A thank you to wonderful neighbors

To the Editor: I am writing this letter to let everyone know what a great community I live in - Summit Lake, which borders Lake Tamarack by the dam. A recent episode is a good example of this. On Thursday evening, Sept. 22, my two dogs got loose and my son was trying to catch them. At the time, I was at “Back to School Night” and my husband had stayed at home with the kids. A few minutes later, he heard my son suddenly start screaming for help in the woods by our house. On his way to find my son he called out to the neighbors to call 911. When my husband finally reached him, he realized that my son had stepped on a bee’s nest and was getting stung repeatedly. By the time they got back to the house, there were police cars, fire trucks and ambulances waiting for them. All of the volunteers responded in a quick efficient manner, which I am grateful for. Thank goodness my son is not allergic to bees, because he was covered in stingers. The ambulance took my husband and son to Chilton Memorial Hospital and they pulled out over 20 stingers from his legs and head. I rushed to the hospital, leaving my daughter at my neighbor Doreen’s house. In the meantime the dogs were still loose. When our family got home at 9:45 p.m., there was no sign of the dogs, so I listened to the answering machine. I found out the Smiths, in Lake Tamarack, had found and kept them while we were in the emergency room. Instead of letting the police take our pets to the pound, they allowed two wet, 70-pound dogs to stay in their home. We would like to thank the Zyskowskis, The Smiths, Robin and Nat Saraceni, Ed Dorst (who helped my son get bees off him), the girls in who caught our dogs, and all the concerned neighbors. Thank you for being such a caring community. I would never want to leave. The Cieslik Family Mike, Amy Michael and Justine Stockholm