July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Volunteer thanks foundation (5/24/05)
Letters to the Editor
By To the editor:-
(Editor’s note: Leoris Williams recently received the Jack Cole Award for Volunteerism by The Portland Foundation).
On June 28, 2004, I and many other volunteers worked on the Habitat for Humanity house being built in Portland. It was also our 51st wedding anniversary. The house was set in record time and I got through in time to take my wife, Betty Jean, out for a nice meal.
On June 29, I was working at The Museum of the Soldier. Dr. Eugene Gillum and I had been volunteering our time reworking the front offices — plastering, painting and refinishing woodwork. That morning, I was working alone. About three-fourths of the ceiling was ready to paint. The scaffold was set up and the walk plant was about six feet off the concrete floor. Turning slightly to open a paint can, my heel slipped off the plank. The next thing I knew, I saw myself standing straight up in mid-air about two feet away from the scaffold. I saw no angels, but I know I had help getting to that position, because I did not fall backwards. I feel straight down in a standing position. Landing on both feet, I sustained five fractures to my right leg and one to my left knee.
Taken first to Jay County Hospital for X-rays and evaluation, I was then transferred to Ball Memorial Hospital for surgery on my right hip. After five days I returned to Jay County Hospital for therapy in the swing bed unit. After 41 days there, I moved to AmeriCare Living Center for continuing rehabilitatio and therapy. I returned home on Oct. 9.
By early December, it was apparent the hip was not healing properly, so on Dec. 10 I returned to Ball for a total hip replacement. I came home Dec. 29.
Now I’m taking physical therapy with Roy Adams and his excellent staff. I am beginning to walk a little without a walker, but still need it and a wheelchair for any distance.
From the JEMS staff to everyone at Jay County and Ball hospitals and AmeriCare, I received excellent and compassionate care.
I am very thankful, because if I had landed a different way the outcome could have been much worse. I’ll be glad when I’m able to do more volunteer work.
I am very grateful for the honor of receiving the Jack Cole Award for Volunteerism.
I would like to donate the $250 award to The Museum of the Soldier. It is a worthwhile enterprise that everyone can see and understand the sacrifices that were made and are being made for our freedom. The Museum of the Soldier is becoming a wonderful attraction for Jay County.
I would like to thank The Portland Foundation for the marvelous job it does for our community and Jay County.
Leoris J. Williamson
Portland
Shop wisely
To the editor:
Every week for the last six months I have made at least three trips to Muncie and one or two trips to Indianapolis. During that entire time there have been only a few weeks where I was unable to fill my tank for 10 to 20 cents less per gallon than the cost in Portland. In the last two weeks I have filled up four times for less than $2 per gallon.
If you ask shoppers at Pak-A-Sak if they can buy gas as cheap as in a neighboring county, the answer is no. If you ask the same question at Shell or Village Pantry, the answer is no. The answer is always no.
On Friday, May 13, gas at the Village Pantry in Portland and the Pak-A-Sak in Redkey was $2.19 per gallon. The Village Pantry in Albany and the one on Ind. 67 south of Muncie both had gas for $1.98 per gallon.
That is 21 cents less per gallon. And down in the Capitol, one gallon cost me only $1.93.
What’s in your tank?
Stephen Erwin
Portland
Good job, CR
To the editor:
We have been noticing a lot more pictures in The Commercial Review of our local children playing and enjoying the nice weather. It is exciting to see pictures of familiar faces, read about who they are, and then realize they are from our own community.
Thanks to all of you at The Commercial Review who helped make this a part of our hometown newspaper. Keep up the good work.
David and Jenny Bricker
Portland
Help appreciated
To the editor:
The annual golf tournament to benefit the Center for Neurological Development in Burkettsville, Ohio was held on May 7 at the Portland Golf Club, with a total raised of $1,200.
The event sponsors wish to thank the following businesses for their generous donations to the event: Team sponsors Fort Recovery Equity, Pax Machine Works, Big Al’s Pizza & Carryout and McSober’s/Philothea Country Club; McSober’s and St. Henry Tile for hole sponsorships; Les Wenning Motors for sponsoring hole-in-one prizes; C&G Distributing for door prize donations; Thienman’s Sports Bar & Grill for donating the after-tournament food; and finally, to all those who participated and generously donated all their winnings back to the center.
