WKTN Radio: Recent Episodes
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The President and CEO of the Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance continues to encourage the county to participate in a land bank program. Jon Cross explains what the program is, "A program that is formed by the commissioners in the county with a governance board, and it allows us to go after state funding to help with blighted properties and blighted areas throughout the county. Basically we're trying to help our local municipalities and our villages with funding."
The month of March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Dr. Timothy Schirmer, who sees patients in the Specialty Center at Hardin Memorial Hospital, said colon cancer does not have to be deadly, "Colon cancer prevention can be done through colonoscopies and the like, by removing the polyps before they can have a chance to turn into cancer, so I think that's a big difference between many other types of screening programs is that we can actually prevent the cancer."
The new Chairman of the Board for the Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance is looking forward to his new duties. Brian Sprang said he started on the board as Vice-Chair in March of 2015, "I served under Tim Street, and got to know the organization, and got see both sides, the full board meetings that we have every other month, and then in the other months of the year, we have the executive board meetings, so as chairman of the board of the Chamber and Business Alliance, I am responsible for running the executive meetings as well as running the board meetings."
A Kenton fire chief who has worked under eight mayors and seven safety service directors will be retiring next week. The last day for Russ Blue, who became chief in 2002, will be Friday March 18, "After a career of about 41 years and eight months. It's been a great career. I'm going to miss it, but it's time. We have a lot of young guys at the department now, and I think it's time to make a change, and I want to move on and enjoy life and spend more time with my wife and my children and grandchildren and play a little golf when I get a chance." Chief Blue said it would have been impossible for him to do his job without the support of his wife and family.