4 unit newsjun 04, 2020 · 4 unit meeting dates: wednesday: july 1, august 5, saturday, september...

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4 Unit News Central Ohio Retired Firefighters

Chapter Twelve

www.centohretfirefighters.com [email protected]

June/July 2020

WHAT’S INSIDE - President’s Report Page 3 - Random Thoughts - Birthdays Page 4 Donations – Chaplains Corner Page 6 - Good & Wel-fare Page 9 - 4 Unit Women Page - 11 - Applica-tion/Dues Form

4 Unit Officers: President, Gary Church; Vice President, Bill Balthaser; Trustees, Dale Miller, Albert Allen, Gary Wells; Sgt. At Arms, Bill Hanf; Secretary, Kevin Michael; Recording Secre-tary, Terry Hetzer; Treasurer, Darylee Foerstsch; Chaplain, Larry Baker and Myron Ingram; News Editor, Cecil Goodrich.

4 Unit Meeting Dates: Wednesday: July 1, August 5, Saturday, September 5, Annual Picnic at Buckeye Lake Park. These dates are proposed dates if the Covid 19 is cleared, then we can re-sume our regular schedule.

NOTE: Dues for 2020 will not be accepted after June 30, 2020. In addition, 2021 dues will not be accepted until after October 1, 2019.

Presidents Report May 2020 Hello to everyone, I hope that all of our 4 Unit members are staying healthy and safe during this difficult time. I wish I had more to report, but due to the Covid 19 virus there has not been much to report on. The Pension Board has been conduct-ing their business in closed meetings. Which you can watch thru a website they have made availa-ble. You should be receiving a letter from the Pension Board the lets us know that we will all be receiving our checks on time. The people that are getting ready to retire will be interviewed by phone. It sounds like they are trying to get some of the office duties back to a more normal status. They also stated that there will be no Health Care meetings thru the end of this year. Our annual audit has been postponed till May 21, 2020 due to the virus. We wanted to make it

as safe as possible for the members involved. Local 67 has just opened its doors again. But are only allowing small numbers into the build-ing, maintaining the social distancing advised by the Governor. As of now we have cancelled the June meeting, but are looking into the possibility of a meeting in July. Any information regarding our meetings will be on the 4 Unit website until things get back to normal. After speaking with Bill Balthaser and Bob Elfine, we thought it best to postpone our An-nual Banquet till a later date, possibly in the fall. We are trying to keep our members as safe as possible, because most of us are in the high-risk category. Please check the website for the most current information. The 4 Unit Newslet-ter will be missing the minutes from the past two months due to those meetings being can-celled. Faternally, Gary A. Church.

You know you’re getting old when you can’t walk past a bathroom without thinking, “I might as well go while I’m here!” At my age, rolling out of bed in the morning is the easy part. Getting off the floor is a whole other story!

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4 Unit News June/July 2020

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30 Charles Clouse 31 Steve Landes Juanita Lowther Zeta Neff SEPTEMBER 2 Donald Boso 3 John Beard Edward Sheets 4 Louis Hoyer Harry Jahn Danny Sells Dwayne White 5 Warren Cox Bill Hanf 6 Robert Coles Ruth Henderson 7 Betty Hamilton 8 Michael Fowler Robert Willison 11 James Butts Kevin Michael Ruth Sims 13 Gary Church 14 Phil Snyder 16 Dave Morbitzer Bill Nickelwarth 17 Michael Bates

Darrell Bebout Patrick McCabe Steven Engler Bonnie Helsel- Sevastos

18 Jeffrey Fletcher Michael Melfi

19 Richard Luzder 20 Michael Mitchell 21 John Good 22 Delmar Williams 23 Michael Bidlack

Kevin Schell 24 William Henestofel 25 James McVay 26 Tom Heinlen

Ruth Kemmerling 27 Tommy Hackett

Michael Miller 28 Rick Leaver 29 Marty Murphy

Timothy Sauer 30 William Brobst, Jr.

