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Pipeline safety seminar set for January (12/14/05)
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ANR Pipeline and Texas Eastern Transmission, LP/Duke Energy, invites interested residents to a free dinner and pipeline safety-emergency response training program.
The Pipeline Group — Midwest, Noblesville, will conduct the free pipeline safety seminar for contractors/excavators and public officials on Jan. 17, 5:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Portland, 126 W. High St., Portland.
The seminar begins with a short registration/sponsor reception, followed by a buffet meal, and a brief presentation with the theme of pipeline safety and incident response.
The program is designed to help excavators avoid expensive and potentially life-threatening situations from hits on pipeline facilities by identifying the dangers involved in working around pipelines and the necessity of using the state One-Call locating system.
To make a reservation call (800) 513-9948, Fax (317) 776-1182, or mail, The Pipeline Group-Midwest, 15530 Herriman Blvd., Noblesville, IN, 46060.
Banquet to be held
The Portland Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting and awards banquet will be held Jan. 28 at Arts Place, 131 E. Walnut St., Portland.
Registration will begin at 6 p.m. and the dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m.
Chamber member businesses and organizations which have reached milestones in 2005 will be recognized.
Modest hiring
East Central Indiana employers expect to hire at a modest pace during the first quarter of 2006.
From January to March, 17 percent of companies plan to hire more employees, while 10 percent expect to reduce their payrolls, according to a Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
“The East Central area employment outlook is softer than the fourth quarter forecast when 33 percent of the companies interviewed predicted an increase in hiring activity, and 10 percent planned to decrease the hiring pace,” Manpower spokesman Dennis Takayoshi said in a press release this week.
“A year ago at this time, employers revealed more modest hiring intentions when 7 percent of companies surveyed thought employment increases were likely and 13 percent intended to cut back.”
Completes school
A Porter-Takats Insurance and Real Estate employee recently completed the Troyer School of Real Estate.
Laurinda (Hudson) Shope, also passed the Indiana Real Estate licensing exam, and is trained to handle insurance and real estate needs.
Shope is a graduate of Jay County High School and Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. She has worked at Porter-Takats as an insurance agent since 1998.
She is a member of the Portland Morning Optimist Club, and lives with her husband Rotch in rural Jay County.
After hours
The next Portland Area Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours will be held Jan. 11 at 5 p.m.
The event will be at the Bank of Geneva, Portland branch.
Tyson lab honored
The Food Safety and Laboratory Services Network of Tyson Foods, Inc. recently was honored for its work in food quality and safety.
The network recently was presented the Quality Award by Food Quality magazine and DuPont Qualicon. The network includes 18 laboratories throughout the United States.
The network provides technical support to several areas within Tyson, including live chicken production, sales and marketing, and research and development.
There is a Tyson Foods plant in Portland.
New pharmacy
Local residents who have a pharmacy in Fort Recovery, recently opened another pharmacy in Union City.
Gerald and Lorri Kaup, Fort Recovery, recently opened Kaup Pharmacy. The husband and wife team have a third pharmacy in Versailles, Ohio.
The Union City building is the former location of Rite Aid pharmacy.
Diane Roessner, also of Fort Recovery, will help run the pharmacy.
The business features durable medical equipment including lift chairs, hospital beds, wheelchairs, oxygen containers and bath accessories. There also are conference rooms which allow customers to discuss their medical needs in private.
Mercer No. 1 in income
Mercer County remains at the top of the list in farm income among Ohio’s 88 counties.
The county’s agricultural cash receipts increased 15 percent from 2003 to 2004.
According to the 2004 Ohio Farm Income report compiled by the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service and Ohio State University Extension, Mercer is ranked number one in the state in terms of its farm income.
The county’s receipts for 2004 totaled $347.3 million. In 2003, they totaled $301.8 million.
Darke County was ranked second.
The largest receipts for Mercer were in poultry and other livestock, hogs and pigs. The biggest increase in total dollar income was for hogs and pigs, which increased 53.7 percent in 2004.
Outlook brightens
Company officials with The Andersons, Inc. recently announced they expect earnings this year to exceed what was originally projected.
“Our earnings outlook for 2005 has increased primarily because of strong fourth quarter performance in our grain, plant nutrient and rail businesses,” Andersons president and chief executive officer Mike Anderson said in a press release.
“We now believe that our current year earnings will exceed our previous projections. After the first of the year, we’ll be in a better position to estimate our actual results, but at this time it appears that our 2005 earnings will exceed the upper end of our previous guidance.”
The company has several operations, including The Andersons near Dunkirk.
Hospital compliant
The Indiana State Board of Health recently completed its annual survey at Bluffton Regional Medical Center and found the hospital compliant with all state regulations.
The hospital was found to have no deficiencies throughout the entire facility.
Taxes to back up plant
The Wells County Commissioners this week approved a request by a group of local investors for county economic development dollars to encourage the construction of an ethanol plant outside Bluffton.
The Wells County Council earlier this month agreed to put up about $500,000 in economic development income tax revenue, if a proposed 100 milion-gallon ethanol plant were to be built and then fail, according to an articles in Wednesday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
Indiana Bio-Energy LLC, the group of investors looking to build the plant, had originally asked for nearly $450 million in county-guaranteed bonds. The $134 million project would be paid for using a $450 million conventional mortgage and about $434 million in private investments. The investors had wanted the county to guarantee a bond to pay for the rest of the project.
But county council members expressed concern about putting up public property tax dollars for a private business enterprise.
