IN BRIEF
Terry Alvarez joined the Butler Eagle as its advertising director
Alvarez, 47, comes to the Eagle from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he was the classified advertising manager. He filled the position at the Eagle left open when Ken McElroy died suddenly in August.
Alvarez, who originally is from Sioux City, Iowa, spent years working for newspapers in Arizona and Colorado in both national advertising sales, as well as classifieds.
He has a master's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix and has volunteered his time with chambers of commerce, Junior Achievement and the Cranberry Area Chamber of Commerce in Cranberry Township.
Alvarez lives in Cranberry.
"I see a lot of opportunities at the Butler Eagle conducive to improvements for advertisers, readers and the staff of the newspaper," he said.
Marmon/Keystone and the members of United Steelworkers Local 8042-01 ratified a contract for production workers at the company's East Butler service center.The new two-year contract includes a wage and benefit package for the 34 warehouse employees. The contract expires Aug. 31, 2011.
MONROEVILLE — Westinghouse Electric announced it is expanding its Charlotte, N.C.-based workforce by opening a nuclear business office in February.In a news release, Tony Greco, Westinghouse senior vice president, said the growth of the U.S. southeast and the need to have an office closer to southern customers and partners moved the expansion forward.In April, the company signed a contract with Georgia Power to build two new nuclear plants, and in May, Westinghouse agreed to build a power plant with South Carolina Electric & Gas and Santee Cooper, also a South Carolina power company.Westinghouse is building its new international headquarters in Cranberry Woods business park in Cranberry Township.
Cindy Davis of Butler was elected in September to a three-year term with the International Code Council Board of Directors.Davis, 50, is the zoning officer for Butler Township.As a member of the code council board, Davis will help oversee the creation of building and fire safety codes across America and around the world.The International Code Council, a membership association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention, develops the codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools.Davis was elected by her peers in the councilduring a conference in Minneapolis, Minn., which drew almost 1,500 members, she said.At one time there were three competing building codes in the United States, and Davis was elected in 1998 to the board of one of them, Building Officials and Code Administrators International.By 2003, the three codes were consolidated into the International Code Council.
• David L. Schutt, SAE International's executive vice president and chief operating officer in Wexford, was appointed to serve on the executive board of the International Federation of Automotive Engineering Societies as vice president-America.• Allison Mortimer of Grove City joined the Akron-based Cambridge Home Health Care system as scheduling supervisor in the Prospect facility. She attended Slippery Rock University.• Howard Bruschi, retired Westinghouse Electric chief technology officer, was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.• Susan Larsen Beck, Ph.D., who is married to Howard "Buddy" Beck, a Butler native, was named the first chair of the Robert S. and Beth M. Carter Endowed Chair in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. She is the daughter-in-law of Howard J. Beck of Bonniebrook Road in Herman, Summit Township.bottom line• MSA announced net sales for the third quarter of 2008 are $285.9 million, compared with $247.7 million for the same quarter in 2007. Net income in the third quarter 2008 is $17.9 million, or 50 cents per basic share, an increase of $1.2 million or 7 percent for the same quarter in 2007. Net income for the quarter is up $7.7 million, or 75 percent.
