Gia Russa schedules job-recruiting event

August 9, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

boardman

The Mahoning County One-Stop, 149 Boardman-Canfield Road, will host a job recruitment event for Gia Russa and Summer Garden Food on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The company is hiring for full-time positions at its food-processing facility in Boardman. Available positions include label-room team leaders, de-palletizer and palletizer operators, tomato and food preparers, quality assurance technicians, sanitation assistants and capper operators. All positions include benefits. Applicants must be able to lift and work in a high-temperature environment. Those interested in meeting with company recruiters should bring a r sum and photo ID.

Cash-hungry states add more casinos

atlantic city, n.j.

Cash-starved states are increasingly being drawn to the lure of easy money in casinos — a bet that could ultimately hurt taxpayers if the supply of slot machines, poker tables and racetracks outpaces customers’ demand.

The race to open new casinos is most frenzied in the Northeast, which has 41 casinos and 20 more planned.

Atlantic City, N.J., which for decades held a gambling monopoly outside Nevada, was already reeling from a beatdown inflicted by neighboring competitors. Now New York, which has casinos run by Indian tribes, just approved slot machines for its Aqueduct racetrack. Pennsylvania has added table games such as poker and blackjack to its nine slot-machine casinos — and five new casinos are planned.

Maine’s voters decide a casino issue in November; Ohio just approved casinos; Maryland opens its first this fall; and Delaware’s three racetrack casinos started offering table games this summer.

The consequences of saturation could be debilitating: Companies are investing billions of dollars chasing ever-smaller slices of the gambling pie while governments are banking on more tax revenue from new casinos and gamblers’ winnings to help run operations and ward off tax increases.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

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Aqua America, .58, 19.79 —.20

Avalon Holdings,2.56—.04

Clear Channel, 1.75 54.89 .38

Cortland Bancorp, 5.15.15

Delphi Automotive, .02 0.00

Farmers Nat., .12, 3.90 0.00

First Energy, $2.20, 37.52—.19

FirstMerit Corp., .64,19.38 —.28

First Niles Financial,8.000.00

First Place Fin., 3.81.05

FNB Corp., .48,8.50—.14

General Electric, .40,16.45—.07

Motors Liquidation, .410.00

Huntington Bank, .04, 6.25—.03

JP Morgan Chase, .20,40.44—.83

Key Corp, .04,8.17—.29

LaFarge, 13.45 —.12

Macy’s, .20, 19.44—.34

Parker Hannifin, 1.04, 65.48.09

PNC, .40,58.83—1.34

RTI Intl. Metals,29.84—.19

Rural/Metro, 8.72 .03

Simon Prop. Grp.,$2.40,92.84—.29

Stoneridge 11.32 .02

Torent Inc., NA NA

United Community Fin. 1.52.06

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