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Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Deadline approaching for 2025 Fisher Governance Award nominations
MUNCIE, IN — Delaware County nonprofit organizations are invited to nominate a board member for the John W. and Janice B. Fisher Governance Award before the deadline on Aug. 15. The award, given by Ball Brothers Foundation, recognizes "the important role board members play in strategic planning and financial oversight to achieve their organization's mission," according to a news release. Jud Fisher (left), president & CEO of Ball Brothers Foundation, and John West (right), founding board chair of Muncie Land Bank, winner of the 2024 John W. and Janice B. Fisher Governance Award. The award recipient will receive a $10,000 grant for their organization. 'Board members often work behind the scenes, but their leadership plays a big role in a nonprofit's success,' said Jud Fisher, president and CEO of Ball Brothers Foundation. 'This award is our way of shining a light on those leaders in Delaware County who quietly and consistently devote their time and efforts to strengthen organizations and, in turn, improve life in our community.' The award is named in honor of Delaware County philanthropists John W. and Janice B. Fisher, Ball family members who "believed deeply in the importance of good governance and strong leadership," the release said. The award will be presented at the Greater Muncie Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner on Nov. 18. To learn more about eligibility requirements and to submit a nomination, visit This article originally appeared on Muncie Star Press: Nominations being accepted for 2025 Fisher Governance Award
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This new Salt Lake City complex signals start of a district's major redevelopment
Janet West remembers sitting at the Alta Club when she overheard a conversation about low-income housing tax credits. West, a co-manager of the real estate company W3 Partners, doesn't remember when this took place, but she couldn't shake off the idea of getting into affordable housing. Having experienced life as a single mother of five at one point, she knew the difficulties in housing and she wanted to help. 'It was just on my mind,' she told 'Affordability is really important to me, so that background of hearing that there's a way to help provide affordable housing for people, (we said) let's look into it and see if it's a possibility.' The idea eventually became The Nest at Rio Grande, a 220-unit housing complex that is now open in Salt Lake City's Rio Grande District. All one-bedroom and studio units are set aside for individuals earning up to 60% of the area's median income. The complex not only adds more affordable units to a city seeking to add more, but it also signals what's to come in the district. Formal planning for The Nest began in 2021, after W3 Partners acquired an office space along 400 South between Rio Grande Street and 500 West. Although the W3 Partners had mostly focused on commercial properties to this point, company leadership wanted to turn the space's parking lot into affordable housing. That just seemed like the right thing to do with it, said John L. West another co-manager of the firm, and Janet West's husband. So, W3 embarked on what would quickly become a complicated process. Construction was already marred by the COVID-19 pandemic, as labor shortages and supply chain issues caused all sorts of headaches. Inflation came next as lockdowns were lifted. U.S. inflation rates began to pick up in the spring of 2021, peaking in June 2022, right as all these plans were being put together. Construction costs became a 'rollercoaster ride' with the price of lumber and other materials changing almost daily, instead of monthly or seasonally, said Cory Moore, CEO of Big-D Construction. The Federal Reserve responded by raising interest rates, adding one more wrinkle for companies like W3 that were trying to build. 'It was a very difficult time to design a project,' John West said. Building affordable housing is especially challenging even in a stable market, which is where those low-income housing tax credits — offered through a federal program that incentivizes affordable housing — came in handy. The final cost of the project will likely end up around $70 million, John West said, which isn't a number that can't be recouped through affordable housing rates. The company approached groups like the Utah Private Activity Bond Authority Board to receive state and federal credits that are passed on to lenders — Goldman Sachs' Urban Investment Group, in this case — so they're willing to issue a bond to pay for the project, he explained. Salt Lake City's Community Reinvestment Agency also chipped in, directing $2 million in funds toward the project. 'It's great that we can have affordable housing where the workforce for our city … don't have to live the outskirts of our city or outside the city, but they can live right downtown where we're seeing a lot of redevelopment,' said Salt Lake City Councilman Darin Mano, who is also chairman of the Community Reinvestment Agency. Construction began in 2023 and wrapped up earlier this year, allowing The Nest's first residents to move in ahead of schedule. W3 hosted a ceremony to celebrate the project's completion on Thursday. The six-story facility comes with a suite of amenities, including a fitness center, 'modern' clubhouse, a pair of outdoor terraces and a parking garage, among other things. A mural celebrating the neighborhood's train history can also be found inside, and the building is within two blocks of Utah Transit Authority's Salt Lake Central Station. 'I just hope (residents) find it comfortable and that it feels like home,' said Janet West, now that her idea has come to life. There are other apartment complexes in the area, but The Nest could be seen as the first of a new wave of planned developments. Thursday's ceremony took place a week after the Environmental Protection Agency awarded the University of Utah $2 million through its Brownfields Grants program to help clean up a site in the area that could be a part of its redevelopment plans. It's also less than a block from where Climbing USA plans to build its headquarters. UTA has also explored major redevelopment of its Rio Grande properties, as has the Community Redevelopment Agency, which approved a master plan for the area last year. It's a key reason why W3 selected the area for its housing project, John West said. He believes the neighborhood will look completely different over the next decade with everything that's planned. Mano agrees, largely because it's one of the largest spaces that the city has control over. He expects that Rio Grande could be the city's Granary District or Central Ninth neighborhood, filling in with a mix of residents and businesses as downtown growth spills outward to the south and west of its original boundaries. The Nest is a good starting point. 'Seeing an actual building open in that Rio Grande area is exciting because that is one of the biggest opportunities we have within our city to really create the Salt Lake City of the future,' he said.
