Serving as a volunteer responder is never an easy job, as cast members portray in a scene from “Population 485.” Included are, from left, “The Beagle (Bruce Muecke), Captain Pam (Jennifer Campos), Jed (Leyton Yerks) and Narrator (Shane Matter). STAFF PHOTO BY KAY JOHNSON
By KAY JOHNSON kajohnson@cherryroad.com Author Michael Perry titled his memoir and later the play, “Population 485,” after the number of inhabitants living in his hometown…