The commissioners Monday approved the use of the economic development income tax revenue in the event of a total default by the proposed plant.[[In-content Ad]]
The Pipeline Group — Midwest, Noblesville, will conduct the free pipeline safety seminar for contractors/excavators and public officials on Jan. 17, 5:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge in Portland, 126 W. High St., Portland.
The seminar begins with a short registration/sponsor reception, followed by a buffet meal, and a brief presentation with the theme of pipeline safety and incident response.
The program is designed to help excavators avoid expensive and potentially life-threatening situations from hits on pipeline facilities by identifying the dangers involved in working around pipelines and the necessity of using the state One-Call locating system.
To make a reservation call (800) 513-9948, Fax (317) 776-1182, or mail, The Pipeline Group-Midwest, 15530 Herriman Blvd., Noblesville, IN, 46060.
Banquet to be held
The Portland Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting and awards banquet will be held Jan. 28 at Arts Place, 131 E. Walnut St., Portland.
Registration will begin at 6 p.m. and the dinner will be held at 6:30 p.m.
Chamber member businesses and organizations which have reached milestones in 2005 will be recognized.
Modest hiring
East Central Indiana employers expect to hire at a modest pace during the first quarter of 2006.
From January to March, 17 percent of companies plan to hire more employees, while 10 percent expect to reduce their payrolls, according to a Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.
“The East Central area employment outlook is softer than the fourth quarter forecast when 33 percent of the companies interviewed predicted an increase in hiring activity, and 10 percent planned to decrease the hiring pace,” Manpower spokesman Dennis Takayoshi said in a press release this week.
“A year ago at this time, employers revealed more modest hiring intentions when 7 percent of companies surveyed thought employment increases were likely and 13 percent intended to cut back.”
Completes school
A Porter-Takats Insurance and Real Estate employee recently completed the Troyer School of Real Estate.
Laurinda (Hudson) Shope, also passed the Indiana Real Estate licensing exam, and is trained to handle insurance and real estate needs.
Shope is a graduate of Jay County High School and Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana. She has worked at Porter-Takats as an insurance agent since 1998.
She is a member of the Portland Morning Optimist Club, and lives with her husband Rotch in rural Jay County.
After hours
The next Portland Area Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours will be held Jan. 11 at 5 p.m.
The event will be at the Bank of Geneva, Portland branch.
Tyson lab honored
The Food Safety and Laboratory Services Network of Tyson Foods, Inc. recently was honored for its work in food quality and safety.
The network recently was presented the Quality Award by Food Quality magazine and DuPont Qualicon. The network includes 18 laboratories throughout the United States.
The network provides technical support to several areas within Tyson, including live chicken production, sales and marketing, and research and development.
There is a Tyson Foods plant in Portland.
New pharmacy
Local residents who have a pharmacy in Fort Recovery, recently opened another pharmacy in Union City.
Gerald and Lorri Kaup, Fort Recovery, recently opened Kaup Pharmacy. The husband and wife team have a third pharmacy in Versailles, Ohio.
The Union City building is the former location of Rite Aid pharmacy.
Diane Roessner, also of Fort Recovery, will help run the pharmacy.
The business features durable medical equipment including lift chairs, hospital beds, wheelchairs, oxygen containers and bath accessories. There also are conference rooms which allow customers to discuss their medical needs in private.
Mercer No. 1 in income
Mercer County remains at the top of the list in farm income among Ohio’s 88 counties.
The county’s agricultural cash receipts increased 15 percent from 2003 to 2004.
According to the 2004 Ohio Farm Income report compiled by the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service and Ohio State University Extension, Mercer is ranked number one in the state in terms of its farm income.
The county’s receipts for 2004 totaled $347.3 million. In 2003, they totaled $301.8 million.
Darke County was ranked second.
The largest receipts for Mercer were in poultry and other livestock, hogs and pigs. The biggest increase in total dollar income was for hogs and pigs, which increased 53.7 percent in 2004.
Outlook brightens
Company officials with The Andersons, Inc. recently announced they expect earnings this year to exceed what was originally projected.
“Our earnings outlook for 2005 has increased primarily because of strong fourth quarter performance in our grain, plant nutrient and rail businesses,” Andersons president and chief executive officer Mike Anderson said in a press release.
“We now believe that our current year earnings will exceed our previous projections. After the first of the year, we’ll be in a better position to estimate our actual results, but at this time it appears that our 2005 earnings will exceed the upper end of our previous guidance.”
The company has several operations, including The Andersons near Dunkirk.
Hospital compliant
The Indiana State Board of Health recently completed its annual survey at Bluffton Regional Medical Center and found the hospital compliant with all state regulations.
The hospital was found to have no deficiencies throughout the entire facility.
Taxes to back up plant
The Wells County Commissioners this week approved a request by a group of local investors for county economic development dollars to encourage the construction of an ethanol plant outside Bluffton.
The Wells County Council earlier this month agreed to put up about $500,000 in economic development income tax revenue, if a proposed 100 milion-gallon ethanol plant were to be built and then fail, according to an articles in Wednesday’s Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
Indiana Bio-Energy LLC, the group of investors looking to build the plant, had originally asked for nearly $450 million in county-guaranteed bonds. The $134 million project would be paid for using a $450 million conventional mortgage and about $434 million in private investments. The investors had wanted the county to guarantee a bond to pay for the rest of the project.
But county council members expressed concern about putting up public property tax dollars for a private business enterprise.
The commissioners Monday approved the use of the economic development income tax revenue in the event of a total default by the proposed plant.[[In-content Ad]]
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