Feb 15, 2021
MANUFACTURING EXPERT TO SPEAK AT CHAMBER EVENT: Slade Gardner, one of the foremost authorities on additive manufacturing, will speak a the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber’s 2021 annual meeting March 17 at the Eastwood Event Centre.
Gardner has been pioneering industrial additive manufacturing technologies for two decades. He is president and founder of Big Metal Additive, whose products include satellite components, construction machinery repair parts, spacecraft development articles, automotive chassis, a 21-foot diameter unmanned underwater vehicle and a 50-foot ocean capable cargo transport.
Previously, he was the technology and strategy leader for implementation of Advanced Manufacturing and Materials at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company Advanced Technology Center.
Feb 8, 2021
CHAMBER JOINS COALITION: The Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber has joined with Ohio businesses and trade organizations to mobilize Ohioans to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Led by the Ohio Business Roundtable, employers announced the Coalition to Stop the Spread, an initiative that recognizes the risk COVID-19 poses to Ohio’s economy and the gains that have been made since the initial shutdowns of businesses and schools.
The coalition asks people to wear a mask, not just where it is mandated in public, but when gathering with any small friend or family group beyond your immediate household.
The coalition’s mission is in line with the chamber’s EMERGE program, launched last year to help local businesses emerge from the pandemic. Hundreds of businesses have received one-on-one assistance, personal protective equipment and regular updates through the program.
Marge Haley of Canfield, a Warren native, is now manager at the Warren SCOPE Center where she works with and helps senior citizens after a career of teaching elementary children in Howland and training adults through Fortune 500.
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By BOB COUPLAND
Staff writer
CANFIELD When she was a third-grade teacher in Howland schools, Marge Haley decorated the bulletin boards in her classroom for her students and now as the center manager at the Warren SCOPE Center, she is decorating the bulletin boards for senior citizens.
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Warren native Marge Haley sits at her desk at the Warren SCOPE Center, where she is the center manager. Haley was a Howland schoolteacher, then went to work as a trainer for Fortune 500 companies and then started working for SCOPE, where she has been for 10 years.
WARREN When she was a third-grade teacher in Howland schools, Marge Haley decorated the bulletin boards in her classroom for her students, and now as the center manager at the Warren SCOPE Center, she is decorating the bulletin boards for senior citizens.
Haley, 73, a Warren native who has lived in Howland and Niles, said she has spent her life working with people of all ages from children when she was a teacher, adults when she was a trainer for a Fortune 500 company and senior citizens at the SCOPE Center.
Feb 1, 2021
NEW NAME FOR FOUNDATION: Premier Bank recently announced the Home Savings Charitable Foundation is now the Premier Bank Foundation, following the company name change and 2020 merger of Home Savings Bank in Youngstown and Defiance-based First Federal Bank of the Midwest.
In the past 30 years, the foundation has provided more than $19 million to local organizations, Gary Small, president of Premier Bank, said.
Premier Bank, headquartered in Youngstown, operates 75 branches and 12 loan offices in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
BRITE ADDS TO BOARD: BRITE Energy Innovators in Warren, Ohio’s only clean tech and energy business incubator, has added five new members to its board of directors with energy and technology industry experience.