines whether a death falls within their legal jurisdiction, as outlined in Wisconsin State Statutes. To arrive at this decision may require information from many sources: witnesses, family and friends; information from personal physicians and medical records; information from law enforcement agencies; information from the scene investigation, etc. While this process is underway, the decedent’s body may be transported to the FDL County MEO for temporary storage. Based on the information collected during the death investigation, the Medical Examiner will then consider the facts of each case individually, and determine whether it falls within the legal jurisdiction of the office. If the FDL MEO assumes jurisdiction, the Medical Examiner will then decide what level of investigation/examination is necessary to determine the cause and manner of death.
The question was asked if Dr. Giese’s job was anything close to CSI. Unfortunately, it’s not. It’s much more methodical and lengthy than TV portrays.