Can’t Avoid Talking About The Coronavirus
April 4, 2020 at 12:57 a.m.
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Warsaw’s favorite “Bachelor,” Ben Higgins, proposed to girlfriend Jessica Clarke last Friday, March 27. According to Entertainment Weekly on Sunday, Higgins had been planning his proposal for months in New York but “everything changed” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Oh, wait. That, too, ended up having something to do with the virus. Drat!
Well, we’ll still wish Higgins and Clarke a big “congratulations,” whenever and wherever they get hitched.
Higgins, a Warsaw Community High School graduate, was “The Bachelor” during the show’s 20th season. They even filmed some of the show here in Kosciusko County.
Unfortunately, the “annual carnival” put on by the show never returned to downtown Warsaw. Maybe after this whole pandemic thing goes away?
ON WITH THE SHOW – If you follow the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts on Facebook, you’ll know they’ve been posting clips from previous shows from the last 25 years. Artistic Director Scott Michaels is playing VJ (video jockey).
Why? Well, besides the whole coronavirus pandemic keeping people from enjoying LIVE!!! entertainment, according to the Facebook page of longtime Wagon Wheel veteran Jennifer Dow – one of our all-time favorite actresses at the venue – she and Michaels have made Warsaw part of their lives for the last 25 years.
We love anniversaries, as well as good music, so we give the video idea a big thumbs up!
SEAL OF APPROVAL – We admit we probably scanned Facebook a little bit too much this week for some good tidbits to share because social distancing has put some limitations on us lately.
But that’s where we saw an announcement from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation that it received the 2020 Platinum Seal of Transparency. This is GuideStar’s highest level of transparency for nonprofit organizations, earned by reporting organizational information, key metrics and highlighting the differences being made through its work.
Congratulations, KCCF!
And that had nothing to do with COVID-19 – yay! – well, except the fact we mentioned the virus to say it had nothing to do with the virus.
NO ELECTION – In a special meeting Thursday, the Kosciusko REMC board of directors voted to postpone this year’s director election until next year. It was originally scheduled to occur at KREMC’s annual meeting.
As usual lately, blame the coronavirus.
This change will extend the terms of current directors Terry Bouse, Steve Miner and Rick Parker by one year.
Andrew Airgood, Ken Anderson and Dillon Whitacre were slated to run for the board.
KREMC's annual meeting, which was to be held March 28, was previously postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
KREMC will still be awarding 10 school scholarships and 10 4-H scholarships to its members. Winners of those scholarships will be announced on Monday.
NOT ENOUGH DOCTORS – Indiana has the lowest number of active doctors per 100,000 people of neighboring states, according to a news release we received this week from the Indiana Democratic Party.
The Democrats state that, according to data from the 2019 State Physician Workforce Data report, Indiana trails all neighboring states in active physicians per 100,000 population. The state, starting from a deficit, could face a personnel crunch as COVID-19 cases spike.
Indiana’s national ranking is 37 with 230.8 physicians per 100,000. Meanwhile, Kentucky is #36, Illinois is #18, Michigan is #15 and Ohio is #14.
BANKS ON CHINA – Since we’ve waded into the political waters, we received several emails this week about how Rep. Jim Banks (IN-3) saw the coronavirus threat coming.
One email contained the Breitbart article from Thursday noting how on Jan. 31, in the midst of President Trump’s impeachment trial, Banks compared the spread of the coronavirus to the Spanish flu. The story references one of Banks’ tweets.
You can search up the whole article yourself, but it also states that Banks said he had an idea that something was really wrong beginning in late December.
Another article from Daily Caller on Wednesday – which you can also Google up – talks about how Banks “warned of the looming coronavirus pandemic days before his fellow lawmakers began taking the virus seriously.”
DOCTOR ONLINE – The only Republican challenging Banks for his seat in this year’s election cycle is Dr. Chris Magiera.
The doctor sent us an email this week, letting us know, “In keeping with the intent to minimize in-person interactions, I have launched this week the new method for campaigning: Facebook live chats at 7 p.m. every weeknight from now until June 1.”
He invited the media to join in anytime and pose questions. We look forward to doing that in the near future as we’re sure he has some interesting takes on the coronavirus and government’s role in the pandemic as he considers himself a “strict Constitutionalist.”
“These sessions are a combination of teaching constitutional solutions to governmental issues and Q & A sessions,” according to his email.
The Facebook page is "Dr. Chris Magiera for Congress."
NEXT WEEK – Due to Times-Union Managing Editor David Slone taking a few vacation days Thursday through Sunday, there may not be a potpourri column next Saturday. However, it’ll surely return the following Saturday so stay tuned!
If you can’t wait two weeks to share your bit of hot news, feel free to contact Times-Union staff writers Amanda Bridgman, Jackie Gorski or Teresa Carrano with your potpourri item so they can put together a column for next Saturday.
