YSU English Festival

YSU English Festival
YOUNGSTOWN -- More than 3,000 students, parents, teachers and librarians from 160 schools in northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania will participate Wednesday through Friday in the 23rd annual English Festival at Youngstown State University.
Key speakers are Tim Wynne-Jones, the first Canadian author to win the Boston Globe Horn Book Award; Chris Crowe, president-elect of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents and editor of young adult literature for the English Journal; and blues guitarist Guy Davis, son of veteran black actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Lee.
The English Festival was created in 1978 by former YSU English professors Thomas and Carol Gay as a tribute to their daughter, Candace, who died of cancer at 13.
Straight talk
VIENNA -- Teen Straight Talk, the organization that demonstrates how teens can choose and practice sexual abstinence until marriage, has received a $2,500 grant from the Youngstown Foundation to deliver educational programs to Mahoning Valley youths and young adults. TST provides a foundation for teens to evaluate their physical, emotional and social behaviors before making any decision to have sex before marriage.
Menacing charges
BROOKFIELD -- A 36-year-old East Reynolds Street man from New Castle, Pa., will face aggravated menacing charges after police say he threatened to bring a gun to his job at Oxford Automotive in Masury and shoot co-workers. Workers at Oxford called police when the man failed to come to work and they feared he would carry out his threat. But he turned himself in to Brookfield police, without making any statements, Friday afternoon. Police said he is likely to be arraigned in Trumbull County Eastern District Court on Monday.
Cleaning up America
GIRARD -- The city will take part in the Great American Cleanup on Saturday. The volunteer effort is being co-sponsored by the city and Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District. Volunteers can register at the city justice center between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to pick up litter in designated areas or their own neighborhoods. The first 50 volunteers will receive Earth Day 2001 T-shirts and the first 100 will receive free tree seedlings. Bring gloves, and children under age 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
Bus routes changed
BEAVER, Pa. -- Construction on state Routes 60 and 18 will mean new bus routes for Beaver County residents trying to get to the Beaver Valley Mall, Wal-Mart and Shop 'N Save. Effective Monday, the county transit authority's shuttle route will not go to the mall. Instead, the vehicle will turn around and do a reverse route back to the Transportation Center in Rochester. Anyone wanting to go the mall will have to go to the Transportation Center and transfer to another bus.
Jazz performance
SHARON, Pa. -- The second annual Sharon Jazz Festival will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Case Avenue Elementary School. The event features the Commodore Perry, Hickory and Sharon high schools' jazz ensembles. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students.
Holocaust cantata
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- Members of the Westminster College Chorale and the Community Chorale will present a free Holocaust cantata at 3 p.m. April 8 in Wallace Memorial Chapel. All of the songs, originally in Polish, were found in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archives and were written by prisoners while incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps.