FROM THE EDITOR: Sharing Opinions Promotes Issue Discussion

Reprint:  Sun City West 9/6/2017 Issue

Like few times in American history, there is quite a bit of discussion about the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. 

President Donald Trump’s visit to Phoenix Aug. 22 ramped it right back up in Arizona. After violent and fatal protests in Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this summer, demonstrators were out in force in downtown Phoenix. Like most demonstrations these days, that one got a little unruly and police had to take action to keep it from getting out of hand. 

That brought calls of how the city of Phoenix “failed” the protesters, denying them their First Amendment rights. All that can be avoided if more people would exercise a different type of First Amendment expression of their freedom of speech — writing letters to the editors of local newspapers. 

Letters to the editor give you the opportunity to share your thoughts on community issues or more broad subjects, or simply to share something special with your neighbors. 

Letters can also take on an entertainment value. Independent regularly published letters from Sun City resident Joe Zweben, who offered some everyday ideas — some practical, some not so much. But those letters never failed to entertain. 

Part of the mission of Independent Newsmedia is to encourage public debate of issues. After having the privilege of getting to know some of you in the past years I have been reporting on Sun Cities community issues, I can see there are no shortages of ideas and opinions out there.  

We want to help you share those with your neighbors. 

Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing, but it is useless unless it is exercised.

The philosophy of Independent Newsmedia is that people, at times, need a chance to speak out on public issues. Our goal is to provide a forum for local opinions, ideas, solutions, praise and, of course, complaints. 

Letters published in the Independent will be those that are focused on Sun Cities issues. Those wil a more broad perspective (region, county, state and national) will be published in our sister newspaper, the Daily News-Sun. Please keep in mind letters are for the discussion of public issues, not personal attacks. While some criticism of people involved in public issues is legitimate, we try to make sure comments center on the individual’s public performance. 

We take very seriously our responsibility to edit letters for the newspaper carefully to make sure the printed comments stay within the bounds of fair play.

We edit letters for clarity, fairness and length (a rule of thumb is to keep letters at 300 words). 

Please let us know if you think we can do a better job. 

All letters, except those considered to be libelous, will be published. So please do not be bashful about sending in letters for fear there will not be enough room to publish them all. Opinion items not published one week will be held over for the following weeks’ editions.

We strive to fulfill our mission to facilitate community dialogue and hope you enjoy reading what your neighbors are thinking, and contribute some material of your own.

Rusty Bradshaw can be reached at 623-445-2725 or rbradshaw@newszap.com.

 

AZ publisher to lead Peoria Chamber

Arizona West Valley Publisher Charlene Patti Bisson was officially sworn in as president of the Peoria Chamber of Commerce during the chamber's annual awards banquet held June 28. Charlene has a long history of working with both the Peoria and Surprise chambers of commerce. She will lead the Peoria Chamber Board of Directors during the 2017-18 year. As publisher of the West Valley division, Charlene oversees the Daily News-Sun, as well as five weekly publications and a monthly magazine.

Media Tour of the Palo Verda Nuclear Generating Station

Rusty Bradshaw all suited up before going into the containment area.

Rusty Bradshaw, Sun Cities editor in the Arizona West Valley office, was part of a unique media tour of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix.

Selected media representatives were invited to tour the facility’s No. 2 reactor while it was shut down for fuel rod replacement and maintenance. Because the unit was shut down, media representatives were able to enter the actual reactor containment area and view the area where the fuel rods are installed. The 30-minute excursion also gave tour participants an up close and personal look at how Palo Verde employees in the reactor unit do various jobs.

Palo Verde officials replace fuel rods in each of its three reactors every 18 months, staggering the work so that no more than one unit is shut down at one time.

Palo Verde is the only nuclear power plant not located next to a large body of water. Instead, Palo Verde’s water source is treated wastewater from a plant in Tolleson, and treated a second time at the Palo Verde facility. Water is essential in operating the plant to produce steam from the super heated fuel rods that in turn powers the turbines that produce the electricity. Water used in this fashion is then cooled and used again until it becomes too filled with mineral deposits.

Media representatives get a few questions answered before entering the plant’s No. 2 reactor.

Looking down into the reactor where the fuel rods are installed.

Take Care of Your Heart

    February is Heart Health Awareness Month

         Take Action - Protect your Heart
 

Some risk factors for heart disease can’t be changed, such as age and family history. Many others, like high blood pressure and cholesterol, can be controlled by taking these healthy actions.

Move more

Just adding 30 minutes of moderate activity—such as brisk walking—to your schedule 3 or 4 days a week can reduce your risk for high blood pressure, “bad” cholesterol and extra weight.

Eat smart

• Go easy on saturated fats like red meat, high-fat dairy products and processed foods—they raise blood cholesterol

• Limit salt and avoid sugary foods and beverages

• Include more fish, nuts and oats—great foods to help lower cholesterol

Manage stress

Stress is part of life. Chronic stress, however, can increase blood pressure and the risk for heart disease. Learning how to better manage it can help reduce your risk.

• Practice relaxation techniques including slow, deep breathing and yoga, among other methods

• Take time to unwind whether it’s listening to music or taking a stroll in the fresh air

• Reach out for help to cope with troubling issues--talk to friends, family or a health professional

Quit tobacco

Smoking and using tobacco are major risk factors for heart disease and stroke—quit now to reduce your risk and start improving your overall health. Seek support to help you quit for good.

Need More Info?

Health Advocate (HA) can help you and your family get the help and resources you need to stay healthy. Their services are confidential and available 24/7. You, your spouse, dependent children, parents and parents-in-law are all covered.  Call 866-695-8622 to speak with a health advocate or email answers@HealthAdvocate.com.  To review information, log onto HA’s website at HealthAdvocate.com/members and enter Independent Newsmedia Inc. USA as name of the organization.

Information has been provided by Health Advocate, the patient advocacy service offered by INI to all its employees.

Arianna Grainey Wins Three Awards

Arianna Grainey of the Arizona East Valley office won three awards — including Photographer of the Year — during the 2016 Arizona Newspapers Association Better Newspaper Contest. “The honor is well-deserved and I’m very proud of you,” Arizona President Bret McKeand wrote to Ari in a congratulatory e-mail to Arianna.

The 2016 Better Newspaper Contest features the best journalism in Arizona with this year featuring the work of 50 newspapers, seven high schools and a total of 1,631 submissions. The awards ceremony was Saturday, Sept. 24.

In addition to Photographer of the Year, Arianna took home two other awards including a first place finish for Best Sports Photograph for “Light in motion” and a third place finish in the same category for “Will he be safe?”

The categories for these awards fell in the non-daily greater than 10,000 circulation.

The East Valley Office of Independent Newsmedia publishes two weekly newspapers and subsequent websites — the Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent and Queen Creek/San Tan Valley Independent. The office also covers Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa online. The award-winning photos were featured in the Mesa paper, which is no longer published.

Arianna with awards

Photographer Arianna Grainey of the group’s East Valley office serving, Apache Junction, Gold Canyon, Queen Creek and Mesa, took home the coveted photographer of the year award from the Arizona Newspaper Association.

1st place photo winner (gymnast):

Arianna merged nine frames she shot of a gymnast into one with this layered photo. It won first place in the Best Sports Photograph division.

3rd place photo winner (baseball):

Arianna captured the uncertainty of a baseball play with her photo titled “Will he be safe?” Taken during a Oakland Athletics spring training game held in Mesa, Arizona, it won third place in the Best Sports Photograph division.

Queen Creek Independent Hosted Candidates Forum

As part of its ongoing commitment to serving the community it covers, the Queen Creek Independent in the East Valley office hosted a candidates forum for people running for the Queen Creek Town Council. The forum took place Aug. 2, right before early voting began in the primary election. News Editor Wendy Miller served as the moderator, while INI Arizona President Bret McKeand served as the timekeeper, a position he also volunteered for during the paper’s candidates forum in 2014. Photographer Arianna Grainey captured the event in stills and on video.

Arizona President Bret McKeand served as timekeeper for the council candidates forum in Queen Creek, Arizona.

Queen Creek News Editor Wendy Miller, right, solicited help from Girl Scouts to determine the initial order in which the candidates would speak.

