This from today’s Journal Gazette:

WARSAW – A Kosciusko County judge ordered a Warsaw massage business to close, agreeing with city officials that the business violates city rules. Judge Rex L. Reed granted the permanent injunction against Dating Dynamics & Massage Inc. and its owner, Jenette Fairchild, in a court document dated Tuesday. The city filed an injunction against the business in August, saying the business had violated the ordinance that regulates massage businesses, court documents said. The injunction asked the court to order the business and Fairchild to stop operating without a permit. Warsaw passed an ordinance in July 2005 that regulates massage businesses, and since then, periodic inspections have been conducted. Ordinance violations led the city to revoke the permit for Dating Dynamics in June. Police said the business remained open despite being subject to fines ranging from $200 to $2,500 per violation per day.

This has been an ongoing story since their first day of business. There are a couple of other similar businesses within the community that have also been under much scrutiny and are frequently shut down… But this battle has raged on the longest and here are a few clips from another article in the Warsaw Times Union:

Fairchild, who went before the council Monday, spoke out against the recent ordinance involving massage establishment regulations and said that she felt targeted and harassed by community leaders. In an emotional address that brought about the eventual rap of the mayor’s gavel to rule her out of order, Fairchild questioned areas in the ordinance that she believed were unjust and wondered how her business would be regulated under the new laws.

and from the same article:

“I am being targeted by a bunch of hypocrites,” Fairchild said. Mayor Ernie Wiggins ruled Fairchild out of order after she accused members of the Winona Lake town council and Warsaw Police Department as being frequent patrons of her establishment. “This is going too far,” Wiggins said. “From my understanding, you feel like you are being targeted. Your business was not targeted in this ordinance, and if you’re not doing anything illegal, then you have nothing to worry about.”

This has been ongoing for several years in Warsaw, usually where there is smoke there is fire and too many times employees from her business have been arrested for prostitution. For example and here. Posted by Lucy.

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