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REGION
11 students to attendbusiness program
YOUNGSTOWN -- Eleven local high school students have been awarded $400 scholarships to attend Ohio Business Week, a hands-on summer program which teaches participants about the free enterprise system. The program will be offered twice this summer: July 13 through 19 at the University of Findlay and July 27 through Aug. 2 at Youngstown State University.
Local scholarship recipients and the schools they represent are: Sharece Armour, Woodrow Wilson; Kayla Brace, Austintown Fitch; Ilya Bratslavsky and Thomas Hatzilabrou, Liberty; Bobby E. Brown Jr., Shanice Caffey, Sydnee Hopkins and Coralesha Stewart, Rayen; Kimberly Carr, Mineral Ridge; Bridgett Celio, Ursuline; Brett Chatman, Canfield.
NATION
Bankrupt golf ball makerwill sell its assets
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The Top-Flite Golf Co., the world's largest golf ball maker, filed for bankruptcy Monday and said it would sell its assets to club maker Callaway Golf for $125 million.
Top-Flite CEO Jim Craigie said his company's $250 million in sales last year were deluged by $530 million debt in a market that was too competitive.
Privately held Top-Flite, based in Chicopee, Mass., was formerly Spalding Sports Worldwide.
Craigie said he doesn't expect any interruption in supply, production or distribution of Top-Flite golf products. He said Carlsbad, Calif.-based Callaway plans to continue making Top-Flite, Ben Hogan and Strata golf products, which account for about 70 percent of Top-Flite's sales.
Delphi receives honorfor health, safety efforts
TROY, Mich. -- Delphi Corp., parent company of Delphi Packard Electric in Warren, has been recognized by the National Safety Council for health and safety improvements leading to health improvements in number of lost work day injuries.
Since Delphi became an independent company in 1999 the company has reported a 73 percent improvement in lost workday case rates and a 72 percent reduction in total recordable case rates.
WORLD
Wind farm boostsenergy production
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Ireland's biggest wind farm opened this week near Dungiven in County Londonderry, in Northern Ireland.
The 20-turbine facility at Altahullion will produce 26 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 20,000 homes, according to Energia, a Belfast-based energy firm. It will increase Northern Ireland's renewable energy generation capacity by 80 percent.
Power from Altahullion will power a wide variety of small businesses, two Belfast hospitals, five local councils and all five education and library boards in the British-ruled province.
From Vindicator staff and wire reports