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Neighbor Serving Neighbor They care. Regardless of the weather or the time of day, the McHenry Rescue squad Is there to help. Illustrating one of the ways emergency medicine has changed, the squad now takes the car away from the victim in­ stead of taking the victim away from the car. In the left photo, members of the Rescue squad get the Hurst tool ready for action. In the right photo, a squad member uses the tool to pry open the rear door of a wricked car. STAFF PHOTOS-WAYNE GAYLORD In this, the second part of a four-part Plaindealer profile of the McHenry Area Rescue squad, the people who make up the squad and some of what it takes to be part of the squad are examined. Hie men and women who make up the McHenry Area Reecuesquad span a wide part of the social spectrum. They are aged*) to 66; married, single and divorced; with children and without; and come from health related and non-health related occupations; physicians assistants, mechanics, nurses, insurance salesmen, students and teachers to name a few. "I can't understand what motivates people to get up in the middle of a mpal to go and ride in an ambulance," squad member Bob Dooley said. "Ambulances are disgusting things. There are sick people in ambulances." Underlying what the Rescue squad members will tell you, thatthey are in it for the training or the tension release, is the simple fact that they care. Part of the motivation which spurs Ray MatUs, a health education teacher at East campus, to answer calls is the challenge of doing something really well. "Sometimes you get really wound up," Mathis said. "Like whena 'code' (cardiac arrest) call comes in and you get there and the guy already has one foot in the grave. All the signs are there but he hasn't gone (died) yet You do everything you can and you get him to the hospital - alive." "I want everyone who is sick or injured to get the best shot they can. If they die, they die. But I want to be able to look their relatives In the eye and say 'I did every damn thii« I could.' " Ray added that the Job is addictive. PLAINDEALER SERVING THE CHAIN-O-LAKES REGION SINCE 1875 / - ' . ' • _ , ' ' v I " J . , * • ' I - ' . - > , 9toarb Winning JletMpaper W791 Illinois Press Association Newspaper Contest 1 SECTIONS 22 PAGES 20« City Of McHenry "Compact" Hold Urged On Future Development She Learns All About Hospital Although she expected her stay in McHenry to acquaint her with many activities in American life, this young Peruvian girl, Ana Maria Fernandez, Is learning more than she would Uke about only one phase - hospitals. The lft» year-old broke her ankle while roller skating shortly after arrival and has been confined to McHenry hospital. Above, her host "sister", Jeanne Meyer, autographs Ana Maria's cast STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD Ana Maria Fernandez, 18, came to McHenry from her home in Lima, Peru, recently under the American Youth Exchange. The purpose was to learn more about the culture of the United States and the country itself. Instead, Ana Maria has been getting a first hand look at hospitals and finding out how they operate. When she was roller skating last Friday evening, she fell the first time around the floor and broke her ankle. The injury placed her in McHenry hospital and promises to extend her short stay in the community. Ana Maria is residing with the Donald J. Meyer family, 1701 Russet road, McHenry, during her three months in this country. When she returns to Peru, she will attend college. In the short time before her injury, the young girl from South America took her first snowmobile ride and witnessed her first thun­ derstorm. She explained that there is considerable moisture through a misty type of rain, in Peru, but her country doesn't have vigorous storms. Helping to keep Ana Maria occupied during her recovery period are four Meyer children, Jeff, 17; Jeanne, 16; Tom, 13; and Julie, 6. Ask Estate Use For What comes once every four years and is not the presidential election or the Olympics? One guess would bring 150,000 Americans to their feet who can legitimately celebrate their birthday. They would be the first to shout, "Leap year". One lady psychologist who had statistics on almost everything else, admitted she didn't know whether more women are proposing to men today than in other decades. She said it didn't really matter because at­ titudes are changing. In fact, this psychologist doesn't think we need Leap year anymore. Someone should tell the lady there are others besides romantics in this world and they say Leap year has to be because each solar year exceeds the 365-day calendar by five hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds. When Julius Caesar tried to straighten things out, he made the year too long by one full day every 128 years. Then Pope Gregory XIII tried to correct Caesar's mistake in 1582 by directing the day following Oct. 5 to be Oct. 15. But the Gregorian, or new style calendar, further proved that the extra day would be. omitted on all centenary years not divisible by four. Therefore, 1900 was not a Leap year, but both 1980 and the year 2000 will be. (Continued on page 20) A petition has been filed for hearing before the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals by the First National Bank of Lake Forest and Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust company of Chicago, under trusts, and John and Walter Fritsch, for an amendment to the McHenry county zoning ordinance from "A-l" Agricultural district to "E-l" Estate district. The property is located in McHenry township on the south side of Lincoln road at its intersection with Cuhlman road. It consists of approximately 251 acres. The hearing on this petition will be held March 5 at 2 p.m., in Room 112of the McHenry county courthouse, 2200 North Seminary avenue, Woodstock. Those who are interested may appear and be heard. Recommending that future development of the City of McHenry should "be held tightly and compactly" within the City's general boundaries, City Planner Robert Grossman reported recently on the updating of the comprehensive plan to a joint meeting of the Plan commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the City Council. Grossman said that the. growth of the City in the last ten years has been primarily a "filling in" process with the development of a number of large-lot sub­ divisions. "The most remarkable change," Grossman pointed out, "has been in the area of public lands. In 1968, McHenry was very deficient in the area of parks and recreational facilities. Now, by anyone's standards, McHenry is ahead of the national average." Grossman said the pattern of commercial development was very strong along Route 120. The problem along this road, he said, lies with some "tawdry and unattractive buildings." Grossman also said that, although controversial, there is no question as to the pattern of commercial development along Route 31 -- both north and south. "Commercial - industrial nodes do exist," Grossman , and he named the in- tion of Bull Valley road and Route 31 in the south and the planned commercial zone in Falcon development to the north as these "nodes." Grossman suggested the establishment of additional business and industrial zoning classifications so that the commercial areas could be "organized and controlled better." "If the density is not too bad (professional offices for example)," Grossman said, "most people would not object." According to Grossman, the construction of the proposed Route 420, which would bypass McHenry, would "provide a major opportunity for identifying new traffic patterns around McHenry." In 1977, Grossman com­ mented, Route 120 through McHenry was averaging 22,000 cars a day -- the highest traffic volume anywhere in the county. Grossman mentioned three "hopeful" points of interchange with Route 420: Chapel Hill road, Route 31 and Ringwood road, which would be part "of a framework which would allow people to go around the City of McHenry instead of through it." Grossman also suggested connecting Curran road to Ringwood and River road to Chapel Hill in order to "loop things together'-' in the framework. The 1980 Comprehensive plan, Grossman said, should also include rural and urban single family designations, more balanced housing and a consideration of land which has been designated as "prime agricultural" by the county, especially since most of the City's growth has been to the west and south. In addition to more b u s i n e s s z o n i n g classifications, Grossman suggested locating multi- family zoned areas near the commercial - industrial nodes. "There is a lot of green and open area, particularly along drainage and problems soil areas," Grossman said. "Whether or not these are developed into parks, they should be left open." 1 The future development pattern of the City should be held within the circular area loosely described by Ringwood, Curran, River and o Chapel, Hill roads, Grossman said. Johnsburg School Struggle For State Money Johnsburg Community District 12 is actively in­ volved in the struggle of getting more state dollars for education. Dr. Andreas, superin­ tendent, stated at Tuesday night's meeting, "The state isn't funding the amount of education, percentage-wise, as much as the local effort. Schools^ are borrowing, cutting back and different things are chopping away at our money. We're not balancing our budget this year and not next year. Districts are cutting everything. If you want comprehensive education, we're going to have to get more (money). The general public might as well know it- -and the legislature and Gov. Thompson." Board president, Charles Boak, a member of the newly formed county-wide Legislative Alert committee, said the district would be soliciting help from the PTO to form a telephone TREE to (Continued on page 20) Review City Plan At C of C Luncheon-Meet Robert Grossman, city planner for the City of McHenry, will be guest speaker before the quarterly luncheon meeting of the McHenry Area Chamber of Commerce-Industrial com­ mittee. His topic will be "The New 1980 City of McHenrv Comprehensive Plan". The public is invited to the luncheon and talk, scheduled for noon to 2 p.m. Wed­ nesday, March 5, at Crescent Bay Landing, Johnsburg. Reservations must be made at the Chamber office, 385-4300, no later than March 3. Public Views Candidates March 4 Two special occasions have been arranged next week to give the public an opportunity to meet can­ didates and question them on issues of greatest im­ portance to the office they seek. Fourteen candidates seeking nomination in the March 18 primary elections are scheduled to appear at Candidates' night Tuesday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Branded Steak House, Crystal Lake. This opportunity to meet the candidates will be presented by the Business and Professional Women's clubs of McHenry, Wood­ stock, Harvard and Belvidere and the League of Women-Voters of Wood- stock-McHenry and Crystal Lake-Cary. These candidates from the 33rd Legislative district have agreed to attend the forum: Richard Klemm, Thomas Parsley, Thomas Hanahan, Maxine Wymore, Jack McCrary, Richard Burnidge, Joseph Stanek, LeRoy Schroeder, Jill Zwick, Lynn Walter Schock, Ron Szymanski and Joseph Carlson. From the 13t|i Congressional district will be Cal Skinner. Jr., and Edward LaFlamme. Jack Schaffer. the unopposed candidate for the State Senate, will also appear. Each candidate will make a three-minute opening statement, which will be followed by a round-robin discussion The office- seekers will circulate among 14 tables for individual questions by members of the audience. The candidate and a moderator will spend seven minutes at each table before moving on. The program will be televised by Community Cablevision of Woodstock- McHenry. A booklet, containing biographical information on (Continued on page 20) VOLUME 104 NUMBER 60 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1980 J •. "The more you can learn and the more you can do the better - to excel and really be good - it's a question of being a professional." In the past, Mathis said, the idea of being a professional was reserved for the doctors, but now the Rescue squad is doing almost everything that can be done in a hospital. Mathis has always been medically oriented. In college, he started out as a pre-med student "but that didn't work out." Bob Dooley pointed out that many employers are part of the reason that die squad is able to function. "If Ray has to leave school to answer a call, the principal will come down and watch his class. There are a lot of pretty decent people out there," Dooley noted. Some of die things that a Rescue squad member is likely to encounter were mentioned by Dooley. "You'll see a lot of things that aren't very pretty and some incredibly sad situations that can really tear you up," he said. "You'll see the worst that people can sink to, but in an emergency situation you can't let yourself get emotionally involved." On the other side of the coin, as Ray Mathis pointed out, the feeling one gets after just having saved someone's life can be exhilarating ' "You're on cloud nine when you walk away from a house and you know you've just saved someone's life," Mathis said. Dooley said that being a Rescue squad member can put a heavy strain on personal relationships. "It's a very addictive hobby and a wife (or husband) might not understand why she is being left alone at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. for a couple of hours." Dooley said. "The topic of (C ontinued on page 20)