Greeley Daily Tribune from Greeley, Colorado • Page 5

By JOHN Live-in SEELMEYER help big need for elderly According to WIRS spokesman Tribune Staff someone can't be found, her Writer He's 70 years old. A only choice will be to move to a heart nursing home. have patient, he must occasionally These are just two of the oxygen administered. He needs a night nurse. If requests received by Weld one Information and cannot be found to live in his Referral home, his Service (WIRS) since the only choice is to move beginning of the to a nursing home.

year. She's 63 years old and suffers director Millie And, WIRS from Stoffter says she doens't know severe arthritis. Her husband where to look for persons to live cared for her until he was killed with and care for older persons. in an accident several months Mrs. Stoffler said the only ago.

service she knows She needs someone to live which might with aid the aged needing a live-in her and care for her. If nurse is the homemaker program operated by the Weld County Department of Social Services. But, she said, that service costs about $2.25 an hour, which can quickly become expensive for a person needing round -theclock ald. And, the homemaker service is designed primarily. for persons needing occasional help with bousehold chores." If persons can't be found to live with the elderly, Mrs.

Stoffler said, "It sort of pushes them into a nursing home," The only other alternative open to most of the aged needing help is to move in with their children, she said. That alternative -Isn't attractive to either the older person or the children in many cases. Mrs. Stoffer said the aged persona needing. live-in help have usually offered a monthly salary in addition to room and board.

But, WIRS has had difficulty finding persons to live with the older residents of the county. The problem is becoming more Firemen extinguish four small blazes on the kitchen stove caught fire damage, firemen said. Firemen extinguished a weed and at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday. A cigarette in an ashtray was fire in 3 ditch near the The damage to the stove and also the cause of the trash bin intersection of 18th Avenue and of the cupboards above the stove fire behind the Hillside Mall at' 10th at apart- Street about 3 was estimated at $200.

7:35 p.m. Firemen 1220 A cigarette in an ashtray said the hin -caught fire afler At 6:50 p.m. Tuesday, grease apparently set fire to the dash- someone dumped an ashtray firemen responded to a fire board of a car owned by Paul inside. alarm in the woodworking shop Bechthold, 918 13th at 11:03 Although only. $10 damage of Greeley West High School.

a.m. Tuesday in the 1800 block was caused to the bin, The fire alarm had of 16th Street. used 500 gallons of water to malfunctioned, firemen said, The car received $150 extinguish the large fire. and it was.a false alarm. Youth held in auto trespass investigation A 15-year-old Greeley boy was arrested late Tuesday when a woman found him under a car which had a coat hanger placed in the window in Trial date set for 2 charged in robbery of Cache National Two persons arrested here last Nov.

1 tallowing a robbery at the Cache National Bank are presently scheduled to be tried in U.S. District Court in Denver the week of Feb. 3. The two, Terry Alan Selland, 26, and Patricia Mantooth, 29, both of Fort Collins, pleaded innocent to the charges filed against them Nov. 15.

Suspect in Weld Bank robbery A suspect in a $5,800 Greeley bank robbery has been arrested in Kansas and is being held on a grand jury indictment for five other robberies. The suspect was identified by the FBI as Marvin Allen Geringer, 30, of Mosca, north of Alamosa in southern Colorado. He is currently in the custody of U.S. marshals in Kansas. WORDPLAY BRANDEL O- 1-15 THANKS TO J.

BENTLEY, CROMWELL.CT. apparent attempt to, break Into the auto. an employe, of: the Scotch Pub, 2393 10th told police she. drove Into the parking lot at about: 10:45 p.m;: Tuesday and saw.a boy under a car in the lot. Alter ordering the boy.

but from under the ver, the woman. asked him what he was doing. He told her he was walking past the car, had.a dizzy. spell and fell under the car. The woman took the boy into: the bar and called the police.

Police officers arrived at the scene and found. 'a coat hanger had been forced through. the rubber. molding on the -car's Window The hanger. was hooked around the Inside door.

handle, as if somenne was to. break. into vehicle. The youth was arrested by: officers investigation of: trespassing and altempted larceny from a car, arid is being held for juvenile: probation authorities. 3 Weld accidents reported Tools taken from Kodak site Three accidents: were Smith of Denver received $200 reported on Weld County roads, damage, when it struck a dog a Tuesday, according to the halt-mile north of Fort Lupton Colorado State on: U.S.

