Charity dance planned

Charity dance planned
S.N.P.J., Pa. -- A red, white and blue charity dance to aid the victims of the terrorist attacks will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Oct. 27 at the S.N.P.J. Recreation Center, 270 Martin Road, Enon Valley, Lawrence County.
Proceeds will benefit the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund launched to provide assistance for post-secondary education expenses to the children and spouses of those killed or permanently disabled as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Color guard members from VFW Post 7070 and American Legion Post 171, both from Oakdale, Allegheny County, will coordinate the event. Polka music will be provided by the Jack Tady Orchestra of Pittsburgh, Joe Fedorchak and Bob Turcola orchestras of Youngstown and the Jeff Pecon Orchestra of Cleveland.
Admission is $6 per person and there will be a bake sale, raffles, a Chinese auction and a variety of other fund-raisers. Donations to the scholarship fund can be made to the "S.N.P.J. National Cause" and mailed to the Slovene National Benefit Society, S.N.P.J. National Cause, 247 West Allegheny Road, Imperial, Pa. 15126. For more details, call (800) 843-7675.
School makes donation
YOUNGSTOWN -- Cleveland Elementary School donated $900 to the Sept. 11 Disaster Fund at Home Savings & amp; Loan Co. The schools' pupils, staff and families raised the money with a bake sale.
Sentencing scheduled
LISBON -- Sentencing will be at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 31 for Laura Kashdan, 38, of 889 N. Market St., who appeared before Judge K. Bret Apple of Southwest Area County Court. She pleaded no contest to a charge of inducing panic, and the judge found her guilty.
Police arrested Kashdan after she brought a blue envelope to the station about 4:40 a.m. Sunday. She dropped the envelope in front of the dispatcher, told the dispatcher it contained anthrax, and tried to leave.
She was held in the Columbiana County Jail until her court appearance and released Wednesday on a $1,000 recognizance bond, officials said.
Police Chief Buck Higgins said the envelope was a business letter belonging to a neighbor.
Kashdan said she found the blue envelope outside her home, Higgins said. She said she heard on television that blue envelopes should not be opened because they contain anthrax.
"She's no threat to anyone," Higgins said. "All we want [from the court] is for someone to evaluate her."
No delays expected
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- Officials say there should be no delay in mail from the New Castle Post Office on Cascade Street after a portion of it was quarantined when workers found a white powdery substance in a mail bin.
Mayor Timothy Fulkerson said police were called to the mail-sorting facility about 10 p.m. Thursday and were able to secure the area. Hazardous materials handlers from Weavertown, Pa., were to take a sample for testing at a temporary laboratory set up by FBI agents in North Park, Allegheny County.
Fulkerson said police learned that this is not the first time white powder has been found in the bin, noting that publishers often use corn starch in magazines and books to keep the pages from sticking together.