MDDC PRESS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ADVERTISING AWARDS

Sales executives, advertising agency buyers and other media professionals receive awards at Advertising Awards luncheon September 8, 2016

(Linthicum Heights, MD) – 9/8/16 -- Members and supporters of the Maryland | Delaware | DC Press Association came together yesterday at a luncheon program to honor excellence in media sales by recognizing the winners of the Advertising Contest, which celebrates print and online work completed between June 1,2015 and May 31, 2016. The contest, governed by the Association’s Advertising / Press Services Committee, admitted entries from 20 member publications among 19 categories. There are four divisions in the contest, which group member publications into daily and non-daily categories, then further group them by circulation. One Best in Category award is given in each category across all divisions. The capstone award, one per division, is Advertising Sweepstakes.

Three “best of show” prizes were awarded for exceptional work. The first was the winner of the best of category contest, as selected by judges from the New Jersey Press Association. This prize, for advertising design, was awarded to Edwin Krumm and Kathy McGinty of the Cape Gazette for their advertisement for Fifer’s Farm Market. The event audience chose the best of show winner for House Promotion and Self Promotion by ballot at the event reception. Samantha Bangh and Cecelia Lee of the Frederick News-Post won House Promotion best of show for their campaign “Did you know?” Tom Maglio and Staff won Self Promotion best of show for Seaside Bride.

The Association honored Cecelia Lee of the Frederick News-Post as Designer of the Year. This prize honors a designer’s body of work over the course of the contest cycle. The submission package included 8-10 pieces of the designers work and a letter of recommendation from their manager. Anna Joyce, Marketing and Niche Publications Manager at the News-Post and Lee’s supervisor, notes that Lee is “able to design across multiple platforms - print ads, publications, collateral, logos, web, social media and video - but she also has a style we've found appeals to younger audiences, to whom we're targeting many of our events.” In this vein, Lee is also adept with video, creating the clip on the Frederick News-Post’s FCM Solutions site.

The Advertising Sweepstakes awards represent the best publication in each division. These awards are chosen based on the points accumulated for first, second and third prizes in each category. In the daily divisions, The Baltimore Sun won the award in Division A; and The Delaware State News was named Advertising Sweepstakes winner for Division B. For non-daily publications, the Coastal Point won in Division C and Cape Gazette won the award in Division D. For a full showcase of winners and their award-winning work, please go to www.mddcpress.com.

Also at the event, the Association hosted a panel discussion for advertising agency buyers and media professionals. Immediately following the lunch program, the Association hosted a “speed-dating” event for agency and advertising professionals that provided 15 minute one-on-one meetings to discuss media product offerings and agency needs.

This program was supported by the Advertising Awards Showcase & Member Directory publication, available to members of the Association and selected agencies, which lists all MDDC members with expanded profiles of their publications and platforms.

The INI Weekly publications winners:

Credits, Organization, Entry name, Placement, Category Name

Dorchester Banner staff, Dorchester Banner, Water Moves Us, Third Place, Special Publication - standalone
Cathy Koyanagi, Angela Hicks, Salisbury Independent, Remax Crossroads, Third Place, Real Estate - Large Print only

Cathy Koyanagi, Angela Hicks, Salisbury Independent, Bryan & Brittingham, Third Place, Restaurant/Entertainment Ad - Small Print

Cathy Kayanagi, Angela Hicks, Salisbury Independent, Cake Art, Second Place, Retail - Small Print only
Jenny Keim, Angela Hicks, Sussex County Post, Gods Country Concrete, First place, Advertising Campaign - Small Print only

Sussex County Post Staff, Sussex County Post, Cheerful Living, Second Place, Custom Publication
Jenny Keim, Angela Hicks, Sussex County Post, Wilgus Associates, Inc., Second Place, Real Estate - Small Print only

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: We need more good -- less bad

I saw something on TV this morning (Sunday) that made me think. It was a BBC nature show narrated by John Hurt, “The Human Planet.” Excellent all around. The episode was about life in the mountains around the world. One of the segments was about Nepal, and featured a 65-year- old woman who was blinded by cataracts.

She was trying to carry on as best she could, but she looked very old and weak after what must have been a hard life. Her condition is common in the mountains, because the bright sun at high altitude makes it worse. It can be cured, though the people are so isolated, they have no medical care.

But a Dr. Ruit from the capital city of Kathmandu has developed a system in which he visits villages and operates on people. She heard about it and arranged to be carried there on the back of a friend - 10 kilometers in the Himalayas!

