A world for discovery - Life Enrichment - Group helps folks stay fit, Page 4 get healthier - Page 14 www.harveycountynow.com - Newton, KS Vol. 2: No. 21 Thursday, January 5, 2017 USPS (17818) $1.25 Lack of work at $6.8 million city-financed site prompts some concern BY ADAM STRUNK NEWTON NOW STAFF
[email protected] A single car often sits in the parking lot of ABI Chemicals. The city has received questions about it. Harvey County Economic Development has had questions about it. There's not a problem with the car that sits out- side the $6.8 million facility the City of Newton helped finance. The problem is the car sits alone. *** WENDY NUGENT/NEWTON NOW In April of 2014, when the ABI Chemicals first Shannon Garton, right, plays 27 bingo cards at once Thursday night at the local American Legion. announced plans to build a 20,000-square-foot chemical manufacturing facility in Newton the move was greeted with enthusi- asm and touted as a “win for Newton's Industrial push,” as said by the Wichita Business Journal. ABI Chemicals was part of the larger Bingo! ABI Group of Companies that provides coatings, abrasives, repair services and composite materials for manufacturing companies. The plant at New- ton was meant to produce coatings for airplane Folks enjoy entertainment at Legion for decades See ABI / 8 BY WENDY NUGENT NEWTON NOW STAFF A CLOSER LOOK:
[email protected] When one lady said the dreaded word “Bingo,” a groan seeped from the crowd like a Examining downtown slowly spreading, low-lying fog covering a val- ley.