Edinburgh Live
05-06-2025
- Health
- Edinburgh Live
'Maggots burst from tin of tuna I was about to feed my baby - I can never eat touch it again'
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info A mum has vowed never to eat tuna again after claiming to discover 'more than 100 maggots' crawling in her tot's John West tuna bought in Asda. Bethany Bryson had nipped to Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store on May 23 to grab a few essentials and bought a multipack of John West tinned tuna for £3.98. The mum-of-one had intended to make her son a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch and did not notice anything unusual about the cans in the store. When the 28-year-old returned home, she put her one-year-old son Hudson Gray down for a nap while she began to unpack her shopping. Bethany, who works in customer service at another supermarket, said that when she went to take the top tin of tuna off of the stack of three maggots 'flew' at her. Stomach-churning footage shows the maggots crawling inside the tuna can in Bethany's kitchen and she said she thought there were more than 100. The experience has traumatised her so much that she was unable to eat that day and has vowed never to eat tuna again. John West Foods apologised and suggested that the can had been damaged in transit prior to arriving at the supermarket. They are working with suppliers to ensure it does not happen again. (Image: Kennedy News and Media) Bethany, from Edinburgh, said: "This is going to sound like I'm exaggerating but maggots literally flew at me. I was in shock and disbelief. You know when your skin starts to crawl? "I hadn't even opened the actual tin itself. The tin was open with all those maggots floating about. I was sick. I didn't eat that whole day. I'm never going to touch tuna again. I wanted to jump in a shower with bleach because I felt disgusting. "The smell was something unholy. That was something else. Tuna doesn't smell nice at the best of times but this didn't even smell like off fish or anything like that. I didn't know what it smelled like. It was potent. It was disgusting. "I had to bin raid to get the tins out. Luckily I have disposable gloves, I had two layers of them on. Two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag went into containing those tins." After taking the maggots outside, she thoroughly cleaned her kitchen to make sure she had got rid of the creepy crawlies before contacting Asda's customer service team. While she was waiting to hear back from them, Bethany also contacted John West, who apologised for her experience and offered her a £10 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. On the same day Bethany called Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store to inform them about what had happened. She said staff told her they would remove the tins from the shelves and asked her to bring the tuna tins into the store for testing. Armed with two pairs of disposable gloves, Bethany said she had to fish through her bins to retrieve the tins and put them in two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag in order to bring them back to the store. She said when she returned to the store, the manager offered her a £20 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. Bethany said she heard back from Asda's head office and they apologised for her experience and offered her a £5 voucher. However, she said their response made her feel 'heated' and she was not satisfied with Asda's response. Bethany said: "I was heated when I got that response and I replied back saying, '£5 when I was about to feed this to my one-year-old son, that's not acceptable.' I was like, 'I do not want my little boy getting sick from that' because he obviously roams about the floor. "He's walking but he does crawl about the kitchen sometimes so the last thing I want is remnants of maggots being on the floor for him to get unwell. I was actually horrified because if those maggots hadn't been fully developed into the size they were and I hadn't noticed they were in the tin I could have fed that to my son and that just makes me feel sick, it's horrible." A John West spokesperson said: "At John West, the safety of our consumers and the quality of our products are our highest priorities and we take this incident extremely seriously. No living animal could have survived the high-temperature sterilisation used in our production process. "Based on the information currently available, it appears the can was damaged after packaging and during transit within the supply chain. This damage compromised the seal and allowed environmental contamination, ultimately leading to spoilage. "While this appears to be an isolated incident, John West is working closely with logistics partners to ensure that product is being handled with care and that such an issue does not occur again. We are deeply sorry for the distress caused to the customer who purchased this product. We sincerely apologise for her experience and fully understand the concern and upset this has caused her and her family. "We remain fully committed to upholding the trust that consumers place in us and will do everything possible to make this right." An Asda spokesperson said they had not received any similar complaints and as soon the store became aware they removed all products with the same batch code from their shelves. The Asda spokesperson said: "We've since contacted Bethany to apologise for her experience and offered a gesture of goodwill. This product was supplied by a branded partner who have confirmed it was damaged in transit through the supply chain."
