Group will host seminar, meeting at Kent Trumbull

Group will host seminar, meeting at Kent Trumbull

YOUNGSTOWN

The American Production and Inventory Control Society will host a seminar and professional development meeting Thursday at Kent State at Trumbull.

The seminar will take place from 2 to 5 p.m., followed by a networking meeting and light dinner from 5 to 8 p.m.

Members of the organization, guests and students are welcome.

Attendees can choose to attend both the seminar and dinner, or just one.

The cost is $15 for one event or $25 for both.

Reservations must be made by Tuesday by contacting John Primm at primmjohn@yahoo.com.

Incubator’s series features expert from Bank of America

youngstown

The Youngstown Business Incubator’s Learning Lab series will feature Eric Johnson, vice president and senior client manager of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at the YBI, 241 W. Federal St.

The workshop will give attendees the opportunity to ask specific questions to allow discussion of on-going finance and accounting issues related to small business, technology and business development.

Registration is free and lunch is included.

To register, contact Rose Shaffer at rshaffer@ybi.org.

National Bancshares has record 3Q profit

SALEM

Orrville, Ohio-based National Bancshares Corp., the holding company for First National Bank, which recently opened a branch is Salem, report a record third- quarter profit of $1.04 million, or 47 cents per share.

That’s up from $857,000, or 39 cents per share during the same period in 2012.

“Agriculture and small business lending and mortgage banking activities continue to be instrumental in improving our profitability,” said Mark Witmer, president and chief executive officer, in a statement.

Total loans at the bank have grown $42.5 million in 2013 and $94.3 million over the last seven quarters.

Kasich appoints new head of ODJFS

columbus

Gov. John R. Kasich on Friday appointed Cynthia Callender Dungey to lead the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Dungey, who currently serves as chief of staff at the Ohio Department of Medicaid, replaces Michael Colbert, who resigned to pursue other opportunities.

ODJFS is the state agency responsible for developing and supervising the public assistance, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child-care and child-support programs.

In other news, Kasich appointed Julia A. Ault, of Youngstown, to the state lottery commission for a term that ends in August 2016.

Vindicator staff reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 24.96 —.06

Avalon Holdings,5.25.10

Clear Channel, .61 27.20 —.33

Cortland Bancorp, 9.50.00

Farmers Nat., .126.31 .08

First Energy, 2.20, 37.931.361

FirstMerit Corp., .64,23.355 .195

First Niles Financial, .32,6.50.00

First Place Fin., .0029.0000

FNB Corp., .48,12.59.29

General Motors,35.87.21

General Electric, .76,25.57.889999

Motors Liquidation, .0422.0000

Huntington Bank, .20, 8.91.03

JP Morgan Chase, 1.52,54.30.09

Key Corp, .22,12.60.06

LaFarge, 17.17 .65

Macy’s, 1.00, 44.39—.07

Parker Hannifin, 1.80, 112.3355.515

PNC, 1.76,75.022.3420

RTI Intl. Metals,33.80.61

Simon Prop. Grp.,4.60,158.02—.58

Stoneridge 13.02 .25

United Community Fin. 3.9615

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.