YNGAir Partners to meet tonight

YNGAir Partners to meet tonight

VIENNA

YNGAir Partners will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport’s EOC Conference Room.

The airport is at 1453 Youngstown-Kingsville Road.

YNGAir Partners is a nonprofit organization founded to advocate the usage of the airport.

Knox Twp. official on broadband panel

KNOX

Columbiana County Knox Township Trustee Chairman Gregory R. Carver was selected recently to be a member of the Connect Appalachia Broadband Initiative task force.

In December, the Governor’s Office of Appalachia, in conjunction with Connect Ohio, launched a special initiative to address the broadband divide facing rural Appalachia.

Connect Ohio, a division of Connected Nation, is a nonprofit, technology-neutral public-private partnership that works to help extend affordable high-speed Internet service to all Ohioans.

Business-plan workshop set

YOUNGSTOWN

SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Business, has partnered with the Business and Investment Center of the Public Library of Youngstown & Mahoning County to present a business-plan workshop.

The workshop will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Main Library, 305 Wick Ave.

Discussion topics will include writing and revising a business plan.

A librarian from the Information and Services Department’s Business and Investment Center will introduce additional print and electronic sources.

McDonald’s event

YOUNGSTOWN

Herb and Gisele Washington will debut their newly remodeled and environmentally friendly McDonald’s restaurant at 609 Midlothian Blvd. at 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

Participating in the festivities will be Mayor Charles Sammarone, members of Youngstown City Council, children from the Eagle’s Christian Preschool/Daycare and Ronald McDonald.

To celebrate the new look, the store will conduct a special Enter-To-Win prize drawing, including a chance to win a Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cruze.

Worker assistance

WASHINGTON

The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday certified worker adjustment assistance for more than 75 workers at The Genie Co. in Alliance.

Workers whose jobs were lost when their work was outsourced to a foreign country can apply for the assistance.

“These resources will help ensure that displaced workers from the Genie Co. have the financial support and training opportunities to get a fresh start,” said U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Avon.

Trade Adjustment Assistance is a federal program that provides aid to workers who lose their jobs or whose work hours and wages are reduced as a result of increased imports.

Vindicator staff reports