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Peter Wettstein Stimulates Kiwanians Brains

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Monday Morning

We had 17 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, former member, Peter Wettstein. “Happy Bucks” were offered up by Del Waldschmidt for being back after his recent overhaul at St. Luke’s, Dan Leeds for announcing that City Lights is again doing Valentine’s Day singing telegrams for $40 and to promote Trinity Baptist School’s 2nd Annual Souped Up fundraiser on Thursday, March 6th, Vickie Goldapske for Ron and Jackson’s 80 lb. sturgeon that they speared on Saturday morning and were on TV’s “Good Day Wisconsin Show” and Dave Lefeber who was thankful that Del and his cheese curd knowledge were back. Dave Twohig was the 50/50 Raffle winner and he drew the Jack of Spades, a non-winner. Next week’s drawing will have 33 cards with 7 pay cards and a pot of at least $255.

 Peter Wettstein, Deep Brain Stimulation

Former member, Peter Wettstein, joined us on Monday morning to talk about his journey with Parkinson’s Disease. Peter was diagnosed about five years ago and at that time was relatively well controlled with medications. Unfortunately the effectiveness of the medication waned over the past five years to the point that he was afraid he would have to stop working.  That’s when he began the journey of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Peter’s doctors at Froedtert/Medical College of Wisconsin (MCOW) tested Peter to see if he was a candidate for DBS and if it could potentially help with his symptoms. After testing it was determined that he was and Peter had the first surgical phase of DBS on October 15th of 2013. The second phase was on November 15th of 2013. After phase 1 & 2 Peter now had electrodes implanted deep into his brain. Phase three was done on November 21st when they implanted the electrical generator in his right chest/shoulder area and then they energized the system on December 2nd. After several trips to the ER and adjustments at Froedtert Peter’s tremors have been significantly controlled to the point that he has his life back. He’s back to a regular work schedule and again enjoys many of the activities that he had to give up over the past couple of years.

FdL Wastewater Treatment Process Explained

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Monday Morning

There were 20 members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, Autumn Fisher, Dave Krug’s wife Beckie and Paula Thalacker from the Noon Club. “Happy Bucks” were offered up by Dan Leeds for a successful school auction fundraisers last Friday, Jan Krug for Del’s going home from St. Francis, Harry Schneider for his lucky numbers in the Super Bowl, and Paula Thalacker ($2) for our Club getting up so early and for letting her sell tickets to their Feb 20th grilled cheese and chili fundraiser. Vickie Goldapske was the 50/50 Raffle winner and she drew the Eight of Diamonds, a non-winner. Next week’s drawing will have 34 cards with seven pay cards and a pot of at least $240.

Autumn Fisher, Fond du Lac Waste Water Treatment Plant

Autumn Fisher, Dave Krug’s niece, joined us on Monday to talk about the FDL Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). Autumn is a graduate of UW-Oshkosh with a degree in Chemistry and has been a Laboratory Analyst/Chemist at the FDL WWTP for the past six years. Autumn distributed a nicely done color brochure that told the history of the FDL WWTP and outlined the process that waste follows through the plant. It also presented a number of pictures and diagrams that showed the plant at various stages of its existence. Autumn also had a PowerPoint that helped her show the various stages that exist in the FDL WWTP and what each of those processes accomplishes in the waste treatment process. Autumn also talked about the various plant expansions that have occurred over the years and how that’s impacted the capacity of the plant and the efficiency and improved water quality that has resulted from those expansions. Autumn also talked in some detail about the probable changes in the State of Wisconsin regulations related to phosphorus and allowable limits in the waste water end result. The current limits are 1.0 mg/L monthly average and FDL WWTP averages 0.7 mg/L. It looks like the new State regulations will be in .04 mg/L. As Autumn put it so well, we can meet those limits, it’s just a matter of what it will cost to meet the new limits. It will not be cheap.

Linus Doll Reminisces with Kiwanians

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Monday Morning

There were 14 hearty members at Monday’s meeting along with our guest speaker, Linus Doll.  Jan Krug had two “Happy Bucks” one for Del’s retirement and one for her husband, Mike’s, retirement.  Del is still in ICU but they’re getting him up and moving so hopefully he’ll get to a regular room in the very near future.  Prayers are still welcomed for Del’s ongoing recovery.  John Cooper was the 50/50 Raffle winner for the second week in a row.  He drew the Eight of Clubs so he still wasn’t a winner. Next week’s drawing will have 36 cards with seven pay cards and a pot of at least $212.

Linus Doll

Linus Doll joined us on Monday morning to talk about his life and experiences in Fond du Lac.  Linus will be 88 in April so he has a lot of memories of the current and past Fond du Lac area.  Linus was born in Marblehead, the youngest of 15 children.  He attended Fond du Lac High School and graduated in 1943.  He went to the Navy after high school and was discharged in 1946.  He married his wife in 1948 and they in turn had six children.  Linus reminisced about things like his many jobs but his favorite was at Fond du Lac Lumber.