Cruze to celebrate birthday Sept. 8

Cruze to celebrate birthday Sept. 8

LORDSTOWN

The Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cruze, the top-selling compact car for four consecutive months, will celebrate the one-year anniversary of its launch Sept. 8.

The car has topped 100,000 sales since its launch and has quickly become one of General Motors Co.’s best-selling vehicles.

The demand has been so great that the Lordstown plant has regularly worked extra Saturday shifts for months.

The Vindicator will commemorate the car’s successful first year later this week featuring reaction from Lordstown employees and auto analysts.

One-Stop to host recruiting event

BOARDMAN

The Mahoning County One-Stop will host a recruiting event, including open interviews, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday for Comfort Keepers, which provides in-home care for seniors and their families.

The event, at 141 Boardman-Canfield Road, is open to residents interested in part-time employment as home-health aides.

Various shifts are available at locations in these cities: Youngstown, Warren, East Palestine, East Liverpool, Salem, Damascus and East Rochester.

To find out more information, call the Mahoning County One-Stop at 330-965-1787.

New exercise craze comes to Valley

AUSTINTOWN

Mahoning Valley residents have a new fitness option in the form of pole fitness.

Emily Kreusler recently opened Polesitions LLC, the first certified pole studio in Ohio, at 1740 Raccoon Road in Austintown.

The studio offers a variety of pole, belly dancing and yoga classes. Celebrities such as Oprah, Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres have featured pole fitness on television.

The studio, targeted for women, also offers pole parties for birthdays, bachelorette parties and other occasions.

For more information or to sign up for a class, call 330-979-2850.

Marketing seminar set for Sept. 30

YOUNGSTOWN

Vic and Carolyn Rubenstein of Rubenstein Associates, and Tyler Clark, chief imagination officer for the Youngstown Business Incubator, will host a seminar on how small businesses can achieve success by using social media.

The seminar, open to members of the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber, is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Sept. 30 at The Youngstown Club, 201 E. Commerce St. in the Commerce Building, Suite 450.

The seminar includes a continental breakfast. Training sessions begin at 8 a.m.

To reserve a spot to the free event, call Jennifer Mascardine at 330-744-2131, ext. 12. Reservations are requested on or before Sept. 26.

Vindicator staff reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .62, 21.52 —.51

Avalon Holdings,2.65—.05

Clear Channel, .63 57.97 —.43

Cortland Bancorp, 7.20.00

Farmers Nat., .12, 4.25 .00

First Energy, 2.20, 43.02—.91

FirstMerit Corp., .64,11.46 —.83

First Niles Financial, .32,7.35.00

First Place Fin., .85.18

FNB Corp., .48,8.32—.29

General Motors,22.07—.96

General Electric, .60,15.76—.44

Motors Liquidation, .0422.00

Huntington Bank, .04, 4.65—.19

JP Morgan Chase, 1.00,34.63—1.67

Key Corp, .12,6.23—.21

LaFarge, 9.75 —.48

Macy’s, .40, 25.36—1.13

Parker Hannifin, 1.48, 69.41—2.88

PNC, 1.40,46.23—2.31

RTI Intl. Metals,24.22—.90

Simon Prop. Grp.,3.20,114.59—2.87

Stoneridge 7.27 —.43

United Community Fin. 1.14—.02

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.