Free Circulator is discontinued

The Graphic Printing Company is discontinuing publication of The Circulator, its free distribution shopper.

Publisher Jack Ronald said this week’s edition was the final one.

Rising postal costs and newsprint prices combined to make the free distribution product no longer sustainable, Ronald said.

Big contract

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, parent of Portland Forge, has been selected to supply the nickel-based flat rolled products for a large oil pipeline project in South America. 

Revenue for ATI’s Flat Rolled Products segment is expected to be approximately $45 million, with shipments beginning in second quarter 2019 and scheduled to be completed by year-end.

“ATI’s differentiated products will help to facilitate increased energy production in the region,” Jeff Thompson, Vice President of Sales for Flat Rolled Products, said in a press release. “Our customer chose ATI due to our unbeatable combination of the shortest industry lead times, high quality products, and our unique material properties.”

Not on list

Family Dollar stores in Portland and Dunkirk are not on a reported list of those to be closed in 2019. The company announced plans to close 390 stores this year, but details have been hard to come by.

A list published on the internet this week includes Indiana stores to be closed in Greentown, Fairmount, Rockport and Princeton.

New officers

New officers have been elected by the board of directors of CrossRoads Financial Federal Credit Union.

Joday Auker, director of accounting of Jay Petroleum, has been elected board chair.

Vice chair will be Joseph Vinson, commercial sales account manager for Portland Forge. Board treasurer will be Jo Ellen Johnston, vice president and chief financial officer of Frank Miller Lumber Co. Board secretary is Craig Faulkner, a retiree from Ardagh.

Other board members are Portland Forge retiree Dale Pearson and retired Jay County High School teachers Florine Golden and Margaret Ralph.

The board appointed Margaret Ralph, Tim Caster, Linda Cavanaugh, John Hart, Jane Ann Runyon and John McFarland to the supervisory committee.

New solicitor

Erin Abels has been hired by the village of Fort Recovery as its new solicitor.

A resident of Coldwater, she received her bachelor’s degree from Wright State University, a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati and her law degree from the University of Dayton.

Serve safely

The next ServSafe certification course for food service employees will be April 30 at John Jay Center for Learning.

For more information, contact John Jay at (260) 729-5525.

Certifications are valid for five years.

Follows suit

Walgreens is going to begin selling CBD creams, patches and sprays in nearly 1,500 stores in select states, making the announcement about a week after rival CVS made a similar move.

CBD, a hemp-derived cannabidiol, is a nonpsychoactive ingredient in cannabis that is becoming increasingly mainstream.

“This product offering is in line with our efforts to provide a wider range of accessible health and wellbeing products and services to best meet the needs and preferences of our customers,” Walgreens spokesman Brian Faith told CNBC.

The retailer will offer the product in its Indiana stores but not those in Ohio.

Chair profiled

The billionaire at the helm of Motherson Sumi Systems, parent of Portland’s MSSL Wiring Systems plant, is the subject of an extensive profile in Fortune India.

Vivek Chaand Sehgal, 62,has built an auto component empire with operations in 41 different countries. Its 270 plants and 24 design centers employ 137,000.

“The only strategy that I have is that I have no strategy, because very few long-term strategies work,” Sehgal told reporters Ashish Gupta and Prerna Lidhoo.

Instead, the company’s view on strategy does not stretch beyond five years. 

“In 2020,the top management will sit and decide whether a new vision is required because the last one has been achieved,” Sehgal was quoted as saying.

That “new vision” could involve a move beyond auto components into such fields as medical devices and aerospace parts.

Catch the wind

NextEra Energy, the Florida-based company that operates Bluff Point Wind Energy Center in southern Jay County, plans to build a new 250-megawatt, 90-turbine wind farm near Enid, Oklahoma.

The project is expected to be operational by the end of this year.

NextEra, the world’s largest wind power producer, already has 15 other wind power projects in Oklahoma.

Wins two

Ivy Tech Community College has received two awards from the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations. The awards recognize outstanding achievements in design and communication at community and technical colleges across the nation and Canada. The awards were announced at NCMPR’s recent national conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Ivy Tech received a silver for its Twitter page and a silver for photography/illustration.

Worker rescued

A 34-year-old Marion man was rescued Tuesday after being trapped for several hours in a gravel silo at a Milestone Contractors site in Indianapolis. 

Officials said the man was taking measurements inside the silo when an air pocket gave way and he was sucked into the loose stone.

He was attached to a harness and cable, but emergency officials were unable to pull him out for nearly eight hours. No serious injuries were reported.