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Chamber Expo draws exhibitors, visitor Patricia Ann Speelman pspeelman@civitasmedia.com
Late-afternoon rains may have drenched the parking lot of Sidney Middle School Thursday but they did nothing to dampen the spirits of exhibitors inside at the Sidney-Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Expo. The fifth such event in the last eight years attracted 85 exhibitors who happily promoted their services and products to the public and each other throughout the four-hour trade show. Chamber President Jeff Raible said the turnout was good despite the weather. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Typically we see more after-work patrons between 5 and 7 p.m. They get a chance to mix and mingle and identify contacts for their businesses,â&#x20AC;? he said. The chamber hoped 500 patrons would visit the show before dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, and early tabulations indicated that attendance was right on target. The expo comprised
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Project coordinator for Raise the Roof for the Arts Sarah Barr (left), of Sidney, talks to Rose Swiger, of Sidne the Roof is bringing the Historic Sidney Theatre back to life at the Sidney-Shelby County Chamber Expo held in Sidne School Thursday. Swiger remembers going to the theater when she was in high school around 1950. Business area set up booths to promote themselves during the expo.
Several noted that they most enjoyed seeing business friends again whom they had met at previous expos. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I enjoy the other vendors; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of camaraderie,â&#x20AC;? said Kathy Vogler, marketing director for Perry Pro Tech, of Lima.
representatives from the manufacturing, restaurant, hospitality, professional services, retail, education, health care, and nonprofit sectors. Some had attended the four previous expos. Some were back for a second time. Some were first-timers this year.
Jeff Mann, in industrial sales for Lochard Inc., had participated before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought it was time to be seen in the community again,â&#x20AC;? he said about why the firm had returned. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve attended all of the expos to support
our community show our pr said Bar chief financial offic Rising S Kristen T gram manag Carewor Inc., was on han provide inf
Measure of U.S. jobless claims f Martin Crutsinger AP Economics Writer
WA S H I N GT O N (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A measure of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits over the past month has fallen to its lowest level in almost six years, signaling fewer layoffs. The Labor Department said Thursday that the average number of people who applied for benefits over the past four weeks dropped 6,250 to 335,500. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the lowest level since November 2007, the month before the Great Recession began. The four-week aver-
age smooths week to week fluctuations. Weekly applications for unemployment aid increased by 5,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 333,000. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up only slightly from the previous weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5½-year low. The decrease in the four-week average points to an encouraging trend for the job market. Applications, which are a proxy for layoffs, have fallen more than 10 percent since the start of the year. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped drive net job gains this year, which show the number of people hired minus the number who lose or quit their jobs.
Economists were hopeful that the drop in layoffs could lead to some strengthening in the job market. Jennifer Lee, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, called the decline in the four-week moving average â&#x20AC;&#x153;very good news indeed.â&#x20AC;? But Bricklin Dwyer, an economist at BNP Paribas, cautioned that the unemployment claims figures so far have signaled only modest healing in the labor market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In terms of job growth, we have seen a disconnect between the level of hiring and firing,â&#x20AC;? Dwyer said. Employers added See JOBLESS | 5
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