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Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Mona K. Majzoub for ordering the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp. to turn over documents that Delphi salaried retirees have been seeking to help their attempt to have their retirement benefits restored.

ONION: To representatives of all of Trumbull County’s libraries and library systems who are unable to resolve a funding dispute without costly, needless legal maneuvers.

ORCHID: To Weathersfield trustees and the Trumbull County Engineer’s Office for a plan to convert the township’s fleet to vehicles powered by natural gas.

ORCHID: To Howland trustees who are also working with the Engineer’s Office on a plan to convert that township’s fleet to vehicles powered by natural gas.

ORCHID: To Santa’s Bad Elves and other motorcyclists who participated in the seventh annual Santa’s Poker Run that raises money for terminally ill children.

ORCHID: To Butler Institute of American Art director Louis Zona and everyone else that played a part in the museum’s expansion.

ORCHID: To those at the Howland branch of the Butler Institute of American Art for landing not only the John Mellencamp exhibit but the rock legend himself.

ORCHID: For two separate Girl Scout Silver Award projects completed this week. One was in Howland Township Park and the other at the North Road Nature Preserve. MacKenzie Polakoff of Cortlandcompleted the enclosed Howland Toddler Park. It is located across from Tiger Town at the former basketball courts. The other project was Ariel Takats, a freshman at Howland High School. It included a tree identification activity and tree informational display at the kiosk area of the 142-acre North Road Nature Trail.

ORCHID: To members of the Warren Junior Womens League GFWC Ohio who will be Painting the Town Teal today at the gazebo on Courthouse Square. The intention is to raise awareness of Ovarian Cancer Month in September. Members will place ribbons throughout the area.

ORCHID: For the four-person golf scramble and car cruise-in today at the Bronzewood Golf Course in Kinsman. Proceeds benefit the Kinsman Police Department.

Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To Niles City Police for its visual prop in the ”Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” crackdown on drunken driving. A police cruiser / taxi cab hybrid reminds those who drink alcoholic beverages that they can spend $20 going home in the cab or $10,000 going home in a cruiser.

ORCHID: To the U.S. International Trade Commission for its recent preliminary decision that steel pipe producers like Youngstown’s Vallourec Star, Brookfield’s TMK IPSCO, U.S. Steel and JMC Steel Group, which operates local Wheatland Tube plants, are being hurt by foreign imports dumped below market price by nine countries. The ITC should move expeditiously to the next step so U.S. manufacturers do not miss out on the Utica Shale oil and natural gas rush.

ONION: To Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Massad for trying to minimize the significance of an inspector general report that indicates the Obama Administration played a direct role in preventing Delphi salaried retirees from receiving full retirement benefits while protecting Delphi’s unionized workers.

ORCHID: To those who organize the annual D-Day re-enactment in Conneaut Township Park in Conneaut. The program has grown to more than 1,000 participants, attracts tens of thousands of visitors and helps younger generations remember The Greatest Generation for its heroism.

ORCHID: To the Niles Police Department for aggressively attacking gang members, seven of which have been recently prosecuted.

ORCHID: To Bloomfield-Mespo, Champion, Girard, Howland, Hubbard, Badger, Lakeview, Maplewood, Newton Falls and Weathersfield school districts in Trumbull County for receiving A’s on the percentage of state indicators met on the Ohio Department of Education report card. Boardman, Canfield, Jackson-Milton and Poland were among the Mahoning County schools also receiving A’s for the percentage of state indicators met.

ORCHID: To Warren Councilman James Valesky and others responsible for restoring the historical marker in front of the Kinsman House in downtown Warren. And ORCHID for their ongoing efforts to restore the grandeur of the architecturally and culturally significant part of the central business district’s landscape.

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Orchids & onions

ORCHID: To OCTG Vallourec North America Executive Vice President of Operations/Industrial Director Joel Mastervich, Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport Aviation Director Daniel Dickten, Eastern Ohio P-16 Partnership for Education Executive Director Stephanie Shaw, Western Reserve Building & Construction Trades Council President Don Crane and Catullo Prime Meats Inc. owner Daniel Catullo for earning top honors in the Youngstown Warren Regional Chamber’s annual Salute to Business.

ONION: To Warren City Councilman Alford Novak for picketing against a new business that hired 50 income tax-paying employees in the city and became a Warren water and wastewater customer.

ORCHID: To Liberty Board of Education member James W. Jones Jr., for running for re-election. The district faces massive financial problems as it struggles to escape state fiscal emergency, which seems to have scared residents from serving on the board as Jones is the only candidate who filed for three open seats. Apathy will not help the district.

ORCHID: To Weathersfield Trustee Steve Gerberry and other township officials who are seeking a way to lower their residents’ water bills by tapping into a proposed line from Niles to the future Hollywood Slots at Mahoning Valley Racecourse in Austintown.

ORCHID: To Warren golfer Jason Kokrak on qualifying for this week’s PGA Championship, one of professional golf’s four major tournaments.

ORCHID: To those who operate the Ready Workforce Program that helps veterans finds homes and jobs.

ORCHID: To Trumbull County Transit Board Chairman Glenn W. Holmes, for the services he provided before stepping down because of time constraints. The McDonald mayor also serves in the Mahoning River Corridor Mayors Association.

ORCHID: To Warren City Council President Bob Dean for his efforts to make it easy for residents to rid their homes of unwanted firearms.

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