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technical fields and use available training programs that can help
enhance our workforce.”
Lebanon Community Schools has also hired a community work
coordinator (former agriculture department chair Kristen Scott) – a
position funded for two years by the Lebanon Redevelopment Commission.
“Her primary mission is to connect the schools with businesses to
open doors for internships and make sure the businesses have an open
door to relay their concerns to her, and ultimately help employ the
students who are not going on to higher education,” Whitehead explains.
To each its own
As the county collectively grows, each community will deal with
its own unique challenges, according to Whitehead.
“For Lebanon, one challenge is quality of life. It needs to be
attractive so potential employees are choosing where to live first, and
companies will follow,” she contends. “(Lebanon also) needs to look
more at agribusiness, either companies that can assist current
employers or those on the technology side. That’s our heritage and
what we’re good at, so we should make a play for it.”
For Whitestown, it’s staying in front of the infrastructure and
traffic flow demands placed on an area with such a booming population.
“We have to do a good job of putting those people in a variety of
housing that is a little more dense, but (high) quality, and give them an
opportunity to not have to use their car to do their recreation,
shopping and working,” Norton concludes. “But we want to maintain
some of that agricultural feel. There’s a lot of greenspace on the land
use map in our (25-year) comprehensive plan.”
RESOURCES: Satoru Fukai, Fukai Toyotetsu Indiana Corporation, at | Dax Norton, Town of Whitestown, at www.whitestown.in.gov |
Molly Whitehead, Boone County Economic Development Corporation, at
been found in Australia and Siberia,” Brant reveals. “Demand has gone
through the roof (via MRIs and other medical uses), and there may
even be a time when people look at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
parade and wonder how they can waste that valuable resource for a
one-day celebration.”
Winds of change
Wally’s children, Anne Brant Hayes and Jay Brant, are now vice
presidents at Indiana Oxygen. Per his request, however, they initially
pursued opportunities outside of the company.
“It was important to the company and to me that both of my
children go out and do something else, in this industry or not, for four
to five years minimum, to see if this is a career they would like – and
(if so) to bring some talent back to Indiana Oxygen,” Brant reports.
“My daughter is an attorney, and my son worked for a vendor and
then went to California to work as a territorial salesman in our
industry. I had two vice presidents retiring at the same time, so they
both came back and have been here for five and a half years.”
Brant is proud Indiana Oxygen is a Best Place to Work in Indiana
(ranking third among medium-sized companies in 2015) and has
maintained the high ethical standards his grandfather stressed during
his tenure in the business.
“We were in a desperate situation in 1982-83, and I’m glad we
don’t have anything in the closet that will fall out one day,” Brant
concludes. “Good ethics is a good business strategy.”
RESOURCE: Wally Brant, Indiana Oxygen Company, at
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Indiana Oxygen
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FTIC and county officials anticipate growth for Jamestown with the
addition of this automotive stamping, welding and manufacturing plant.
Boone County
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