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WRUBLESKI SAVES PATRON

Mel’s, For A Good Meal

– And, If Needed, Help

By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com

Brian Wrubleski, here with daughter/business partner Alex, last week saved a patron at the table behind them from choking. He recalled that, on Alex's first day in the restaurant business, she'd similarly been called upon to perform the Heimlich as well. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

COOPERSTOWN – Working in the kitchen at Mel’s at 22 late last week, Brian Wrubleski got the word:  “Somebody’s choking.”

One waitperson had already attempted the Heimlich maneuver, he was told.

Walking out onto the restaurant floor, Wrubleski saw a second waitperson was performing the maneuver on a customer who, with a morsel trapped in his windpipe, had fallen out his chair in the restaurant’s southeast corner.

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