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MIDDLESEX, Vt.— State game officials have backed down and allowed a woman to keep a 3-year-old wood duck that was brought home by one of her dogs when it was a chick.

Earlier this year, a game warden arrived at Kimberlee Stevens’ home in Middle-sex to take the duck named Peep. When Stevens refused to hand the animal over, the warden promised to return with a search warrant. On Friday, the state Fish and Wildlife Department re-lented and issued a permit allowing the family to keep the bird.

Stevens said one of her dogs brought home the chick in late May 2013. They looked for a nest and its mother, but couldn’t find any hint of where it came from.

“It was like he was just dropped from the sky,” she said Monday. “It was really strange.”

Now, Peep lives inside Ste-vens’ farmhouse, roams the

Vt. family to keep duck

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Metcalf to fix Douglas StreetBY KELLY NICHOLSON knicholson@parisbeacon.com

METCALF — After tabling the discussion last month, the Village of Metcalf board members decided to dig up Douglas Street and redo it with B-mix to fix it.

The Edgar County Highway Department previously visited Metcalf, and gave Mayor Cheryl Gill two options to present to the board.

One option was to simply put an overlay of B-mix on top of the road, which would only cost the village $2,750 to $3,000.

The second option was to have the entire road dug up and redone with the B-mix, which would cost between $4,500 and $5,000.

“My opinion is, if we can afford it, we need to dig it up and do it right,” board member Elmer Snoke said.

One concern with Douglas Street is a drainage issue that also needs to be fixed to prevent the new road construction from be-ing eroded quicker than normal. The Highway Department also spotted a large soft spot in the road that was a result of water making its way under the roadway instead of draining away from it.

Considering that something needed to be done as soon as pos-sible to prevent the road from be-ing unusable, the board approved to go with the more expensive op-tion. Board member Mike Aligood added that this option will possibly give the board more time to deal with the drainage problem.

As for the cost, the board plans on using Motor Fuel Tax money to cover the project. Metcalf receives about $6,000 a year from MFT, which is enough to pay for the project, as long as the MFT money will still flow after the state’s new fiscal year begins.

Aligood also brought to the board the need for the village’s water to be tested. Having received an email from the Environmental Protection Agency with the tests that need to be done, Aligood sent the list to PDC Laboratories, Inc. to compare the costs.

Every three years, the EPA asks that additional tests be conducted outside of the normal scope of the yearly tests.

Cost of this year’s testing will be $2,252.25 plus $350 on radiologi-cal tests if completed through the EPA. PDC’s prices came out to be $8,352, a total that is considerably higher than the village has ever paid. Typically, the EPA’s costs are higher than PDC’s.

The board voted to go with the EPA to have the necessary testing finished.

Scott Hoene from Milano & Grunloh Engineers, LLC, the

See METCALF, Page 3A

(Beacon-News Photo/Kelly Nicholson) Jim Hollingsworth learns how to use the AED machine and conduct CPR with the help from Bruce Scott after the AEDs were presented to different local organizations.

BY KELLY NICHOLSONknicholson@parisbeacon.com

Through a part-nership with Paris Commu-nity Hospital/

Family Medical Center, the Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health and the citizens of Edgar County, the county now has 16 new Automated External Defibrillators that will be placed throughout the community in case of a medi-cal emergency. One was also placed in Clark County, bring-ing the total of new AEDs to 17.

Those organizations that re-

ceived new AEDs include the Kansas Police Department, Chrisman Fire Protection District, St. Mary’s Church/School, Paris Community Fire Protection District, Hu-man Resources Center of Ed-gar and Clark Counties, Paris Girls Softball Association, Ed-gar County Sheriff, Chrisman Schools and Clarksville Bap-tist Church in Clark County.

Joe Biggs, the executive director for the Lugar Cen-ter, informed the crowd that, according to the American Heart Association, someone falls victim to a heart attack ev-ery 34 seconds in the United States. Survival of this tragedy

depends on the immediate im-plementation of CPR and the use of an AED. The chances of survival decreases between 7 and 10 percent for every min-ute a patient does not have a normal heartbeat.

“In Edgar County, this situ-ation is even more critical due to long distances between the victim and first responders. Edgar County also has one of the highest rates of heart dis-ease mortality in the state of Illinois,” Biggs said.

Understanding the dif-ficulties of providing health care and emergency help in rural areas, the Lugar Center filed for the grant in Septem-

ber 2013, being one of 10 re-cipients of this funding, and have worked with other areas like Edgar County to put the AEDs into communities.

The money has gone to-ward purchasing the AEDs and will offset the costs of CPR training.

So far, this program has seen 3,300 people CPR certi-fied with about 300 in Edgar County to have been trained. The goal is for there to be 500 people trained in this area.

