Commissioners recognize chamber’s work
WAYNESBURG – Greene County commissioners Wednesday proclaimed October 2013 as Chamber of Commerce Month.
The proclamation recognizes the Waynesburg Area Chamber of Commerce for its work providing services and programs to help its member businesses and organizations and enhance the economy and quality of life in Waynesburg and the surrounding area.
In addition to promoting business development, the chamber organizes numerous community events, from the Downtown Waynesburg Christmas Parade to Fifth-Grade Career Day at Waynesburg Central Elementary School.
The chamber also presents several distinguished service awards every year, as well as an educational scholarship to a graduating Greene County high school senior.
The chamber’s seventh annual Greene County Business Expo will be held from noon to 4 p.m. today at the Pennsylvania National Guard Readiness Center in Waynesburg.
The commissioners today are expected to entertain a proposal from Eads Architects for professional services for implementing repairs and replacing the roof at the Ben Franklin building, reappointing two members to the Farmland Preservation Board of Directors and awarding a contract for concrete deck renovations at the waterpark on Route 21.
At a prison board meeting following the commissioners’ agenda meeting, Warden Harry D. Gillispie reported construction for a new kitchen at the jail is approximately two weeks behind, but said the work will likely be completed by mid-December, if not sooner.
The $592,000 new kitchen became necessary when the county’s lease with the Corner Cupboard Food Bank expired. Until the kitchen is completed, Gillispie said county and jail personnel are using the food bank’s kitchen facilities to prepare food for jail inmates.
In other business, Gillispie said the county jail is now housing female prisoners from Washington County jail because of some overcrowding issues at that facility. He indicated this will be a temporary arrangement.