Antique truck show

Antique truck show

AUSTINTOWN

From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Cerni Motors and the Penn-Ohio Chapter of the Antique Truck Club of America will host the fourth- annual Antique Truck Show at Cerni Motors, at 5751 Cerni Place. Admission is free with a donation of nonperishable food items to go to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.

Chili’s fundraiser

BOARDMAN

From 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday, Chili’s restaurant in Boardman, 7303 Market St., will host a Miracle Meals fundraising event to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley.

When the event flier is presented, 15 percent of all sales will benefit the hospital. Chili’s will be hosting this fundraiser again Aug. 26.

Miracle Meals fundraising events are being conducted at local restaurants throughout the summer to benefit the upcoming Miracles and Promises Radiothon, which will take place Sept. 23-25 on the Beeghly campus in Boardman.

Ohio gas prices rise

Northeast Ohio gas prices are up nearly a nickel to begin the week, according to AAA East Central’s Fuel Gauge report. The national average is $2.59 a gallon.

This week’s Northeast Ohio average price Monday was $2.38; the average price last week was $2.34. The average price in Youngstown was $2.30. The average price during the week of Aug. 12, 2014, in Northeast Ohio was $3.50 a gallon.

The national average price for regular gasoline has fallen for 26-consecutive days, the AAA said. This is the longest streak of consecutive declines since January, and pump prices have moved lower by 19 cents per gallon over this period. Monday’s average gas price is 89 cents per gallon lower than this same date last year.

Car-sales forecast

SANTA MONICA, CALIF.

Analysts at TrueCar Inc., a car buying and selling mobile marketplace, project 2015 sales of new light vehicles will reach 17.2 million units, up from an earlier forecast of 17.1 million units, owing to robust January-through-July deliveries and a strong economic outlook for the remainder of the year.

The full-year of sales in 2015 is to grow by 4 percent over last year, marking six successive years of sales increases, which is a first since the 1920s.

Google creates new holding company

san francisco

Google, which has been expanding far beyond its original business of Internet search advertising, is changing its operating structure by creating a new holding company called Alphabet.

The company says its new structure will give more independence to many of its wide-ranging and ambitious projects.

Under the plan announced Monday, Alphabet will consist of the core Google business – including Internet search, mapping and YouTube – along with newer businesses that will be managed separately, such as Google Fiber, Nest and the investment arm Google Ventures.

Google CEO Larry Page will become CEO of the new entity, with his co-founder Sergey Brin serving as president.

Staff/wire reports