Tom Remaklus,
tournament director[[In-content Ad]]
On June 28, 2004, I and many other volunteers worked on the Habitat for Humanity house being built in Portland. It was also our 51st wedding anniversary. The house was set in record time and I got through in time to take my wife, Betty Jean, out for a nice meal.
On June 29, I was working at The Museum of the Soldier. Dr. Eugene Gillum and I had been volunteering our time reworking the front offices — plastering, painting and refinishing woodwork. That morning, I was working alone. About three-fourths of the ceiling was ready to paint. The scaffold was set up and the walk plant was about six feet off the concrete floor. Turning slightly to open a paint can, my heel slipped off the plank. The next thing I knew, I saw myself standing straight up in mid-air about two feet away from the scaffold. I saw no angels, but I know I had help getting to that position, because I did not fall backwards. I feel straight down in a standing position. Landing on both feet, I sustained five fractures to my right leg and one to my left knee.
Taken first to Jay County Hospital for X-rays and evaluation, I was then transferred to Ball Memorial Hospital for surgery on my right hip. After five days I returned to Jay County Hospital for therapy in the swing bed unit. After 41 days there, I moved to AmeriCare Living Center for continuing rehabilitatio and therapy. I returned home on Oct. 9.
By early December, it was apparent the hip was not healing properly, so on Dec. 10 I returned to Ball for a total hip replacement. I came home Dec. 29.
Now I’m taking physical therapy with Roy Adams and his excellent staff. I am beginning to walk a little without a walker, but still need it and a wheelchair for any distance.
From the JEMS staff to everyone at Jay County and Ball hospitals and AmeriCare, I received excellent and compassionate care.
I am very thankful, because if I had landed a different way the outcome could have been much worse. I’ll be glad when I’m able to do more volunteer work.
I am very grateful for the honor of receiving the Jack Cole Award for Volunteerism.
I would like to donate the $250 award to The Museum of the Soldier. It is a worthwhile enterprise that everyone can see and understand the sacrifices that were made and are being made for our freedom. The Museum of the Soldier is becoming a wonderful attraction for Jay County.
I would like to thank The Portland Foundation for the marvelous job it does for our community and Jay County.
Leoris J. Williamson
Portland
Shop wisely
To the editor:
Every week for the last six months I have made at least three trips to Muncie and one or two trips to Indianapolis. During that entire time there have been only a few weeks where I was unable to fill my tank for 10 to 20 cents less per gallon than the cost in Portland. In the last two weeks I have filled up four times for less than $2 per gallon.
If you ask shoppers at Pak-A-Sak if they can buy gas as cheap as in a neighboring county, the answer is no. If you ask the same question at Shell or Village Pantry, the answer is no. The answer is always no.
On Friday, May 13, gas at the Village Pantry in Portland and the Pak-A-Sak in Redkey was $2.19 per gallon. The Village Pantry in Albany and the one on Ind. 67 south of Muncie both had gas for $1.98 per gallon.
That is 21 cents less per gallon. And down in the Capitol, one gallon cost me only $1.93.
What’s in your tank?
Stephen Erwin
Portland
Good job, CR
To the editor:
We have been noticing a lot more pictures in The Commercial Review of our local children playing and enjoying the nice weather. It is exciting to see pictures of familiar faces, read about who they are, and then realize they are from our own community.
Thanks to all of you at The Commercial Review who helped make this a part of our hometown newspaper. Keep up the good work.
David and Jenny Bricker
Portland
Help appreciated
To the editor:
The annual golf tournament to benefit the Center for Neurological Development in Burkettsville, Ohio was held on May 7 at the Portland Golf Club, with a total raised of $1,200.
The event sponsors wish to thank the following businesses for their generous donations to the event: Team sponsors Fort Recovery Equity, Pax Machine Works, Big Al’s Pizza & Carryout and McSober’s/Philothea Country Club; McSober’s and St. Henry Tile for hole sponsorships; Les Wenning Motors for sponsoring hole-in-one prizes; C&G Distributing for door prize donations; Thienman’s Sports Bar & Grill for donating the after-tournament food; and finally, to all those who participated and generously donated all their winnings back to the center.
Tom Remaklus,
tournament director[[In-content Ad]]
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