Wednesday,  October 24, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 99 • 7 of 36 •  Other Editions

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(between Dec. 1st and Jan. 12th).
• Still, the USPS plans on taking an average of only 90 days to reduce services in a community after sending out survey letters to its members, evaluating and making cuts at all of the target post offices across the country over the course of two years. 
• Currently, six communities in the the Dakotafire region have meetings in October, though as the POStplan implementation continues, more post offices may also be forced to reduce services.
• The immediately affected communities and meeting times and places are:
• Alpena: Oct. 23, 12:00 PM at the Alpena Post Office
• Cresbard: Oct. 25, 12:00 PM at the Cresbard Post Office
• Letcher: Oct. 23, 5:30 PM at the Letcher Post Office
• Saint Lawrence:  Oct. 24, 5:30 PM at the Saint Lawrence Post Office
• Wessington: Oct. 24, 12:00 PM at the Wessington Post Office
• Wolsey:  Oct. 25, 5:30 PM at the Wolsey Post Office
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• Ryan Clay is a freelancer in Aberdeen, S.D.
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Online EMT course may soon be tested in Faulkton
More convenient training may allow more people to volunteer

By Garrick Moritz, Faulk County Record, and Heidi Marttila-Losure, Dakotafire Media
Reporting by Tri-County News, Britton Journal and Clark County Courier
• As ambulance departments across the rural Dakotas struggle to find enough volunteers, the director of the Faulk County Ambulance has an idea to make it easier for people to serve: Let them complete much of the training required online on their own time, instead of requiring that they travel to a bigger town to take the necessary classes.
• Last Thursday, Tom Hericks, who also is director of nursing at Faulk County Medical Center, met with other members of District 4 of the South Dakota Emergency Medical Technicians Association (SDEMTA) to work out details for an online EMT training course.
• On Oct. 25, their proposal will go before the SDEMTA executive board for approval, Hericks said. "If they do approve it, the Faulkton Area Medical Center will be the beta site for the first-ever EMT online certification in South Dakota."

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