Christmas gift registry

Christmas gift registry
WARREN -- Catholic Charities will conduct its annual registration for Christmas gifts for Trumbull County children Oct. 21, 23, 25 and 31 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at its offices at 175 Laird Ave. N.E.
There also will be a sign-up for working families only Oct. 28 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Applicants must provide proof of income, receipts of monthly expenses, medical card or birth certificate and Social Security information on everyone who lives in the home. Call the agency at (330) 393-4254.
Threatened with car
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 31-year-old Florence Avenue man told police he was nearly run down by a large dark car after asking a man to stop urinating on the brick wall in front of his home.
According to police reports, the resident came outside after midnight Friday to find a man urinating. When he said he would call the police, an argument broke out with a second man driving the car.
Reports say the driver tried to run over the resident three times by pulling into the driveway. The car was later stopped and towed by police. No arrests were made.
Armed theft of dollar
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 51-year-old North Richview Avenue man told police he was robbed of $1 at gunpoint Friday night.
Reports say the man had just gotten out of his car on Waverly Avenue when the gunman demanded his wallet.
The thief took the dollar and car keys before running off.
GOP fall dinner
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- The Lawrence County Republican Party's fall dinner is Oct. 23 at the New Englander banquet hall on Wilmington Road.
Pennsylvania state Sen. Robert Robbins of Greenville, R-50th, will be the speaker. Social hour will start at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7:30. Tickets are $25 each. Call (724) 658-4895.
EMT courses offered
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- In an effort to increase the number of emergency medical technicians in Lawrence County, new courses are being offered.
The Community College of Allegheny County has agreed to offer EMT courses at the Lawrence County Learning Center, 131 Columbus Inner Belt, in New Castle.
Tina Marshall, coordinator of the EMS Lawrence County Council, said her group was concerned that there might be a shortage of EMTs if a program weren't established locally.
Call Marshall at (724) 658-0389.
Lawsuit over cookie
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Eat'n Park Family Restaurants has filed a federal lawsuit saying Silver Lake Cookie Co. of Islip, N.Y., is infringing on the chain's trademarked "smiley face cookie."
The Pittsburgh-based chain, which has more than 75 restaurants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, including Boardman, says it came up with the cookie first. "That's debatable," a Silver Lake official said. "We've been selling that cookie for 20 to 25 years."
Eat'n Park officials say in the lawsuit they got a trademark on the cookie's design in 1993 and that the chain has been selling the cookie since 1985.
Eat'n Park wants a federal judge to order Silver Lake to stop selling the cookies.