As a fitness enthusiast who works in public transportation, I hardly knew what impressed me most. Anyways, she arrived, with dozens of others, was examined, and underwent a 30-minute operation, in which the doctor replaced the cataracts with artificial lenses he makes himself. Everything is funded by charity, so it’s free to the patients.

The doctor makes no promises, so there is suspense. A day later, the bandages came off and she could see. She said her problems were over, and, “I hope heaven rewards Dr. Ruit.” She and others were dancing afterwards.

My point? This seems like news to me. When charity and a kind, brilliant doctor bring sight to dozens or hundreds of people, shouldn’t we hear about it?

As someone who has worked as an editor, choosing stories from news services to fill a paper, I know the stories are out there, but too often aren’t presented to the public. I don’t know why, but I’m sure this plays a large role in convincing people that everything is a violent disaster.

If something really hideous happens to five people in Timbuktu, we’ll hear about it. But 100 Nepalis dancing for joy doesn’t make the paper or the TV news. That’s wrong, and deceptive in the way it paints a picture of unrelenting misery.

While it’s true that problems exist and must be addressed, they aren’t the whole story. We have to demand a better news product and if that fails, focus at least as much on the good news as on the bad. It’s a step in making things better.

Dave Ryan

Cambridge

                           Reprint from 7/13/2016 Dorchester Banner issue

Taking A Break

Several members of the West Valley team take a break prior to the opening of the Northwest Valley Senior Expo on April 13. From left, Jeremy Carr, Frank Dias, Penny Bruns, Cecelia Chan and Greg Garcia.

Tammi Kelly Celebrates 5 Years With INI

Name: Tammi Kelly

Newspaper: Okeechobee News

Position: Columnist, photographer, reporter, community coordinator, ad sales rep, page building and jack of all trades.

Number of years in the Newspaper or printing business: 5 years

What I like best about my job: Everything. Every day is an adventure here. I am doing what I love and surrounded by good people in a great town!

Most memorable moment with INI: So many! I have met the “Gator Boys.” I have been behind the scenes at shows, festivals and events! I have been on swamp buggie rides, air boat adventures, petted wild animals, rode a pirate ship and so much more. I cannot wait to see what the future holds for me here at INI!

Hobbies/interests: The community is my pastime. I love helping make Okeechobee a better place. I am involved in many projects and also on the boards of many non-profits that I believe in such as Martha’s House, which is a shelter for abused woman here in Okeechobee and the B.R.A.T. Club; which stands for Building Relationships Among Teens. One of my favorite projects with the B.R.A.T. Club is Project Prom, which I started three years ago. The project collects formal attire for the youth in Okeechobee for prom and other formal dances and gives dresses, suits and shoes away free to the students. Last year we collected 315 dresses and helped 230 students. I love Okeechobee! It’s my home!

Fun fact about myself: I am very active. I like to ride bikes, motorcycle and mountain climb. I am a competive clay shooter and I am into long bow archery. I love to go on nature hikes and visit museums.

Favorite quote: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr. Seuss from the Lorax.

Dash2 Update

There seems to be many questions about how and when to use the new Dash2 help desk.

The new Dash2 help desk should be used for absolutely everything. Anything that used to be emailed to tech or brainworks should be sent via the new Dash2 ticketing system. When in doubt, use the ticketing system. If you do not have the Dash2 icon to be able to submit via the ticketing system, please email techteam@newszap.com so we can get you some help.

This new ticketing system integrates techteam with Dash2 so that we are all on the same page. It puts all the tickets in one system so they can be dispersed to the right team to handle things quickly and efficiently. It merely gets rid of the email you used to send to techteam@newszap.com. 

Patty Brant Publishes 2nd Book

Caloosa Belle’s Patty Brant proudly displays the two books (Bitter Secrets and Full Circle) she’s written and published herself at LaBelle’s Night on the Town, Tuesday, February 17. The books cover the life of a small town newspaper editor and the mysteries she ends up solving. Both books can be found on Amazon.com.

Okeechobee News Participates in Minimal Regatta

The Okeechobee News participated in the Fourth Annual Adam Bryant Minimal Regatta on Oct. 4. The regatta, which raises money for local scholarships, is a homemade boat race. Contestants are given one piece of plywood, two 2" by 4"s, one pound of screws and one roll of duct tape and must build their own boat. Paint is allowed as a decoration (no marine paint allowed). The newspaper's boat was built and decorated by the Okeechobee 4-H Picture Perfect Photography Club, and 4-H club members rowed the boat in the races. Okeechobee News Editor Katrina Elsken is the club's leader.

