Late but not forgotten

This is terribly late but it is something that is interesting to note concerning the Wymer drug case of '05 and '06.

Timothy and Melissa Wymer brought a motion to court in Late '06 in an attempt to force the ex husband of Melissa Wymer to allow unsupervised visits with her children. Judge Fisher presided over this hearing and was not his reserved self.
The Wymers were present along with several of thier followers but a notable absence was the guy representing the "Michigan Lawmens Association". I am speculating that due to the good judge reading him the riot act at the last hearing he attended he did not have the stomach to attend again. This is just a guess but pretty accurate I bet.

The hearing proceded smoothly being totally one sided testimony wise. The Wymers paraded several individuals to the stand that spent the time praising them as fine upstanding citizens - EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE BOTH CHARGED, CONVICTED, AND SERVED SENTANCE FOR BEING MAJOR DRUG DEALERS and that Mr. Wymer has a long history of violent charges and convictions! The Wymers should have brought an attorney as one of thier witnesses contradicted thier major complaint. The Judge was very patient and allowed this to continue until they exhausted thier witnesses. The Ex husband of Melissa offered no testimony or witnesses as the Wymers had done themselves in without his help.

What was the interesting thing here (and the reason of this blog) was that at the conclusion of the Wymers case, Judge Fisher stared them in the eye and told them how it trully was. He informed them that it was evident they were lying and that "no one in the courtroom" believed that the 32 pounds of drugs they were caught with was for thier "personal use" as they had testified. He also said that nothing presented that day convinced him that they were of sufficient parental quality to warrant any unsupervised visits and he was not going to allow Mr. Wymer to have any contact with the children at all (Which they have already violated).
And here is the REALLY interesting thing the Judge said. Judge Fisher made a point to say to Timothy Wymer that he should still be in prison. Judge Fisher informed him that he could only rule on the charges brought before him and "if he had faced the charges that should have been filed, you (Timothy) would sit in prison for many years".

Hmmm. Seems to be a pretty good stamp of approval for sending a past prosecutor down the road I would say.

A final observation here is that during the Judges comments, the Wymers did not react in any way. It was like they did not hear anything the judge was saying. They smiled and appeared as eager adolesents about to be given the family car for the first time. I don't think they get it yet. I also think this garrantees our courts will see these two again.

Pennock is still up to it's eyebrows in trouble

It appears Pennock Hospital is still operating as it always has. Slightly different players (with a few old line operators) but same game. As per a writer in today’s Banner, the head of environmental services, Mike Strimback, is still steering sweet deals to his family like the hospital is his rich uncle. It seems mike has eliminated a position involved with maintenance in the Pennock Village plus the overtime incurred maintaining the snow removal of the hospital and replaced it with contracted operators. This might be OK if it saved money (but I would bet it doesn't) but it should have been advertised instead of being handed out to his own family.

Yes, that’s right, his own family. You see, Mike’s second child is managing the company that was given the contract. In fact, as per an inside source, Mikes youngest son also works for this company.

Pennock has tried to contract maintenances services out in the past with no success. This was attempted by past management employees who are no longer in the employment of the hospital. It ended up costing the hospital much more money than if they had maintained their own maintenance department.

This family employment racket in the hospital's maintenance department is nothing new. Mike has had his 2 youngest boys working the department on many occasions; EVEN WHEN THERE WAS NO WORK AVAILABLE! The regular employees were ordered to "hide" the youngest even. Mike's wife was even employed in the same department for several years as HIS secretary. When a regular employee notified higher ups, he was let go. Those “higher ups” were let go themselves later, lol. My bet is that this current writer made the same mistake and tried to alert higher management of improper management practices occurring in his department.

I would think Pennock would have to march a much more “straight” path due to their recent troubles. This “family” employment in their maintenance department goes against any good management practices that I have ever known. It not only destroys moral in the department but it drops employee efficiency drastically as work that would normally be done by regular employees properly employed and trained for the job now is performed by untrained, unmotivated, and demoralized workers.

Pennock Hospital would have been much better off keeping Harry Doele and letting go untrained and uneducated maintenance employees. In fact, I wonder just what Management education or experience Mike himself might have. Doesn’t appear to be much if anything.

Wow, Pennock just can’t seem to get it right yet. Time to clean house some more.