Mayflower Wollam opens new office

August 5, 2012 at 12:00a.m.

canfield

Mayflower Wollam Insurance Group has opened a new office in Canfield at 5231-3 S. Canfield-Niles Road. The company has operated in Ohio for more than 50 years, Mayflower Wollam Insurance Group provides all lines of insurance, including property-casualty, health and life insurance.

Inventors meeting

Austintown

The Youngstown and Warren Inventors Association will have its monthly meeting Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Austintown Public Library, 600 South Raccoon Road.

The guest speaker will be Jerry Balistrino of Hubbard. Balistrino will give a presentation on his multiaward-winning invention, the Laptop Trapeze, for which he has a patent pending. The meeting is free and open to the public.

Greenway sealing

cortland

Reese Services was awarded the bid to seal the Western Reserve Greenway from the Oakfield Trailhead at 1328 Hyde-Oakfield Road in Bristol Township to the Ashtabula County line. Jim Reese, the owner, purchased a new 10-foot spray bar to facilitate the job.

“The investment in new equipment made our operations more cost-effective. I was able to put down two coats of sealer instead of one,” he said. “I wanted to make sure that this valuable recreational resource was properly protected.”

The funds for the sealing and striping of the Greenway came from the “Wildlife On Wheels” Bike Ride Committee.

Travel warning

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The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about deceptive travel-related offers.

Consumers have contacted the BBB to inquire about travel companies that promise “too-good-to-be-true” travel deals. These offers arrive unexpectedly in consumers’ mailboxes, or over the telephone, office fax machine or Internet.

Typically, the consumer is told that they have won a free trip and must call a number to claim a prize. Or consumers receive a fax at their place of business promoting an unbelievable vacation deal that looks as if it came through inter-office channels. Others were contacted by someone offering a travel-club membership, supposedly worth thousand of dollars.

Center renamed

boardman

As the center prepares to celebrate the opening of the brand-new rehabilitation unit, Briarfield of Boardman will mark the event with a new name and become Vista Center of Boardman. Since the change of ownership in 2011, the center has been operating under its registered name, and the decision was made to use the name of a sister facility in Columbiana County.

JADCO, a local family-owned business with more than 30 years of experience in rehabilitation and long-term care, owns Vista Center of Boardman, Vista Center in Lisbon, Autumn Hills and Manor at Autumn Hills in Niles, Victoria House in Austintown and Briarfield at The Ridge in Mineral Ridge.

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .66, 25.82 .10

Avalon Holdings,3.86.22

Clear Channel, .73 63.28 .88

Cortland Bancorp, 10.01.41

Farmers Nat., .126.10 .43

First Energy, 2.20, 49.51.61

FirstMerit Corp., .64,16.35 .44

First Niles Financial, .32,7.37.00

First Place Fin., .70—.01

FNB Corp., .48,11.07.44

General Motors,20.04.90

General Electric, .68,20.96.44

Motors Liquidation, .0422.00

Huntington Bank, .16, 6.32.16

JP Morgan Chase, 1.20,36.09.92

Key Corp, .20,8.24.31

LaFarge, 11.80 .94

Macy’s, .80, 37.26.86

Parker Hannifin, 1.64, 79.971.12

PNC, 1.60,60.251.75

RTI Intl. Metals,24.47.33

Simon Prop. Grp.,4.20,163.031.62

Stoneridge 6.07 .38

United Community Fin. 2.69.16

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.