July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Winchester Honda supplier expanding (04/21/07)
Business roundup
Ground was broken Thursday on the expansion of the Tomasco LLC plant in Winchester.
Officials gathered Thursday for the event, two months after Tomasco announced it would invest $20 million to expand and hire 125 new employees. The plant currently has 130 employees and produces metal hinges, locks, and brackets for Honda.
The Winchester plant is the first parts plant to expand because of Honda's arrival in Indiana. The plant has built parts for Honda since 2004 and now Honda makes up 98 percent of the company's business.
The 127,000-square foot expansion will bring a new production line to the Winchester operation. For the first time, Tomasco, which opened its local production plant in 1999, will build vehicle body parts. Production is expected by October 2008.
Hazardous class
The Wells County Local Emergency Planning Committee and Wells County Chamber of Commerce have partnered with SES Environmental to sponsor a 24-hour hazardous materials technician emergency response class for business.
The classes will be held May 15 through 17 at the Wells County Arts, Commerce and Visitors Center.
The three-day class will feature a mock spill scenario exercise in addition to classroom-style training and will meet the OSHA 1910.120 standard for hazardous materials technician training.
To register call SES Environmental at (877) 882-1925.
E-mail replacements
Embarq has begun migrating existing residential Embarqtm high speed Internet and Embarqtm business-class DSL customers with Earthlink e-mail accounts to a new Embarq-branded Internet portal. As part of the transition, embarqmail.com replaces earthlink.net e-mail addresses.
Benefits of the new portal include an innovative e-mail service with unlimited mailbox storage and online security tools providing virus and anti-spyware protection.
The new myembarq.com and biz.myembarq.com homepages offer instant access to e-mail, search, news, weather, sports, financial information, 20 channels of commercial-free radio and more.
The process automatically moves customer's stored e-mail, contact lists and folders to their new embarqmail accounts.
After Oct. 31, Embarq will discontinue support of the Earthlink product.
Customers can contact Embarq for more information.
Development series
The Portland Area Chamber of Commerce reminds residents of the professional development series set to begin Tuesday. "Filling Your Sales Funnel" will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Community Resource Center.
"Winning at Sales - Buying/Selling Process" will be held May 1; and "Creating Opportunities through Great Customer Service" will be held May 8.
Tim Hartigan, Wells Business Development Inc., will be the trainer.
The final day for registration is Tuesday.
Networking luncheon
The Portland Area Chamber of Commerce networking luncheon will be held Tuesday at noon in conference rooms A and B at Jay County Hospital.
Kellen Larkey, east region marketing manager for the Indiana Office of Tourism will be the speaker on "What Tourism can Do for Our Economy."
Reservations should be made by calling the chamber at (219) 726-4481.
Employer forum
An information update on FLSA and FMLA will be held Thursday from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Muncie WorkOne Center, 201 E. Charles St., Muncie.
Pamela Frazee from the Department of Labor will be the guest speaker.
A video conference will also be held from the Jay County office at 112 N. Ship St., Portland, as well as offices in Blackford, Randolph, Henry, and Wayne counties.
Registration is due by Tuesday and should be done with the local office at (260) 726-8316 ext. 221.
Food drive
Richard's Jewelry of Berne is sponsoring a food drive for Project Share in Adams County.
The public is invited to bring canned or packaged food to the store from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
A "Drawing for Diamonds" contest will also be held throughout the drive. No purchase is necessary to participate in this contest and more than 50 prizes will be awarded.
Project connect
Employers who are interested in helping Jay County High School students prepare for college or the workplace are invited to become part of "Project Connect," a program sponsored by the Portland Area Chamber of Commerce.
"Project Connect" is an online database that is designed to provide valuable information regarding local career and educational opportunities.
Employers are invited to go on-line at www.ProjectConnectIndiana.com and register about how they could be involved in the career learning experience.
Margaret Ralph, accounting teacher at JCHS is the Project Connect coordinator for the school. She and a few other teachers will be doing some training this month.
Then all of the teachers at JCHS will register and train at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year.
The chamber is serving as administrator of the project for the county.
Project loans, grants
USDA Rural Development is offering more than $19 million nationally in competitive grant funds, to help independent agricultural producers enter into value-added activities.
Under this year's program, the amount that can be awarded to a producer in the form of a working capital grant is $300,000. The maximum amount for planning grants is $100,000.
The grants may be used for planning activities, such as feasibility studies, marketing and business plans or to provide working capital for operating a value-added business venture. Eligible applicants are independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives, agricultural producer groups, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures.