Dale Ingram Thomas Pettit

Happy Birthday

August 2 Wayne Bloomfield Robert Steele, Jr. Marie Weber 3 William Keller William Mitchell Robert Moore, Jr. Ronald Rader 5 Robert Guisinger Mark Watkins 6 George Roat 7 Jeffrey Smith 8 Jeff Cotner Charles Johnson Roy Morello 9 Janis Bernans, Jr. Steve Hein John Hill John Simkins 10 James McConaha 12 Dave Belcher Larry Hilbert 13 Leonard Figiola Roger Heller 14 James Evans 15 Frank DeCarlo David Lucas 16 Dale Miller Wanda Ross 17 Donald Dolby Michael Massie 18 Gene Shepherd 19 Richard Jahn John Shoup 20 John Higgins Jerry McFerin 21 Floyd Bostic 22 Anthony Khoury 23 Stuart Johnson John Brining Lee Collett Jeffrey Walker 26 Stephen Bendure Joseph Keefer Kenton McCoy Jr. 27 Larry Baker Daniel Green John Slagle 28 Larry Geiger Clara Hanf

RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM MOM By Gary Siniff

Last fall I wrote down this thought and let it set and then shared it with a couple of retirees. A little of it was used last November. I thought maybe in today’s world I’d share it and think of today’s firefighter hero who is facing dangers we never thought of because they were in mov-ies not real life. May they protect each other as we did and someday be one of us. Yes, I know we were just doing our job and didn’t consider ourselves heroes, but to the kid you waved at from the truck and the life you just saved you will always be a Hero. Where have all the Heroes gone? We say they have PT’d to 5 Unit, a place of honor in our minds. I remember when a frequent visitor to Station 192 one Dennis George, CFD retiree would be teased about cheating the pension sys-tem having been retired for over 25 years. Den-ny has to be laughing because I am now a 25 year retiree along with a lot of others. In spite of the abuses to our minds and bodies our profes-sion heaped upon us, we have survived. Over the last 25 years myself and other Cen-tral Ohio Retired Firefighters have made the last visit to say goodbye to those who PT’d to 5 Unit. Sometimes we went out of respect and oth-er times we fought back the tears because we had spent a lifetime together sharing life’s ups and downs and they took a lot of our deepest secrets to their graves, things that we would not share with anyone else . It is good that firefight-ers have two families to get through life’s trav-els but twice as hard to say goodbye. Why is an old retiree writing these sad words, it’s because three firefighters who I have known for 50 years have PT’d to 5 Unit in a 3 week span and it made me think that we should cher-ish out time together and when those left behind need our help we are there because we are and always will be FIREFIGHTERS. This is not an article for the HOST Program, but as a post script I must write that is our finest moment to help a spouse left behind.

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CHAPLAIN’S

CORNER

YA GOTTA LAUGH

Someday we old folks will use cursive writing as a Secret Code!

DONATIONS - 4-24-20 John Casey Robert Dadum Kathleen Ebersbach David Farrand Dave Karn Alfred Plesse Ronald Rader Naomi Roberts-Sturm Donald Salsburey Nancy Shively Phil Snyder

Brian Willison Bob Wintering Russell Young James Zeisler Florida Chapter DONATIONS 5-7-20 John Burkey Richard Callahan James Evans Total - $484.00

I have been privileged to be in community with police, fire and military veterans who suffer from PTS. The one factor they all have in com-mon is a medium to high ASES score. I don’t have the time or space to explain the meaning of the 10 question test and its effect on the human brain and body, but you can look it up on the Net (aces score). But in short; the test results show how your childhood history can and does affect how you brain handles the stress and trauma in our lives and the health affects both mentally and physically on our lives. Now the key word is history, some people call it baggage. Moses carried some baggage that affected his life, abandoned, confused identity, killed a man, slow of speech, etc. On top of all that he is confronted by God and uses his history to argue with God and his call to God’s service. God stops the argument when Moses asks (Exodus 3:14) God said “I am who I Am.” Stop looking back Moses. That’s what we do look back, tell the stories, judge each other, causing our brothers and sisters to ask who am I. Poet Helen Mallicoat (1913-2004) reminds us of the significance of that truth: I was regretting the past and feared the future. Suddenly My Lord was speaking: “My name is I Am.” He paused. I waited. He continued,” “When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I WAS.” “When you live in the future, with its prob-lems and fears, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not I WILL BE.” “When you live in this moment, it is not hard.

