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Shepherd job fair

Poland

Shepherd of the Valley Poland, 301 W. Western Reserve Road, will have a job fair from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday to staff its new skilled nursing and rehabilitation center.

Full- and part-time staff are needed to fill RN, LPN, STNA and housekeeping positions. Open interviews will be conducted. Bring a resume to be interviewed.

There are a limited number of positions available. Nursing and aide positions will have 12-hour, self-scheduled shifts. Housekeeping will have eight-hour shifts.

Qualified candidates may secure an interview before the job fair by applying online at shepherdofthevalley.com or contacting Pam Hall, human resource director, at 330-530-4038, ext. 2038, or phall@shepherdofthevalley.com.

Easter Bunny at Southern Park Mall

BOARDMAN

The Easter Bunny arrives at Southern Park Mall, 7401 Market St., on Friday. The Easter Bunny will be in town through April 15 for photos in front of JCPenney.

The mall’s Bunny Eggstravaganza will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 18 with a puppet show, treats and arts and crafts.

A Sensitive Bunny event will take place from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. April 2 for children with special needs.

Pet Photo Night with the Easter Bunny will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. April 9.

Home2 Suites opens in Austintown

AUSTINTOWN

Home2 Suites by Hilton has opened at 5580 Interstate Blvd. with 87 available rooms.

Owned by Meander Hospitality Group and managed by Meander Hospitality Management, Home2 Suites by Hilton Youngstown West/Austintown offers all-suite accommodations with fully equipped kitchens and modular furniture.

Disclosures show encryption works

NEW YORK

If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, it’s that data-scrambling encryption works, and the industry should use more of it.

Documents purportedly outlining a massive CIA surveillance program suggest that CIA agents must go to great lengths to circumvent encryption they can’t break. In many cases, physical presence is required to carry off these targeted attacks.

“We are in a world where if the U.S. government wants to get your data, they can’t hope to break the encryption,” said Nicholas Weaver, who teaches networking and security at the University of California, Berkeley. “They have to resort to targeted attacks, and that is costly, risky and the kind of thing you do only on targets you care about. Seeing the CIA have to do stuff like this should reassure civil libertarians that the situation is better now than it was four years ago.”

Four years ago is when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of huge and secret U.S. eavesdropping programs. To help thwart spies and snoops, the tech industry began to protectively encrypt email and messaging apps.

Staff/wire reports

Selected local stocks

STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE

Alcoa Inc., .1234.53-0.83

Aqua America, .71 30.850.40

Avalon Holdings,2.860.02

Chemical Bank, .2752.25-0.18Community Health Sys. 9.41 -0.15

Cortland Bancorp, .2818.730.23

Farmers Nat., .1613.55-0.20

First Energy, 1.44 31.250.14

Fifth/Third, .5227.17-0.33

FirstMerit Corp.,21.610.37

First Niles Financial, .129.990.09

FNB Corp., .4815.970.03

General Motors, 1.5236.850.02

General Electric, .9230.290.63

Huntington Bank, .28 14.19-0.02

iHeartMedia Inc.,1.22-0.09

JP Morgan Chase, 1.9291.30-0.25

Key Corp, .3418.58-0.26

LaFarge, .3417.570.00

Macy’s, 1.51 31.740.21

Parker Hannifin, 2.52 157.280.99

PNC, 2.20126.43-1.05

Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60168.20-1.12

Stoneridge 18.640.45

United Comm. Fin., .12 8.50-0.02

Selected prices from Friday’s 4 p.m. close.