Applications must be received no later than May 16. For more information on the grant program, contact Jerry Hay at (819) 873-1100 or Sharon Ellison at (574) 753-4705 ext. 106.[[In-content Ad]]
Officials gathered Thursday for the event, two months after Tomasco announced it would invest $20 million to expand and hire 125 new employees. The plant currently has 130 employees and produces metal hinges, locks, and brackets for Honda.
The Winchester plant is the first parts plant to expand because of Honda's arrival in Indiana. The plant has built parts for Honda since 2004 and now Honda makes up 98 percent of the company's business.
The 127,000-square foot expansion will bring a new production line to the Winchester operation. For the first time, Tomasco, which opened its local production plant in 1999, will build vehicle body parts. Production is expected by October 2008.
Hazardous class
The Wells County Local Emergency Planning Committee and Wells County Chamber of Commerce have partnered with SES Environmental to sponsor a 24-hour hazardous materials technician emergency response class for business.
The classes will be held May 15 through 17 at the Wells County Arts, Commerce and Visitors Center.
The three-day class will feature a mock spill scenario exercise in addition to classroom-style training and will meet the OSHA 1910.120 standard for hazardous materials technician training.
To register call SES Environmental at (877) 882-1925.
E-mail replacements
Embarq has begun migrating existing residential Embarqtm high speed Internet and Embarqtm business-class DSL customers with Earthlink e-mail accounts to a new Embarq-branded Internet portal. As part of the transition, embarqmail.com replaces earthlink.net e-mail addresses.
Benefits of the new portal include an innovative e-mail service with unlimited mailbox storage and online security tools providing virus and anti-spyware protection.
The new myembarq.com and biz.myembarq.com homepages offer instant access to e-mail, search, news, weather, sports, financial information, 20 channels of commercial-free radio and more.
The process automatically moves customer's stored e-mail, contact lists and folders to their new embarqmail accounts.
After Oct. 31, Embarq will discontinue support of the Earthlink product.
Customers can contact Embarq for more information.
Development series
The Portland Area Chamber of Commerce reminds residents of the professional development series set to begin Tuesday. "Filling Your Sales Funnel" will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Community Resource Center.
"Winning at Sales - Buying/Selling Process" will be held May 1; and "Creating Opportunities through Great Customer Service" will be held May 8.
Tim Hartigan, Wells Business Development Inc., will be the trainer.
The final day for registration is Tuesday.
Networking luncheon
The Portland Area Chamber of Commerce networking luncheon will be held Tuesday at noon in conference rooms A and B at Jay County Hospital.
Kellen Larkey, east region marketing manager for the Indiana Office of Tourism will be the speaker on "What Tourism can Do for Our Economy."
Reservations should be made by calling the chamber at (219) 726-4481.
Employer forum
An information update on FLSA and FMLA will be held Thursday from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Muncie WorkOne Center, 201 E. Charles St., Muncie.
Pamela Frazee from the Department of Labor will be the guest speaker.
A video conference will also be held from the Jay County office at 112 N. Ship St., Portland, as well as offices in Blackford, Randolph, Henry, and Wayne counties.
Registration is due by Tuesday and should be done with the local office at (260) 726-8316 ext. 221.
Food drive
Richard's Jewelry of Berne is sponsoring a food drive for Project Share in Adams County.
The public is invited to bring canned or packaged food to the store from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
A "Drawing for Diamonds" contest will also be held throughout the drive. No purchase is necessary to participate in this contest and more than 50 prizes will be awarded.
Project connect
Employers who are interested in helping Jay County High School students prepare for college or the workplace are invited to become part of "Project Connect," a program sponsored by the Portland Area Chamber of Commerce.
"Project Connect" is an online database that is designed to provide valuable information regarding local career and educational opportunities.
Employers are invited to go on-line at www.ProjectConnectIndiana.com and register about how they could be involved in the career learning experience.
Margaret Ralph, accounting teacher at JCHS is the Project Connect coordinator for the school. She and a few other teachers will be doing some training this month.
Then all of the teachers at JCHS will register and train at the beginning of the 2007-08 school year.
The chamber is serving as administrator of the project for the county.
Project loans, grants
USDA Rural Development is offering more than $19 million nationally in competitive grant funds, to help independent agricultural producers enter into value-added activities.
Under this year's program, the amount that can be awarded to a producer in the form of a working capital grant is $300,000. The maximum amount for planning grants is $100,000.
The grants may be used for planning activities, such as feasibility studies, marketing and business plans or to provide working capital for operating a value-added business venture. Eligible applicants are independent producers, farmer and rancher cooperatives, agricultural producer groups, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures.
Applications must be received no later than May 16. For more information on the grant program, contact Jerry Hay at (819) 873-1100 or Sharon Ellison at (574) 753-4705 ext. 106.[[In-content Ad]]
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