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Three seminars on methamphetamines and the dangers associated with the drug will be held in January, Kosciusko County Sheriff Aaron Rovenstine told the county commissioners Tuesday.
"It's becoming almost an epidemic situation in other counties and it's a problem here," Rovenstine said of meth.
The seminars are being presented by the Kosciusko County Meth Watch group and will provide the public with information about the drug, meth labs, what to look for and how to report a meth lab. These seminars are open to all ages and everyone is invited to attend.
The first will be held Jan. 10 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Lakeview Middle School auditorium, Warsaw. On Jan. 11, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., the second seminar will be at Tippecanoe Valley High School lecture room. The final seminar is Jan. 18 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Wawasee High School auditorium.
Featured speakers will include the Kosciusko County Drug Task Force; Dr. Michael Williams, medical director, Kosciusko Community Hospital; and Mike Winston, Bowen Center, certified alcohol and drug abuse counselor.
In other business, the commissioners:
• Approved the reappointment of Gerald Bitner and Richard Shipley to the property tax board of appeals.
• Signed Rovenstine's 2005 contract for $82,809.
• Signed the Kosciusko County Solid Waste Management District controller agreement for $6,000 for the county auditor to serve as the district's controller.
• Signed county attorney Mike Miner's 2005 contract for $21,000.
• Signed the 2005 lease agreement with the Animal Welfare League.
• Signed the 2005 jail doctor service agreement with Dr. Mark Jensen for $1,895.50 per month.
• Approved the installation of stop signs at the intersection of CRs 350E and 500S and in Enchanted Hills subdivision.
• Accepted Summerfield Subdivision, off Ferguson Road, into the county highway maintenance system.
• Denied Stanley Custer's petition to rezone property on the south side of Bowser Road, zero feet east of CR 375E in Van Buren Township, from agricultural to residential.
• Approved Stan Arnolt's petition to rezone ground from agricultural to residential. The property is on the east side of Packerton Road and 600 feet south of Pierceton Road in Wayne Township.
• Approved Matt and Jane Schori's petition to rezone property on the east side of CR 175E in Wayne Township from ag to residential.
• Approved three vacations: Robert Brockman, Turkey Creek Township, approximately 300 feet long by up to 40 feet wide right of way from Crow's Addition to Ogden Island; Wayne Hendrix, Seward Township, 30-foot right of way, originally named Mary Avenue, on Beaver Dam Lake; and Thomas Porter, Washington Township, platted undeveloped alley, approximately 250 feet long, on the east side of Ridinger Lake.
