Archive - 2012 - News Article
January 13th
Tonight's (Jan. 13) Columbia City boys basketball game against Homestead has been postponed due to the weather. The game is rescheduled for Tuesday, February 14.
By JAMES THOMLISON
Staff Writer
COLUMBIA CITY — The Indiana Poison Center (IPC) is reminding everyone about a potentially deadly poison that can be easy to overlook because it has no color and is odorless.
That poison is carbon monoxide (CO), a gas that forms when something is not burned completely or is burned in an enclosed space where there is insufficient airflow. CO poisons the body’s cells and stops them from getting and using oxygen.
The intersection of U.S. 30 and Lincolnway is covered in snow before sunrise Friday morning.
Many people, looking for fever-reducing medicine for their children ranging in age from six months to 7 years, will buy one product to be used for all of them.
Some buy liquid acetaminophen in concentrated drops for infants, thinking they can use a dropper for the baby and a teaspoon for the oldest.
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this can be a very dangerous mistake.
Sandra Kweder, M.D., deputy director of the FDA’s Office of New Drugs, says concentrated drops in much larger amounts – as would be given with a teaspoon – can cause fatal overdoses.
January 12th
HANDS Foundation members, from left, Taylor Daniel, Kylie Hagans, Connor Stouder and Brett Roberts were in attendance for a Komets hockey recognition event Sunday. The organization, coordinated and funded through the Whitley County Community Foundation, was recognized by Physicians Health Plan for their role in contributing to community efforts.
The National Weather Service says a winter storm could drop more than a foot of snow on far northern Indiana and bring wind-whipped blowing and drifting snow.
Snow was falling across much of Indiana on Thursday afternoon but only lightly in Indianapolis and points further south.
COLUMBIA CITY — Opinions on the wind turbine issue were blowing in opposite directions Wednesday when the Whitley County Plan Commission met to review and modify a proposed ordinance designed to govern the installation of such devices.
Though the commission reviewed most of a draft of the proposed ordinance, there are several as-yet unresolved issues — including that topic which helped draw more than 100 residents to the Wednesday night meeting — setbacks.
Sacred music concert
at West Etna Community Church
Friday, Jan. 13
LARWILL – The Moody Chorale, conducted by Dr. Xiangtang Hong of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, will be performing Friday, Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at West Etna Community Church near Larwill.
West Etna Community Church is located at 6552W-750N in northwest Whitley County.
S. Whitley Area
Food Bank
drive is Saturday, Jan. 14
January 11th
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COLUMBIA CITY — SRI Incorporated, a firm that conducts tax sales, deed sales, and foreclosure sales on the Internet or in-person for local government clients, extended its partnership with Whitley County Tuesday regarding an upcoming tax sale.
SRI President Tim Rushenberg appeared before the Whitley County Board of Commissioners to present three contracts necessary to conduct the sale.
ALBION – Denise Lemmon, of rural Albion formally filed Wednesday her intent to seek the Republican nomination for State Representative in the newly formed 82nd State House district.
The new 82nd State House district covers all of Noble County, as well as portions of Allen, Whitley, Elkhart, and LaGrange counties.
Lemmon’s declaration of candidacy will be filed with the County Clerk’s Offices of each of the district’s counties prior to being submitted to the Indiana Election Division.
