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Chamber welcomes new city manager
By “Mac” Berston
Chamber of Commerce
; The Cumming-Forsyth County
Chamber of Commerce congratulates
both the City of Cumming and Gerald
Blackburn. The decisions to appoint a
City Manager and the choice of Ger
ald are both excellent.
We recognize that the job of run
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Providing
emergency service
(Above) Donna Kirkland (left)
and John McCormick, owner
and operator of Med-1, are pic
tured with the company’s ambu
lance. (At right) is Barbara
Wilkins, an emergency medical
technician who has been with
the emergency service in For
syth County since 1976.
Cumming K-Mart
opens insurance center
By Dawn Holcomb
Staff Writer
The need for insurance grows with
the development of a town or city and
insuring people in Forsyth has be
come a competitive business.
In order to offer customers full
service under one roof, K-Mart has
begun its own insurance centers mak
ing available health, life, home own
ers and various other insurance
policies available to customers who
visit the store.
The Cumming K-Mart store was
one of six stores to open insurance
centers in the Atlanta area on Mon
day, Feb. 11.
“Three girls from Cumming were
part of these openings,” said Jerry
Allen, sales represenative for the new
market here. He said the Cumming
K-Mart Center is locally staffed and
will be the only center open from 9:30
a.m. until 9:00 p.m.
By the end of 1989, K-Mart plans to
open 1,000 insurance centers within
the chain making this corporation one
of the largest locator marketing com
panies in the country.
“We plan to employ a minimum of
120 sales people to begin with,” said
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for the citizens of Cumming. We look
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Don Runge, vice president of market
ing for K-Mart Insurance Centers,
“and 160 sales people and sales man
agement personnel before the year is
up.”
This is the first year K-mart has
provided full service under one roof,
said Runge, adding that the insur
ance centers warranted great oppor
tunities for ground floor employees.
By June, Runge hopes to have
centers in Marietta, Norcross, Grif
fin, Decatur, Snellville, Rome, Aus
tell and Newnan. “The Atlanta area
is an open market,” he said, “and is a
major part of this expansion.”
Last year, K-Mart opened 101 insur
ance centers hi stores across the
country. Stores already operating
centers include those in Jacksonville,
Fla.; Orlando, Fla.; and New Mex
ico. Runge said he hopes to open
centers in Arizona this year.
“We’re planning to open 125 centers
in Georgia by 1985,” Runge said, with
36 of the centers opening by June 17.
The K-Mart Insurance Center in the
Cumming store is located near the
back, near the Men’s Department.
For more information, call Jerry
Allen, sales represenative at 887-4372
or K-Mart at 889-9500.
ALSO SAVE ON LARGE SIZE FASHIONS
it’s been figured is to take the 1980
census of 27,958 and apply 6.5 percent
per year growth which figures out to
about 35-36,000 in 1984. Considering
the errors in census figures this is
probably “close enough for highway
work.”
My wife pointed out another way to
measure growth when we got our new
Cumming phone book. There are 2V*
more white pages and with about 288
Med 1 ambulance
helps to save lives
By Dawn Holcomb
Staff Writer
Seven-days-a-week, 24-hours-a
--day, 52-weeks-a-year, Med-1 serves
Forsyth County in ambulance emer
gency service or through convales
cent care.
Locally owned and operated, “We
serve in the best interest of the
county,” said Barbara Wilkins, an
EMT (emergency medical techni
cian), who has been working with
emergency service in Forsyth County
since 1976. Med-1 has been in opera
tion about five months.
“We are staffed and equipped as
an emergency service,” said Ms.
Wilkins, “however we also are a
convalescent ambulance service.”
A convalescent ambulance service,
she explained, is one that transports
patients from the hospital to their
homes or from their homes to the
doctor’s office or hospital.
Free services provided by Med 1
include a blood pressure check which
is available daily from 8:30 a.m. until
4:30 p.m. Med-1 also keeps a list of
names of elderly people in the county
who live alone and calls them every
morning. Should the person not an
swer the phone, Med-1 will visit that
person’s home.
Though Med-1 is strictly life sup
port, Ms. Wilkins said that in “any
given situation, there are things that
we can’t do we have to have radio
contact with the doctor.”
In cardiac situations, Ms. Wilkins
said that Med-1 EMTs can begin IVs,
CPR and with the doctor’s orders,
can do an E.O.A. (esophageal), begin
fluids and then transport the victim to
the emergency room.
An E.O.A. helps to keep the patient
from vomiting, said Ms. Wilkins. “It
seals off the stomach and establishes
an air wave for the patient.”
This is especially needed during a
cardiac arrest or heart attack, she
said. Also, Med-1 can place MAST
trousers on a person who is suffering
from a heart attack. These Medical
Antishock Trousers, when inflated,
force blood from the legs to the vital
organs in the body.
The whole operation (Med.-l)
works in efforts to help Forsyth
County, said John McCormick, owner
of Med-1 along with Wendell Roper
and Ricky Hamby.
There are 12 people on staff, full
and part-time, and these people also
maintain jobs in other medical or
names per page, this works out to
about 648 new phones per year and
doesn’t count those folks in the south
ern part of Forsyth County who are
on the Atlanta exchanges.
Probably of even more significance
is the fact that the yellow pages have
gone from 110 to 130 in one year. Now
these aren’t all local businesses ad
vertising, but it’s a sure sign that our
population growth and improved eco
emergency centers when they are not
working for Med-1, said Ms. Wilkins.
“The fact is,” said McCormick, “is
that we couldn’t run this service
without people like Barbara (Ms.
Wilkins) and the other employees.
They’ve helped to make the business
what it is today.”
“We just want to give quality serv
ice at a reasonable price,” said Ms.
Wilkins. She added that a lot of the
“service” was getting to know the
people.
“At places like Emory,” she said.
“You’re just a number there. At
Forsyth County Hospital, you know
your nurses, doctors, and it’s the
same way with our convalescent
service, ‘we have time to get to know
the patient.”
From Oct. 22, Med-l’s first opera
tional day, through January, 127
transports were made. Also, Med-1
visits different schools where Med-1
staff explain to students how..an am
bulance service operates, the job of
the EMT and how the equipment is
used.
Med-1 will transport a patient any
where in the county to hospitals in
and around Forsyth County even
beyond Atlanta. And though they are
Medicare and Medicaid approved,
the privately owned-service does not
receive funds for service from the
county.
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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1985-
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