Novah's Insights Offers Course in Caregiving.

COURSE in CAREGIVING OFFERED.....

Novahs Insights on Caregiving

 Did you know that caregivers are in big demand? The prediction for new positions in this field reach into the 400,000 in the next 10 years.
Most jobs will consist as one on one private homecare positions to keep our senior population out of facilities.
Novah Insights is a state licensed new training school.The training is minimal 20 hours.The cost is minimal 400.00 there are no tests or requirements to pass the course except attendance.You will however need to pass a criminal record screening to be employed in this field.
There is funding available for qualified applicants
Call Cheryl Hunter at 603-534-9548.

LEBANON TRUTH SEEKERS: Please forgive my sense of humor. It has been that kind of day. Applications for Tax Club are now avaolable

Great news! Tax Club Applications are available at the Town Office once again! Even though the bills for the 2015-2016 tax year are not yet available, we are accepting applications to join the Tax Club. A payment booklet will be made for completed and returned applications once the tax bills become available. These booklets will list how much the payments are, and when payments are due. Members will be notified via phone when booklets are available to be picked up at the Town Office

Cumberland Farms, East Rochester, is hiring for all shifts!!

 

CUMBERLAND FARMS

EAST ROCHESTER

IS HIRING FOR ALL SHIFTS

 

Please fill out this mini-application and apply in person at

Cumberland Farms, East Rochester NH

See Manager Sue

 

 

SHIPWRECKED mini-golf Announces Late Summer Special!!!

 

Cheryl Flood

of

Salmon Falls River Camping Resort​

ANNOUNCES

a

LATE SUMMER SPECIAL!!!

SHIPWRECKED MINI-GOLF
18 Holes for only $3.........
Any Age plays for $3 Bucks!!!

Open 7 days a Week!
10 am - 6 pm.

Prices good until September 3

 

 

2 Rescue Calls and a DART Flight Fill Friday Evening with Sirens and Helicopter Blades.

Saturday evening began for Lebanon Fire and EMS Captain Natasha Kinney and Firefighter / Driver Joe Perron at 4:20 pm with a call to Keay Road in Berwick for a Mutual Aid call for a swimming pool diving accident where a juvenile injured his shoulder.
Berwick, who does not operate their own ambulance service, relies, instead on American Ambulance Service, with home offices in Kittery, Maine and base in Somersworth, NH, for their ambulance services, but American was not available to answer the call.
Kinney and Perron left Berwick with their patient and transported to Southern Maine Health Center (formerly Goodall Hospital) in Sanford.
While Lebanon Rescue 2 was busy on the Berwick call, a second call came in at 5:05 pm for an ATV into a tree on Indian Lake Drive in Lebanon. Chief Meehan and EMT Rudnicki answered from the on-call status, arriving in only a matter of minutes, to find a young teenaged juvenile laying next to a dirt bike in a ditch with multiple traumatic leg injuries.
Mutual Aid calls were made immediately while Lebanon was responding, to Frisbie EMS paramedics and Milton Fire and Rescue due to the nature of the call.
Rudnicki, was first on the scene and quickly committed to patient care until paramedics arrived.
DART (Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team) was ordered by dispatch upon hearing of the extreme nature of the injuries and arrangements were made for the New Hampshire  based helicopter to land at Sky Dive New England's airfield on Upper Guinea Road.
Lebanon Ambulance 2, with Kinney and Perron had completed their call in Sanford and rushed to the scene.

Lebanon personnel departed to Sky Dive New England to be sure the landing site was clear for the DART helicopter to land.

Due to the patient's extreme traumatic injuries, a lot of help was needed to move them from the ditch to the Frisbie ambulance with as little patient movement as possible. Everyone pitched in to help and the patient began the journey across Lebanon, with the Frisbie ambulance only able to travel at approximately 20 mph to try and avoid the possibility of jarring the patient during travel.
By 6:00 pm all units had cleared the scene and had headed toward Sky Dive New England. Frisbie's ambulance and paramedics transported the patient.
By 6:29 pm, the patient had been loaded into the DART helicopter and was on his way to Maine Medical Center on Portland, Maine.

 

We would once again like to extend our gratitude to Frisbie EMS, Milton New Hampshire Fire and Rescue, and the DART folks of Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital and to our own Lebanon Fire and EMS first responders for answering the call when people are in need of emergency services.

GREAT job on Mutual Aid on both fronts tonight, with a call for Lebanon to answer Mutual Aid quickly responded to by Lebanon responders, and then our own call to Frisbie, Milton, and the DART copter, with perfect response and a speedy transfer to Portland. Lebanon Responders, Chief Daniel Meehan, Windy Rudnicki, Natasha Kinney, Jessica Kelly, Joe Perron, and Brian O'Mearlaigh.

Our best wishes to both patients for a quick and full recovery.

Lebanon Youth Soccer Announces Names of New Board Members August 5th.

 

Lebanon Youth Soccer LLC held the first of their group meetings on Wednesday, November 5th.

The purpose of this meeting was to choose and name the new Board Members for the Corporation, under President Georgie Allen.

 

Named to the Lebanon Youth Soccer Board are:

Vice President: Amanda Turner

Treasurer: Jana Lodge

Secretaries: Melissa Cyr, Sherry Load

Sponsor Coordinator: Val Andrick

Coaching Support: Shane Rachkoskie

Field Prep Board: Jeffrey Cameron, Andrew Lytle

 

At this time, the Lebanon Youth Soccer has put together

10 teams being sponsored by local area businesses.

