call and is especially tricky to dispose of as it can’t be sold, being already considered to have been contaminated if not new. And while there may be some good deals in store for the truly enterprising via opportunities posted online, it was made known at the town board meeting that “two dollars on a fire truck won’t be accepted” as a legitimate bid for those in search of some inexpensive vintage wheels. Regarding the disposal of the old fire equipment, moreover, it was shared that the State of Wisconsin had an auction service made for just such a purpose, although online sale was also an option.

It was further shared that the township had to be careful about opening the sale to the public, as well as that while in the past it had been relatively easy to give fire gear to other countries with little to nothing of the sort, this was no longer the case—it just wasn’t as easy to dispose of as before. Among the other actions taken at the June meeting in regard to the Lublin District’s disbandment at the June meeting was a resolution to let the Thorp Area Fire District charge for fees which had formerly gone to the Lublin Area Fire District, along with a motion made to choose a representative to sit on the fire board, this ultimately being Supervisor Tom Dubiak, who was nominated by Supervisor Dave Shewczyk.

“So at this time I’d like to make a nomination,” Shewczyk announced of Dubiak being the representative for Roosevelt and Lublin on the Thorp Fire Board. Shewczyk’s nomination was seconded by Town Chairman Gerard Nicpon and passed without incident at the June 10th meeting.

From the local fire department situation it was on into local township roads, which had reportedly not fared too bad of late, given the rain that Tropical Storm Cristobal had just dumped on the area the night before. Two culverts on Diamond and Sixth would need to be looked at, while a bigger culvert was reportedly needed on another road to adequately handle the water flow. And the bottom of the culvert in question? Rotten, “like most of them.” It wasn’t immediately clear if this statement referred to metal rust or else wood decaying over time, the latter relating to box culverts. The Second Law of Thermodynamics, after all, neither strikes at random, nor does it take prisoners. Toward the close of the meeting, a motion was made by Supervisor Shewczyk and seconded by Dubiak to pay the bills, with a motion by Supervisor Dubiak that was seconded by Shewczyk to adjourn following shortly thereafter, being passed without a dissent from the board members present. For those wishing to attend, the annual meeting for the Town of Roosevelt will be July 21st at 7:00 p.m., being pushed off before due to present exigencies.