Shreve joins CR staff

Rural Redkey resident Mason Shreve has joined the staff at The Commercial Review.
Shreve, 23, graduated with honors in May from Ball State University, where he received a degree in English education. He was a member of the Writer’s Community and the English Education Club while at Ball State.
A 2007 graduate of Jay County High School, Shreve joins The Commercial Review as a city government/police reporter.

POET fines
The POET Biorefining ethanol plant in Alexandria has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $28,000 after the Indiana Department of Environmental Management alleged the plant had quality issues.
The agency said the POET ethanol plant operated its fermentation and distillation processes without a pollution control device on three occasions in 2010 and 2011.
The violations were related to the section of POET’s operating permit regulating the control of volatile organic compounds and hazardous air pollutants.
POET’s alleged failure to submit quarterly “deviation and compliance monitoring” reports in the third quarter of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011 is covered in the civil penalty.
The company agreed to pay $5,640 to the state’s environmental management special fund. POET agreed to make a cash payment of $22,560 to the Indiana Finance Authority to fund activities at a brownfield site in Alexandria instead of paying the remaining civil penalty.
POET also operates a plant in Portland.

50th anniversary
Financial firm Raymond James, which has a Portland office, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Associates, advisers, clients and personnel from the firm will celebrate the anniversary at events across America, Canada and around the world.
Raymond James was founded Aug. 16, 1962 to offer financial planning for individuals. It has grown into one of the largest financial services firms in the country and has 2,400 locations worldwide.
The firm marked its 95th consecutive quarter of profitability and its 27th year of issuing a dividend to shareholders in October 2011.

Board appointment
Old National Bancorp announced that former Chief Justice Randall Shepard was appointed to its Corporate Board of Directors on Monday.
Shepard will replace Joseph Barnette, who retired.
Shepard’s duties as a board member will include defining his goals and enforcing standards while providing oversight of the corporation.
“He will be a tremendous addition to our board, bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience from the governmental and political arena,” said Larry Duniga, Old National Board chairman.
Shepard retired in March after serving on the Indiana Supreme Court for 27 years. He is the nation’s longest-serving state court chief justice. Old National operates a branch in Portland.[[In-content Ad]]