Bob Evans to donate to Akron Children’s

Bob Evans to donate to Akron Children’s

YOUNGSTOWN

All Bob Evans restaurants in Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Mercer and Lawrence counties will donate 15 percent of every sale to Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today.

A special flier must be presented at time of purchase and may be downloaded at www.akron-childrens.org/mv or on the Miracles & Promises Radiothon Facebook page.

All proceeds from the Bob Evans Miracle Meals promotion will be presented during the sixth annual Mix 98.9 Miracles & Promises Radiothon, which will take place from Sept. 17 to Sept. 19 on the Beeghly campus in Boardman.

Raising awareness of gaming addiction

AUSTINTOWN

Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course is raising awareness of problem gaming issues as it marks National Responsible Gaming Education Week during the first week in August.

The gaming and racing facility — scheduled to open in September — is joining with the Ohio Lottery Commission, its sister casino property in Toledo and Austintown Township trustees in alerting potential patrons to the warning signs of problem gaming and training its staff to spot those signs and offer resources to anyone who may feel they have a gaming addiction.

AT&T gives $10,000 to YBI for BIZ3D

youngstown

AT&T presented a $10,000 check to the Youngstown Business Incubator in support of the new YBI and YSU initiative BIZ3D. BIZ3D is a summer-camp program targeted at high- school students, providing them with an introduction to 3-D printing with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and business approaches to 3-D printing.

Farmers breaks ground on new office

ALLIANCE

Farmers National Bank broke ground on a new branch office in Alliance. The new office will be at 210 W. State St., across from the University of Mount Union.

The Alliance branch office will be completed in late spring of 2015.

US airfares on rise, outpacing inflation

NEW YORK

The average round-trip ticket within the U.S., including taxes, reached $509.15 in the first six months of this year, up nearly $14 from the same period last year. Domestic airfare continues to outpace inflation, rising 2.7 percent compared with the 2.1 percent gain in the Consumer Price Index.

Airfare has gone up 10.7 percent in the past five years — after adjusting for inflation — according to an Associated Press analysis of data from the Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes ticket transactions for airlines and more than 9,400 travel agencies, including websites such as Expedia and Orbitz.

Vindicator staff/wire reports