Health-care open house is Thursday

Health-care open house is Thursday

YOUNGSTOWN

NEO HealthForce will host a free Family Health Care Careers Open House from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday at OH WOW! The Roger and Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science and Technology, 11 W. Federal St.

At the event, the NEO HealthForce and Eastern Ohio Area Health Education Center’s “Health Care Careers Exhibit” will be unveiled.

The event also will feature employment opportunities in the health-care field, information on health-care training programs and health screenings.

Children who attend are encouraged to dress up as health-care professionals. There will be refreshments and door prizes, and the first 75 children will receive a gift.

For more information and to register, visit www.onestopohio.org or contact Ronald Shadd, NEO HealthForce Ccordinator, at rshadd@onestopohio.org or at 330-965-1787, ext. 7143.

Driving service now in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN

Cleveland-based BeMyDesignatedDriver, or BeMyDD, has begun operations in Youngstown.

The service, which has the premise “We drive your car so you don’t have to,” is available for upcoming Halloween transportation needs.

BeMyDD offers two services. The personal-driver service, where customers can reserve a driver to pick them up at a specific location, costs between $12.50 and $15 an hour.

The pickup service, when two drivers pick up a customer (one to drive each car) on short notice, costs $25 plus mileage.

For more information, go to www.bemydd.com.

Builders association continues to grow

YOUNGSTOWN

The Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania has added two members: Ryan Grafton of Preston & Grafton Insurance Agency, in Pittsburgh, and Todd Williams, of Total Air Systems LLC, in Youngstown.

The Builders has nearly 150 regional organization members representing employers in Trumbull, Columbiana and Mahoning counties in eastern Ohio, and Mercer and Lawrence counties in western Pennsylvania.

The Builders services 15 various skilled trades in the region and is an ongoing resource for union construction contractors.

Delphi retirees get hearing next month

DAYTON

U.S. Rep. Mike Turner has announced that Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of California will have a hearing Nov. 14 in Dayton to receive testimony from Delphi salaried retirees.

The hearing requests stem from a decision by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., which resulted in about 15,000 salaried Delphi retirees taking cuts in their pension benefits.

It is the fifth hearing by Congress about the Delphi retirees.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .66, 21.94 .24

Avalon Holdings,2.264—.08

Clear Channel, .65 53.81 2.09

Cortland Bancorp, 7.35.00

Farmers Nat.4.46 —.06

First Energy, 2.20, 45.86.80

FirstMerit Corp., .64,13.10 .37

First Niles Financial, .32,7.40.00

First Place Fin., .82.02

FNB Corp., .48,9.93.16

General Motors,24.351.39

General Electric, .60,16.31—.32

Motors Liquidation, .0422.00

Huntington Bank, .16, 4.90.02

JP Morgan Chase, 1.00,33.42.29

Key Corp, .12,6.96.15

LaFarge, 9.98 .65

Macy’s, .40, 29.84.30

Parker Hannifin, 1.48, 77.85.79

PNC, 1.40,54.06.96

RTI Intl. Metals,24.92.39

Simon Prop. Grp.,3.20,120.703.96

Stoneridge 6.98 .25

United Community Fin. 1.18—.11

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.