Child-rearers to meet

Child-rearers to meet
NEW CASTLE, Pa. -- A support group for grandparents and other relatives raising children will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at the McGill Community Center, 1701 Albert St. Atty. Jean Perkins will talk about guardianship, partial/full custody and adoption. There will be activities for children during the program, which is free and open to the public. Registration is required; call (724) 598-5109 by Friday. Dinner will be provided. The group is sponsored by Penn State Cooperative Extension.
Crash kills Pa. woman
MERCER, Pa. -- A 28-year-old Cranberry, Pa., woman died after the vehicle she drove veered off the road on state Route 58 between Greenville, Pa., and Mercer. Kristall L. Johnson-Chappell was pronounced dead at 8:10 a.m. Saturday by Mercer County Coroner J. Bradley McGonigle III. McGonigle ruled the death accidental, caused by internal injuries from blunt force trauma to the chest. Johnson-Chappell was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee south when she veered off the road at a curve, attempted to regain control and veered off the road again, striking a tree near Line Road in Delaware Township, coroner's office officials
Shenango River cleanup
SHARON, Pa. -- Shenango River Watchers will have its final cleanup day of 2003 at 9:30 a.m. Saturday under a blue tent in the Sharon City Centre parking lot off Water Avenue. The group runs several cleanup days along the Shenango River each summer. Lunch will be provided. All participants will get a Shenango River Watchers T-shirt. To preregister, call (724) 342-5453 by 5 p.m. Thursday. Leave your name, phone number and the number in your party.
Missing man located
YOUNGSTOWN -- A man missing from an Austintown home since Monday was discovered around 9:49 a.m. Saturday on the West Side of Youngstown, Austintown police said. Further details were not available. Robert W. Sesser, 60, of North Meridian Road, disappeared after telling a neighbor that two women, who may have had car trouble, had flagged him down on Meridian Road.
KSUTC offers workshops
CHAMPION -- The Workforce Development and Continuing Studies Center at Kent State University's Trumbull Campus is offering two workshops next month. Long-term Care Insurance, 10 a.m. to noon Oct. 4, will cover what it is, how it works, and offer ideas to best protect your lifestyle and legacy. Preparing for the ACT, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 4-11, will assist in achieving better scores on the American College Test.