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Pecchia, Strategic merge operations

YOUNGSTOWN

Pecchia Communications and Strategic Communications have combined operations, two area public-relations and marketing firms, today announced they have merged operations.

“This combination makes us stronger and more capable in a fast-paced, challenging business climate,” said Dan Pecchia, president. “It also gives us more capacity for growth.”

Pecchia established Pecchia Communications in 2005. Aundr a Cika, who founded Strategic in 2007, will work as public-relations strategist.

The merged companies will retain the Pecchia Communications name. The firm maintains a website at www.pecchiacomm.com.

Women’s workshop

YOUNGSTOWN

The YWCA of Youngstown, in partnership with Eastern Gateway Community College, will present a free career kick-off workshop for women from 6 to 8 p.m. July 28.

The target audience for the event is women who have been out of work, are looking for a career change, or are interested in returning to school.

The workshop will be at the MYCAP Main Office, 101 E. Federal St. To register, call Jennie Andrews at 330-746-6361.

NW Ohio to get new wind farm

LEIPSIC, OHIO

Construction is to begin next spring on a new wind farm with 75 turbines in northwest Ohio’s Putnam County.

The Lima News reported the company Iberdrola Renewables is planning the wind farm about 40 miles southwest of Toledo.

An official from the county improvement corporation says the site was picked because it has one of the highest elevations in the area and is near a substation that could be used as a connection point for the 150 megawatts of electricity it’s expected to generate.

He says the company hopes to have the final paperwork approved by the end of this year and is aiming to finish construction by the end of 2012.

Samsung LED seeks US import ban

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

A Samsung unit is raising the ante in a patent dispute with a German rival over energy-saving LED lighting amid intensifying legal disputes among global companies jockeying for supremacy in key consumer technologies.

Samsung LED Co. said Sunday that it asked the United States International Trade Commission on Friday to bar products of Osram GmbH and two units from entering the U.S.

Vindicator staff/wire reports