Western Telegraph
05-06-2025
- Health
- Western Telegraph
Mum's horror as maggots found in John West tuna from Asda
Bethany Bryson had visited Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store last month to grab a few essentials and bought a multipack of John West tinned tuna for £3.98. The mum-of-one had intended to make her son a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch and did not notice anything unusual about the cans in the store. When the 28-year-old returned home, she put her one-year-old son Hudson Gray down for a nap while she began to unpack her shopping. (Image: Kennedy News and Media) Bethany, who works in customer service at another supermarket, said that when she went to open the top tin of tuna maggots 'flew' at her. Stomach-churning footage shows the maggots crawling inside the tuna can in Bethany's kitchen and she said she thought there were more than 100. The experience has traumatised her so much that she was unable to eat that day and has vowed never to eat tuna again. John West Foods apologised and suggested that the can had been damaged in transit prior to arriving at the supermarket. They are working with suppliers to ensure it doesn't happen again. Bethany, from Edinburgh, Scotland, said: "This is going to sound like I'm exaggerating but maggots literally flew at me [from the movement as I opened the can]. "I was in shock and disbelief. You know when your skin starts to crawl? "I hadn't even opened the actual tin itself. The tin was open with all those maggots floating about. "I was sick. I didn't eat that whole day. I'm never going to touch tuna again. I wanted to jump in a shower with bleach because I felt disgusting. "The smell was something unholy. That was something else. "Tuna doesn't smell nice at the best of times but this didn't even smell like off fish or anything like that. I didn't know what it smelled like. It was potent. It was disgusting. "I had to bin raid to get the tins out. Luckily I have disposable gloves, I had two layers of them on. Two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag went into containing those tins." After taking the maggots outside she thoroughly cleaned her kitchen to make sure she had gotten rid of the creepy crawlies before contacting Asda's customer service team. While she was waiting to hear back from them, Bethany also contacted John West, who apologised for her experience and offered her a £10 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. On the same day Bethany called Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store to inform them about what had happened. She said staff told her they would remove the tins from the shelves and asked her to bring the tuna tins into the store for testing. Armed with two pairs of disposable gloves, Bethany said she had to fish through her bins to retrieve the tins and put them in two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag in order to bring them back to the store. She said when she returned to the store, the manager offered her a £20 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. Bethany said she heard back from Asda's head office and they apologised for her experience and offered her a £5 voucher, however she said their response made her feel 'heated'. Bethany said she was not satisfied with Asda's response. Bethany said: "I was heated when I got that [Asda's] response and I replied back saying, '£5 when I was about to feed this to my one-year-old son, that's not acceptable.' "I was like, 'I do not want my little boy getting sick from that' because he obviously roams about the floor. "He's walking but he does crawl about the kitchen sometimes so the last thing I want is remnants of maggots being on the floor for him to get unwell. "I was actually horrified because if those maggots hadn't been fully developed into the size they were and I hadn't noticed they were in the tin I could have fed that to my son and that just makes me feel sick, it's horrible." A John West spokesperson said: "At John West, the safety of our consumers and the quality of our products are our highest priorities and we take this incident extremely seriously. "No living animal could have survived the high-temperature sterilisation used in our production process. "Based on the information currently available, it appears the can was damaged after packaging and during transit within the supply chain. "This damage compromised the seal and allowed environmental contamination, ultimately leading to spoilage. "While this appears to be an isolated incident, John West is working closely with logistics partners to ensure that product is being handled with care and that such an issue does not occur again. "We are deeply sorry for the distress caused to the customer who purchased this product. We sincerely apologise for her experience and fully understand the concern and upset this has caused her and her family. "We remain fully committed to upholding the trust that consumers place in us and will do everything possible to make this right." An Asda spokesperson said they had not received any similar complaints and as soon the store became aware they removed all products with the same batch code from their shelves. The Asda spokesperson said: "We've since contacted Bethany to apologise for her experience and offered a gesture of goodwill. "This product was supplied by a branded partner who have confirmed it was damaged in transit through the supply chain."
