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For at least the last 10 years, the Warsaw Wastewater Payment Office has been inadver tently billing Walmart for irrigation. Utility Payment Supervisor Rebecca Jenkins sought approval Friday from the Board of Public Works and Safety to refund the payments made by Walmart for irrigation by crediting Walmart's wastewater account that the city bills for the Walmart store. The total of the refund is $15,373.25. "Back in October, I spoke to a representative from Walmart and it was determined that they were being billed for an irriga tion only meter that was set up by Indiana American Water," Jenkins said. She didn't know how long ago that was but it was prior to her employ ment with the utility department. "But it was coded by Indiana American Water for us to receive those readings so then they were billed for that water. It wasn't going down the sewer," Jenkins said. She said Walmart was
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BOW Approves $15K Refund To Walmart
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DePuy employees and members of DePuy's Young Professionals employee resource group Cole Brown (L) and Eric Zheng (R) put together some furniture Friday at Habitat for Humanity of Kosciusko County's Retail Outlet.
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Habitat for Humanity of Kosciusko County Executive Director Ben Logan (L) poses for a photo with volunteers from DePuy's Young Professionals employee resource group: Liz Wiederhold, Wes Mc- Dowell, Cole Brown, Madalyn Dorn, Eric Zheng and Allie Dutson.
Members of DePuy's Young Professionals Group took over Habitat for Human of Kosciusko County's ReSale Outlet Thursday, Friday and today for Habitat's first "Store Takeover" weekend. On Friday, Habitat for Humanity of Kosciusko County Executive Director Ben Logan explained, "Here at Habitat for Humanity Resale Outlet, we are actually doing a first of a kind store takeover weekend. It's this idea we've had for a little while. How can we leverage the store and its visibility to help the community even more?" He said Habitat partnered with DePuy's Young Professionals employee resource group (ERG) for the store takeover weekend. "They wanted to help out and I said, 'Why don't we try this?' So, it's kind of a hybrid volunteer/fundraising event where a lot of these employ ees are actually giving through their company - so you get kind of a company match as well - to the build that's coming up," Logan said. "And at the same time, they're actually helping us by taking over the store for a weekend so they're staffing volunteer slots in the store and it becomes this event that we've put on." Cole Brown, DePuy associ ate marketing manager, said, "We're here to help out for the weekend and we thought it would be great to raise more awareness, especially around the next home build and what they're trying to achieve with that. It's been on hold for quite a while now with the influx of housing costs and building materials and all those things. We just want to come in, help out with the home store specifi cally and then raise funds around the next home build with Habitat." He explained that DePuy has different ERGs on DePuy's campus and one is specifically for young profes sionals. "It's actually open to all ages, but anyone who would like to join, it's really profes sional development and helping out with the commu nity and so on and so forth," Brown said. "With COVID the past year, it's been difficult to
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DePuy Young Professionals 'Take Over' Habitat ReSale Outlet
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LEESBURG - No injuries were reported after a fire in a cabin started due to a wood stove. At 1:23 p.m. Thursday, Plain Township Fire Department responded to a call at a cabin, said Fire Chief Jared Haughee. The cabin did not have an address but the property that the fire depart ment was sent to was 5255 N. CR 150, Leesburg. Upon arrival, Haughee said there was some light smoke coming out of the upper level from the base ment. All of the damage was contained to the basement and its contents. Haughee said the occu pant had started a wood stove in the basement and had the door open and some sparks flew out of the stove to start the fire. The occu pant tried to put out the fire before calling the fire depart ment. The fire department had the fire under control within minutes of arrival. Haughee estimated the damage at a couple thousand dollars. Lutheran EMS and Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office assisted.
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Cabin Fire Started By Wood Stove
Kosciusko County con tinues to experience a high level of community trans mission and significant hospitalization and death related to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, according to a news release Friday from the Kosciusko County Health Department. The KCHD encourages ongoing mitigation steps, such as social distancing, masking in indoor congre gate gatherings, universal masking in schools, good hand hygiene and care with upcoming holiday planning. COVID immunization is safe and effective, the release states, and the most robust means to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror. The recent approval of Pfizer's pediatric dosed COVID vaccine for 5 11 year old children is a "wonderful addition to our available pandemic resources," the release states. It offers an oppor tunity to lessen disease burden in the community
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MENTONE - There will be a new dentist office in Kosciusko County as Mentone Dental, 107 S. Broadway St., will open Friday, Nov. 12. The opening was celebrat ed with a ribbon cutting cer emony Friday, Nov. 5 by the Mentone Chamber of Commerce. Owner Dr. Skye Bower said Mentone Dental will open Friday, Nov. 12 and cur rently has three employees. "We're starting small," Bower said. "We're starting small for now until (the busi ness) starts to grow and then we'll expand from there. But one thing at a time." Bower, who has been in the dental business for five years, said he acquired the building in May and has been fixing the building up by updating equipment and other things. He is not originally from Mentone. Employee Erica Snyder thought it would be a good opportunity for the town and Bower for him to have a practice in town. Bower said he kind of jumped on the opportunity to move into the building. It had been a dental office pre viously, so it was set up to be a dental office. Snyder said Mentone Dental is taking calls to get people scheduled for appointments. There have been a couple calls to get an appointment a little further out. Mentone Dental is taking appointments for Nov. 12. Snyder said the goal for Mentone Dental is providing dental services for the area. "We want to have some thing local for people. There's not a lot around, so this is a great opportunity for the town," she said. Bower said Mentone, being a small town, was the draw to the area as small towns sometimes get left
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New Dental Office Opens In Mentone
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Mentone Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting for Mentone Dental, 107 S. Broadway St., Mentone. Pictured (L to R) are Jamie Bower, wife of owner Dr. Skye Bower; Erica Snyder and Laci Weaver, both of Mentone Dental; owner Dr. Skye Bower; and Tim Croy, Rita Simpson, Vicki Mickel and Karen Francis, Mentone Chamber of Commerce. See NEW - Page 2A
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