First Night photo contest

First Night photo contest
YOUNGSTOWN -- First Night Youngstown will have a photo contest in conjunction with the fourth annual event.
Those wanting to enter the contest should pick up an entry blank and contest information at the First Night Youngstown event headquarters on the ground floor of the Realty Building on Federal Plaza East between 6 and 11 p.m. today.
The categories are: community, celebration, the New Year, the arts, best downtown Youngstown building and best Federal Plaza picture.
Family threatened
SHARON, Pa. -- Police said it may have been the liquor talking, but Chas J. Brier, 18, of Logan Avenue was arrested at his home early today on charges that he threatened his brother with a loaded shotgun.
Police said Brier had been drinking whiskey and apparently got into a dispute with his brother, at one point threatening his sibling with a loaded .16 gauge shotgun.
Police were called to the home about 12:30 a.m. and arrested Brier on charges of simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and underage drinking.
He was held overnight and faced arraignment today.
Commissioner seat
LISBON -- A Crestview school board member is seeking the Republican nomination for the Columbiana County commissioner seat held by Sean Logan.
David Vollnogle, 46, of Fairfield Township, filed for the post Tuesday.
Besides serving on the Crestview school board, Vollnogle is a project manager for Howells & amp; Baird, a Salem civil engineering and land surveying firm.
He was the Fairfield Township zoning inspector from 1984 to 1991.
Logan is seeking the Democratic nomination to be re-elected.
The primary is March 2.
Heal the Hangover ride
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Outspokin' Wheelmen bicycle group will have its 13th annual Heal the Hangover ride at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Bicyclists should meet at Lake Newport in Mill Creek Park at the old boat docks on the lake's west side.
The ride will take place regardless of the weather.
The ride leader is Carl Frost, Beaver Township police chief.
Wehr is board chairman
NORTH LIMA -- Beaver Township has a new person heading the board of trustees.
On Monday, at the township's annual reorganization meeting, Larry Wehr was named chairman for 2004.
Ronald Kappler, last's year's chairman, was named vice chair.
The trustees also set the township's regular meetings at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month.
They adopted a $2.8 million general operating budget for 2004.
Fund-raiser time capsules
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Sen. John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center is selling time capsules to raise money for an addition.
The capsules will allow the center to raise up to $1.4 million for its $27 million expansion. So far, the center has raised $22 million. The capsules cost between $2,500 and $10,000, depending on the number of canisters and plaque style.
Staff members came up with the idea when they noticed donors' reaction to tiles engraved with their names on the floor in a section of the center.
"We found that people would come down and bring their families and even have family reunions here by their tiles," said center President Andy Masich. "They'd take pictures of their tiles with their toes in the frame."
The addition includes the Smithsonian wing, the Sports Museum of Western Pennsylvania, a special collections gallery, an education center and a theater.
Citation of Merit awarded
WARREN -- Trooper Donald E. Walker Jr., of the Ohio State Highway Patrol's Warren Post, has been awarded the Superintendent's Citation of Merit for rescuing two unconscious victims from a fiery crash on Interstate 80. Walker received the award from Col. Paul D. McClellan, patrol superintendent, for endangering his own life to pull an ejected woman to safety and to remove a man from inside the overturned vehicle just as the passenger side became engulfed in flames.
The award ceremony was Tuesday at the Warren post.
The crash occurred June 16, 2002, near the Mahoning-Trumbull County line.
A 1987 graduate of Howland High School, Walker served with the Marines and Braceville police before joining the patrol in 1997.
Walker lives in Cortland and has two sons, Corey and Donovan.
Democratic caucus
WARREN -- The Democratic caucus for the selection of delegates and alternate delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Boston will be at 6 p.m. Jan. 12 at Niles Middle School.
All Democrats are welcome.
For more information, call Trumbull County Democratic headquarters at (330) 369-6575 or Ohio Democratic headquarters at (614) 221-6563.