· Episode 6 · In Episode 5, Irene and Martin Schrock were informed by a deputy sheriff that two of their children had been involved in an accident while they were operating the Schrock family's horse-and-wagon. Deputy Jennings and Sgt. Hunter had already been assigned to work the hit-and-run accident. * Irene and Martin Schrock saw the emergency flashing lights ahead and glanced at one another. Deputy Razer slowed her patrol car. Irene spotted the ambulance first. Martin observed his … [Read more...] about Deputy Jennings Works an Accident
Amish
An Amish Accident
· Episode 5 · In an earlier episode, Rosannah Yoder had been at her Amish farmstead talking with two deputy sheriffs when the officers were assigned to a nearby injury accident. Rosannah feared her husband may have been involved in the wreck. * The asphalt, like a thermometer, was heating up after the night’s sudden storm. Rosannah, holding her youngest child, was standing beside her mother, Anna. They spotted Adam’s tractor approaching from a distance of a half–mile. Rosannah waited by … [Read more...] about An Amish Accident
Road and Bridge Department
· Episode 4 · In an earlier episode, Deputy Tom Jennings was assigned to investigate a theft of soil from a county ditch. The call to 911 had come from a Road and Bridge employee. Upon the deputy’s arrival, he discovered it was only an Amish women recovering her eroded garden soil after a heavy rain. Even though Jennings considered the theft call ridiculous, he questioned the woman and collected information for a case. He decided to make a report so that the facts would speak for … [Read more...] about Road and Bridge Department
Deputy Jennings Apologizes
· Episode 3 · Previously, in Episode 2 (Deputy Jennings and the Black Buggies), Jennings worried if the Old Order Amish were upset with him for his response to a 911 call. * Rosannah knew everyone, even the babies. She watched as the familiar buggies moved up the driveway and parked by the barn. Tractors stopped on the shoulder of the road as if they were prepared to participate in a farm auction. Like marching soldiers, a few teenage boys carried rakes and shovels over their … [Read more...] about Deputy Jennings Apologizes
Deputy Jennings and the Black Buggies
· Episode 2 · Previously, in Episode 1 (Topsoil, the Story: Deputy Tom Jennings Meets Rosannah Yoder), Deputy Tom Jennings responded to a 911 call to investigate theft of soil from a county ditch. Upon arrival, he met resident Rosannah Borntrager Yoder. * Driving his horse and buggy, Jacob Yoder arrived at the scene of the so-called crime. He and his wife, Anna, carried a buggy-full of grandchildren—five of them belonging to Rosannah and Adam. Anna held the youngest in her arms. All … [Read more...] about Deputy Jennings and the Black Buggies
Topsoil, the Story
· Introduction to Topsoil · A friend of mine shared one of her concerns by posting it on Facebook. Here’s a portion of that post: “The ditches are being dug out along the county road by our house, and I’m seeing many truckloads of soil being trucked away to who-knows-where. Things like this should probably not bother me, but I feel sorry for the farmers of the adjacent fields who lost all that topsoil and will never see it again.” After additional interactive posts by other people on the … [Read more...] about Topsoil, the Story
