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Bluebag Media
Braund retires,
marking 46 years and counting
NEW MADISON – Forty-six years and counting… Delbert Braund, former
military, former funeral home owner, former EMS volunteer, is retiring
as the New Madison Fire Department’s Public Information Officer, but
not from service to his community. “Oh, I’m still going to be around,”
he said. “I’m still chairman of the board (New Madison Fire Company).”
Fire Company President Randy Mikesell explained. “We (Fire Department
and Fire Company) are separate entities, the company operating as a
business. The company is incorporated and now has some full time
staff.” The Fire Department, however, is still volunteer.
Braund has turned the information reins over to Jerry Holsapple. “For
us younger guys, he (Braund) was the backbone of the department,”
Holsapple said. “I don’t think anybody can do a better job than him.”
Braund received a plaque for his 10 years of service as information
officer that read, in part, “Congratulations … after 46 years of
Outstanding Professionalism, Unselfish Dedication and Untiring Efforts…”
Braund stopped making “runs” in 1996; he thought about the major
challenges he’d been part of during his service… three were in
Greenville, one in Arcanum… only one in New Madison: the grain fire.
The assists in Greenville were the Tile Mill fire, County Home and
Cornell Clothing on Broadway...
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