Senior Day at mall

Senior Day at mall

BOARDMAN

Southern Park Mall is hosting a Senior Day on Wednesday that will include breakfast, health screenings, entertainment and exhibitors from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The free event begins with breakfast, courtesy of Bob Evans. Other activities include live music and dancing with John Gabriele’s one-man band, complimentary antique appraisals by David Dangerfield, more than 35 senior-related exhibitors providing information and giveaways to attendees, and complimentary Coney Island hot dogs served at noon.

ValleyCare Northside Medical Center will provide free health screenings for the duration of the event. Screenings include stroke assessment, blood-pressure and blood-sugar checks, osteoporosis, cholesterol, vital signs and more.

Ribbon-cutting set

youngstown

Dooney’s Downtown Grille & Bar will have a ribbon- cutting at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday at 44 W. Federal Street in downtown Youngstown.

The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber and Dooney’s owners, lawyers Christopher Sammarone, Bryan Ridder and J.P. Daliman, are hosting the event.

Financing seminar

CHAMPION

A panel of finance and development experts will speak at a free seminar from 8 to 11 a.m. Thursday in the Workforce Development Building at Kent State University at Trumbull, 4314 Mahoning Avenue NW.

Western Reserve Port Authority and the Development Finance Authority of Summit County are hosting the event.

Attendees can learn more about the financing and development opportunities the port authority offers businesses, governments and nonprofits. Bond funding, access to capital markets and other forms of financing through the authority and development organizations will be discussed. To register, call 330-259-7671.

First Niles dividend

NILES

First Niles Financial Inc., the parent company of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of Niles, has announced a cash dividend of 8 cents per share on common stock and 9 cents per share on preferred stock for the third quarter of 2012.

The dividend will be payable Sept. 21 to shareholders of record Sept. 7.

Late payments down

LOS ANGELES

More Americans are making their car payments on time, a trend that has sent the rate of overdue auto loans to the lowest level on records dating back more than a decade.

The rate of U.S. auto-loan payments at least 60 days overdue fell in the second quarter to 0.33 percent. That’s down about 25 percent from the same period last year and 8 percent from the first three months of this year, credit reporting agency TransUnion said Tuesday.

The latest rate marks the lowest level since Trans-Union began tracking auto loan data in 1999. The highest rate recorded by the company was 2.39 percent in the first quarter of 2000.

Vindicator staff/wire reports