Kim Vrtiska Has an Unusual Moment Which Will Go Down in History

  • The site of the rescue, marked with an arrow, in a photo by Arvid Blecha taken three weeks before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The opera house roof is the one with the skylight cupola. Not only does Kim help with maintenance, he brought polka legends Molly B. and her husband Ted Lange to Table Rock three years ago and arranged sponsorships to make their concert free. He does a lot for Table Rock. He deserved to be rescued. Even from the roof of a three-story building.
    The site of the rescue, marked with an arrow, in a photo by Arvid Blecha taken three weeks before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The opera house roof is the one with the skylight cupola. Not only does Kim help with maintenance, he brought polka legends Molly B. and her husband Ted Lange to Table Rock three years ago and arranged sponsorships to make their concert free. He does a lot for Table Rock. He deserved to be rescued. Even from the roof of a three-story building.

    “Please don’t tell anyone,” Kim Vrtiska said when I picked up the phone. “It’s kind of embarrassing.” I had talked to Kim not ten minutes before. He was headed for the roof of the Table Rock Opera House Museum because the roof drain had clogged again and water had accumulated up there, again. Kim said he was headed up to clear it. Then I had got this second call.

    “I’m stuck!” Kim said. Stuck? He ex…