Judge Lisotto to speak at court's ceremony

Judge Lisotto to speakat court's ceremony
YOUNGSTOWN -- Judge Robert Lisotto of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court will speak for the annual opening of court ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday. Twenty new bar members will be welcomed during the ceremony, which will be in the domestic relations courtroom on the fourth floor of the courthouse.
Atty. David C. Comstock Sr. will be honored with the association's first professionalism award.
YSU receives $21,285
YOUNGSTOWN -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region Five recently awarded $21,285 to Youngstown State University to help train teachers in chemistry, waste reduction, pollution prevention and ecosystem protection.
YSU offers training programs, meeting Ohio Department of Education standards, to fifth- and sixth-grade teachers from 11 public and five Catholic schools in Youngstown.
Teachers learn about accessing databases and about regulations that pertain to their schools. Those trained are tested and go back to their schools to serve as trainers there.
YSU is among 20 groups chosen from about 100 applications throughout Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Grants are awarded annually under the National Environmental Education Act.
Council special session
YOUNGSTOWN -- City council will meet in special session at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to vote on legislation to borrow $2.75 million through the sale of bonds or notes to build an 80,000-square-foot building and parking deck at the west end of the city's central business district. A finance committee will meet at 5 p.m.
Work on garden parking lot
YOUNGSTOWN -- Portions of Fellows Riverside Gardens' parking lot will be closed Monday and Tuesday for maintenance.
The McKinley Avenue entrance will be closed Monday, and the Price Road entrance will be closed Tuesday.
The gardens and visitor center will maintain their regular hours.
Blanket presentation
YOUNGSTOWN -- The St. Elizabeth Auxiliary, whose members have been knitting and crocheting blankets for infants in the St. Elizabeth Health Center's neonatal care unit for 12 years, will present its 1,000th blanket to the unit at 1 p.m. Monday at the St. Elizabeth Guest House on Caroline Street.
Kids Carnival is Sept. 13
BOARDMAN -- One nonperishable food item for Second Harvest Food Bank is the price of admission to a Kids Carnival from 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 13 at Boardman Community Care Center, 5665 South Ave.
Activities for children, ages 3 to 10, include a petting zoo, Jock-O the Clown performances, a bounce-around tent and face painting. Snacks are available.
Surgeries postponed
PITTSBURGH -- Because of an extremely low blood inventory, the Central Blood Bank has notified hospitals in its service area, which includes Mercer, Crawford and Butler counties, to postpone elective surgeries scheduled for this week in cases where patients require O positive or O negative blood.
The blood bank continued its urgent appeal for blood donors.
Physicians may want to advise patients to consider autologous or directed blood donations to prevent delays in treatment, the blood bank said.
In autologous donations, patients deposit their own blood in advance and get it back when they have surgery.
Directed donations are those given by friends, relatives or others for a specific patient.
At the end of the week, the blood bank said it will determine whether the postponements need to continue.
Self-assessment program
EAST LIVERPOOL -- Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency reminds all agencies and businesses previously registered for the two-day Ohio State Capability Assessment for Readiness program that the program is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the East Liverpool Motor Lodge, Dresden Avenue. Registration is at 7:30 a.m.
The OSCAR program is a self-assessment program that enables a business, agency or individual to judge their readiness and capability by communicating strengths and areas needing improvements in mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery for Columbiana County.