Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) articles from July 2007

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) archives from July 2007

Some at Delphi see job security in voting yes.
July 3, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 3--DAYTON -- Workers at Delphi Corp.'s Needmore Road plant cast the most important ballots of their professional lives Thursday, with veteran workers opting to take reduced wages rather than unemployment. The...

Riders swear by public transit; some officials swear at the subsidies.
July 3, 2007... Jul. 3--Some Warren County officials have balked at backing bus service -- but people are still hopping on the bus. Deerfield Twp. Trustee Lee Speidel recently complained that the township still is subsidizing bus service to the tune of...

Tenant committed to Tech Town aims to broaden cell phone capabilities.
July 3, 2007... Byline: James Cummings Jul. 3--DAYTON -- As ground was broken for the Creative Technology Accelerator on Monday afternoon, the first building scheduled to go up in Dayton's Tech Town business park, the first tenant committed to locate in...

Reynolds University teaches how to work with dealerships.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 5--KETTERING -- Erika DeBorde approaches an auto parts counter and orders a CD changer for her car. After navigating a computer program, the employee behind the counter, Steve Birchmeier, tells DeBorde the...

One of Dayton's dirtiest jobs is cleaning up.
July 5, 2007... Byline: Nikki Ferrell Jul. 5--DAYTON -- As Gwin's Steam Cleaning workers shoot steam and cleaner into the metal hoods above the stoves and fryers in restaurant kitchens, liquefied grease runs down the walls, drips above their heads and...

Chick-fil-A to open Dayton outlet with limited menu.
July 6, 2007... Byline: Nikki Ferrell Jul. 6--DAYTON -- Chick-fil-A plans to open a store in downtown Dayton on July 16 at one of the five downtown buildings that have fallen into foreclosure in the past year. Scott Weaver, who will manage the "lunch...

Replacing filters at two coal burning plants -- now that's a dirty job.
July 6, 2007... Byline: John Nolan Jul. 6--WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- It's the time of year for an essential but truly dirty job: inspecting and replacing hundreds of cloth filter bags that catch emissions from two coal-burning plants on the base....

'Rufus Dawg' changing things up.
July 7, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 7--VANDALIA -- What kind of company calls itself "Rufus Dawg?" The kind with a one-year-old Shar-pei -- named Rufus, of course -- as mascot and all-around attention-getter. And the kind that drew about a...

Center demonstrates effectiveness of RFID technology.
July 8, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 8--SPRINGBORO -- Leaders across the world are seeing what Wal-Mart managers have long known: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology can help keep track of nearly everything. City leaders in Pendik,...

Ohio encouraging biodiesel through tax credits, grants.
July 12, 2007... Byline: Kristin McAllister Jul. 12--The state's biennial budget allocation of $4.5 million in alternative fuel programs is expected to make soy biodiesel and E85 ethanol more widely available to consumers, industry experts say. Ohio...

School district, unions reach impasse in talks.
July 13, 2007... Byline: Doug Page Jul. 13--TROY -- The school district's teachers and support staff have declared an impasse in contract negotiations. "A federal mediator has been called in," Marion Stout, the district's business manager/director of...

Commander Aero celebrates 10 years in hangar built by Charles Kettering.
July 15, 2007... Byline: John Nolan Jul. 15--MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County -- -- As the owner, president and chief executive officer of Commander Aero Inc., a company that refurbishes small airplanes, John Bosch has been more than just a front-office...

Research focuses on renewable energy.
July 15, 2007... Byline: Ben Sutherly Jul. 15--Fuel cell research under way in Ohio might someday save farmers and food processors headaches in disposing of waste. It might even help them make money by turning that waste into renewable energy --...

Home health care workers win right to join a union.
July 18, 2007... Byline: Laura A. Bischoff Jul. 18--COLUMBUS -- Gov. Ted Strickland signed an executive order Tuesday that gives collective bargaining rights to about 7,000 independent home health care workers and said he'll soon sign a similar order for...

Revenue bonds for project on hold.
July 19, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 19--DAYTON, Ohio -- The Dayton-Montgomery County Port Authority on Tuesday held a resolution that would have approved $2.5 million in bonds to pave the way for Renegade Materials' planned site in Springboro. ...

Union takes step for national strike against Delphi.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 20--The International Union of Electrical Workers-Communication Workers of America has filed a contract termination notice with Delphi Corp., a early step to a national strike against Delphi, the union said. ...

Restaurant part of Piqua's history.
July 20, 2007... Byline: Nikki Ferrell Jul. 20--PIQUA, Ohio -- Charles Caserta, who immigrated to the U.S. from Italy when he was 16, lost his produce market in Piqua in the Great Flood of 1913. He decided to buy a tavern a few blocks away. Almost 100...

Shopping centers' patronage shifts along with construction.
July 24, 2007... Byline: Kristin McAllister Jul. 24--The openings of the Village at the Dayton Mall and The Greene brought a slew of new food, entertainment and retail choices to consumers in the Miami Valley, and a lot more is on the way. Mall...

Montgomery County third in national job decline.
July 26, 2007... Byline: Kristin McAllister Jul. 26--Montgomery County is third among the top four counties nationwide to have the largest decline in fourth-quarter employment levels from 2005 to 2006, according to a report Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor...

Applicants wanted for rugged work.
July 26, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 26--DAYTON -- Jim Bailey, president of U.S Inspections Services, has a problem. Bailey's Albany Street-based company needs 50 to 100 people who are willing to work long hours, day and night, in dirty,...

Inventors have high hopes for airplane hose.
July 29, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 29--JAMESTOWN -- Most of the time, it's a problem well beneath the notice of airline passengers -- literally. When an airplane is parked at a gate, it gets an infusion of hot or cold air (depending on the...

Top Gun training program enhances machinists' skills.
July 29, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 29--DAYTON -- From good to great. The Top Gun Academy aims to take solid tooling and machining technicians and make them top-notch. The training program offered by the Advanced Integrated Manufacturing...

Cedarville team has won awards for its 'supermileage' vehicles.
July 29, 2007... Byline: Thomas Gnau Jul. 29--CEDARVILLE, Ohio -- Don't tell Cedarville University engineering students your Toyota Prius gets 55 miles per gallon. They probably won't be impressed. Ten Cedarville engineering students and their...

Nanoproduct safety testing lags.
July 30, 2007... Jul. 30--Nanoparticles can be so small that 100,000 match the thickness of a human hair. Yet with new tools, like the scanning tunneling electron microscope, individual atoms inside those particles can be moved around with great precision...

EPA, FDA: More study needed to check safety of nanoproducts.
July 30, 2007... Byline: Jim Debrosse Jul. 30--Consumers may have noticed a tiny new word creeping into product ads and labels. That word is "nano," as in Nano-Tex sheets, Nano-Dry shirts, Nano-Silver socks, Nanowax for cars and Nano Anti-Aging Cream. ...