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THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1990
A Colby-Abbotsford Fire Department?
Colby Fire Dept. spokesmen will approach Abbotsford next week to see if there is any official interest in combining the two cities’ fire and ambulance departments.
Backers of the idea say the combined department would be stronger, would save money on equipment and would allow emergency personnel to attend initial and refresher courses locally instead of traveling to Medford, Marshfield or Wausau.
The fact that Abbotsford is at the stage where is must provide fire dept. storage space, and that Colby is ready to take bids for a new city garage, also makes this a good time to talk about a Colby-Abby department, some firemen say. Abby fire dept. numbers are also low since some men left when Chief Bill Colby resigned this summer.
Ross Rannow spoke to the Colby Planning Committee about the idea last week, stating there is much interest in the Colby department about the possibility.
“We feel it would make a more cost effective and efficient department. It could operate under the existing Fire and Police Commission. Combining the police departments has resulted in cost savings, and we think it could work in these areas too,” said Rannow, who is also a Colby-Abbotsford police officer.
He explained that increasingly tight state regulations require more and more training for volunteers wanting to serve their communities as emergency medical technicians.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1970
Colby will bid sewer plant
The Colby city council made plans for opening bids October 1 on the new sewage treatment plant in action taken at their regular meeting Tuesday night.
Keith Glashof of Owen Ayers and Associates of Eau Claire, engineers who are designing the plant, reported on the status of applications for federal and state grants in aid. Glashof reported that state agencies are already committed to give 24 percent of the cost in direct aids, and that the city should expect total grants of 75 percent of the project, possibly 80 percent.
The total would come from both federal and state agencies, under water pollution abatement programs.
Glashof told the council that his firm is expecting federal authorization in the next few days to advertise for bids, and that it would be possible open bids in as short a time as two weeks.
Based on this information and with the desire to allow bidders more time to prepare prices in the hopes of attracting more contractors, the council set the opening date for October 1.
A considerable amount of time was also spent on a report from Roy Woboril, vice president of Layne-Northwest Company, a firm retained by the council to locate a well for a new municipal water source.
Woboril outlined all work done by his firm this summer, and made recommendations for an area for well development in the vicinity of the two present wells.
