Empowering Women plans lunch program

Empowering Women plans lunch program

BOARDMAN

The Mahoning Valley Chapter of Empowering Women will present a luncheon program from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 8 at the Davis Family YMCA, 45 McClurg Road.

Titled “Women Inspiring Women,” the program will feature presentations by Gina Pastella of VEC Inc., a director of strategic engagement and full-circle leadership coach; Melinda Givens of Compass Family & Community Services; and Greg Smith, chairman of the board of Compco Industries.

Register online at youngstownYMCA.org and click on “Empowering Women” under news and events. There is a $10 fee that includes a box lunch.

Attendees are requested to donate items to Compass Family & Community Services.

Frackfree group to discuss documents

YOUNGSTOWN

Concerned citizens of Frackfree Mahoning Valley will have a press conference outside Youngstown City Hall, 26 S. Phelps St., at 11 a.m. today. The group will distribute and discuss new fracking and injection-well-related documents they claim may have implications for potential man-made earthquakes. The documents are from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Goldsteins to open additional store

BOARDMAN

Goldsteins Furniture will open Your Home by Goldsteins on Tuesday. The 50,000-square-foot store is adjacent to its Boardman location.

The new part of Goldsteins at 443 Boardman-Poland Road will offer more furniture styles with an emphasis on contemporary and transitional designs, according to a company press release. The store will focus on special orders to offer more options to customers.

Decision could boost use of herbicide

WASHINGTON

Faced with tougher and more resistant weeds, corn and soybean farmers are anxiously awaiting government decisions on a new version of a popular herbicide — and on genetically modified seeds to grow crops designed to resist it.

Critics say more study is needed on the effects of the herbicide and they are concerned it could endanger public health.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to rule this fall on Dow AgroSciences’ application to market Enlist, a new version of the 2,4-D herbicide that’s been around since the 1940s. It’s partly a game of catch-up for the agriculture industry, as many farmers are dealing with weeds that have become resistant to glyphosate, an herbicide commonly used on corn and soybeans now.

US retail sales flat

WASHINGTON

U.S. retail sales essentially were flat in July, providing evidence that consumers have yet to shed their doubts about the economy despite recent job gains.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that seasonally adjusted retail sales were unchanged in July compared with the prior month. Total sales rose a statistically insignificant $161 million from $439.6 billion in June.

Vindicator staff/wire reports