The theme for this year's regatta was "starts with the letter A." While other teams decorated their entries with Aladin, Alice in Wonderland, America, Anaconda, etc., the 4-Hers declared themselves "Team Autofocus." The boat depicted a giant roll of film with photos from last year's regatta used in the frames. While we didn't win -- the boat came in 2nd in one  heat and third in another -- we celebrated that once again "WE DIDN'T SINK!"

 

The Okeechobee News was among the regatta sponsors who banners lined the waterway where the regatta races were held.

Team Auto Focus

 

Independent Hosts Candidates Forum in Scottsdale

The Scottsdale and Town of Paradise Valley Independents co-sponsored a candidates forum Oct. 8 for the Scottsdale Unified School District. The event, held at the Montelucia Resort in Paradise Valley, featured the four candidates vying for two openings on the SUSD Governing Board. Editor Terrance Thornton moderated the event, asking a number of his own questions and accepting questions from the audience. The forum was the fourth hosted this year by the Independents in Arizona. The Queen Creek Independent hosted a town council candidates forum earlier this summer, as did the Town of Paradise Valley Independent (Town of Paradise Valley Town Council) and Scottsdale Independent (Scottsdale City Council).

Farewell Lunch

The Delaware State News Classified/Reader Services team had a going away lunch for Vicki Brown on Friday complete with a Taco Bar.

Vicki’s last day will be Sept. 1 then she will be relocating to Virginia Beach.

A BIG thank you to Yvonne Kirksey for the delicious tacos and cupcakes, great job as always. 

Vicki was presented with a card and a gift basket of all her favorite candies.

The Classified/Reader Service team will definitely miss you but we wish you all the best in the next chapter of your life.

We would also like to take this time to Welcome Teresa Riccardi who now sits in Vicki’s seat.  Welcome to  INI and to our  team!!!!!  We all look forward to working with you!

 

Arizona Editors Host Candidates Forums

The Arizona newspapers hosted several candidates forums in July. In the North Valley, Editor Terrance Thornton hosted and moderated a forum in the Town of Paradise Valley for town council candidates, and then conducted a second forum later in the month for candidates running for the Scottsdale City Council. In Queen Creek, the Queen Creek Independent hosted a candidates forum for town council candidates, which was moderated by Editor Wendy Miller. Later this fall, the Scottsdale Independent will host a forum for Scottsdale Unified School District board candidates.

Terrance at Scottsdale Forum

Wendy at Candidates Forum

Dorchester Banner Co-Sponsors 35th Annual Seafood Feast-I-Val

The Dorchester Banner recently co-sponsored the 35^th annual Cambridge Rescue Fire Company’s Seafood Feast – I – Val.

This all-you-can-eat Chesapeake Bay steamed crab event was attended by an estimated 2,000 people from all over the East Coast, all of whom were hungry for the bay’s best, along with barbeque chicken, corn on the cob, fish, fries and drinks.

More than 100 bushels of crabs, 1,00 ears of corn, 54 gallons on crab soup, 400 pounds of fish and a half a ton of fries were consumed during the all-day event.

The staff from the Banner set up a display booth and greeted people from 15 states, including folks that arrived on 13 charter buses and a couple who even drove in from Vermont “just for the crabs,” the entertainment and car show.

This was the third year The Banner has taken part in Dorchester County’s biggest event. The newspaper also has plans to take part in all the upcoming local fall events.

Pictured are news services staffer Sylvia Windsor, advertising manager Dave Cannon and graphic designer Shirley Jackson; not picture but covering the event all day is assistant news editor Paul Clipper.

Photo by Paul Clipper

On The Radio

DOVER -- Delaware State News photographer Dave Chambers made a guest appearance on radio station Cool 101.3 FM recently.

Host Norm Short invited Chambers in for his Sunday morning program “In Touch With Delmarva." and discussed his work for the newspaper and delaware.newszap.com. Dave discussed the joys of community photojournalism and talked briefly about his first place photo of Gov. Jack Markell celebrating the same-sex marriage bill last year.

