Athena event set

Athena event set

WEST MIDDLESEX, PA.

The third Athena International Women’s Leadership Day for women of Lawrence and Mercer counties will take place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Park Inn by Radisson, 3377 New Castle Road.

Attendees will participate in a coordinated networking activity, hear from a panel of women leaders and participate in table discussions. Tickets are $75 for one established and one emerging woman leader guest. Single tickets are $40. For reservations or information about sponsorship opportunities, call Linda Welch from the Community Foundation at 724-981-4318.

Bottom Dollar has store sweepstakes

YOUNGSTOWN

Bottom Dollar Food is giving its customers a chance to win $1,000 in game-day groceries this football season “when they shop fresh.”

Customers can participateSFlbin a sweepstakes now through Oct. 9 by visiting the Bottom Dollar Food Facebook page and registering their 12-digit membership-card number. Each time a customer buys meat or produce in any Bottom Dollar Food store during the campaign dates, he or she will receive an additional sweepstakes entry. The $1,000 grand-prize winner will be announced in November.

No diploma leaves many with struggle

DAYTON

Dropping out of high school has left many Ohioans struggling to find work as the demand for unskilled labor continues to decline.

A Dayton Daily News analysis of federal labor statistics shows that dropouts who are 25 or older are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as diploma-earning peers. In 2012, only about 30 percent of Ohioans 25 or older who didn’t finish high school had jobs. That leaves about 561,000 people without diplomas who were also without jobs in 2012.

New stamp offered

ERIE, PA.

The U.S. Postal Service is commemorating a key victory in the War of 1812 with a new stamp. The stamp honors the battle in which Oliver Hazard Perry commanded the brig Niagara and defeated the British fleet on Lake Erie.

The Battle of Lake Erie was a key to the United States’ victory in the oft-forgotten war. The first of four stamps commemorating the war was issued last year. Two more stamps are planned.

Quaker Steak award

SHARON, PA.

Quaker Steak & Lube, known for its chicken wings and variety of sauces, took home the Festival Favorite award at the 2013 National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, N.Y., over Labor Day weekend the company announced Sept. 9.

It marks the second year in a row that The Lube has been named Festival Favorite, and the third time overall.

Founded in 1974 and built in an abandoned gas station in the city, Quaker Steak & Lube has expanded to more than 60 locations throughout the United States and Canada.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Aqua America, .61, 24.04 —.34

Avalon Holdings,5.62.05

Clear Channel, .61 26.4400001 —.24

Cortland Bancorp, 9.25—.10

Farmers Nat., .126.16 .02

First Energy, 2.20, 37.11.21

FirstMerit Corp., .64,20.84 .03

First Niles Financial, .32,6.60.00

First Place Fin., .0022.00

FNB Corp., .48,12.09.13

General Motors,36.0625—.30749

General Electric, .76,23.79—.06

Motors Liquidation, .0422.00

Huntington Bank, .20, 8.51.00

JP Morgan Chase, 1.52,52.61.37

Key Corp, .22,11.96—.01

LaFarge, 17.11 .11

Macy’s, 1.00, 44.7000011.170002

Parker Hannifin, 1.80, 104.33—.20

PNC, 1.76,73.25.14

RTI Intl. Metals,31.50—.22

Simon Prop. Grp.,4.60,148.41.11

Stoneridge 11.50 —.07

United Community Fin. 3.86.08

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.