European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 15, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 units German towns become partners by Mike Heronemus staff writer Fulda Germany soldiers of Llie Blackhorse regiment Are becoming official partners with their civilian neighbors so More americans and germans will gel acquainted and become friends. Several German towns near Fulda and company level units of the 1 Ith army Cav regt headquartered at Downs Barracks have formalized project partnership relations to get to know each other belter a jbjh5rd fennel talk Huenfeld mayor Spear headed inc first such partnership Between his town and the 58th engr co in 1983. Since Ihnn five More partnerships have been formed and another is planned. To our knowledge Lith army Cav regi is the Only major element in u5areur10 have formal relationships with Host nation  said Klaus Domse Iroff the Usa eur Community relations it project partnership normally links . Military units with Allied military forces usually German army units. Besides Huenfeld and the engineers partnerships exist Between Tann and howitzer Btry 1st so Rasdorf and troop b. 1st so Eit Erfeld and troop a regi mental combat aviation so Orcas Kuenzell and troop Orcas and Loes Henrod and troop Orcas. Burghaus and cod 1st set plan to formalize their partnership aug. 8, said Renate Lieber Fulda military Community Public affairs officer. She also has matched nine More of he regiment s units and nearby towns As potential partners and is trying to make sure the local population and units complement each other in size. Before a partnership can be formalized the German town Council must vote to do so sticker said. Such a vote Means the town Council must face Why . Forces Are Here fennel said. A yes Vole also Means the town Council must support them being Here he said. Formal partnerships should not just be lip serv ice said Tann mayor Wolfgang Schwake. Ii should be imbued with life 1 one Way the towns do that is to set aside Money in their budget to finance project partnership events Stieber said. In Tann support also resulted in a group of citizen who met for six months to icam or improve English skills so they could talk with members of howitzer Btry Schwake said. Two pages of photographs in Huenfeld s information Booklet a stack of German newspaper clippings photographs displayed proudly by two town mayors and interviews with soldiers of Blackhorse units leave no doubt project partnership is important to the Ger mans and american living near the Fulda Gap a historical invasion route to West Germany. The soldiers Are living in our Community. We should t forget we re allies Grosse Neuder mayor Rudolf Marla said. We should try to live together like friends not like  his town and troop a Orcas do not yet have formal partnership but informally have shared Many activities. Fennel was a member of the local German Ameri can Council when he suggested project partnership As a Way to involve More people. In one of our project partnership Community events 50 to 60 percent of the 58th engr co will take part instead of the 30 americans and 30 German meeting on the Council he said. There was Good relations before but mostly limited to German officials and unit commanders said staff sgt. Joseph l Dewease a squad Leader with the 58th engr co. He was stationed with the 58lh from1978 to 983 and came Back to the unit in 1985. The Village of Eit Erfeld is super said chief we rant officer Roger a Rice a 30-Yearrold cobra Heli copter Pilot who has spent eight of hit 12 Yean in the army on the Border with the i lib army Cav regt. The first time the unit went out they treated 111 like we had been gone All our life and were coming Home Rice said. Chief warrant officer Donald e. Ambrose said partnership is a big part of unit activity for the 70 soldiers and family members of troop Orcas. We get More invitations than we can meet he said. It gets families out of the House and doing things they otherwise would t  partnership events have spawned numerous personal friendships. Right now about half of us could walk into Ras Dorf and people would know us said 1st sgt. Doug Las d. Shewmaker of troop a 1st so. All hats in line if Beret bib off Midler ordered Rostand perfectly Tell what am be do a German army Soldier in  to Greet Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bon room oat when he commanding offi cer replaced his Cap. Volunteers offer Hope through helping hands byjoe Mapother Stan writer Berlin like most mothers Dag mar Tsuchi Gane can use a few extra hands around the House. At times she has been Able to count on As Many As 300 of them. Tsuchi Gahe has turned loan intense form of physical therapy known As Pat terning in Hopes of helping her severely brain damaged daughter. Eight year old Yuriko his been a quadriplegic since she nearly drowned in Virginia five Yean ago. Every Day except sunday volunteers come to Tsuchi Gane s Home to adminis Ter about an hour of therapy that involves constantly moving the child s limbs and head. Tsuchi Gane and the volunteers Hope moving the limbs and Muscles Yuri cannot move herself will allow regeneration of her brain cells and restore some of her ability to move. The therapy also contributes to her muscle Lone. Each saturday two teams of helping hands from the . Air Force visit Tsu chicane s apartment to work with Yuri to. The group from Tempelhof Centra Airport is part of a larger group that includes professors and symphony musicians from throughout Berlin. I know it sounds kind of corny said Stal sgt Paul Fenwick. " Bui we have commitment to Dagmar and  four air Force volunteers at one re cent therapy session admitted to feelings of helplessness and trepidation in the be ginning. At first you Don t feel you re doing much Fenwick said of the Lime he has devoted to Yuriko since volunteering in november. To varying degree they All said they have had experiences similar to that of senior airman Barry wills. The first obstacle that 1 encountered when i first came in to the therapy group was that she was very unresponsive. She was just like a vegetable wills said. Then i walked in one saturday be fore Christmas and said i Riko. She looked up and gave me this big Grin and that was. Fantastic will said after some contemplation. Fenwick said Yuriko is much More attentive than she was in the beginning. She recognizes people and she s physically gelling better. You can actually see it wills added the progressions seem to come in leaps and Bounds. They Don t happen every  about seven people comprise the air Force Volunteer group that includes Fen Wick and wills. They Tike to have live people show up each saturday one to work each limb of Yuriko s body and the fifth person to work her head. Maintaining the Pool of Volunteer labor requires newspaper advertisements and appeals to local service organizations Tsuchi Gane said. Without the help of the patterning volunteers she believe Yuriko would have died within the first year. We just did t believe what was Hap pening Tsuchi Gane said of the 150 volunteers who helped her daughter in Vir Ginia. That people would come and do this on their free  the volunteers followed a program of exercises set by physicians at the Cente for neurological rehabilitation in Phila Delphia Tsuchi Gane said. Although the True Worth of the therapy is under debate in some medical circles Tsuchi Gane said she decided to go ahead with it after talk ing to families with the same problem. I could t stand to have Ibe child lying there All the Lime with no  in 1984, Tsuchi Gane s japanese Amer ican husband took a Job in saudi Arabia in part because of the medical Bills incurred after the Accident she said. When she found she was unable to provide the same care for Yuriko in saudi Arabia Tsuchi Gane moved to her native Ger Many. In Berlin she contacted the american women s club and people working forthe morale support activity it Tempel Hof. The search for new volunteers is regularly on her mind. Her daughter will show dramatic improvement but she harbours no illusions. If you had asked me three years ago i would have been As enthusiastic a per son As you would want to see. But in has been five years now. I know there is a 99.9 percent Chanc thai it won t happen anymore but there h still that 0.1 percent