Fall construction tops $4 million

Building permits for more than $4 million in new construction were issued in September and October by the Jay/Portland Building and Planning Office.

September permits were topped by a $1,618,870 warehouse addition being built at 1000 N. Morton St., Portland, by Carrera Manufacturing Inc., parent company of W&M Manufacturing.

October’s biggest project involved two swine confined feeding buildings and a storage building totaling $1 million being built by Orr Swine Farm at 4023 S. 600 West.

Other permits were issued in September to Melvin M. Wickey for a $15,000 barn/residence at 310 W. 650 North, Willie M. Wickey for a $15,000 barn/residence at 316 W. 650 North, Benjamin E. S. Eicher for a $15,000 barn at 4000 E. 500 North, Mike Timmerman for a $60,000 grain bin at 6825 S. 325 West, Rex Mahon for a $1,000 pole building at 396 N. Indiana 1, Gerald LeMaster Jr. for a $400 pole building at 6897 S. 600 East, Dan Bruggeman for a $2,000 storage building at 6311 E. 200 North, John B. Eicher, for a $13,000 barn at 2149 E. 300 North, Samuel R. Girod for a $20,000 barn addition at 8845 N. 250 East, and Jeff and Nancy Snyder for a $10,000 barn addition at 2620 E. 200 South.

Also to Zach Bergman for a $26,000 storage building at 7173 E. 400 North, Cindy Carter for a $4,800 garage addition at 522 E. Main St., Portland, Jennifer Butcher for a $2,500 fence at 825 S. Bridge St., Portland, Dick and Loretta Corle for an $800 fence at 1108 S. Miller Ave., Portland, and Tyson Foods Inc. for an $80,000 foundation at 1355 W. Tyson Road, Portland.

Also to Douglas Burke for a $13,000 pond at 3939 W. Indiana 26, David E. J. Wickey for a $40,000 home at 7020 N. 200 East, Joe Hines for a $25,000 cabin at 6468 W. 800 South, Nancy Kunk for a $310,000 home at 4775 E. 600 South, Kevin Nieport for a $250,000 home at 5791 S. 300 East, Glen and Beverly Priest for a $190,000 home at 2966 E. Division Road, Andy Schemenaur for a $20,000 sunroom addition at 572 S. 600 East, Sylvester Sell for a $15,000 home addition at 817 E. Arch St., Portland, Eli E. Coblentz for a $3,000 double privy at 3232 E. 500 North, Ervin J. Girod for a $17,000 buggy shed and barn addition at 1754 N. 400 West, Amos A. Schwartz for a $12,000 buggy shed and storage building at 7304 N. 250 West, Mark Tillman for a $5,000 storage building at 1751 E. 300 South, Weldon Hines for a $20,000 storage building at 8317 W. 500 South, William H. Lawrence for a $2,700 storage building at 12 Sesame st., Portland, Dennis Dwiggins for a $3,500 storage shed at 803 Chicago Ave., Portland, Ryan Younts for a $27,000 garage at 1096 S. 500 West, Leland and Virginia Williams for a $35,000 garage at 3989 W. 400 South, and Sarah Rarick for a $2,500 carport at 445 E. Votaw St., Portland.

Other permits issued in October included those to FCC (Indiana) for a $24,800 loading dock area at 300 Industrial Park Drive, Portland, Fullenkamp Machine and Manufacturing for a $57,000 canopy remodel project at 1507 N. Meridian St., Portland, Jacob E. J. Girod for a $10,000 pole building at 2631 E. 800 North, Amos Bonvillian for a $13,000 pole building and garage addition at 7453 W. 700 South, Riverside Aqua Farms LLC for a $22,000 storage building at 8915 W. 900 North, Benjamin B. Eicher for a $5,000 barn addition at 3494 N. 300 East, Danny E. Coblentz for a $7,000 barn addition at 1964 E. 500 North, Menno E. Coblentz for a $3,000 barn addition at 505 E. 500 North, Paul J. Coblentz for a $10,000 barn addition at 4240 E. 600 North, Dan J. M. Schwartz for a $1,500 barn addition at 432 W. 400 North, and Nina Gelinas for a $500 barn lean-to at 6972 N. 550 West.

