Aid to flooded areas

Aid to flooded areas
WARREN -- The Trumbull County Red Cross is sending its emergency response vehicle to flooded areas of southeast Kentucky.
Volunteers John and Marian Scott of Cortland, who spent three weeks with the vehicle in New York City in September, left this morning for Harlan, Ky., to help with mobile food dispensing.
Tim Settles of the Red Cross said they will be in Kentucky about three weeks.
Easter egg hunt set
NILES -- The Lions Club is sponsoring an Easter egg hunt at noon Saturday in Waddell Park.
The event is free, and the Easter Bunny is expected to attend.
Seeking new bids
GIRARD -- Girard Multi-Generational Center will seek new bids to construct a recreational area.
Laura Carey-D'Rummo, center director, said all four bids opened Friday were more than 10 percent higher than the engineer's $12,000 estimated cost.
The center is planning a community garden, fencing, fountain and tables and benches.
Fire damages house
LORDSTOWN -- Fire caused about $50,000 in damage to a 172-year-old house on Lyntz Road on Wednesday.
Fire Chief James Wishart said a faulty chimney is believed to have caused the blaze that broke out about 6:30 a.m.
The house is owned by Brenda Smith. The second floor was destroyed.
Pharmaceutical pact
WARREN -- Trumbull County commissioners awarded a contract Wednesday to Secure Pharmacy Plus, of Franklin, Tenn., to provide pharmaceuticals to county jail inmates.
Two companies bid for the contract earlier this year. The contract is not for a defined dollar amount, but rather based on the price of medications most often needed.
Secure Pharmacy Plus has been one of the jail's regular drug suppliers, officials said.
Added to paving list
HUBBARD -- The city has added School Street to the list of roads it intends to pave this summer.
The Trumbull County commissioners voted Wednesday to advertise for bids to pave four-tenths of a mile on Cyrus, Wheeler and School streets.
Hubbard has allocated $32,700 from its 2000 and 2001 Community Development Grant Fund for the project, officials said.
School Street was added because the cost of resurfacing Princeton and Corll streets last year was less than anticipated.
OK'd ordinance
NILES -- City council approved an ordinance Wednesday accepting an easement from the Greystone Group-Niles and authorizing Safety Service Director Don Allen to execute sewer easement release agreements.
The easement is needed to provide sewer service to the site of the Walgreens store at North Road and U.S. Route 422.
Purchasing limestone
SOUTHINGTON -- Township trustees agreed Wednesday to buy 1,000 tons of limestone from Whitestone Supply Co. $11.15 per ton. A second company bid the same amount so trustees flipped a coin.
They agreed to buy a good commercial-grade sweeper, not to exceed $500, to clean the new carpet in the township building and approved the purchase of three carbide chain saw blades at a cost of $180 each from Cortland Tractor Sales.
Trustees asked for volunteers to clean up Geauga Portage Easterly Road at a site of their choice. Contact Bob Lloyd at the township office (330) 889-2551 or at home (330) 889-3411 or any trustee. Last year, volunteers cleaned up Phalanx-Mills Road.
Funds for districts
COLUMBUS -- The soil and water conservation districts of Mahoning and Trumbull counties have received funds to help increase local participation in special water protection projects.
Mahoning gets $4,100 for Mill, Yellow and Meander creeks and Trumbull gets $2,731 for the Pymatuning/Shenango Wildlife Area.
The local money is part of some $81,000 distributed by the state to 14 watershed groups to create Web sites, literature and other educational and awareness tools.