BUSINESS UPDATES | Dealerships present checks to Valley food banks
Two Mahoning Valley automobile dealerships recently made donations to local food banks.
Apostolakis Honda presented Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley with a $1,000 check, and Shenango Honda presented Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County with a $1,000 check.
Both dealerships are collecting nonperishable food items in their service centers through the end of December.
Weaver named first Patricia McGovern Sweeney Professor in Nursing at YSU
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University has named Amy Weaver, an associate professor in the Centofanti School of Nursing, as the inaugural Patricia McGovern Sweeney Professor in Nursing.
Weaver, who joined YSU’s faculty in 2003, teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The professorship was established through a $500,000 gift from Douglas Sweeney and his daughters, Carolyn Sweeney Berry, Andrea Sweeney Wagner and Alexa Sweeney Blackann, in honor of his wife and their mother Patricia’s lifelong career in the nursing profession.
Patricia Sweeney earned associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from YSU and a master’s degree in public health and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh. She began her career as a staff nurse in the oncology unit of St. Elizabeth Hospital in 1979. She served on numerous local, state and national boards and was the first female Mahoning County health commissioner.
JCC of Youngstown offering Tech workshops for older adults
YOUNGSTOWN — The Jewish Community Center of Youngstown is offering Tech Tuesdays twice a month from January through May at the JCC, 505 Gypsy Lane.
The workshops are free for those 60 and older. Participants will learn about email, social media, insurance, online banking and more.
Workshops are from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 4 and 18, Feb. 1 and 15, March 1 and 15, April 5 and 19 and May 3 and 17.
To register, click here.
Lawmakers seek more funding for combat vehicles made at Lima plant
WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, and Bill Johnson of Marietta, R-6th, are among a group of 15 Ohio lawmakers seeking support for additional funding for U.S. Army Stryker A1 combat vehicles.
The lawmakers sent a letter to Reps. Betty McCollum and Ken Calvert, leaders on the House Committee on Appropriations, urging support for additional funding, including a fiscal year 2022 request of $139 million for the production of 41 Stryker A1 vehicles, critical assets to operations at the Joint Services Manufacturing Center in Lima, a news release states.
“Stryker A1 production is critical to maintaining the continued viability of the Joint Services Manufacturing Center (JSMC) in Lima, Ohio,” the letter states. “The JSMC is a national asset instrumental in ensuring current and future production of combat vehicles for the U.S. Military and our allies.”
The fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, which awaits President Joe Biden’s signature after passage in both the House and Senate, includes $1.12 billion to support the Stryker vehicles, short of the $139 million included in the version presented by the House Armed Services Committee, the release states.
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