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Chamber meeting is Jan. 23
Jay County Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 23 at Jay Community Center in Portland.
The lunch meeting is free to chamber members, but reservations are required.
To make reservations, phone (260) 726-4481 by Jan. 17.
Local business anniversaries will be recognized at the annual meeting, along with recognition of outgoing board members.
Hemp hip?
John Jay Center for Learning will host a program on industrial hemp from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 21.
Marguerite Bolt, Purdue University’s lead expert on industrial hemp growth, will lead a discussion that will cover business and legal considerations, the hemp license process, the costs involved, banking and insurance considerations, agronomy and law enforcement issues.
There is no charge for the event, but reservations are required because space is limited.
The event is sponsored in part by The Portland Foundation’s Friends of Jay County Agriculture Fund.
Plant fire
Production was shut down at an Ardagh Group can manufacturing plant in Roanoke County, Virginia, this week after a $4.5 million fire on Dec. 27.
The Roanoke Times said the fire had been ruled accidental in nature.
Fire crews called to the scene found the two-story, 600-000-square-foot building seriously involved in fire, with flames coming through the roof.
"It was dramatic because you could see the fire from far away, but everyone was safe," a spokesman for Roanoke County Fire and Rescue told local news outlets.
Two firefighters were injured. A Roanoke City firefighter was treated and released Saturday morning for smoke inhalation, and a Roanoke County firefighter was treated on scene for a back injury.
Leaving Walmart
A Walmart e-commerce executive is leaving the company to become president and chief executive officer designate for the Michaels Companies Inc.
Ashley Buchanan, who has been with Walmart since 2007, will also join the Michaels board of directors. He takes the new position on Monday and will become chief executive officer on April 1, succeeding Mark Cosby.
Arkansas Business Online said Buchanan has served in various roles at Walmart. Before joining the U.S. e-commerce team, he was the chief merchant at Sam's Club. Before joining the retail giant, he was an executive at personal computer-maker Dell.
Wild chicken
Police in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, captured a loose chicken in a CVS parking lot and had some fun posting about it on Facebook.
The police department’s Facebook account reads in part: “A very hostile chicken was menacing patrons at a local pharmacy today. Probably feeding an addiction to corn or grubs or birdseed or whatever the heck chickens eat. Responding officers were pecked viciously by the uncooperative fowl fiend, and he made some adept use of vehicles for cover. Some quick thinking, unflappable bravery, and some MacGyver like ingenuity involving a milk crate led to the swift apprehension of the peevish poultry.”
Phony story
A police officer in Kansas resigned this week after admitting he had fabricated a story that a McDonald’s employee wrote a vulgar insult on his coffee cup.
The New York Times said the Herington Police Department officer, whose name was not made public, had claimed that a McDonald’s employee had written “pig,” preceded by an expletive, on a receipt attached to his cup.
But that story later unraveled with McDonald’s provided video footage. The 23-year-old officer then admitted the truth, calling it “a joke.”
“I hope he understands the magnitude of the black eye this gives the law enforcement profession from coast to coast,” police chief Brian Hornaday told the Times.
Classes ahead
ServSafe training for food service employees will be conducted Jan. 27 and Feb. 24 at John Jay Center for Learning.
ServSafe certification is open to all food service employees. Certifications are valid for five years.
For more information, contact John Jay at (260) 729-5525.
Data coming
Bloomberg Law reported this week that Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid and other pharmacies must cough up 14 years of national opioid-dispensing data and hand it to plaintiffs seeking billions of dollars from the companies for their alleged role in the opioid abuse crisis.
“A federal judge in Cleveland overseeing the opioid multi-district litigation involving more than 2,000 lawsuits issued a ruling that disregards most of the pharmacy industry defendants’ arguments for why their data should be kept private,” Bloomberg Law reported.
“The defendants argued that divulging this data could harm patient privacy and that plaintiffs should get the information from a tracker run by the state of Ohio that records incomplete dispensing information and has only started to gather widespread data in the past few years,” Bloomberg Law said.
Fined over death
Rodriguez Rodriguez Service, Fort Wayne, has been fined $4,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in connection with the death of a worker in August at a St. Henry, Ohio, poultry farm. The Fort Wayne firm provided contract workers for Rindler Poultry when Alexis Ivan Gutierreze Sanvicente, 24, fell 32 feet from an industrial lift machine.
Paper sells building
After several months of negotiating with Christian Investment of Shelbyville, Paxton Media Group has agreed to sell the building that houses The Shelbyville News.
As part of the contract, the newspaper group has a 10-year lease agreement to continue serving its community.
The Shelbyville News is “constructed” five days a week at The Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph, Michigan. The actual printing takes place in Marion, Indiana, before it is shipped south.
The same holds true for other Paxton Media Group newspapers in Connersville and New Castle.
The editorial and advertising staff of The Shelbyville Newswill stay in the front office portion of the building.
Christian Investment hung a sign last week on the side of the building offering up space for lease in the back half of the building.