Warsaw’s favorite “Bachelor,” Ben Higgins, proposed to girlfriend Jessica Clarke last Friday, March 27. According to Entertainment Weekly on Sunday, Higgins had been planning his proposal for months in New York but “everything changed” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Oh, wait. That, too, ended up having something to do with the virus. Drat!
Well, we’ll still wish Higgins and Clarke a big “congratulations,” whenever and wherever they get hitched.
Higgins, a Warsaw Community High School graduate, was “The Bachelor” during the show’s 20th season. They even filmed some of the show here in Kosciusko County.
Unfortunately, the “annual carnival” put on by the show never returned to downtown Warsaw. Maybe after this whole pandemic thing goes away?
ON WITH THE SHOW – If you follow the Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts on Facebook, you’ll know they’ve been posting clips from previous shows from the last 25 years. Artistic Director Scott Michaels is playing VJ (video jockey).
Why? Well, besides the whole coronavirus pandemic keeping people from enjoying LIVE!!! entertainment, according to the Facebook page of longtime Wagon Wheel veteran Jennifer Dow – one of our all-time favorite actresses at the venue – she and Michaels have made Warsaw part of their lives for the last 25 years.
We love anniversaries, as well as good music, so we give the video idea a big thumbs up!
SEAL OF APPROVAL – We admit we probably scanned Facebook a little bit too much this week for some good tidbits to share because social distancing has put some limitations on us lately.
But that’s where we saw an announcement from the Kosciusko County Community Foundation that it received the 2020 Platinum Seal of Transparency. This is GuideStar’s highest level of transparency for nonprofit organizations, earned by reporting organizational information, key metrics and highlighting the differences being made through its work.
Congratulations, KCCF!
And that had nothing to do with COVID-19 – yay! – well, except the fact we mentioned the virus to say it had nothing to do with the virus.
NO ELECTION – In a special meeting Thursday, the Kosciusko REMC board of directors voted to postpone this year’s director election until next year. It was originally scheduled to occur at KREMC’s annual meeting.
As usual lately, blame the coronavirus.
This change will extend the terms of current directors Terry Bouse, Steve Miner and Rick Parker by one year.
Andrew Airgood, Ken Anderson and Dillon Whitacre were slated to run for the board.
KREMC's annual meeting, which was to be held March 28, was previously postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
KREMC will still be awarding 10 school scholarships and 10 4-H scholarships to its members. Winners of those scholarships will be announced on Monday.
NOT ENOUGH DOCTORS – Indiana has the lowest number of active doctors per 100,000 people of neighboring states, according to a news release we received this week from the Indiana Democratic Party.
The Democrats state that, according to data from the 2019 State Physician Workforce Data report, Indiana trails all neighboring states in active physicians per 100,000 population. The state, starting from a deficit, could face a personnel crunch as COVID-19 cases spike.
Indiana’s national ranking is 37 with 230.8 physicians per 100,000. Meanwhile, Kentucky is #36, Illinois is #18, Michigan is #15 and Ohio is #14.
BANKS ON CHINA – Since we’ve waded into the political waters, we received several emails this week about how Rep. Jim Banks (IN-3) saw the coronavirus threat coming.
One email contained the Breitbart article from Thursday noting how on Jan. 31, in the midst of President Trump’s impeachment trial, Banks compared the spread of the coronavirus to the Spanish flu. The story references one of Banks’ tweets.
You can search up the whole article yourself, but it also states that Banks said he had an idea that something was really wrong beginning in late December.
Another article from Daily Caller on Wednesday – which you can also Google up – talks about how Banks “warned of the looming coronavirus pandemic days before his fellow lawmakers began taking the virus seriously.”
DOCTOR ONLINE – The only Republican challenging Banks for his seat in this year’s election cycle is Dr. Chris Magiera.
The doctor sent us an email this week, letting us know, “In keeping with the intent to minimize in-person interactions, I have launched this week the new method for campaigning: Facebook live chats at 7 p.m. every weeknight from now until June 1.”
He invited the media to join in anytime and pose questions. We look forward to doing that in the near future as we’re sure he has some interesting takes on the coronavirus and government’s role in the pandemic as he considers himself a “strict Constitutionalist.”
“These sessions are a combination of teaching constitutional solutions to governmental issues and Q & A sessions,” according to his email.
The Facebook page is "Dr. Chris Magiera for Congress."
NEXT WEEK – Due to Times-Union Managing Editor David Slone taking a few vacation days Thursday through Sunday, there may not be a potpourri column next Saturday. However, it’ll surely return the following Saturday so stay tuned!
If you can’t wait two weeks to share your bit of hot news, feel free to contact Times-Union staff writers Amanda Bridgman, Jackie Gorski or Teresa Carrano with your potpourri item so they can put together a column for next Saturday.
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