East Liverpool Historical Society

George Junior Republic, founded in 1909 and located in Grove City, Pa., is a privately owned, nonprofit organization that offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular programs to physically disabled students. Its curriculum includes English, art and crafts, vocational training, mathematics, science, social studies, fine and performing arts, and physical and health education. It provides residential programs that include general residential, special needs, diagnostic, drugs and alcohol, and community-based home programs. The institution also organizes sports activities, such as softball, baseball, athletics, cheerleading, football and cross-country. It additionally organizes various conferences, sports tournaments, awards ceremonies and after school classes. The school s parent-teacher association involves parents in educational and social activities of the school.

Astra Products is a management owned company, acquired from a United Kingdom public company in 2001. The acquisition included all of the assets of Eclipse Blinds Systems in the United States, including its wholly owned subsidiary company, Scientific Plastics in Miami Lakes, Fla. The company offers vertical fabrics and blinds, horizontal blinds and vertical components. Its vertical fabrics collection includes a variety of Jacquards, Stitch Bonds, and Fiberglass fabrics. Astra Products offer vertical blinds by a variety of manufacturers, including Aspen, Bali, Catalina, Deco, Fresno, Impressions, Rio, Savannah, Velvet, Valentino, Waterford, and Willow. It also offers vinyl vertical and horizontal collection, and vertical fabric book that contain a selection of Jacquard, Stitch Bond, and Fiberglass fabrics in a black binder. The company is headquartered in Ravenna, Ohio.