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Home health-care job opportunities

BOARDMAN

The Mahoning County One-Stop is offering a recruiting event and open interviews for Celtic Healthcare from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday at 141 Boardman-Canfield Road. People interested in per-diem work as home health aides or certified nursing assistants are urged to attend and bring their r sum s.

For more information, contact Christine Bok at 330-965-1787, ext. 7139. To find out more information on Celtic Healthcare and the job opportunities, visit the website www.celtichealthcare.com.

Internship program

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation is seeking applications for a full-time internship.

The 10-week program pays $9 an hour and is part of Youngstown State University’s Nonprofit Leadership Summer Honors Internship Program.

To qualify, applicants must live in the Mahoning Valley, have at least a 3.0 grade-point average, be enrolled in a university and be of senior standing by summer.

The application deadline is Monday. For more information, call 330-480-0423 or e-mail info@yndc.org.

Business seminar

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown SCORE chapter will host a free business-plan seminar at 10 a.m. March 19 in the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County’s main offices, 305 Wick Ave.

The seminar is for people who would like to start a business and for businesses that would like to refocus their mission, said Janet Ganchar, chapter administrator for Youngstown SCORE.

Attendees will be directed on how to structure and gather information for a business plan.

Registration is required, although there is no registration deadline. For more information, call the public library at 330-744-8636.

SCORE, a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, is a nonprofit organization that focuses on mentoring the nation’s small businesses. It has 364 offices nationwide.

DOE boosts outlook for gas, oil prices

NEW YORK

Pump prices will average $3.70 per gallon this spring and summer with a barrel of oil averaging $102 this year, the U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday.

Conflict in the Middle East and fighting in Libya prompted government analysts to raise expectations for gasoline prices by 50 cents a gallon for the peak driving season in the Energy Information Administration’s monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. The EIA boosted its per-barrel oil estimate by $9 for the year.

EIA sees pump prices peaking at $3.75 a gallon in June. But its report says there is “significant uncertainty surrounding the forecast,” and pump prices could spike above $4 this summer, which would threaten the all-time high of $4.11 a gallon reached in July 2008.

Staff and wire reports