 

Business Sponsors of Lebanon Youth Soccer Teams are:

Yankee Thermal Imaging

Quality Fuels

Tri-City Drywall

Aroma Joes

Batchelder Sales

Victor's Market

Lebanon Family Fun Center

and

Pleasant Hill Auto

 

Please be sure to patronize the local businesses who take the time to sponsor our children's soccer teams. The more you patronize their businesses, the more they will sponsor our children through their generous donations!! Don't forget to mention to them that you saw their names mentioned as team sponsors and give them a TWO THUMBS UP for their donation to the community!!!

 

According to Ms. Allen, the first games of the season will be held at the Hanson School Soccer Field on Saturday, September 12, 2015. Watch the Lebanon Truth Seekers page for game schedules!!

 

Georgie has asked me to mention that YOU can help with Lebanon Youth Soccer fundraising. Donations of Water, Sports Drinks, Power Bars and Home baked items are always a wonderful addition to the Snack Shack.

And right now the group is looking for the donation of a working hot dog steamer!!

Do you know anyone that has one?

There's always the need for monetary donations. Georgie says the big soccer goal at one end of the field is broken, and in need of fixing. It will cost the group about $1,000 to fix. If you happen to see Georgie out and about, give her a gold star RIGHT in the MIDDLE of her forehead, and cross her palm with a dollar or two toward the Youth Soccer's new net!!!

 

Resident's Question Continued: What Happens to an Addict After Being Revived with NARCAN?

In continuing our investigation into the ongoing heroin epidemic, I was contacted by Jonathan Berube, a former EMT (not of Lebanon Rescue) who currently works as a Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor. His generous offer of explaining addiction and the use of NARCAN a bit further was so kind!!
While we had former reports of NARCAN taking up to 20 or 40 minutes to work, Berube says that if it's taking that long, the patient is not overdosing on opiates.
According to Mr. Berube, when a patient is overdosing on opiates and NARCAN is administered intravenously or intramuscularly (IV or Injection), by medical responders, the medication should have an effect on an overdosing opiate user almost immediately. If the patient is known to be overdosing, and the first dosage does not take effect by 3 or 4 minutes, another dose is administered. in fact, doses can be given several times, 3-4 minutes apart.
The drug puts an opiate overdose patient into instant withdrawals by targeting the opiate receptors in the body and blocking the narcotic from adhering to them, thus, instantly reversing their effect.
"Often times they wake up, and then throw up," Berube stated, "and usually all over you!" He went on to add that because you have just "ruined their high", the patient will then usually become very argumentative or even combative. "It's hard to convince a combative patient to go to the hospital for treatment," Jonathan added, "but they really should go, because NARCAN is only a temporary fix." Once the NARCAN begins to wear off, depending on how much of the opiate they had used, the opiates in the patients system can begin to reattach themselves to the opiate receptors and the state of "high" or "euphoria" can return. They can even enter into another overdose situation and need a second NARCAN dose 1/2- 1 hour later when their body begins to overdose once again.
Mr. Berube says there's always a question when you come upon someone out cold in a car or elsewhere, when people aren't sure if they're in an overdose situation from herion, another opiate, or if there's another problem, such as diabetic coma or physical illness. "If we're unsure," he said, "we give what is called a "coma cocktail"." The "coma cocktail" is a mixture of drugs, including NARCAN, and dextrose (sugar). These products are designed to work on many levels toward bringing a patient back to consciousness.
But what if you give NARCAN to a patient who is unconscious and not overdosing on opiates? According to Berube, you can give NARCAN to anyone, and as long as you give it as directed, in small doses, it won't have any effect on them.
While thinking about NARCAN, it came to mind that if the patient has NARCAN and returns from overdose, but reenters overdose status after EMS responders are gone, what then?? Well, that would be why sometimes there are multiple calls to the same address over a short period of time.
There is a new drug that is being looked at in the fight against opiate overdosing, it is called Vivitrol and according to Berube, it is a longer acting version of NARCAN. Vivitrol is an injection that a opiate dependent patient gets once a month. It works the same way as NARCAN, in that it blocks the opiate receptors in the body, not allowing the opiates to attach, and therefore even if a patient were to take opiate medications, they would not experience a high from the drugs. On the outside looking in, Vivitrol sounds like an opiate addict family's dream drug, however, Mr. Berube says it can quickly turn into a nightmare if the opiate dependent addict is injured, as the Vivitrol would also block the effect of pain relieving drugs administered at a hospital or for surgical reasons. Also if the opiate addict were to use, they wouldn't feel the "euphoria" they are seeking and they may overdose themselves trying to get past the effects of the Vivitrol. Mr. Berube suggested that if a patient were on Vivitrol, it would help a lot if they were to wear a "Medic Alert" bracelet, much like those worn by diabetics or hemophiliacs, telling that they use Vivitrol so that Emergency responders would have some understanding on how to treat the patient.
Jonathan and I had a discussion regarding why the offenders are not arrested by police who attend overdosing events. "Addiction is not an easy thing," he answered, "It's a lifelong struggle, the police are trying to help, not put everyone in jail. They want people to call 911 and get help if they're overdosing. If you keep trying to punish people, they will just stop calling, that's not what we want to see happen."
We also talked about Governor LePage's recent conversations with Maine law enforcement, health and welfare, and public health officials. "The Governor's plan for hiring more police officers is not going to work," said Jonathan. "The drug problem in Maine is much more complicated than NARCAN or more police is going to fix."
Thank you to Mr. Jonathan Berube for taking the time to speak to me and fill in some more of the blanks on heroin and opiate addiction and the use of NARCAN.