A Place of Refuge LLC

20/08/2024

Spring Valley Area Emergency Services (Spring Valley Area Ambulance and Spring Valley Fire Department) have reached a critical need for Emergency Medical Technicians, Emergency Medical Responders, and Firefighters.

As we all have seen in the news over the last couple years, emergency services have been warning of the “crippling labor shortages” and unfortunately that reality has arrived here in our local emergency services. How do we fix this? We ultimately need people to step up and join the ambulance and/or fire department in whatever capacity works for them whether it be an EMT, EMR, or Firefighter. Each position is equally important for the survivability of both departments.

Below is a YouTube link from a NBC story that was aired in 2021; although it features a rural department in North Dakota it is a mirror of similarities of where we are at here in Spring Valley.
https://youtu.be/Bx9NHRM1Efk?si=U1g65iQBK4L2XfM2

Spring Valley Area Emergency Services will be hosting an Open House Hiring Event on Sunday, August 18, 2024 from 3pm-5pm at our station at S407 Newman Avenue, Spring Valley, WI. If you feel you can help by joining one or both of the departments, are interested, or have ideas, we would love to hear them and meet with you! We (SVAA) will also be launching a social media campaign to spread awareness about rural EMS over the next couple months to bring to light some common misconceptions throughout the industry and make you more familiar of what we do.

17/06/2024

25/05/2024

25/05/2024

Lee and Gus about 15 feet in the air on the giant cat tree in our shed. The drawers have cat nip and straw in them.

21/05/2024

Our girl Molly
The best of both breeds!
Smart and snarky like a golden retriever and soft and squishy with a super sweet personality like the newfie.

27/04/2024

https://www.phillyorchards.org/2015/10/06/poultry-in-orchards/

We like to "retire" our birds in the orchard to help with pest control. This article lists some of the benefits of having your poultry work for you.

The permaculture chicken niche – http://permaculturenews.org/2013/05/12/managing-the-working-chicken-video/Looking for an organic method of reducing insect pests in your orchard? You might want to consider poultry! There are many benefits to letting chickens or ducks roam around your orchard. Thes...

30/03/2024

In case the numbers have never added up for you, CONTEXT is everything.

30/03/2024

The cats have a nice warm place to stay. We have three "apartments" in our cat shed. This is the one we have the camera on.

30/03/2024

I don't trap the wanderers that come to the feeder unless they are a danger to the cats. Possums are actually very beneficial to the environment and eats thousands of ticks. I keep my chickens locked up so I don't worry too much about the raccoons and the possums.

The cats don't seem to be too worried either.

08/12/2023

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27/11/2023

The cats are packing into the heated warmers on these colder days and nights. I keep some gourmet catnip and diatomaceous earth at the bottom of the boxes to keep the fleas off them.

I know Momma is hanging around but she hasn't joined them yet.

25/11/2023

I am stunned. One of our feral cats who went missing over a year ago (Momma Tina) showed up at our neighbor's house and they posted her on the neighbor alert text. I am in the process of reuniting her with the rest of the colony and her babies Bert and Boo.

Thank you Koser family.

12/11/2023

The cats are starting to make sure they make it into the heated box every night now.

21/10/2023

Found some, thanks!
Hi all, just wondering if anyone has a used piece of clear plexiglass laying around that they would be willing to part with for our feral cat rescue warming box.
We have 11 humane society "barn" cats that we have adopted. We have this warming box with flat pad heaters and straw for them to stay warm in, but we need to enclose the front except for a cat door. We would like plexi so we can keep an eye on them from the cat cam. Looking for something 24x24 or larger.
Thank you

09/09/2023

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