Arthritis information

Arthritis information
AUSTINTOWN -- A free arthritis information meeting will be from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Austinwoods, 4780 Kirk Road.
The speaker will be Dr. Craig Beaudis of Ankle & amp; Foot Care Centers.
No registration is required. Call (330) 792-0660 for more information.
School board meeting
VIENNA -- The Mathews Board of Education has scheduled a special meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the home of board member Roy Pratt, 642 Niles-Vienna Road.
The purpose is a work session to prepare public information for a newsletter.
Sweepstakes winner
YOUNGSTOWN -- Robert Fuller of Youngstown recently won first prize in the Timber Wolf and Red Man "Outfitted for Life Sweepstakes," which includes a $5,000 shopping spree at the outdoor sporting goods store Cabela's.
Timber Wolf and Red Man are tobacco products.
Placed on probation
CAMPBELL -- A woman has been placed on six months' probation for disorderly conduct.
Trina Cole, 18, of Frost Avenue, Youngstown, also was sentenced Friday in Campbell Municipal Court to either paying a $200 fine or serving 60 hours of community service.
The charge stems from May 15 when she got into a dispute with her former boyfriend and sprayed him with pepper spray at a Jean Street home, police said. The spray also burned the eyes and throats of another adult and four preschool children who were in the room, police said.
Tested for rabies
EAST PALESTINE -- A bat found in a Unity Township home has tested positive for rabies, the Columbiana County Health Department says.
The bat had no contact with humans, a department spokesman said.
The animal was discovered July 10 in the bedroom of a home on Bacon Avenue. The homeowners killed it and gave it to the health department for testing.
YSU recycling grant
YOUNGSTOWN -- The National Association for PET Container Resources has awarded Youngstown State University's Recycling Program a $2,694 grant to buy a dozen new outdoor recycling bins.
NAPCOR, founded in 1987, is the trade association for the PET plastic industry in the United States and Canada. PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic resin and a form of polyester.
The new bins will be placed in locations where students tend to deposit containers more frequently, said Jim Petuch, manager of the university's recycling and reuse programs.
YSU will continue to place bins for all home tailgate events and special activities, and several of the new bins will remain outside the stadium year-round, he said.
Salem cleanup
SALEM -- The city's annual curbside cleanup program will be next Saturday. All material must be placed at the curb the night before so crews can begin picking it up that morning.
Items acceptable for pickup include furniture, bundled brush and trash.
Appliances will be taken only if the Freon has been removed and the appliance tagged before pickup.
Items that will not be picked up include household garbage; tires; car parts; loose brush or branches; construction debris; paint; dead animals; steel drums; explosives, propane and gas cylinders; fluorescent light bulbs; used motor oil; antifreeze; medical waste; paint solvents; insecticides and pesticides.
All material to be hauled away must be placed at the curb in disposable containers and weigh no more than 50 pounds.
Brush must be bundled in lengths no more than 4 feet and no more than 50 pounds.
Phone book collection
WARREN -- Sprint Yellow Pages and Alliance Community Outreach are urging local residents to donate their old phone books during the fourth Trumbull County Sprint Yellow Pages Recycle for Literacy Event.
The event will take place next Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon in the Wal-Mart parking lot at 2015 Elm Road.
Volunteers from the Alliance Community Outreach Program and Sprint Yellow Pages will collect and count the books.
For every directory recycled that day, Sprint Yellow Pages will donate $1 (up to $3,000) to the Alliance Community Outreach Program.
Outreach Program Director Charlene Allen said funds from the event would be used for basic literacy education, family and workplace literacy and GED preparation.
The Trumbull Countywide Sprint Yellow Pages can also be recycled at the Howland/Trumbull Recycling Center, 3590 North River Road.