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Woolwich approves outsourcing animal control Staff ink new deal with K-W Humane Society STEVE KANNON
The Boeing B-29 named “Fifi” was on display this week at the Region of Waterloo International Airport in Breslau. It is one of only two such planes that still flies. The plane was named after Josephine “Fifi” Agathar, the wife of the man who restored the plane, Vic Agather. [VERONICA REINER / THE OBSERVER]
One of two still-flightworthy WWII-era B-29 bombers makes a stop at airport in Breslau VERONICA REINER A Boeing B-29 Superfortress nicknamed “Fifi,” one of only two remaining flying examples of the Second World War bomber, made a stop in Breslau this week. The airplane was stateof-the-art for its time, expensive to develop, build and now maintain by the non-profit organization. “This is what I call the space shuttle of 1945,”
said Don Boccaccio of the Commemorative Air Force. “This was the first pressurized bomber, pressurized aircraft, period. This had auto-pilot, this had the Norden bombsight which was used to target the bombs, an onboard radar, remote control guns, an upper gun and a lower gun was depending on what they wanted, and it had 125-pound analog computers.” Developing the bomber
billion. As a result, the four-engine plane is costly to fly, both financially and maintenance-wise. “This airplane uses 100 gallons of gas per hour, per engine,” said Boccaccio. “That’s 400 gallons an hour. And right now, about $3,000 in fuel alone it uses. It cost us over $10,000 an hour to run. And that’s with a complete volunteer crew. This whole crew here, and through the whole summer, has been
was estimated to cost in excess of $3 billion and was the single-most expensive weapons project undertaken by the U.S. in World War II. “The development of this airplane cost more than the Manhattan Project, which is an atomic bomb,” said Boccaccio. “This cost more to develop than the atomic bomb did.” It exceeded the cost of the Manhattan project by approximately $1 to $1.7
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Expanding on its longstanding agreement for pound services with the K-W Humane Society, Woolwich is offloading its animal control functions onto the agency in a new contract that kicks in next year. The current four year deal ends at the end of 2018, with the expanded contract running through 2023. The arrangement will see animal control services such as responding to calls about dogs running at large, dog bites and aggressive dogs handled by the agency rather than by township staff. Daytime services will extend an extra two hours a day – 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, rather than the township staff’s 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Outside those times,
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