www.postcrescent.com FROM PAGE ONE The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Fox Cities, Wis. BA-3 TEAMWORK; Help received from many Grand Chute Fire Town officials are proposing a and medical emergencies. The within five minutes 90 percent Department response new fire station to provide quicker response to fires fire department has a goal of arriving at scenes of the time. fH Post-Crescent photo by Patrick Ferron JASON BARRETT of Carew Golf Cars unloads the vehicles Thursday at Memorial Park in Neenah that will be used during the 2006 U.S. Youth Soccer Midwest Regional Championships.
A total of 73 golf cars will be in use for the tournament, 32 of them in Neenah. rjh p. i Grand Chute Ji 1 gj i. fc-yv-rffU Gordon Bubolz fJrl tf Nature Preserve HHJ ft- Appleton --J gj I I I fl 55 -D i JpEEEH River mmmtm JTnJ. -jqjl-" I 3 Current response times by zone Ur 0-5 minutes 7 5-8 minutes eT ij 8-11 minutes -y-- LJ I 11-14 minutes From A-l "Nothing had been attempted on this scale here, with this kind of level of cooperation." The tournament is a joint effort by the Appleton Soccer Club and the Paper Valley Youth Soccer Club in Neenah, but so many other soccer-lovers jumped in to help.
"It's been a true effort among all the teams in the East Central Soccer District," said Bill Juen, president of the Appleton Soccer Club. "This is the first time the Region II has even been held in Wisconsin, so we've been planning for years." Spirit of cooperation Besides the 23 soccer clubs, other public and private organizations had to collaborate to make the event a reality, said co-chairman Peter Mariahazy, also vice president of the Wisconsin Youth Soccer Associa tion. He said city advocacy groups, regional and state soccer organizations, Appleton and Neenah mayors, tourism organizations, businesses and city Micke and park recreations departments all did their share. "There were at least five nonprofits, at least 10 or 12 in-kind business supporters, like Miller Electric and Boldt, and the convention and visitors bureau," Mariahazy said. "It's huge.
To say there are 50 to 60 groups helping out on this is not an exaggeration." The city groups Future Neenah and Appleton Downtown Inc. pitched in to coordinate today's opening event for 9,000 people and a free concert Sunday in Neenah. a great opportunity to spotlight Midwest hospitality," said Karen Harkness executive director of Future Neenah. "(ADI's) Jennifer Allyn and I had a hard time saying no." The spirit of collaboration was part of the reason the Fox Cities coalition scored the winning bid for the tournament in October 2003 in Chicago, beating out Indianapolis. In that bid presentation, representatives of both public and is Source: Grand Chute Fire Department Post-Crescent graphic by Jim Rosandick STATION: Six positions would be added OntheWeb Grand Chute Fire Department's strategic plan: 1 www.grandchute.net would expand the depart-, ment's full-time payroll to 16, while reducing its reliance on a paid-on-call roster of about 50 firefighters.
The Town Board on June 6 authorized town staff to investigate sites for the proposed station on town-owned property near the Town Hall and seek statements of qualifications from firms seeking to design the structure. Farley told the board that competition for the grants allocated through the U.S. Office of Homeland Security is intense, with tens of thousands of departments seeking awards. An independent study indi of previous bureau head Val Wylie. "My predecessor, Aaron Schumacher, was involved, as was his predecessor, Jay Olson," said Pete Schueppert, now sports sales manager for the bureau.
"The day I started working on it was the day I started working here in March 2004." Carl Micke, meanwhile, modestly says it has been a collaborative effort from the start. "I'm probably the guy who's been around the longest time. I won't say it was my idea, but I was there at the genesis." Without USA Youth, a nonprofit complex built largely on donations, today's event would never have been possible, Micke said. And without the continued collaboration of public and private entities, little could have been accomplished. "We could not have done it without the public sector, and I don't think the public sector could have done it alone.
It's a unique situation," Micke said. The reason so many people jumped in to help could be summed up in one word, Mariahazy said: community. "They have a strong belief and a commitment to the community. On the business side, they're giving and not expecting anything out of it. But they are helping bring the largest sporting event ever to the Fox Cities." Maureen Wallenfang can be reached at 920-993-1000, ext.
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Farley told town supervisors Tuesday each position would cost about $60,000 annually, including salaries and benefits. The vote enables Farley to seek funding for new positions in advance of a schedule for construction of a fire station. Marsden said he is less concerned about adding staff too quickly than missing an opportunity to capture federal funding "and then two years later having to add these positions" anyway! The six new positions with Motorola RAZR V3c L. after From A-l Field marshals will be responsible for calling in game scores to an information booth, watching for player injuries and dealing with other issues that may arise on the field. With 22 fields involved, the task is sizable.
To man 14 soccer fields at the USA Youth Sports Complex in Appleton, Crossman will deploy eight marshals for each of three shifts. Six volunteer marshals will cover each of three shifts at "To say there are 50 to 60 groups helping out on this is not an exaggeration." PETER MARIAHAZY, co-chairman of the sporting event's local organizing committee private groups went to promote the Fox Cities. "We received the bid because we had a good bid, but also because they saw the enthusiasm we had for hosting the event and for the Fox Cities," Micke said. "We got the award and hit the ground running," Mariahazy said. "The thing that's neat about it is it's really very much a community event.
It's not Appleton. It's not Neenah. It's northeastern Wisconsin." Far-out planning Mariahazy said this project was the first time he had ever done heavy-duty planning on an event more than 12 months out. The first bid packet was received six years ago. During the past three years, planners had meetings every month or six weeks.
The planning process took so long, in fact, that many people inherited the tasks when they took new jobs. Lynn Peters, executive director for the Fox Cities Convention Visitors Bureau, had done a lot of work on the tournament, but the initial tasks actually started under the tenure eight fields in Neenah's Memorial Park and at Neenah High School. Crossman said he's ready and willing to till in as needed, a duty that will get him close to the action. He said the massive tournament, which runs through Wednes 'I 0mJ Crossman day, comes at a good time for soccer fans since the World Cup also is going on this month in Germany. Batiste told the "al-Qaida representative" that he and his five soldiers wanted to attend al-Qaida training and planned a "full ground war" against the United States in order to "kill all the devils we can." His mission would "be just as good or greater than 911," the indictment accused Batiste of boasting.
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