{"id":13936,"date":"2024-03-06T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=13936"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:20:18","slug":"eclipse-time-off-grant-to-remove-tires-approved-by-commissioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/eclipse-time-off-grant-to-remove-tires-approved-by-commissioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse time off, grant to remove tires approved by Commissioners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Adams County employees will be getting a half day off on April 8 for the total eclipse that will be covering the area that afternoon.\u00a0 However, they won\u2019t get paid for the time off, unless they file for it.\u00a0 WZBD\u2019s Ed Thurman spoke with Commissioners President Stan Stoppenhagen about the reasoning for the afternoon off for county workers, and why they won\u2019t get paid for it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/702_0823.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be exceptions to the closure that day, including emergency workers in Adams County who will still have to work\u2026but those workers will be paid as normal.&nbsp; Many schools and businesses are planning to close during the total eclipse on April 8\u2026which will place Adams County and surrounding areas in total darkness for about an hour late that afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Adams County could soon receive a $10,000 grant from the state to be used for a rather unusual need\u2026removing old tires to keep mosquitoes from laying their eggs and spreading potential diseases.\u00a0 At Tuesday\u2019s County Commissioners meeting, WZBD\u2019s Ed Thurman spoke with Tara Wolfrum from the County Health Department about the grant, what it will be used for, and how soon the county could receive the money\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/702_0822.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolfrum says the County Commissioners had to approve the Health Department\u2019s filing for the grant\u2026which they gladly gave!&nbsp; Health Department officials hope to receive the money within a few weeks so they can use it to eradicate the old tires\u2026and hopefully the mosquitoes as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adams County employees will be getting a half day off on April 8 for the total eclipse that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,21],"class_list":["post-13936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}