Sunday, August 22, 2010
Expanded services
youngstown
Winkle Electric Company recently launched a new addition to its services, the Eco Solutions Division. The division specializes in helping customers save money and reduce energy consumption using clean-energy alternatives. Winkle’s Eco Solutions services include lighting upgrades and controls, energy audits, motor controls for heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, power distribution and recycling services.
Penguin’s opens
austintown
Penguin’s Ice Cream & Grill, 5511 Silica Road, opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony this month. The eatery offers ice cream, other frozen treats and hot food items, including Korean barbecue steaks. The Penguin Ice Cream Show Car Club hosts a Family Car Show Day every Wednesday. The restaurant also hosts daily cornhole tournaments, sponsored by the Youngstown Cornhole Game Association.
The eatery is owned by Moon Park, owner of Bodyworks Women’s Total Health and Fitness Center and Master Park Arts International.
Enrichment classes
champion
The Adult Training Center at the Trumbull County Career and Technical Center will offer personal enrichment classes, beginning in September. Courses include: introductory quilting starting Sept. 8; cake decorating, yoga, sketching, toning, beginning contract bridge and card- making, starting Sept. 13; beginning guitar, self-defense and scrapbooking, starting Sept. 14; Texas Hold-Em 101, yogilates and beginner belly dancing, starting Sept. 15; and introduction to Chinese and line dancing, starting Sept. 16.
For information and prices, contact Dora Zandarski at 330-847-0503, ext. 1608, or visit www.tctcadulttraining.org.
Dinner event set
West Middlesex, pa.
The Shenango Valley chapter of the American Business Women’s Association will host a dinner Sept. 8 in honor of American Business Women’s Day. Pennsylvania’s U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, D-3rd, will be the keynote speaker at the event. The dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. at The Radisson, 3377 New Castle Road. Tickets are $25.
For tickets or information, contact Joanne Cutter at 330-534-4495 or Patricia Manzo at 724-813-3032.
NorTech conference
west chester
NorTech, a Cleveland-based nonprofit economic development agency, will host a conference titled “Supplying the Global Renewable Energy Market,” from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Meridian Conference Center, 7500 Tylers Place Blvd. The seminar will provide tools and resources to assist companies with navigating the wind and solar-energy industries. Industry experts will provide updates, information and contacts for companies looking to enter these emerging markets.
The seminar costs $95. To register, visit www.buyusa.gov/cincinnati/renewableenergy.html.
Vindicator staff reports
Selected local stocks
STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE
Aqua America, .62, 19.16 —.07
Avalon Holdings,2.70—.02
Clear Channel, 1.75 54.79 —.13
Cortland Bancorp, 5.25.00
Delphi Automotive, .02 .00
Farmers Nat., .12, 4.00 .00
First Energy, $2.20, 35.84—.33
FirstMerit Corp., .64,17.50 —.18
First Niles Financial,6.10.00
First Place Fin., 3.68.03
FNB Corp., .48,7.77—.26
General Electric, .48,15.03—.22
Motors Liquidation, .43.01
Huntington Bank, .04, 5.39.00
JP Morgan Chase, .20,37.14.07
Key Corp, .04,7.64.04
LaFarge, 11.96 —.28
Macy’s, .20, 20.97.25
Parker Hannifin, 1.08, 63.23—.57
PNC, .40,52.73—1.56
RTI Intl. Metals,27.25—1.52
Rural/Metro, 7.63 —.06
Simon Prop. Grp.,$2.40,88.97—.42
Stoneridge 8.89 —.11
United Community Fin. 1.33—.03
Selected prices at 4 p.m. Friday. Provided by Stifel Nicolaus. Not to be construed as an offer or recommendation to buy or sell any security.