Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Scholarships offered
YOUNGSTOWN
The Mahoning Valley Manufacturing Coalition recently announced it will provide scholarships to seniors enrolled in high schools in Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties.
Scholarships will be offered to students who are planning to study advanced manufacturing skills in machining or welding at one of the career center postsecondary adult education programs or Eastern Gateway Community College.
Scholarship applications are available from guidance counselors at area high schools and career and tech centers.
Deadline for submission of application and other requirements is April 21. Scholarship award announcements will be made May 5.
New GameStop stores
YOUNGSTOWN
GameStop Corp. recently said in its first-quarter earnings release that it anticipates to open about 35 new collectibles stores globally, and about 65 new technology brand stores. The company also anticipates it will close between 2 percent and 3 percent of its global store footprint.
Joey D. Mooring, director of corporate communications for GameStop, said the store closures are a part of an annual business strategy the company announced in 2011.
Ball sells local plant
HUBBARD
The Ball Corp. has sold its paint and general line can manufacturing plant, located in Hubbard, to the U.S.-based BWAY Corp. The Hubbard facility employs about 70 people, according to a news release. Ball acquired the plant in 2006 as part of the company’s acquisition of U.S. Can Corp.
Health fair planned
Mussler Chiropractic in Boardman and The Supplement Station in Salem will present their 11th annual Health and Wellness Fair, “Spring into Health,” at The Supplement Station, 1139 East Pidgeon Road, Salem. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and a number of health and wellness practitioners will be on hand.
Dr. Danielle MacDuff, local Naturopath, will be there from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and available for free mini-consultations. Mussler Chiropractic will offer free spine and posture checks, blood-pressure checks and pain-relief consultations.
Mercy Health will offer free heel-bone scans from 1 to 4 p.m., and blood work for a small fee from 9 a.m. to noon. The bone-heel scans and blood work do require an appointment. Call 330-337-3835 to schedule, or for questions about the health fair.
GM nixes investor plan
DETROIT
General Motors has rejected a proposal from investor David Einhorn to split its stock into two classes.
The plan from Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital hedge fund would create one dividend-paying stock and one “capital allocation” stock.
The New York-based hedge fund intends to submit the nonbinding plan at the GM annual shareholders’ meeting later this year, where it will also nominate four candidates for GM’s board.
Einhorn said Tuesday on CNBC that GM is only paying out a quarter of its earnings, which is unusual for a high-yielding stock.
Staff/wire reports