REGION

REGION

Pavlik, Mancini to join celebration at facility

CALCUTTA — Calcutta Health Care, 48444 Bell School Road, will celebrate the grand reopening of its newly remodeled facility Wednesday from noon to 7 p.m.

Kelly Pavlik and Ray Mancini are expected to attend.

Free health screenings, live entertainment and prize giveaways will be part of the event.

Flower Garden moves to its new location

WARREN — The Flower Garden has moved to a new location at 369 Tod Ave. N.W. It was previously located at 2936 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown.

The floral shop personally delivers to Mahoning and Trumbull counties and worldwide for orders placed via its Web site, www.warrenflowergarden.com.

Trumbull tourism bureau seeks info for calendar

WARREN — The Trumbull County Tourism Bureau has requested local organizations and groups submit their event information that they wish to include in the bureau’s 2009 Calender of Events.

This annual brochure will be mailed with each Visitor’s Guide and will available at state-operated Travel Information Centers and travel industry trade shows. An electronic version will be posted on the bureau’s Web site.

The form can be downloaded from www.ExploreTrumbullCounty.com or obtained by calling the Tourism office at (330) 675-3081, visiting the office at 321 Mahoning Ave. N.W., or by e-mailing Info@ExploreTrumbullCounty.com.

Cooper Airport Shuttle is ready for business

NEW MIDDLETOWN — Cooper Airport Shuttle has opened for business, providing transportation from the greater Youngstown area to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, Akron-Canton Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport.

For more information about rates and to schedule drop-off and pickup times, call (877) 542-9074 or visit www.cooperairportshuttle.com.

NATION

Deadline at Verizon

NEW YORK — Two unions representing 65,000 workers at Verizon Communications Inc. have set a deadline of midnight tonight for contract talks. They say a strike is possible this week.

The phone company’s contract with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers expired last weekend. Their members have worked under the old contract while negotiations continued.

The unions say progress in the talks has been “slow” on important issues like job security and health care.

WORLD

Beef imports halted

TOKYO — Japan has halted beef imports from a U.S. meatpacking plant after finding a shipment without a proper food safety certificate, officials said Friday.

The Agriculture Ministry has temporarily suspended imports from Cargill Inc.’s plant in Dodge City, Kansas, and asked the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to investigate the case, the ministry said in a statement.

The problem surfaced when a Japanese importer found a piece of 9.9-pound ground beef that was not properly identified on papers issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The problem meat arrived as part of 3.8 ton (4.2 U.S. ton) of frozen beef shoulder in July.

Vindicator staff and wire reports