Jubileusz 95-lecia jednostki OSP w Wykowie

- Widzę tu wspaniały przykład współpracy samorządu gminy Kolno ze środowiskiem tej miejscowości oraz kwitnące „służbowe małżeństwo” OSP z Kołem Gospodyń Wiejskich. Wspólnie realizują swoje pasje. Przekazałem druhom wyrazy szacunku i uznania za tak wiele lat służby dla miejscowości i regionu kolneńskiego - powiedział wicemarszałek Marek Olbryś, a radny Adam Wojciech Sekściński wyraził nadzieję na spotkania na stulecie OSP.

Jak zaznaczył wójt gminy Kolno Józef Bogdan Wiśniewski, OSP w Wykowie wyróżnia się m. in. tym, że są w niej nie tylko mieszkańcy jednej miejscowości. I jeszcze przywiązaniem do służby. Wśród uhonorowanych podczas uroczystości strażaków byli druhowie nawet z 60-letnim stażem.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         - Jednostka dysponuje w zasadzie wszystkim, czego potrzebuje do działania: jest bardzo dobra remiza, samochód. Zdobywamy co roku znaczące środki na wyposażanie i środki ochrony osobistej dzięki pomocy ministerstwa spraw wewnętrznych, urzędu marszałkowskiego, funduszu ochrony środowiska, różnego rodzaju fundacji i organizacji. To spotkanie jest okazją do podziękowania. Druhom z Wykowa dziękuję też za bardzo mądrą politykę kadrową, w której znaczące miejsce zajmuje szacunek dla seniorów i starania o nowych strażaków - mówił wójt Józef Bogdan Wiśniewski.

Prezes OSP Wykowo Waldemar Rybka przedstawił uczestnikom uroczystości historię jednostki, w której zapisał się m. in. epizod z trąbką i warząchwią.

- Gdy zapiał „czerwony kur” wszyscy mężczyźni ruszali na ratunek, a czasami też kobiety. Utworzona została w latach 20. tzw. warta, czyli nocne patrole, których wyposażeniem był kostur z dzwoneczkami - opowiadał prezes Waldemar Rybka.

Sojusz strażaków i mieszkanek Wykowa trwa do tej pory. W uroczystości wzięły udział panie z Koła Gospodyń Wiejskich (tworzy je 14 osób) w pięknych różowych sukniach, a z gorącymi życzeniami dla druhów pospieszyła przewodnicząca Urszula Gnatowska wyróżniająca się także wiankiem z kwiatów.       

Życzenia i gratulacje przekazali strażakom także posłowie Kazimierz Gwiazdowski, Jarosław Zieliński i Stefan Krajewski, przedstawiciele Komendy Wojewódzkiej PSP w Białymstoku i powiatowej w Kolnie, koledzy z zaprzyjaźnionych jednostek z Zaskrodzia, Zabiela i Czerwonego.

 - Dziękujemy, że zawsze możemy na was liczyć - powiedział poseł Kazimierz Gwiazdowski.

Grono druhów otrzymało odznaczenia i wyróżnienia za służbę. 

tekst i fot.: M. Gryguc