 

 

Kudos for Glenn From Special Olympics

Sussex County Post Editor Glenn Rolfe received some positive comments from the folks at Special Olympics Delaware.  (see picture of front page below)

 

 

Hey Glenn,

We were at Milford Bowl yesterday and saw the front page of the Sussex Post and can't tell you how appreciative we are for not only the placement but the great article that went with it.

You nailed all the points, as my colleagues who organize the Spread the Word campaign pointed out -- and the first writer to ever do so in 7 years.

 Thanks again my friend for the continued support and great coverage.

I might even pray for another snow storm for you!

Jon Buzby

Director of Media Relations

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Hi Glen,

I wanted to echo Jon Buzby's note of thanks and let you know how much we appreciate the coverage you gave to Special Olympics' Pledge Respect campaign. It is through articles like these that we get people's attention and promote our program successfully to the community.

Well done! 

Best regards,
Ruth T. Coughlan
Director of Communications
Special Olympics Delaware

 

Delaware State News Releases 2014 Kent County Profile

By Chris Flood
Delaware State News

DOVER — While new buildings, new infrastructure and new businesses are important investments in the community and look nice, what people really want to know about when they see those things are how jobs are coming to the area because of these.

How to quantify that jobs number in relation to economic investments taking place in Kent County was the theme at the unveiling of the fifth edition of the Kent County Profile on Tuesday.

The profile is a glossy, 56-page publication produced by the Delaware State News, in partnership with the Kent Economic Partnership, that highlights local business activities, gives important municipality information and generally gives readers a taste of what it’s like to live and work in Kent County. The publication was first done in 2010.

The unveiling was held in the large conference room of the Capital School District Professional Center on Commerce Way in west Dover and was attended by county leaders, elected officials and members of the Kent County business community.

At the unveiling last year, presentations centered on a little more than $1 billion worth of private and public investments taking place in all corners of the county. Those investments included schools, government buildings and private business.

While difficult to put a specific number of jobs associated to those investments, a panel of speakers — representing the Garrison Energy Center, Bayhealth, the Boys & Girls Club of Delaware, the Capital School District and the 512th Airlift Wing — attempted to.

Stu Widom, Calpine’s director of government and regulatory affairs, said the $400 million Garrison Energy Center would bring close to 375 full-time and part-time jobs during construction and a total of 16 full-time jobs when completed.

Scott Brown, board president of the Greater Dover Boys & Girls Club, suggested that 30 additional staff will be hired to help run the new facility that’s going to be built off of New Burton Road, just west of Dover. The 75,000-square-foot facility is being built in partnership with Kent County and the estimated completion date is late in 2015.

Terry Murphy, president and CEO of Bayhealth Medical Center, said Kent General in Dover employs 3,200 and Milford Memorial employs 1,000. He expects each facility to grow the number of employees by two to four percent annually to help keep up with the growing needs of the health care providing community in Kent County. He added that as a part of that employee growth, Bayhealth will be experiencing facility growth. In Milford, there’s a 400,000-square-foot, $250-$350 million expansion that’s expected to begin construction in 2015. In Dover, on top of the $147 million expansion that opened in 2012, there will be a fourth floor built.

"You can expect to see scaffolding sometime this spring," he said.

In the end, more than an estimated 400 jobs either have been, or will be, created in Kent County over the past year or so because of these companies and other like them who have decided that Kent County is a place to do business.

Which is exactly what Bill Andrews, Kent Economic Partnership chairman and Delaware Electric Cooperative president and CEO, wants the citizens of the county to realize.

"We’re working every day to improve the economic aspects of the county," he said. "When you see a new building, that’s new people working and that means prosperity."

He then challenged the room’s movers and shakers to continue their efforts.

"We need to make it easy to do business," he said. "You are doers and I challenge you to make economic development a little bigger part of your daily calendar."

Ed Dulin, publisher of Delaware State News, offers upbeat remarks to the crowd of nearly 100 business leaders present for the release of the 2014 Kent County Profile.

Bill Andrew, president of the Kent Economic Partnership, makes closing remarks after the 2014 Kent County Profile cover was unveiled. This year's cover featured a barge bringing a generator into Leipsic. The generator is one of several pieces of equipment needed for a $400 million Calpine Energy Center under construction in Dover.