2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:30:50 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Former Kansas Army Ammunition Plant ribbon-cutting
 
Kansas ammunition plant set for new era

By JOHN MILBURN
Associated Press
October 4, 2012

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Seven years after closing a former military installation, officials in southeastern Kansas are preparing to start a new era of regional economic development at a site where thousands of workers once assembled weapons of war.

Dan Goddard, executive director of the Great Plains Development Authority in Parsons, said Wednesday that a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 11 at the former Kansas Army Ammunition Plant is an important event. But it isn't completion of the goal to put people to work.

...

Pentagon officials designated the plant for closure in 2005, as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process. Production was transferred to ammunition plants in Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/L2917-BC-KS- BombstoBusiness-1stLd-Writethru-10-03-0945-clone-clone

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