I am here. My name is I Am.” God is not bound by time He is in the past and the future. But those of us who are bound by time need to live life in the present. “And he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am His Own.” Aren’t you glad God is the God of the here and now? Blessings to all. Chaplin Myron

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SICK LIST:

Cliff Sharpe

Gerald Walker

Bill Mason - Home

Terry Foor

George Popovich, Sage Park, 5201 Morse

Rd. Gahanna, OH

Gary Littleton

Tom Green, Hospice at Home

Don Boso, Home

Bill Diamond- Home

Jim Duffy – Licking Memorial Hosp

Leroy Johnson - OSU East Room #310

Tom Hackett

Paul White– New Albany Rehabilitation

Center

Kerry Ellis– Home, Needs a kidney,

B+ Blood

GOOD AND WELFARE

4 UNIT WOMEN (Wives and Widows) We invite all 4 Unit Women to our group luncheon/meetings held on the 1st Wednes-day of each month. September 7th is the Pic-nic at Buckeye Lake Park at noon. Up Coming Meetings, July 1 and August 5, at 11:00 am. These dates are proposed dates , it the Covid 19 virus is cleared we can resume our regular schedule Location: O’Charleys restaurant at 6285 Cleveland Ave., Columbus, OH 43231 Directions: Exit I-270 onto Cleveland Ave. South, O’Charleys is at the first traffic light on the right on Community Park Dr. COME AND JOIN US FOR FRIENDSHIP, FOOD AND FUN!

Captain Lee Curry The book talks about how the Fire Depart-ment was ran; different fires and rescues; training; histories of fires, past and present; and the danger of the job, along with a of fun-ny stories in and around the Fire Department. Captain Lee Curry had more than thirty- five years in the fire service. He has made nu-merous rescues and saved a lot of lives. He served on one of the busiest rescues and was on the bomb squad for twenty-five years. He has done about every job in the fire depart-ment. Captain Curry started as crash rescue crew member in the USAF. After discharge, he was a firefighter on the Newark and Columbus (Ohio) Fire Departments. When he started in the old fire department, the equipment was a lot different than it is today and has now moved on to a more modern department. Look for: Rescue and Firehouse Memories At: Links for book on line www.authorhouse.com www.Amazon.com www.barnesandnoble.com

Bob (Ellmo)Moore, Jr.

Bob Dadum, Eldercare (Call First)

614-777-5850 2479 Punderson Rd.

Hilliard, OH

Don Brunton

David Hartsoe - Shoulder Cancer,

(614) 313-1252, But no visitors,

please.

THOSE IN ASSISTED LIVING

Tony Ingram

Wexner Jewish Center

Morgan Hall

Geri Pennell

Green Hills Community

6557 US 68 South

West Liberty, OH 43357

PT’d to 5 UNIT 2020

Gary R. Philips, Ret. FF, CFD 03-18-2020

Russ O. Barton, Ret. Lt. CFD 04-19-2020

Michael D. Widner, Ret. Lt. FRT

05-09-2020

Donald Reese, Ret. Chief, JAT 05-21-2020

Jack F. Hughes, Ret. Capt. PET,

05-17-2020

Carl Clark, Ret. FF, CFD 05-26-2020

Widows:

Juanita Fussnecker - Wife of Sam,

03-13-2020

Drucilla (Anne) Doucette, Wife of David,

02—28-2020

Marianne Sells, Wife of Marvin, 04-20-2020

Betty Wooten, Wife of Earl, 05-14-2020

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2020 CENTRAL OHIO RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS - 4-UNIT 2020 2019

F/F or Widow

Name DOB Address City St. Zip Code Tele:(____)- Date Retired: Department Spouse’s Name DOB Email Address Cell Phone ( ) 4 Unit dues - C.O.R.F. $10.00 State dues - P.F.R.O $25.00 Donations to 4- Unit News $ Decals 4-Unit $1.00 ea. Decals State-P.F.R.O $1.00 ea. 2019-2020 4 Unit Roster $5.00 ea. TOTAL: $

PLEASE ENCLOSE A SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE with your application

OR YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD WILL NOT BE MAILED BACK TO YOU.

**Our dues are due and payable each year by January 1st. Be sure to fill in all the information requested on the application, it is all important. Be sure to include a self addressed envelope. Mail your envelope and application

form back to me at the address listed above and I will process it for you.

Make check payable to 4-Unit C.O.R.F. for dues in the amount of $35.00, plus any other options selected and then mail to: Darylee Foertsch P.O. Box 340853 Columbus, OH 43234 By using this application, you do not have to pay any other dues.

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