The program allows users to locate downtown dining, nightlife, parking, shopping, arts and other amenities on their smartphones.
“The tool allows users to see which businesses and amenities are near their current location at a given moment or browse all downtown destinations by category,” according to a partnership news release. “Contact info, details and directions to each business also are available, as well as a searchable calendar of hundreds of downtown events.”
Smartphone users can download Find It Downtown Mobile at mobile.downtowndayton.org.
Felonies and liquor
If there is one constant, unassailable truth in Ohio’s frequently convoluted liquor laws, it’s that someone who has been convicted of a felony can’t hold a liquor license. Right? Wrong.
For years, I had been under the impression — and so had a lot of local restaurant and tavern owners I talk to — that a felony conviction was an automatic disqualifier when it came to holding a liquor license.
But Matt Mullins, the public information officer for the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Liquor Control, assures me I was wrong, wrong, wrong.
The law — Ohio Revised Code 4303.29, to be precise — states that: “The division MAY refuse to issue any permit to or refuse to renew any permit of any person convicted of any felony that is reasonably related to the person’s fitness to operate a liquor permit business in this state.” Yes, “may” refuse — not “will” refuse. You learn a little something new every day.
Navistar gazing
Tongues are wagging about Navistar, which employs about 800 in Springfield. Well, ONE tongue, anyway, and it belongs to Hank Greenberg, senior stocks commentator for CNBC whose work is now showing up online at Yahoo Finance. In an opinion piece posted on Yahoo Finance late last week, Greenberg wrote that, “The betting among Navistar watchers is that something has got to happen.
“Either the company has to be acquired, restructured and/or its board and/or management has to go.
This much is clear: Dealmakers, analysts and competitors smell blood, and management may be better off selling than risking being tossed out.”
Greenberg said Navistar “appears to be the classic case of yet another company whose highly touted, controversial efforts to shake up an industry backfired.”
He was referring to the company’s new engine technology that hasn’t been able to get EPA certification.
Honda humming
Honda Motor Co. has raised output at North American plants by the fastest pace of any carmaker in the region this year, according to Bloomberg.com.
The company is striving to reclaim market share in the U.S. that was lost to competitors in part due to earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters in Japan in 2011.
Honda plants in the U.S., Canada and Mexico built 748,217 cars and light trucks in the year’s first five months.
That was a record for that period and 67 percent more than a year earlier, according to the Bloomberg story.
“We’ve been doing everything we can to make up for lost time,” Tom Lake, Honda’s head of North American purchasing, told Bloomberg.
Honda employs more than 13,000 people at its Ohio plants.
Fitness @ Sycamore
A fitness facility with a twist has opened at Sycamore Medical Center.
Dasha Fitness LLC is owned by Brenda Schumacher, a certified personal trainer through the American Council on Exercise. The center offers a variety of exercise machines, free weights and other fitness tools to make people — including those who have undergone bariatric surgery — healthier. Schumacher says she and her staff “are not here to sell bulk memberships, but to be ‘lifestyle educators’ for people regardless of age, capabilities or size and shape. Clients can purchase daily, monthly or yearly memberships.
Schumacher’s husband, Dr. David Schumacher, is a surgeon with Kettering Bariatrics and a “partner in this cause,” according to a news release. For more information, call (937) 247-9456.
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