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PROMOTION, NEW STAFF AT REALTY FIRM: Boardman-based More Options Realty has promoted Bill Liptak to assistant director of operations / controller for the company. He will continue to work with buyers and sellers in addition to the new role.

Also, the firm welcomed Dominic Cooper as a new Realtor and five agent interns: Alexandra Ahren, Nicole Tackett and Bailey Reardon, Trumbull and Mahoning counties; Ahsley Szeiff, Columbiana County area; and Sydney Bower, Cleveland area. The interns are working to become licensed Realtors.

AKRON CHILDREN'S EXPANSION READY: Akron Children's Hospital will welcome families to newly expanded outpatient space at its Beeghly campus.

The newly completed 9,300-square-feet in Building A at the hospital, 6505 Market St., has 20 exam rooms, three assessment rooms and staff work space. There also is a room set up for allergy shots and food challenges, and another room for procedures. The project was $2.5 million.

Specialties that will be based in the new space are gastroenterology, allergy, pediatric surgery, adolescent medicine, endocrinology and healthy active living. Appointments are available.

MERCY HEALTH HOSPITALS RECOGNIZED: Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has named Mercy Health's St. Elizabeth Youngstown, St. Elizabeth Boardman and St. Joseph Warren hospitals Blue Distinction Centers for knee and hip replacement.

Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated health care facilities that show a commitment to delivering high-quality patient safety and better health outcomes based on objective measures that were developed with input from the medical community and leading accreditation and quality organizations.

There were 507 hospitals nationwide awarded the distinction.

HOSPITAL EARNS BEST WORKPLACE RECOGNITION: Akron Children's Hospital was named by ERC as one of Northeast Ohio's best places to work. This is the 14th time Children's has earned a NorthCoast 99 award.

NorthCoast 99 recognizes 99 workplaces in the region for their efforts to attract, develop, retain and motivate their top performers.

YBI OFFERS FREE TRAINING: The Youngstown Business Incubator is offering additive manufacturing education and training classes, in-person and webinars for students and employees of companies in counties with the Appalachian region.

The trainings are designed to elevate the current and upcoming workforce with diversified skills in the growing additive manufacturing Industry.

There are three: Additive 101 -- Printing Basics in-person, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday and online 1 to 3 p.m. Friday; Advanced Materials, 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 13, a webinar; and AM for Tooling Applications, 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 23, a webinar.

The links to register are for Monday, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/awet-additive-101-printing-basics-in-person-training-tickets-121275007813; Oct. 2, https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5498960425854616079; Nov. 13, https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8791830625276448527; and Oct. 23, https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1226858573665972751.

The Appalachian counties include Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning, Columbiana, Carroll, Tuscarawas, Holmes, Jefferson, Harrison, Coshocton, Muskingum, Guernsey, Belmont, Perry, Hocking, Athens, Meigs, Morgan, Noble, Monroe, Washington, Vinton, Jackson, Gallia, Lawrence, Ross, Pike, Scioto, Highland, Adams, Brown and Clermont.

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TIPPY HIRES GM: Tippecanoe Country Club has hired Mahoning Valley native Trent Squire as its new general manager. He brings with him significant experience in hospitality management, specifically in managing high-end, exclusive country clubs.

Squire graduated from Boardman High School in 1975 before entering the world of food, beverage and hospitality.

He mostly worked in Florida, where for the last 24 years he has held positions as director of food and beverage and club general manager. During that time, he was involved in several clubhouse and golf course renovations, highlighted by one particular renovation at Delaire Country Club, representing an investment of over $21 million.

COMMERCIAL FIRM ADDS REALTOR: Burgan Friedkin Commercial Group has brought on Michele McLaughlin to its commercial real estate team.

McLaughlin, a native to the area, has been involved with commercial real estate and business for more than 20 years. She then began working for Handel Investments with leasing and tenant coordination and also has worked with Roth Bros. and the Cafaro Company in their administrative and construction departments.

She became a licensed Realtor in 2016.

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YSU PROF RECEIVES GRANT: Abdu Arslanyilmaz, associate professor of computer science, information and engineering technology at Youngstown State University, has received a $286,526 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation.

The grant funds the design, development and testing of an accessible computing curriculum for students with autism spectrum disorders. The project is for two years with a potential of an additional three-year second phase of a larger scale project within the same NSF program.

Margaret Briley, assistant professor of Teacher Education at YSU, is the co-principal investigator, with Potential Development and the Rich Center for Autism as collaborators.

REALTY FIRM OPENS OFFICE / AGENTS HONORED: Boardman-based More Options Realty recently opened a new office in East Palestine at 91 W. Taggart St. The company now has five offices in Ohio and Pennsylvania and ranks 10th in the area in sold transactions.

Also, three Realtors with the firm have been awarded the Presidents Club award from the Ohio Association of Realtors for volume more than $2 million. They are Steve DeMaiolo, Ryan Hallapy and William Liptak.

PEOPLE MAGAZINE RECOGNIZES SHEETZ: Altoona, Pa.-based Sheetz was named by People magazine to its 2020 list of "50 Companies That Care."

The annual list, now in its fourth year, focused on how companies have responded to the COVID-19 crisis to care for their employees, their communities and the world. Sheetz ranked 11th on this year's list and was the only convenience store to be recognized.

YSU STUDENT HR GROUP RECOGNIZED: The Youngstown State University student chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management received the national Society for Human Resource Management 2019-20 Superior Merit Award for providing superior HR programming and professional development opportunities to its members.

SHRM is the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting workplaces with more than 300,000 HR and business executive members in 165 countries.

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TRIO FORMS MARKETING FIRM: Three creative professionals have brought a new agency to the Youngstown area with the recent launch of Clever.

Founded by Whitney Burd, Tony Marr and Adrienne Sabo, Clever offers branding, marketing, design and digital services to clients of all sizes throughout the region. The three have nearly 30 years in marketing and advertising experience.

The firm provides a full spectrum of marketing services, including logo design and brand aesthetics, website development, marketing campaigns and social media management.

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BURN SURGEON JOINS AKRON CHILDREN'S: Dr. Anjay Khandelwal has joined Akron Children's Hospital as a surgeon specializing in acute / reconstructive burn surgery and surgical critical care at the hospital's Paul and Carol David Foundation Burn Institute.

As a former staff surgeon in the division of trauma, critical care, acute care surgery and burns at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Khandelwal was the director of the Burn Care Center and co-director of the Institute of Burn Ethics.

Khandelwal is active in burn education and international outreach, and also founded India's first and only recreational camp for burned children.

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