Around the Miami Valley

The Dayton Dragons, along with  the Dayton Development Coalition, will host the first of two “Hometown Heroes Celebration Nights” at Fifth Third Field on Saturday, when the Dragons host the Great Lakes Loons. The program is part of a season-long celebration to pay tribute to all service men and women associated with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Springfield Air National Guard Base.

This weekend the Dayton Opera is doing Carmen, and you will experience a Carmen like you have never seen before - intense, intimate and bitingly tragic! It's Carmen unplugged!

Hamvention…..opening tonight and all weekend at the Hara…you will be “internationally connected."

And also The World A’Fair….opening tonight and all weekend at the Dayton Convention center…. Food! Dancing! Music! Costumes! Showcases the ethnic backgrounds and cultures of Dayton and the greater Miami Valley.

SPRINGFIELD - The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce has been looking at ways to get companies in Clark County to do more hiring. The Chamber received welcome news when a group of employers asked the organization to sponsor a job fair so they can find qualified people to hire.

Amy Donahoe of the Chamber, says Clark County's unemployment rate was a little over eight percent in March, and that's compared to nine percent at the same time last year. Those numbers would seem to indicate that companies in the Clark County region are not hiring.

But Donahoe says the Chamber along with the WorkPlus One Stop employment Center will host a job fair at the Courtyard Marriott Friday starting at 10 a.m. because numerous employers need help in filling  job openings.