“Kaye, I can’t believe someone from Choice One could run out of green.” - Nick Selhorst Hopefully, you can empathize with Kaye, as most of us have been there: you arrive at a destination, let’s say the annual County Engineers’ Association of Ohio Conference an hour and...
Megan Bornhorst: "Congrats on the engagement, Casey! Will this be the first time we change someone's initials here?" Jeff Puthoff: "No. We changed Nick Selhorst's when he married Choice One." Backstory: everything we do at Choice One involves our initials, from official email addresses to hand-jotted notes. Using our...
Jeff Puthoff: “I am a trendsetter once again: ‘Grinch Green’ will be the next hot fashion color.” Boy, look at all of that holiday cheer. Developer Jessica Minesinger and the City of Troy’s Christy Butera were right when they told Jeff Puthoff that his shirt is “Grinch...
Andy Shuman: “So… are we taking turns eating lunch in Tony’s office?” He tried to close the blinds and shut the door, but we noticed a certain someone with quite the evil grin eating lunch at Tony’s desk. Despite sweeping away the crumbs and putting things back...
Craig Eley: “They weren’t this mean at ODOT.” Josh Craig: “Come to think of it, they weren’t this mean at INDOT, either.” It happens every year: a new Choice One employee assumes we’re joking about the annual Signing of the Christmas Cards. Since Craig and Josh were hired after...
Kaye: "I could use someone to help build my patio. Mike, are you for hire?" Mike Sovinski: "Nah, I'm more into watching OTHER people work." If you don’t recognize Choice One’s Mike Sovinski in the photo (in a stylin’ laser tag vest, since you asked), it might...
Matt Hoying: "Did you have Schmidty review the plans?" Mike Goettemoeller: "Yeah, and he Schmidty'd all over them." “Googled.” “Skyped.” “FedExed.” When your name becomes a verb, you know you’ve made your mark. Case and point: Brian Schimdt, whose detailed, in-house plan reviews chock full of mark-ups have become...
Jessica Minesinger, Troy Land Development, Inc.: “Is Tony like Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s?” You just pose him in photos occasionally?” We’ve touched on the fact that retired Choice One-ian Tom Coverstone can never catch Tony in the office. Apparently developer Jessica Minesinger has the same problem. These...
Kecia Flaute: “It’s so weird seeing everyone in red. I don’t recognize anyone in a color other than green.” Don’t we look odd? Ok, so we always look a little odd. What we mean is: don’t we look different NOT in green? Last Friday, the Choice One gang...
Brittany Clinehens: “It’s like sending him off to his first day of school. I’m just so proud!” It’s official! Brittany is back from maternity leave. Oh, and we cut the ribbon on our new Indiana office, with Vice President Ryan Lefeld at the helm. With the opening of the...