85. Alter: striking the Officers said a 1967 car driven. dog, the car spun into a post. ob. Larry: Cruz of Milliken the roadside.

received. $900 damage and. a A 1871 car driven 1 by Inez 1964 car driven by Roy. Pacheco Afarostica Jolinslown of; 2706-7th- Ave: sustained $200 sustained $200 damage when it damage. when the two autos struck and killed.a cow near the collided- on a.

county. road: two: intersection of Colo. :60 and miles east of Milliken: Colo. 257 east of Milliken: The cow, pwned by: Harry Meyer 1972 car: driven by: David Milliken, was valued: $100.. A major theft was reported at from the building site.

The tools a construction site at were valued at more than. $700. Colorado east of Windsor Tuesday, Weld County Sheriff's Corapany officials said the officers said. theft occurred earlier this. Officers said grinders, saws.

month; but; wasn't reported and other tools owned by U.S: until an inventory was com- The two are to have separate jury trials. Selland and the woman were: captured following the Cache. National Bank robbery at a roadblock near Treasure Island Cafe seven miles. west. of Greeley by Greeley police with the assistance of a number of other law enforcement officers.

Colorado is arrested robbery of the Weld Colorado Bank in the Grecley Mail on July 19. Greeley police said he has also been indicted for bank robberies in Ulah, Kansas, Arizona, and New Mexico. According to the FBI, Geringer was arrested after a bank robbery and a high-speed chase with federal officials in Geringer is a suspect in the Kansas. Engineering Co. were- taken pleted.

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Mrs. Stoffler adds she knows of: at least four other persons who need live-In help. She asked that persons who might want to take a job as a live in aid to the elderly to call WIRS, 352-4551. For older persons who don't need live-In help, but are still worried that they might fall and lay undiscovered for several days, Mrs. Stoller said the "Reassurance Phone" operated by Church Women United is still in operation.

In that program, each person listed in the "Reassurance Phone" directory is called each morning before 10 a.m. If there is no answer, the senior citizen's family is called or a volunteer is dispatched to his home. The "Reassurance Phone" program can be reached at 353-0137. And, Mrs. Stoffer said, free help in filling out tax forms will be available to the elderly at the WINS office, 1201 A beginning Feb.

19. SkI Report DENVER (API Colorado Ski Country USA repris the fallowing conditions at ski areas Wednesday: A-Basin no report. Arapahoe East 12 depth, 0 nEw SnOW. hard packed. Aspen Hightands 46 deplh, 0 new SnOW.

Aspen Mountain 50 depth, 0 new snow, packed powder. Bultermilk, 38 depth, new snow, packed powder. Snowmass deplh, 0 new snow, packed powder. Berthoud Pass 70 depth, 0 new snaw, powder. packed powder.

idge 39 deplh, 0 new snow, packed powder. Ski Broadmoor 20 depth, 0 new snow. hard packed. Copper Mountain 43 depth, 0 new packed powder. Crested 52 depth, 0 new snow, packed powder, Geneya Basin 43 replh, 0 new snow.

powder. Hidderi Valley 30 depih, 0 new snow, hard packed, Ski' Idlewild 37 depth, 0 new snow, packed Keystone 44 deplh. new snow. packed powder. Lake' Eldora 32.

depth, 0 new Snow, hard packed. Loveland 41. depth. 0 new souw, packed powder. Monarch depth, 0 new snow, powder.

packed powder. Powderhorn 49 uvulh, new snow, pow. der, packed powder. 40 copth, new snow. packed powder.

Sharklooth 20 deplh, new snow. packed powder, hard packed. Steamboat 52 depth, 0 now snow, packed powder. Sunlight depth. 0 new Snow, powder, packed powder.

Telluride 61 depth, 0 new snow, powder, packed powder. Vail 41 depth, 0 new snow. powder, packed powder. Winter Park 39 deplh, 0 new Snow, packed powder. Wolf Creek 67 depth, 0 new snow.

pow. der, packed powder. Snow depth refers to unpacked 5riow deplh at midway. New Snow refers to snowfall in The past Seven boys between the ages of nine and 12 are under investigation for harassment of two girls Tuesday afternoon, Greeley police report. A 16-year-old girl called police Tuesday afternoon to report several boys were surrounding her house and pounding on the windows.

She also said the boys followed her seven boys, and will continue and her friends home from the investigation by questioning school. the boys. Police responded immediately to the call, and 'The 1978 U.S. Open golf picked up three youths near the championship will be played at house. The youths were the Cherry Hills Country Club, released when the girls said in Englewood, Colo.

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