That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.
In places like Ford County, Piatt, Douglas and DeWitt counties, (agriculture) is a large economic driver.
Our time frame with this is on Nov. 15, we need to submit a plan on how to consolidate 26 county offices to Washington. We're going to be gathering input from farmers and others on the best way to do this.
You're pretty close to the station. So, you are taking a lot of valuable land for parking.
[As an example, merging the neighboring Brown and Schuyler offices] might be a logical consolidation, ... What we would be looking at is would it be better to consolidate everyone from Mount Sterling to Rushville or perhaps Rushville to Mount Sterling or a more central location.
Everyone was friendly, helpful and I always enjoyed coming here. There always were good horses here, and I won a lot of money here. That's the name of the game.
June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had a better crop than we thought, which dropped the prices.
These are counties targeted for consolidation. Bill Graff will be talking to farmers and commodity groups on getting their input. We'll talk to anybody that wants to talk. The goal is to have better equipped, better trained, more efficient offices.
The more people who know about it, the more help we can get. We can't do this on a small piece of land. We need a lot of space and it's going to need a lot of time.
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