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Blog Entry: Clothing giveaway event is Saturday at the Job Center DAYTON -- A Clean Out Your Closet event to provide free clean clothes, shoes and coats to anyone who needs them is Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Job Center, 1111 S. Edwin C. Moses Blvd. The event, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., is sponsored by Unified Health Solutions through its Ameri-Corps Program. Call program manager Raya Gist at (937) 220-6632 for more. -- Staff report KMC to resume its tobacco cessation program KETTERING -- Kettering Medical Center will use an Ohio Department of Health grant to resume its tobacco cessation program. Patients attend fully funded classes once a week for six weeks. Free nicotine replacement therapy or medication is included rolex replica for eight weeks. The hospital hopes to get 195 Montgomery County residents in the program over the next eight months. The hospital hasn't had a tobacco cessation program for 18 months; prior to that, it treated more than 500 individuals per year for five years, with a success rate of more than 50 percent. Call (937) 395-8162. -- Staff report Doolittle Raiders' reunion in April at Air Force museum WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders are planning their 68th reunion at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, scheduled for April 16-18, 2010. The reunion will include a free public autograph session, educational event and memorial service at the museum. In addition, there will be a free public concert honoring the Raiders at Wright State University's Nutter Center. The reunions, which convene annually throughout the country, commemorate the 1942 U.S. bombing raid on Japan led by Col. James Doolittle. They last met at the museum in 2006, for their 64th reunion. Of the nine living members, five are able to travel. They have said they plan to attend reunion events. The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Association Inc., a private entity that organizes the reunions, is trying to secure sponsorship funding to fly in and land B-25 bombers behind the museum. For more about this effort, call Tom Casey with the association at (941) 921-7361 or e-mail him at . -- Staff report RTA to resume routes over Monument bridge DAYTON -- The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority is again offering service on the newly opened Monument Avenue bridge. Northbound Routes 14 and 40 will resume crossing the bridge Sunday, Nov. 22. Route 9 resumed its routing over the bridge this week. replica rolex Route 8 will maintain its routing over the Salem Avenue Bridge both northbound and southbound. -- Staff report Grant will help train DHL workers who lost jobs WASHINGTON -- The federal government is providing an additional $4.4 million to southwest Ohio for jobs and skills training for workers who lost jobs when express shipper DHL closed its U.S. freight hub at Wilmington Air Park in Clinton County. It is the second such national emergency grant approved to help the laidoff workers from what had been the Wilmington area's largest employer. "Th
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