Workshops planned on health-care careers

Workshops plannedon health-care careers
LISBON -- A workshop for people interested in a career in the health-care field will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Columbiana County One-Stop, 7869 Lincole Place. It's the first in a series of workshops sponsored by NEO HealthForce.
Others will be Oct. 21 and Nov. 18 at the Columbiana County One-Stop, both from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Workshops also will be from 9 to 11 a.m. next Wednesday and Oct. 27 at the Mahoning County One-Stop, located in the Boardman Plaza on Boardman-Canfield Road. Registration is required and can be done by calling the One-Stop office in either county.
HIV/AIDS presentation
ALLIANCE -- James Slack, an expert on public policy, grant writing and legal and organizational issues relating to the workplace ramifications of people with HIV/AIDS, speaks at Mount Union College's Dewald Chapel at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Slack recently stepped down as chairman of the department of government and public service at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, Ala.
His research has focused on civil rights of people with HIV/AIDS, workplace responses to the AIDS epidemic, and various diversity policies. His presentation is free and open to the public.
Unveiling of Pa. slogan
SHARON, Pa. -- "The State of Independence" is Pennsylvania's new tourism slogan, and the Mercer County Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and local and state elected officials will unveil the new slogan Thursday at the Welcome Center in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 just east of the Ohio line in Shenango Township. The event is set for 10 a.m.
Tourism is the state's second-largest industry with about 117 million visitors annually spending about $34 billion here.
Guilty of soliciting sex
LISBON -- Sentencing for Lonzo Stover, 38 of Attica is scheduled for November. He could receive a sentence of up to one year in prison after a Columbiana County jury found him guilty of soliciting sex.
The jury in the courtroom of Judge David Tobin of Columbiana County Common Pleas Court deliberated about three hours Tuesday at the end of a two-day trial. The jury found him innocent, however, on a charge of attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. Stover was arrested Feb. 28 in New Waterford as the result of an undercover Internet investigation by the New Waterford police chief, who posed as a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room for teenagers.
Prostitution charge
SHARON, Pa. -- Police charged Valori R. Boles, 25, of Elm Avenue, with prostitution and open lewdness after they said she was caught performing a sex act for money in the municipal parking garage on Pitt Street and Vine Avenue. Police said a patrolman checking the garage found Boles and a man engaged in a sex act in a car in the garage around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Further investigation showed that Boles had flagged the man down in the Jefferson Avenue area and got into his car, offering to perform a sex act for $25, police said. Boles was held for arraignment. The man wasn't charged, police said.