Sheely’s trading deals for donation

Sheely’s trading deals for donation

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Sheely’s Furniture & Appliance, 11450 South Ave., offers a Memorial Day promotion that allows customers a discount for donating to a good cause.

Sheely’s has partnered with HandsOn Volunteer Network of the Valley for a food drive. Customers who come to the store between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday with an unopened box of either granola or breakfast bars to donate will receive a coupon for $100 off a $1,000 purchase made that day.

YBI receives $10,000 donation

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The Youngstown Business Incubator received $10,000 from the Home Savings Charitable Foundation on Wednesday.

The donation will go toward a broader fund- raising effort at the YBI, which it launched in a $2.5 million effort to become more self- sustaining and less reliant on state funding, incubator officials said.

Thus far, the campaign is on track. In April, the YBI already had raised, $1.15 million. YBI recognized Home Savings as a longtime supporter of its mission as an incubator that helps to foster software startups.

Home sales up 15%

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Home sales in Northeast Ohio are up more than 15 percent in April compared with the previous year.

There were 3,325 homes sold in April for a total value of $422,496,917 — increases over the prior year of 15.5 percent and 19.9 percent, respectively, according to statistics form the Ohio Multiple Listing Service.

The figures are for the Northeast Ohio Real Estate Exchange area, which includes Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties. The average sale price in the area also has increased by 3.9 percent to $127,067.

Vindicator staff/wire reports