KSU Trumbull develops new noncredit program

KSU Trumbull developsnew noncredit program
CHAMPION -- Kent State University Trumbull Campus has developed a new noncredit program for the community.
The young seniors program offers a series of courses and workshops each semester designed to meet the unique needs of the young senior citizens in the community.
The courses will have few students and will provide more individual attention to participants.
Many are half as expensive as similar noncredit courses. The discount applies to courses and workshops specifically designed for the young seniors program.
To qualify, individuals must be at least 50 and have been an Ohio resident for a least a year. Participants will be required to show photo identification with a birth date to register.
The program is sponsored by the Workforce Development and Continuing Studies Center through the Office of Workforce Diversity, which focuses on developing and offering courses, workshops and conferences to specific populations, including seniors, minorities, women and the disabled.
Call (330) 675-7668 or (330) 675-8809.
YSU looks to Kresgein fund-raising effort
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University administrators are approaching the Kresge Foundation for help in raising the final $5 million needed to build a recreation and wellness center.
A $12 million fund-raising campaign has reached the $7.4 million mark.
The Kresge Foundation, in Troy, Mich., offers grants for capital projects to organizations that are reaching the end of fund-raising goals.
YSU has requested $800,000, to be granted once the school has raised a matching amount.
Construction of the recreation center, scheduled for a fall 2005 opening, will be fully funded through private donations.
The building will feature a fitness center, climbing wall, weight room, jogging track, racquetball courts and spiritual meditation room.
Plans are to build it at the west end of Kilcawley Center.
Walk and bike ridefor Greenway Trail
LISBON -- The public is invited to participate in a walk and bike ride to benefit the Greenway Trail.
The event will be at 1 p.m. Sunday. Participants may start at the nearly 12-mile pathway's trailhead in Lisbon, along state Route 164, or the one along state Route 558 in Franklin Square, a community in Salem Township.
Cost is $5. T-shirts will be available for $10.
Proceeds will go toward maintaining the trail, which is owned by the Columbiana County Park District.
Pa.'s Fish for Free Day
HARRISBURG -- The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has designated Saturday as Fish for Free Day in the state.
Anyone, not just license holders or youths under 16, will be permitted to fish in Pennsylvania for free for that one day only.
Ex-Hermitage manaccused of stealing
SHARON, Pa. -- A former Hermitage man serving a state prison sentence on a credit card theft charge has been accused of stealing material from his former employer.
Police said Joseph M. Pumphrey, 44, now an inmate in the state prison at Mercer, is accused of stealing a variety of plumbing materials and equipment worth about $9,000 from Valley Plumbing of Sharon while he worked for the company as a plumber between April and August 2002.
Police said he used the material on side jobs and also stole a company credit card.
Pumphrey has been in prison since September 2002.
Planning panel considersan easement for Popeye's
SALEM -- The city planning commission will consider an easement that would allow a Popeye's Chicken & amp; Biscuits restaurant to be constructed near the Wal-Mart store on East State Street.
Before the restaurant can be built, an easement is needed to allow customers to use Wal-Mart's Cunningham Road entrance, Patrick Morrissey, city planning and zoning officer, said today.
The restaurant, which will be near the intersection of Cunningham Road and East State Street, won't have its own entrance.
There's no timetable established for when the restaurant will be built, Morrissey said.
The planning commission will consider the matter at 4:30 p.m. Monday. The panel meets in city hall chambers, 231 S. Broadway Ave.