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JACKSON TWP. He initially wanted to be a police officer.
But the U.S. Air Force made the decision for Tim Berczik when they made him a fire protection specialist. The military made me a fireman and that was awesome. I jumped at it and never looked back, said Berczik, who will go from deputy chief on March 12 to head of the township s 95-member firefighting force working out of a total of five fire stations.
Berczik will replace retiring Chief Tracy Hogue, who is retiring after 45 years with the department. Hogue has been chief since 2011.
Berczik was one of three vying for the chief s position. Captains Michael Peel and David Seibert were also in the running, said Michael Vaccaro, township administrator and law director.
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Coup in Myanmar
This post is also available in: German, Portuguese Image by cc Wikimedia Deposed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (left) and General Min Aung Hlaing (right)).
Following Monday’s coup in Myanmar, the EU and the USA are considering imposing new sanctions on that country. Already on Monday, US President Joe Biden declared that he would immediately review the reintroduction of coercive measures. The EU announced yesterday that it will “consider all options at its disposal to ensure that democracy prevails.” For a long time during the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany had cooperated closely with the Myanmar military regime for geostrategic reasons, including arms exports. Germany, like the West as a whole, had been disengaging from the country since 1990, again seeking better relations only after China began initiating important geostrategic projects – such as the construction of a transport corridor from the
EU Reporter
Published 2 months ago
A senior Northern Irish unionist called on Tuesday (2 February) for calm after a local council withdrew port staff over concerns for their safety and the European Union acted “crassly” to try to prevent vaccine exports through the Irish border, writes Guy Faulconbridge.
Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new trade barriers introduced between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom as part of the Northern Ireland protocol, a standalone deal for the region after Britain left the EU.
“These things have certainly created a lot of tension in the community,” Democratic Unionist Party politician Edwin Poots told BBC radio, adding that it was difficult for politicians to restrain the anger in the community.
EU Reporter
Published 2 months ago
(pictured) executive vice president of the European Commission, said a draft EU text that included measures to impose checks on vaccines entering Northern Ireland from the EU creating a de facto hard border on the island of Ireland was drawn up with all relevant commission input,
write Mehreen Khan and Michael Peel in Brussels.
Brussels has been under pressure after the commission was forced into dropping the “safeguard” for Northern Ireland on Friday night (29 January) after uproar in Dublin, Belfast and London, which were not consulted on the measure. This would have triggered an emergency clause in the Brexit withdrawal treaty and was part of a wider regulation allowing EU member states to restrict drugmakers’ ability to export vaccines out of the bloc. Officials told the
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