The Butler Eagle is looking for good deeds done by businesses in Butler County.

In March the newspaper will publish its annual Progress edition, which this year will highlight volunteerism in the county. Much of this community spirit comes from businesses.

The newspaper wants to spotlight how businesses add to the quality of life here.

Please send us information about what donations, no matter how small, your business makes, and also how your employees volunteer to help others.

Contact the Eagle:

Mail to: "Volunteerism," Butler Eagle, P.O. Box 271, Butler, PA 16003

Fax: 724-282-4180

E-mail: news@butlereagle.com.

The deadline is March 1.

Albert Gallatin Home Care, an Amedisys company with a facility in Butler County, was accredited for home health and hospice services by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, according to a company news release.The accreditation commission is a private, nonprofit corporation developed by home care and community-based providers to help companies improve business operations and patient care.Amedisys operates more than 500 sites in the United States and Puerto Rico.

CRANBERRY TWP — The Northern Allegheny County Chamber of Commerce is hosting its Business to Business 2009 trade show from noon to 5 p.m. March 23.Businesses interested in participating should call 724-934-9700 to reserve a table.

PITTSBURGH — American Eagle Outfitters claims in a lawsuit that Citigroup Global Markets fraudulently induced it to buy $258 million worth of auction rate securities that it can now sell for significantly less, if at all.The suit says Citigroup represented the securities as safe and liquid and therefore compatible with American Eagle's conservative investment policies.Instead, American Eagle claims, Citigroup knew there wasn't enough demand for the securities to keep them liquid.Last February, the suit says, Citigroup stopped providing liquidity.Auction rate securities were once considered safe, but the market collapsed in February amid turmoil in the credit markets.

GIBSONIA — Boards of trustees for two St. Barnabas Health System organizations were re-elected.The boards and their members are:• Clinical Services — John Turnbull, Hampton Township, chairman; Karen Tabacchi, Penn Township, president; and Brooks Barlett, McCandless, treasurer.• Medical Center — William Knox, Adams Township, chairman; Tabacchi, president; Douglas W. Day, Richland Township; and Kim Geyer, Mars.

EVERETT, Mass. — An Everett produce company issued a voluntary recall for several varieties of J.J. Kelly Snacks due to fears the peanuts could be contaminated with salmonella.Shapiro Produce issued the recall Friday for the snacks, which were sold in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.The recall was related to a series of other recalls from suppliers that used products from a Peanut Corporation of America plant in Blakely, Ga. The plant has been at the center of a national salmonella outbreak.Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, but no illnesses related to J.J. Kelly Snacks have been reported.The J.J. Kelly Snacks packages were sold in varieties including Mountain Mix, Oriental Mix, Yogurt Trail Mix, Raisin Nut Mix and Banana Sesame Crunch.

LEHIGHTON, Pa. — An eastern Pennsylvania hospital system said it is making layoffs to cut costs amid the national economic downturn.Blue Mountain Health System said 22 people were pink-slipped. The system, which operates hospitals in Lehighton and Palmerton, will also eliminate eight unfilled jobs. A hospital vice president said the cuts should save $1.2 million a year. Other moves in the plan to reduce costs include suspending company matches to employee-funded retirement plans and freezing pay for a year.Blue Mountain is among Carbon County's largest employers, with more than 1,000 employees.