Cambell's city festival

Cambell's city festival
CAMPBELL -- "Summer in the City," the 10th annual city festival, will be Friday through Sunday in Roosevelt Park. Rides, games, live entertainment, raffles, ethnic and American food, a health fair, a Chinese auction and tethered hot air balloon rides will be among the attractions.
Special events include a car/truck show from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, a parade beginning at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and fireworks Sunday evening.
The parade route runs north on 12th Street from Tenney Avenue and the city administration building to Park Drive to Neoka Drive to Edwards Lane and into Roosevelt Park.
Gunfire hits house
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 58-year-old Datson Avenue man suffered a minor injury after someone fired about six shots at his home, police said. The man was in his back bedroom around 10:15 p.m. Friday when he heard gunfire, police said. He looked out a window and was hit in his forehead by a window frame fragment after another shot was fired, police said. He was treated at the scene. No arrest has been made.
Second Harvest agencies
YOUNGSTOWN -- Several hunger-relief organizations in Columbiana and Trumbull counties have become Second Harvest Foodbank member agencies.
In Columbiana County, they are Southern Community Center, Salineville; First Baptist Church, Wellsville; Point Man Ministries Outreach, Washingtonville; Grace Lutheran Church, East Palestine; and First United Methodist Church, Salem.
In Trumbull County, they are Vienna Ecumenical Food Pantry, Vienna; Grace AME Church, Warren; Our Way Home Ministries, Warren; North Mar Church, Warren; and Warren SDA Church, Warren.
For information about becoming a Second Harvest member agency, call (330) 783-1122 or stop by the Second Harvest facility at 1122 E. Midlothian Blvd., Youngstown.
Cigarette starts fire
YOUNGSTOWN -- A discarded cigarette caused a fire at 3325 Neilson Ave. that resulted in $15,000 worth of damage to the South Side home, firefighters said. The fire was reported at 10:01 p.m. Sunday and was under control in 15 minutes, firefighters said. There were two children -- ages 11 and 15 -- in the two-story, wooden-frame house at the time of the fire, and neither was injured, firefighters said.
Helping with petitions
HUBBARD --Township trustees are seeking volunteers to circulate petitions concerning the installation of sanitary sewers in the southwest section of the township -- south of state Route 304 and west of Jacobs Road.
Those interested are asked to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. June 26 in the township administration building.
Call Trustee Jon Dowell, (330) 568-0148 or e-mail him at trusteedowell@hotmail.com.
Bankruptcies skyrocket
ERIE, Pa. (AP) -- With a record of nearly 17,000 households and businesses in western Pennsylvania filing for bankruptcy in 2002, attorneys don't expect the regional pace of filings to slow down soon.
Quarterly bankruptcy filings in U.S. Bankruptcy Court show an average of 4,200 bankruptcies were filed each quarter of 2002 in the western district that covers an area from Erie to Pittsburgh, including Mercer and Lawrence counties. That number increased more than 10 percent to 4,641 filings in the first quarter of 2003.
"I don't think it's slowing down at all," said Wesley Rowden, a bankruptcy lawyer who practices in Erie and Crawford counties.
Dave Pesch, housing counseling manager for St. Martin Center in Erie, Pa., a nonprofit social services group, attributes the problem to both the poor economy and an increase in predatory lending.
"Places are giving people mortgages with no jobs, knowing they are going to foreclose," Pesch said.
Policeman's car is shot
YOUNGSTOWN -- Police Officer Morris Lee heard a loud bang outside his Idlewood Avenue home, and when he went outside to investigate, he discovered that someone shot out the passenger rear window of his patrol car, police said. Police said they found some birdshot, probably from a shotgun, lodged in the door of the patrol car, but couldn't find a shell casing. The shooting occurred around 10:45 a.m. Friday. A police investigation showed no negligence by Lee.