Metro officer decommissioned, charged with theft of bottled water.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A Metro-Nashville police officer is accused of taking a bottle of water from a refrigerator while at a businesses during what turned out to be a false burglary call.
Metro police say Wesley Feinstein, of the Central Precinct, was decommissioned and assigned to desk duty.
Officers reportedly found an unsecured door and entered the building to see if anyone was inside.
Feinstein reportedly took a bottle of water from a small refrigerator during that time.
Police say another officer who saw it reported Feinstein’s action to a superior.
The bottle of water was subsequently recovered from the officer’s patrol car.
The police department says Feinstein was immediately relieved of duty Saturday and issued a misdemeanor citation charging him with theft.
The Metro Nashville Police Department’s Office of Professional Accountability is conducting an administrative investigation.
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Artesia residents left without tap water after E. Coli contamination.
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ARTESIA, N.M. (KRQE) – Officials say over the weekend, water in one southeastern New Mexico city was contaminated with E. coli.
Now, Artesia has no tap water, and that could go on for possibly the next five days.
Residents are upset about the short notice and now, the shortage of bottled water.
Restaurants, businesses, and residents have all felt the effects from E. coli being found in the water in Artesia.
“My gosh, you would’ve thought it was a bomb explosion.
One local store says they’ve had to stock up because their sales have risen.
“A daughter of mine sent us a text from Facebook,” said Herrera.
He said the city always notifies residents through Facebook.

A Unatego graduate has come up with a different way to make sparkling water, and a national publication recently took notice of his achievement.
Adam Lazar of Buffalo is the founder of Asarasi sparkling water.
The product became the first pure water to earn USDA organic certification, according to a July 7 article on the website of Food & Wine magazine, a Time Inc. publication.
It has “innovated a way to carbonate, store, and deliver this water.” The company received its big break in 2016, when it received $500,000 in funding from a state program seeking to revitalize the Buffalo area, said Lazar.
The company employs four people, but it works with contractors and manufacturers around the state, Lazar said.
The brand can currently be found in 1,500 grocery stores plus more than 500 restaurants and specialty retailers, Lazar said.
Lazar said he was living in Vermont in 2007 when he realized the potential of the maple syrup process.
He developed a business plan at the time, but said he didn’t have the money for the undertaking.
Lazar also worked in product development and management for Revision Military while in Vermont.
In 2016, the same year the competition gave the company its catalyst, Lazar said he started working full time for Asarasi.

A Unatego graduate has come up with a different way to make sparkling water, and a national publication recently took notice of his achievement.
Adam Lazar of Buffalo is the founder of Asarasi sparkling water.
The product became the first pure water to earn USDA organic certification, according to a July 7 article on the website of Food & Wine magazine, a Time Inc. publication.
It has “innovated a way to carbonate, store, and deliver this water.” The company received its big break in 2016, when it received $500,000 in funding from a state program seeking to revitalize the Buffalo area, said Lazar.
The company employs four people, but it works with contractors and manufacturers around the state, Lazar said.
The brand can currently be found in 1,500 grocery stores plus more than 500 restaurants and specialty retailers, Lazar said.
Lazar said he was living in Vermont in 2007 when he realized the potential of the maple syrup process.
He developed a business plan at the time, but said he didn’t have the money for the undertaking.
Lazar also worked in product development and management for Revision Military while in Vermont.
In 2016, the same year the competition gave the company its catalyst, Lazar said he started working full time for Asarasi.

Biz Buzz: HOPE story at Virginia Center Commons sells water that fuels organization’s mission.
Local nonprofit HOPE has opened a shop at Virginia Center Commons mall to raise money to support the organization’s efforts to help local families.
Ollie Harvey founded HOPE, which stands for Help Our People Eat, in 1999.
Since then, she has helped children and families who have fallen on hard times.
The shop’s main product is bottled water, which sells for $2 a bottle, plus T-shirts and other items, much of it donated, Harvey said.
The organization’s bottled water used to be carried at two area retail stores that have closed, Harvey said.
“Anything that you see in the store is donated to us.
We have candy, earrings, children’s jewelry, socks, sunglasses.” Stony Point Fashion Park will give free retail space to one enterprising startup for six months as part of a mall contest.
The winner gets free retail space and use of existing fixtures and utilities from Nov. 1 to April 30.
The campaign features an online store called “Maymont Memory Company” where people can make donations in exchange for virtual gift packages of blades of grass, rays of sunshine and boxes of rocks.

