We have to get a new chiller installed, like yesterday, the sheriff said. If the temperature rises in the jail the way it is and stays that way, we’ll be moving prisoners. And we don t want to do that.
He said his jail staff is at risk as well. Working when it s up to 95 degrees isn t feasible.
The commissioners voted 3-0 to declare a health and safety emergency, which allowed the county to move quickly in making the purchase.
The county will pay $85,000 for a new chiller. We need to move on this now, the sheriff advised. I need to make a phone call to get this installed.
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SPENCER Owen County Auditor Sheila Reeves is glad she delayed hiring someone to replace an employee who recently quit.
“I didn’t want to hire someone and then have to let them go,” she said.
And that’s what she would have faced.
During a three-hour meeting fraught with talk of the rural county’s money troubles, Owen County Council members said recent 20% cuts across the board did make a $600,000 dent in the county’s $2 million shortfall in the 2021 budget.
But it wasn’t nearly enough, less than a third of what’s necessary.
So council members voted that each county department must lay off one employee by Aug. 15. That’s about 10 county workers. “People are upset, wondering if they will be the one that gets cut,” Reeves said from her courthouse office Tuesday afternoon.
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Campaign developed by DDB Group Sydney
Imagine a place where wild utes roam, where expert handlers capture them and harness their raw power, turning beasts into thoroughbreds. Well, that place is Walkinshaw Station, where Volkswagen Amaroks are engineered to become the only ute reared for the road.
The Amarok V6 W-Series is a collaboration between Volkswagen and legendary performance tuning house Walkinshaw. The integrated launch, created by DDB Group Sydney, unfolds like a tourism campaign, showing Walkinshaw Station not as a theme park or polished racetrack, but as its own world, the first and only of its kind.
Volkswagen rears Amaroks like horses in W-Series launch via DDB
May 10, 2021 10:47
Volkswagen’s Amarok W-Series launch imagines a place where utes roam free and must be reared by expert handlers before they’re released onto the road.
It all takes place at Walkinshaw Station, the setting for the integrated W-Series launch campaign created with DDB Group Sydney, and rolls out with a brand proposition ‘Reared for the road’.
The hero TVC depicts the Amaroks as if they were horses, with their handlers training and refining the utes until they’ve been ‘reared for the road’. After which, they’re allowed to depart Walkinshaw Station and are released onto the road.