NEW D.A.R.E. CLEAR! MASCOT Whiteville Parks and Daren the Lion makes his Rec ready with AED. debut at Williams Township uuSEE PAGE 13A School. uuSEE PAGE 3A The News Reporter Published since 1890 every Monday and Thursday for the County of Columbus and her people. WWW.NRCOLUMBUS.COM Thursday, February 23, 2017 75 CENTS FATALITIES CONTINUE Speakers urge commissioners to consider indigent care in assessing home health bids By Allen Turner mitted bids for assuming op-
[email protected] erations of the home health agency. Kindred Healthcare Only three speakers ad- of Louisville, Ky. has offered dressed the Columbus County to pay $3,500,000 for the agen- Board of Commissioners Mon- cy, Advanced Home Care of day night during a public High Point submitted a bid of hearing called to get citizen $2,301,000 to purchase it and input on bids received for the Bravada Home Health Care of home health agency currently Mooresville, N.J. has offered operated by the county health to purchase the agency for department and, while one of $1,300,000, while Columbus them urged commissioners Regional Healthcare of White- to use proceeds from the sale ville has proposed leasing the of the agency to renovate the agency from the county for $1 historic courthouse, the other a year for a period of 10 years. two pointed out stark differ- Commissioners received ences between the amount of the public input without mak- indigent care offered by the ing any comment themselves, bidders. and it is unknown when they Staff photo by Allen Turner Four entities have sub- Two women were killed Monday near Chadbourn when their BMW automobile went through a stop sign and collided uuSEE SPEAKERS 6A with this large truck.