The grant was made possible about 10 years ago when Congressman John

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PHS senior publishes second bookBY DAVID KRONKEdkronke@parisbeacon.com

Paris High School se-nior Cole Donaldson’s new book is the result of a chal-lenge he set for himself.

Donaldson published his first book, “ReVamped,” a thriller concerning vam-pires battling a corrupt government, last year. He’s gone in a complete-ly different direction for his second book, “Cup of Tea,” due out next Tuesday through Amazon.com — it’s a book of poetry.

“At the beginning of this year, I decided I want to undertake somewhat of an experiment, because I know that most people don’t usually keep to their New Year’s resolutions,” Donaldson explains, while

sitting in the Paris High School library. “My goal was to write a poem every day for this year, and so far, I’ve been able to keep up with that, with a few hic-cups here and there. Al-together, I’ve written 123 poems this year.”

Some of the themes “Cup of Tea” explores in-clude nature, family and friends. Donaldson offers a bit of a self-critique of his poems: “Many of them have the consistency that, on a basic level, they’re at least decent,” he says. “But I feel like there are obvi-ously ones that will speak out to you and suddenly, bam! ‘How did I come up with this?’ It’s really in-teresting to see from the

(Beacon-News Photo/David Kronke)

Paris High School Senior Cole Donaldson is now a pub-lished author of two books. His latest work, a book of poetry, will be available through Amazon.com beginning next Tuesday.See BOOK, Page 8A

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MARTINSVILLE — Peter Alan Zachary, 62, of Putney, Vt., formerly of Martinsville, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 in Rochester, N.Y.

Memorial services were held on February 12, at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro, Vt., with Rev. Mary D. Lindquist, Rector, officiating.

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STACYFLICKHELPING OTHERS HELP THEMSELVES

the house alongside her five dogs and seven cats, sleeps next to her bed and has its own Face-book page. In good weather, it goes outside.

“He takes a little flight ev-ery now and then, but it’s just around the house and back,” Stevens said. “He’s like, ‘I’m not going nowhere.’”

Despite its role as a family pet, Peep is not house-trained.

“He poops all over. I just keep my bucket full of bleach water; we just go behind him,” she said.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife

Commissioner Louis Por-ter said Monday that private citizens aren’t allowed to keep wildlife as pets because it can be dangerous for both people and critters.

“It’s a very, very bad idea for people to take any wild animal out of the wild, even if they think they’re helping,” Porter said.

If state officials had taken Peep, the duck would have been taken to a licensed animal rehabilitator.

“In this particular case, it seems as though the damage by leaving this particular duck in place would be less than through issuing this permit,” he said.

DuckFrom PAGE 1A

company that Metcalf has hired as the engineer firm to oversee the Water Main Project, was in attendance at the meeting to answer ques-tions about the professional services agreement.

The agreement states that the engineering company will take care of everything

from the design engineering to supervising the work on site.

After more discussion about some of the grant numbers, the board approved the professional ser vices agreement.

Hoene also provided the village with an environmen-tal report that has to be on display for seven days for the public to review.

MetcalfFrom PAGE 1A

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WILMINGTON — Visi-tors are invited to a special event that will include clos-er-than-normal viewing of a bison herd that has been established on a tallgrass prairie south of Chicago.

The U.S. Forest Service plans to provide free shuttle buses from the neighboring communities of Elwood and Wilmington on Saturday for the bison viewing event.

Midewin National Tall-

grass Prairie staff and trained volunteers will answer ques-tions about the bison at the Iron Bridge Trailhead.

The bison arrived in Oc-tober as part of a 20-year experiment to restore Mide-win to its native landscape, which once abounded with bison and prairie plants.

Park officials hope the bi-son eat the grasses and that other, struggling plants can grow, helping to attract a more diverse population of birds and insects.

Bison viewing planned

Sanders: Clinton team thinks race ‘is over. They’re wrong’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that his primary bid against Hill-ary Clinton was far from over, pointing to his victory in Indi-ana and strength in upcoming races as a sign of his durability in the presidential campaign.

“I know that the Clinton campaign thinks this campaign is over. They’re wrong,” Sand-ers said in a telephone inter-view with The Associated Press from New Albany, Ind. “Maybe it’s over for the insiders and the party establishment, but the voters today in Indiana had a different idea.”

Sanders spoke to the AP af-ter he defeated Clinton in Indi-ana’s primary, predicting that he would achieve “more victories in the weeks to come” in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon and California. The Vermont sena-tor acknowledged that he faced an “uphill climb” to the Demo-cratic nomination, but said he was “in this campaign to win and we are going to fight until the last vote is cast.”

Sanders’ win in Indiana like-ly won’t make much of a dent in Clinton’s lead of more than 300 pledged delegates. Clinton is still more than 90 percent of

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Sanders said in the interview that he would be the best-posi-tioned Democrat to take on Re-publican Donald Trump, who is now the likely Republican nominee after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out of the race.