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Diane Sauer to receiveOhio Governor's Award
WARREN -- Diane R. Sauer of Diane Sauer's Martin Chevrolet in Warren is one of six female business owners to be recognized in Columbus today as recipients of the Ohio Governor's Award for Women's Excellence in Enterprise.
Nancy Diller-Shively, whose Akron-based Cambridge Home Health Care also has facilities in the Youngstown and Warren areas, was also on the list.
Ohio ranks sixth in the nation for the number of women-owned businesses, and they generate $42 billion in annual sales.
Stadium Volkswagento celebrate opening
BOARDMAN -- Stadium Volkswagen will celebrate the opening of its new car dealership at 7850 Market St. starting at 2 p.m. Thursday with refreshments and a classic VW show.
Musical entertainment will be featured from 5 to 9 p.m., and a car will be given away at 8:30 p.m. The dealership was formerly a part of Stadium Lincoln Mercury Mazda on Boardman-Poland Road.
Wheatland Tube, workersto resume contract talks
WHEATLAND, Pa. -- They didn't reach a settlement in talks Tuesday, but the Wheatland Tube Co. and its striking production workers were scheduled to try again this morning.
Tuesday's session was the first since the union voted 230-184 to reject what was supposed to be the company's final offer Sept. 14 on a contract to end a strike that began April 28.
The 470 members of Local 1660 of the United Steelworkers of America walked off their jobs with the expiration of their old agreement.
A company insistence that workers begin picking up a share of their health-care costs and proposed lesser benefits for new employees are some of the major stumbling blocks to a settlement.
From Vindicator staff reports