Powys County Times
04-06-2025
- Business
- Powys County Times
Mum's horror as maggots found in John West tuna from Asda
A mum has vowed never to eat tuna again after claiming to discover 'more than 100 maggots' crawling in her tot's John West tuna dinner bought in Asda. Bethany Bryson had visited Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store last month to grab a few essentials and bought a multipack of John West tinned tuna for £3.98. The mum-of-one had intended to make her son a tuna and sweetcorn baguette for lunch and did not notice anything unusual about the cans in the store. When the 28-year-old returned home, she put her one-year-old son Hudson Gray down for a nap while she began to unpack her shopping. Bethany, who works in customer service at another supermarket, said that when she went to open the top tin of tuna maggots 'flew' at her. Stomach-churning footage shows the maggots crawling inside the tuna can in Bethany's kitchen and she said she thought there were more than 100. The experience has traumatised her so much that she was unable to eat that day and has vowed never to eat tuna again. John West Foods apologised and suggested that the can had been damaged in transit prior to arriving at the supermarket. They are working with suppliers to ensure it doesn't happen again. Bethany, from Edinburgh, Scotland, said: "This is going to sound like I'm exaggerating but maggots literally flew at me [from the movement as I opened the can]. "I was in shock and disbelief. You know when your skin starts to crawl? "I hadn't even opened the actual tin itself. The tin was open with all those maggots floating about. "I was sick. I didn't eat that whole day. I'm never going to touch tuna again. I wanted to jump in a shower with bleach because I felt disgusting. "The smell was something unholy. That was something else. "Tuna doesn't smell nice at the best of times but this didn't even smell like off fish or anything like that. I didn't know what it smelled like. It was potent. It was disgusting. "I had to bin raid to get the tins out. Luckily I have disposable gloves, I had two layers of them on. Two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag went into containing those tins." After taking the maggots outside she thoroughly cleaned her kitchen to make sure she had gotten rid of the creepy crawlies before contacting Asda's customer service team. While she was waiting to hear back from them, Bethany also contacted John West, who apologised for her experience and offered her a £10 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. On the same day Bethany called Asda's Edinburgh Supercentre store to inform them about what had happened. She said staff told her they would remove the tins from the shelves and asked her to bring the tuna tins into the store for testing. Armed with two pairs of disposable gloves, Bethany said she had to fish through her bins to retrieve the tins and put them in two Ziploc bags and a nappy bag in order to bring them back to the store. She said when she returned to the store, the manager offered her a £20 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. Bethany said she heard back from Asda's head office and they apologised for her experience and offered her a £5 voucher, however she said their response made her feel 'heated'. Bethany said she was not satisfied with Asda's response. Bethany said: "I was heated when I got that [Asda's] response and I replied back saying, '£5 when I was about to feed this to my one-year-old son, that's not acceptable.' "I was like, 'I do not want my little boy getting sick from that' because he obviously roams about the floor. "He's walking but he does crawl about the kitchen sometimes so the last thing I want is remnants of maggots being on the floor for him to get unwell. "I was actually horrified because if those maggots hadn't been fully developed into the size they were and I hadn't noticed they were in the tin I could have fed that to my son and that just makes me feel sick, it's horrible." A John West spokesperson said: "At John West, the safety of our consumers and the quality of our products are our highest priorities and we take this incident extremely seriously. "No living animal could have survived the high-temperature sterilisation used in our production process. "Based on the information currently available, it appears the can was damaged after packaging and during transit within the supply chain. "This damage compromised the seal and allowed environmental contamination, ultimately leading to spoilage. "While this appears to be an isolated incident, John West is working closely with logistics partners to ensure that product is being handled with care and that such an issue does not occur again. "We are deeply sorry for the distress caused to the customer who purchased this product. We sincerely apologise for her experience and fully understand the concern and upset this has caused her and her family. "We remain fully committed to upholding the trust that consumers place in us and will do everything possible to make this right." An Asda spokesperson said they had not received any similar complaints and as soon the store became aware they removed all products with the same batch code from their shelves. The Asda spokesperson said: "We've since contacted Bethany to apologise for her experience and offered a gesture of goodwill. "This product was supplied by a branded partner who have confirmed it was damaged in transit through the supply chain."
