For the Record – Feb. 13, 2014
by Barb Mastriana
The doctor is in …
Rumor has it, has it, not a clue if it’s true, but the word on the street is that Dr. Berlot is staying at Bucktail Medical Center after all. This news comes after a supposedly private meeting between the doctor and the BMC Board of Directors. I said supposedly private because I’ve heard that there were so many people there that some board members had trouble finding parking space. If the rumors are correct Dr. Berlot is back on the job already.
Hot buttons …
This is just an observation on my part based on minimal research, but the silent majority in Western Clinton County gets noisy if you try to take their school or their hospital. Any attempt to do so brings out their fighting spirit.
Shakin’, rattlin’ and rolling way too fast …
Rumor has it that those big stone trucks, sometimes in convoys of four and five, are shaking windows, rattling nerves and rolling way too fast and way more than 25 miles per hour through Renovo in the morning work traffic hours. Some area residents are asking those truckers to
Please slow down those trucks.
125 minnows to go, 125 minnows …
Rumor has it Matt Linberg is determined not only to bring home the bacon, but to stock up on seafood as well. Matt was overheard telling a friend that he was ready – he had 125 minnows
ready to go fishing.
A logical transition …
Reliable sources tell me there used to be a company in South Renovo that manufactured Fiberglas swimming pools. The pools were sold all over the United States. The company operated for several years but then ran into problems and closed. After the pool company closed another business began manufacturing Fiberglas bomb shelters in the same plant. Rumor has it, not a clue if it’s true, but I heard the shelters were pools turned upside down an opening for an air pipeline. I’m not clear about how long the bomb shelter business remained. But if I understand the concept, the buyers and I hear there was a good market for the bomb shelters – it was during the cold war era – anyway the buyers
had to have the hole dug and a cement wall built to set the shelter on. I’m not sure what if any warranty came with the shelters. As I think about it, I’m wondering who you would sue if the shelter didn’t survive a bomb attack or prevent your demise. Of course you couldn’t sue if you didn’t survive.
The weather outside is frightening …
It’s been a cold, cold winter with more snow and ice than many of us care to have. We’ve made it through our “Grandmother’s January” as a headline in The Record called it. And we’ve been digging our way out of February for two weeks. And there’s every likelihood there’s more of the same to come.
It could be worse. In an article about the old Bridgen’s House in North Bend written some years ago by the late Leonard Parucha, he tells about how the house was “Inundated in Ice Flood of 1945. Mr. Parucha wrote about his home on River Road being flooded by ice on Feb. 23, 1945. Parucha, in his article credited Renovo Librarian Vivian Sackarnoski for her help in relating the following chronology of the flood from microfilm files of The Renovo Record.
The ice on the river started moving at 9:45 in the morning. School was dismissed at 10 o’clock. Ice was pushing into streets from 11th Street down Huron Avenue and from 9th street down Ontario Avenue, tearing out fences. Water flooded yards and cellars. The shop siren sounded. At 12:40 p.m. another warning sounded. Ice was jammed at Hyner, and River Road at North Bend flooded, covered with ice and homes flooded.
Parucha’s house, the old Bridgen’s house, was among those flooded. The house had been built in 1845. Leonard and his wife bought it in 1939 from Mrs. Jesse Barner. It had been subject to various floods through the years including the 1889 flood, the Great Flood of 1936 and the 1972 flood.
Parucha wrote that the during 1945 flood the ice backed up the top of the porch roof, resulting I five feet of water in the house. The Parucha’s left the house as the ice was being pushed up onto the lawn.
Happy Valentine’s Day …
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. The residents at Bucktail Medical Center will be getting a special Valentine’s treat, music provided by Bud & The Dynamics on Friday, Valentine’s Day.
