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YourCityMobile.comwins Web site award
YOUNGSTOWN -- A new city business has won a PDA Friendly Web Site Award from PDAHomepage.com. YourCityMobile.com is one of 11 businesses to receive the award this year.
YourCityMobile.com is a directory that allows businesses to advertise on Web pages that show city listings. The pages are designed to be called up by travelers using mobile devices with Internet access. They show listings for restaurants, hotels, florist shops and other businesses.
The business has signed up customers in the Youngstown and Pittsburgh areas but plans to branch out nationally. It was started in January by Tim Sokol, founder of The New TV, and Dennis Roller, a retired General Motors supervisor who is a member of the Youngstown Arts and Entertainment District.
Salt & amp; Light Financialopens Struthers office
STRUTHERS -- Salt & amp; Light Financial Services has opened at 52 Grandview Ave. The business is dedicated to helping people eliminate debt to prevent them from having to file for bankruptcy protection. Judi Huggins is the debt management analyst, and Jackie Blasiman is the debt coordinator. They offer debt management services and negotiate with creditors.
ATHENA event to honornew scholarship winner
YOUNGSTOWN -- The annual ATHENA Award dinner will honor the first recipient of a new 1,500 scholarship. Applications are being accepted by the Regional Chamber through May 7. Scholarship applicants must be a graduating high school student intending to enroll at Youngstown State University or Kent State University's regional campuses in East Liverpool, Salem or Champion or already be a student at one of those schools. The dinner, which is sponsored by The Vindicator, is May 24. It also will honor the ATHENA Award recipient and two ATHENA Award advocates.
The scholarship recipient must demonstrate initiative and excellence in educational or work pursuits, a proven record of community involvement and service, and commitment to mentoring others. For information, call Helen Paes at (330) 744-2131, ext. 16, or go to www.regionalchamber.com.
TEACH receives 1,000for tobacco education
YOUNGSTOWN -- Teen Educators Affecting Children's Health, or TEACH, received a 1,000 grant from the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley. It is the first grant from the Young Philanthropist Fund. TEACH is a program endorsed by the Youngstown City Schools in which eighth-grade pupils at Volney Rogers Junior High School teach fourth-grade pupils at Kirkmere Elementary School about the dangers of tobacco use.
Hunt Valve of Salemlands 130,000 pacts
SALEM -- The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded two contracts totaling 130,000 to Hunt Valve Co. of Salem, Ohio, for globe valves. The contracts were awarded by the agency's Defense Supply Center in Columbus.
Twinsburg companywins product patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Paul V. Dorsch of Warren, Byron C. Clayton and Timothy B. McGlinchy, both of Twinsburg, and William V. Perry Jr. of Parma, have developed an apparatus and a method for cutting glass lites from large sheets of glass to achieve the highest yield. The U.S. Patent & amp; Trademark Office has assigned a patent to GED Integrated Solutions of Twinsburg.
From Vindicator staff reports