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Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
BOCES honors CHOW with Business Spotlight Award
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Broome-Tioga BOCES is recognizing one of its business partners that gives its students real-life work experience. The school's Career Development Center honored CHOW and its director Les Aylesworth with its Business Spotlight award. Each year, BOCES recognizes 3 of its 400 business partners for assisting with job skills and placement. Currently seven students from the BOCES PALS and Oak Tree programs work in the CHOW warehouse which supplies individual food pantries across our area. Career Development Center Principal Steve Moschak says Aylesworth and CHOW have given the students real-world opportunities. 'This is their classroom. Their classroom is a warehouse where they learn work-based learning, skills. They get to do hands-on activities. Every single day it's different. They come in and they're helping the community, and it really helps to build confidence in themselves to hopefully work in the future,' said Moschak. Three of the students have even been able to achieve certification for operating forklifts in the warehouse. BOCES also supports CHOW through participation in the Kids Can Build annual food drive. Donnelly resigns as Town of Vestal councilman Binghamton students recognized for reading accomplishments BOCES honors CHOW with Business Spotlight Award Binghamton Restaurant Week returning bigger and better than ever Economic experts speak at Tioga County Chamber forum Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Struthers putting businesses in the limelight
STRUTHERS, Ohio (WKBN) – The City of Struthers is making sure its businesses are in the limelight, Starting a new program to share stories from each spot across town. 'We're trying to bring recognition to what we have here and how special it is to the community,' said Mayor Catherine Cercone Miller. It sounds simple enough, but once the city got the ball rolling on its Business Spotlight series, they've had no problem pinning down who's up next. 'We've done three so far, and I can't believe the amount of things that I've learned,' Miller said. The city began shooting short 1-3 minute videos on various businesses across town, releasing two each month and scheduling out 15 more over the course of the rest of the year. 'The word of mouth here just travels so quickly that something can be very successful and as long as it's a good running company, it's going to be taken care of here in Struthers,' said Ryan Goist, Business Spotlight director. Goist is the man behind the camera helping produce the content. And it's taking off, with more and more businesses coming forward who want to share the spotlight and show Struthers what they're all about. 'More people should see that and want to start businesses here in Struthers Ohio, see the community that will support them,' Goist said. The idea came to light with the help of an intern in the mayor's office last year— Andrew Garchar– who wanted to leverage social media to connect his town of 10,000 to commerce around town. 'He kept telling us every day more people need to know about this. More people need to know about what's going on in the city,' Miller said. But it's also given the city a chance to get to know its business community on its turf, opening a direct line of communication with each place they stop. 'It's going to their environment and learning and seeing firsthand what they're dealing with,' Miller said. Whether they employ one or hundreds, they want to hear from them all, sharing the story of each shop, store and business of Struthers. 'We're hoping that that even draws other businesses to come to Struthers because look what we're trying to do,' Miller said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
