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MVYP mixer planned

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Valley Young Professionals will have an April mixer at the Cassese’s MVR, 410 N. Walnut St., at 5:30 p.m. April 20.

Scholarships offered

YOUNGSTOWN

The Better Business Bureau of the Mahoning Valley will offer five $1,000 one-year ethics and integrity scholarships to graduating high-school seniors who are employed by or are the children or grandchildren of owners or employees of a BBB-accredited business.

Applicants must be a high-school senior, with a primary residence in Columbiana, Mahoning or Trumbull counties; have plans to attend a college, university, community college or trade school in the year immediately after high-school graduation; and submit a 500-word essay about the meaning of “ethics” and “integrity” to the applicant.

Entry materials must be postmarked or emailed by May 5.

Applications are available by visiting www.bbb.org/youngstown/ethics-integrity-scholarship/.

Call 330-744-3111, ext. 108, or submit applications to melissa@youngstown.bbb.org.

The scholarships are sponsored by Farmers Trust Co. and Sweeney Chevrolet Buick GMC and are a component fund of the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley.

Free training at TCTC

CHAMPION

The Trumbull Career & Technical Center’s Adult Training Center is offering Certified Production Technician training at no cost to participants. An individual can earn seven credentials in seven weeks. This is a Manufacturing Skills Standards Council course, and participants will interview with local manufacturers. Training starts April 18 and no more than 10 seats are available.

Workforce Investment Areas 17 (Mahoning County) and 18 (Trumbull County) along with the Wean Foundation and Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow have joined to offer this training through the Greater Oh-Penn Manufacturing Apprenticeship Network. The network, managed by the Mahoning Valley Manufacturers Coalition and West Central Job Partnership, received a Department of Labor grant that addresses both pre-apprenticeships and apprenticeships for five counties in Ohio and nine counties in Pennsylvania.

For information on training at either location, call 330-480-4384, ext. 1207 or 1214.

Pa. gaming revenue

HARRISBURG

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board recently posted on its website the monthly report for total gross revenue and tax revenue generated from the play of slot machines at casinos during March 2017.

According to the report, the combined gross revenue from slot machines at the 12 casinos in March of this year was 60 percent lower, $209,984,147, compared with March 2016 when gross revenue was $211,253,260.

Staff/wire reports