Church Friends: Local briefs
Perfect score: State's GIS technology work earns national recognition Kansas government officials have been named the top in the state for their use of geographic information systems (GIS) technology, according to the non-profit Center for Digital Government.The state received a perfect score of 100 in a recent survey conducted by the center measuring how states use geographic information systems in their government operations.The survey cited the state's...
Church Friends: LAYOFFS TAKE NS EMPLOYEES BY SURPRISE
Maria Fannin was getting ready for church Sunday morning when her phone rang.It was 8 a.m. on her day off, and her employer, Norfolk Southern, was calling. Fannin, a junior student mechanic at the East End car shop, was told not to show up for work Monday morning. She was laid off, indefinitely."It was very depressing," Fannin said, "$1,400 gone a month."She was one of 109 Roanoke railroad workers to get that news Sunday....
Church Friends: DEATHS AND FUNERALS
ART Mary Jo (Fetters) Art, age 63, of Columbus, went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, January 20, 2000. She is survived by her loving husband of 43 years, Robert L.; sons, Daniel (Mary) of Liberty Twp. in Butler Co., David (Dorcas) of Columbus, Andrew (Julia) of Worthington; daughter, Ann Marie (Stephen) Blakemore of Dublin; 11 grandchildren, Jason, Joshua, Robert, Ryan, Caroline, Emma, Zachary, Christopher, Wesley, Stephen and Jonathan. Also survived by brothers, Bevan of Englewood, Oh....