“This in no way affects the operations of The Shelbyville News and Paxton Media Group,” the publisher said.
The lunch meeting is free to chamber members, but reservations are required.
To make reservations, phone (260) 726-4481 by Jan. 17.
Local business anniversaries will be recognized at the annual meeting, along with recognition of outgoing board members.
Hemp hip?
John Jay Center for Learning will host a program on industrial hemp from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 21.
Marguerite Bolt, Purdue University’s lead expert on industrial hemp growth, will lead a discussion that will cover business and legal considerations, the hemp license process, the costs involved, banking and insurance considerations, agronomy and law enforcement issues.
There is no charge for the event, but reservations are required because space is limited.
The event is sponsored in part by The Portland Foundation’s Friends of Jay County Agriculture Fund.
Plant fire
Production was shut down at an Ardagh Group can manufacturing plant in Roanoke County, Virginia, this week after a $4.5 million fire on Dec. 27.
The Roanoke Times said the fire had been ruled accidental in nature.
Fire crews called to the scene found the two-story, 600-000-square-foot building seriously involved in fire, with flames coming through the roof.
"It was dramatic because you could see the fire from far away, but everyone was safe," a spokesman for Roanoke County Fire and Rescue told local news outlets.
Two firefighters were injured. A Roanoke City firefighter was treated and released Saturday morning for smoke inhalation, and a Roanoke County firefighter was treated on scene for a back injury.
Leaving Walmart
A Walmart e-commerce executive is leaving the company to become president and chief executive officer designate for the Michaels Companies Inc.
Ashley Buchanan, who has been with Walmart since 2007, will also join the Michaels board of directors. He takes the new position on Monday and will become chief executive officer on April 1, succeeding Mark Cosby.
Arkansas Business Online said Buchanan has served in various roles at Walmart. Before joining the U.S. e-commerce team, he was the chief merchant at Sam's Club. Before joining the retail giant, he was an executive at personal computer-maker Dell.
Wild chicken
Police in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, captured a loose chicken in a CVS parking lot and had some fun posting about it on Facebook.
The police department’s Facebook account reads in part: “A very hostile chicken was menacing patrons at a local pharmacy today. Probably feeding an addiction to corn or grubs or birdseed or whatever the heck chickens eat. Responding officers were pecked viciously by the uncooperative fowl fiend, and he made some adept use of vehicles for cover. Some quick thinking, unflappable bravery, and some MacGyver like ingenuity involving a milk crate led to the swift apprehension of the peevish poultry.”
Phony story
A police officer in Kansas resigned this week after admitting he had fabricated a story that a McDonald’s employee wrote a vulgar insult on his coffee cup.
The New York Times said the Herington Police Department officer, whose name was not made public, had claimed that a McDonald’s employee had written “pig,” preceded by an expletive, on a receipt attached to his cup.
But that story later unraveled with McDonald’s provided video footage. The 23-year-old officer then admitted the truth, calling it “a joke.”
“I hope he understands the magnitude of the black eye this gives the law enforcement profession from coast to coast,” police chief Brian Hornaday told the Times.
Classes ahead
ServSafe training for food service employees will be conducted Jan. 27 and Feb. 24 at John Jay Center for Learning.
ServSafe certification is open to all food service employees. Certifications are valid for five years.
For more information, contact John Jay at (260) 729-5525.
Data coming
Bloomberg Law reported this week that Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid and other pharmacies must cough up 14 years of national opioid-dispensing data and hand it to plaintiffs seeking billions of dollars from the companies for their alleged role in the opioid abuse crisis.
“A federal judge in Cleveland overseeing the opioid multi-district litigation involving more than 2,000 lawsuits issued a ruling that disregards most of the pharmacy industry defendants’ arguments for why their data should be kept private,” Bloomberg Law reported.
“The defendants argued that divulging this data could harm patient privacy and that plaintiffs should get the information from a tracker run by the state of Ohio that records incomplete dispensing information and has only started to gather widespread data in the past few years,” Bloomberg Law said.
Fined over death
Rodriguez Rodriguez Service, Fort Wayne, has been fined $4,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in connection with the death of a worker in August at a St. Henry, Ohio, poultry farm. The Fort Wayne firm provided contract workers for Rindler Poultry when Alexis Ivan Gutierreze Sanvicente, 24, fell 32 feet from an industrial lift machine.
Paper sells building
After several months of negotiating with Christian Investment of Shelbyville, Paxton Media Group has agreed to sell the building that houses The Shelbyville News.
As part of the contract, the newspaper group has a 10-year lease agreement to continue serving its community.
The Shelbyville News is “constructed” five days a week at The Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph, Michigan. The actual printing takes place in Marion, Indiana, before it is shipped south.
The same holds true for other Paxton Media Group newspapers in Connersville and New Castle.
The editorial and advertising staff of The Shelbyville Newswill stay in the front office portion of the building.
Christian Investment hung a sign last week on the side of the building offering up space for lease in the back half of the building.
“This in no way affects the operations of The Shelbyville News and Paxton Media Group,” the publisher said.
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