CITY MANAGER

CITY MANAGER
Leaving for Florida
Judith Ann Zimomra, a Newton Falls native, has resigned as chief of staff to Mayor Michael R. White of Cleveland to become city manager of Sanibel Island, Fla.
Zimomra, 44, has been a Cleveland employee since 1992.
White promoted Zimomra to chief of staff in January 2000. Her accomplishments in that position included negotiating the 2001 operating budget, which included seven new initiatives with no tax increase with flat income tax projections, and coordinating city services after a major waterline break flooded several blocks of the center business district.
She has a bachelor of arts degree from Kent State University, a master's degree in public administration from Ohio State University, and a juris doctorate degree from Capital University. She also is a graduate of Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Program for Senior State and Local Officials. Zimomra is a 1975 graduate of Newton Falls High School.
Sanibel Island, located in the Gulf of Mexico, is 12 miles long and five miles across at its widest point, and is renowned for its beaches and shelling.
SCOUTS
Eagle Scout award
Christopher Philips, son of Bernard and Carolyn Philips of Burkey Road, Austintown, recently received his Eagle Scout award in a ceremony in First Christian Church, Youngstown, where he is a member.
Phillips started Scouting in 1990. He is a member of Troop 55, where Richard Cook is Scoutmaster.
He has earned 23 badges and his God and Country religious badge and his Arrow of Light Award. He has had troop leadership positions as senior patrol leader, quartermaster, and assistant Scoutmaster.
His Eagle Scout project was refurbishing the wood floors of the sanctuary for First Christian Church, which required removing all the pews and stripping and revarnishing the floors and replacing the pews.
He graduated from Austintown Fitch High School and Mahoning County Career and Technical Center in June. In summer 2000, he worked at Camp Massawepie in New York.
New Eagle Scout
Christopher Aaron Norton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Norton of Howland, received his Eagle Scout award at a court of honor ceremony in Howland United Methodist Church.
Norton is a member of Greater Western Reserve Council Boy Scout Troop 101 with Jim Potjunas, Scoutmaster.
He joined Troop 101 in 1995 and has had leadership positions of historian, troop guide, patrol leader, quartermaster and assistant senior patrol leader. He has earned 31 merit badges.
For his Eagle Service project, Norton updated a nature trail behind North Road Intermediate School, Howland, as well as planting trees and filling in low spots in the trail. He also updated the trail map for the teachers.
Norton is a senior at Howland High School, where he is a member of the band, and has participated in Drama Club, Interact Club, Students Against Driving Drunk, and German Club.
He also is a member of Howland United Methodist Church, where he is a member of the Praise Team, Methodist Youth Fellowship and has participated the last three years in the church's Appalachian Service Project, where he assisted with the repair and improvement of homes in rural areas of Appalachia.
HONORS
Public service award
JoAnne Pedro-Carroll, associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Rochester, N.Y., and director of programs for Families in Transition at the Children's Institute, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the university, has received the American Psychological Association's 2001 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Service.
For more than 20 years, Pedro-Carroll, formerly of Youngstown, has helped children deal with the strains of their parents' separation and divorce.
While working on her doctoral dissertation at the university in the 1980s, Pedro-Carroll developed the Children of Divorce Intervention Program, then implemented and evaluated it initially in five suburban schools.
She joined the faculty in 1984, and began refining the program and produced six models, which more specifically meet the needs of children of different ages and from different cultural backgrounds. The program has since served thousands of children throughout the United States and worldwide.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pedro, Riverside Drive, Youngstown. Pedro-Carroll and her husband, Roger, have three children.
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