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BOGO coupons: Only one coupon can be used with BOGO sale.
Because of the Rite Aid BOGO policy, CVS often has the better deal on BOGO sales because you can use a coupon on BOTH items when they have BOGO sales (and you cannot at Rite Aid).
You must have a Wellness+ rewards card to earn rewards and get the sale prices.
Plenti Rewards Program: Rite Aid joined the national rewards program called Plenti in May 2015.
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“We operate sustainably, and we understand water is a renewable resource as long as you manage the resource responsibly.” Reasons for bottled water In 2015, Americans bought 11.6 billion gallons of bottled water, according to market-research firm Beverage Marketing Corp.
The total equated to a 6.6 percent annual increase, which outpaced the uptick for all other major beverage groups.
A contentious proposal Responding to rising demand among consumers in the Midwest, Nestlé Waters has filed an application with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to increase its pumping capacity at its White Pine Springs well near the city of Evart in northern Michigan.
Nestlé Waters wants to increase its allowed pumping rate to 400 gallons per minute, compared with a current limit of 250 gallons.
“It might spike somewhere near there from time to time, but it would be rather infrequent.
The fact is we want to make sure that we don’t spike Evart beyond our permitted capacity.
So having that capacity permitted is important.” The proposed increase requires a permit approval, which has led to intense scrutiny, including more than 50,000 public comments.
“We want to make sure an applicant is showing they’re doing improvement projects that are offsetting any measurable impact,” said James Clift, policy director for the nonprofit Michigan Environmental Council.
About 5 percent of plastic beverage bottles turn into litter, according to a 2009 study by Stamford nonprofit Keep America Beautiful.
To reduce littering, Nestlé Waters announced in May that it would contribute $6 million to a $100 million investment fund for recycling infrastructure and programs in cities across the U.S. “The challenge is that recycling infrastructure in the United States is woefully inadequate,” Switzer said.

BURLINGTON — William and Katrina Schuckman pulled up to Burlington High School early Saturday afternoon to pick up cleaning supplies and a few cases of bottled water. Their basement flooded with 6 inches of water and the water they normally use, from their well, is undrinkable. “It came out like a rusty brown (color),” William said. “We finally got the water completely out (of the basement). Now we’re trying to get everything situated.” The couple was planning on using some of the bottled water to cook spaghetti. “Now we’re able to give the kids something more than peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,” William said. The community has been generous, Katrina said, but their family is shaken by the damage Mother Nature has done to their home and other people’s homes. “Everybody’s in panic,” Katrina said. “We’ve lived here our whole lives and watching our town get destroyed like that for the first time is pretty heart-aching.” After the huge amount of rain that hit the western parts of Racine and Kenosha counties, the American Red Cross and Salvation Army have set up headquarters in the cafeteria of Burlington…

A drinking water scare that forced Airway Heights residents to turn away from the tap this spring has prompted renewed talks about Spokane providing more water on the West Plains. “In the short term, we’re getting by,” said Kevin Anderson, public works director for the City of Airway Heights. “The thing is, we don’t have a lot of redundancy in our system right now.” The emergency in Airway Heights has prompted Medical Lake to once again broach the subject of a water agreement with Spokane, which will have to weigh the option of supplying neighboring cities in need with that of supporting economic growth near Spokane International Airport and the city’s own water needs. “We have to have as our first priority our citizens, and our ratepayers within our water system,” said City Councilwoman Amber Waldref, chairwoman of the council’s public works committee. Airway Heights is receiving more than 90 percent of its water from two connections with Spokane’s water system. In May, tests discovered residual chemicals used in firefighting retardant on Fairchild Air Force Base to be above a level federal regulators believe is safe. Spokane’s water is being sold to Airway Heights under the terms of a 1984 agreement between the two cities. Discovery of the chemicals also has prompted concern from nearby Medical Lake, where the drinking water has been deemed safe. That residents in a neighboring city had to rely on bottled water supplies for more than three weeks was not lost on officials in the town of roughly 5,000, said Doug Ross, city administrator for Medical Lake. “We certainly use that as a medium to hopefully get an actual intertie” – or water connection – “and past the discussion phase, where we’ve been for years,” Ross said. Medical Lake’s main operating well lies about 1,000 feet from an Airway Heights well that tested positive for trace amounts of the chemicals that are under review by federal regulators, but have been linked to health problems in laboratory settings. Medical Lake found out about the contamination after being contacted by…

Verify: Is baby water better for your baby than tap water?.
It costs parents about $16,000 per year to raise one child according to the USDA.
With all the hype over baby water, KENS 5 wanted to Verify — is bottled baby water better for your baby than tap water or can you get by without it?
She told us a few things about bottled baby water and emphasized that baby water is not sterilized water, it’s simply been purified or distilled.
And they still recommend it be boiled for a minute.
That [is coming] from the Academy of Pediatrics."
Dr. Parsi added that flouride in baby water is not harmful for them.
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