Also to Randy Bickel for a $7,000 concrete dike at 1428 W. 350 South, David Clemmons for a $5,000 garages rebuild and roof at 1007 W. Main St., Portland, Thomas W. Abbott or a $1,500 fence at 206 W. 12th St., Portland, Jonathon Treon for a $2,000 fence at 815 E. Main St., Portland, J2C2 LLC for a $100,000 parking lot in the 600 block of East Pearl Street, Portland, and Menno M. Eicher for an $8,000 pond at 606 E. 800 North.

Also to R&R RV Repair for an $800 sign at 103 W. Lincoln St., Portland, William D. L. Wickey for a $20,000 home addition at 3343 E. 900 North, Vicki Hoying for a $5,600 porch addition at 123 Rayburn Drive, Portland, Paul Twigg for a $1,300 residential foundation at 2195 S. Boundary Pike, Michael Thomas for a $44,000 home addition at 2991 S. Southtown Place, Jacob M. Eicher for a $1,000 storage building at 1141 E. 800 North, Leroy J. L. Schwartz for a $22,000 pole barn at 2523 W. 400 North, Menno J. M. Schwartz for a $9,500 storage building at 2849 W. 850 North, John Bowlan for a $2,000 storage building at 4624 S. 1000 West, Murvelle Groover for a $3,000 storage building at 1834 Nan Del Lane, Betty Drinkut for a $1,200 pergola at 7636 W. 550 North, Matt Glentzer for a $30,000 garage at 211 Williamson Drive, Portland, and Richard Jones for a $4,400 carport at 359 W. 200 South.

A business occupancy permit was issued for Shawn’s Auto Service LLC at 611 S. Meridian St., Portland.



Interim CEO

Jenny Hamilton has been named interim president/chief executive officer of LifeStream Services.

She has been with LifeStream since 1999. She received her bachelor’s degree is sociology from Ball State University and her master’s in business administration from Anderson University. She has been vice president of home and community based services since 2013.

LifeStream is a non-profit agency serving 23,500 seniors in 12 counties, including Jay County.



Record revenues

Raymond James Financial Inc. has reported record net revenues of $1.69 billion and net income of $193.5 million for the fiscal fourth quarter that ended Sept. 30.

The financial services company, which has an office in Portland, reported quarterly net income was up 13 percent over the prior year’s fourth quarter.

For the fiscal year, net revenues increased 18 percent to $6.37 billion while net income was up 20 percent to $636.2 million.



Same day

CVS will start offering free, same-day deliveries of prescriptions from its stores in Manhattan, The Associated Press reported this week.

CVS Health runs more than 9,700 retail locations, including stores in Portland and Dunkirk. The company started a curbside pick-up service a couple of years ago, and it already offers deliveries from about 1,600 locations.

The company says its free, same-day service in Manhattan will be done within hours. It will hire couriers to deliver prescriptions and other products in secure, tamper-proof packaging.



New CFO

Tysons Foods Inc., parent company of Tyson Mexican Original of Portland, this week announced that Stewart F. Glendinning has been appointed chief financial officer, effective Feb. 10, 2018. 

Dennis Leatherby, who has served Tyson Foods as chief financial officer since 2008, will remain in that capacity until that date. To ensure a smooth transition, Glendinning will join the company on Dec. 11, and Leatherby will stay with the company until April 2018.

Glendinning joins Tyson Foods from Molson Coors Brewing Company, where he served as president and chief executive officer, International.



Joins Democrat

MacKenzie DeGroot, a graduate of Indiana University, has joined the newsroom staff of The Decatur Daily Democrat. She is a native of Fort Wayne.