Board to fill vacancy from six applicants

The new board member will likely be chosen Jan. 8.
WARREN -- Trumbull County residents with experience ranging from medicine to septic systems have stepped forward as candidates for a vacant seat on the Trumbull County Board of Health.
Representatives of townships and villages served by the county health board are expected to choose among six candidates at a meeting Jan. 8.
Whomever is selected will serve the 16 months remaining in the five-year term of Donna Price, who resigned from the health board Nov. 18. The position pays $80 per monthly meeting.
Who's under consideration
Applicants for the job are:
UWilliam A. Hagood of Vienna, who has served as an alternate member of the board of health for the last year. During that time, he has attended all the public meetings and been permitted to vote once. He is president of Tri-County Mobile Homes in Vienna and has served on the Vienna Township Zoning Commission, Fowler-Vienna Board of Education and Vienna Township Fire Department. He is also a ruling elder at Vienna Presbyterian Church, is a member of Cortland Savings Bank's board of directors, and is active in the Ohio Manufactured Housing Association.
URonald E. Mahan, a former board of health member who lives in Champion. Mahan, who is retired, has also served as a Bristol Township trustee.
UDr. Michael Jurenovich of Warren, chief of surgery at St. Joseph Health Center in Warren. He is a graduate of the University of Osteopathic and Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa, and is board-certified in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine.
URobert M. O'Connell of McDonald, a licensed plumber and administrator of McDonald Village. He has EPA certification to run both the village water supply and treatment plant. He has been the village administrator for five years.
UDeborah R. Myers, a certified nurse practitioner from Cortland. She received a master's degree in nursing from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, in 2001, and a bachelor's degree in nursing from Kent State University in 1993. She now specializes in wound care at Northeast Surgical Associates of Ohio in Independence.
UBrian S. Mosko, an environmental specialist at a company that operates water and sewage treatment plants in mobile-home parks throughout Northeast Ohio. Mosko, who holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from Youngstown State University, was also president of a construction company that specialized in commercial sewage treatment plants until 1996.