Girard school board lays off eight employees

Girard school boardlays off eight employees
GIRARD -- The school levy outcome is still undecided here, but that didn't stop the Girard Board of Education from making personnel cuts before school starts for the 2004-05 year.
The board agreed Monday to lay off eight noncertified employees effective Aug. 25. This allows the board to give those employees at least 10 days' notice before they will be laid off. The affected employees are seven bus drivers and one cafeteria cashier.
When asked who the children would rely on to get to school, board member Jamie DeVore stated, "The kids will have to find their own way to school."
Damage at school
NILES -- Police responded to an alarm drop at a city elementary school and found damage from a BB gun. Reports say police arrived at Lincoln Elementary School, 960 Frederick Ave., shortly after midnight today and found BB holes in a rear door. Police were not able to determine if the holes were fresh, and no one was found inside the building.
Cut during attack
NILES -- A Pratt Street woman suffered a cut finger when a man with whom she has a child attacked her.
Police received a call around 11:40 p.m. Monday that a man had a knife and was holding the 31-year-old woman against a car. Reports indicate the man was gone when police arrived, but the woman told authorities he threatens her daily. No charges have been filed.
Library's recycling binsto be removed in Howland
HOWLAND -- Both recycling dropoff containers at the Howland Branch of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library will be removed permanently from its parking lot at 9095 E. Market St. effective Monday.
One container has been available for five years for newspapers and magazines and the other for plastic, glass and aluminum cans. The Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste Management District, which maintains the containers, said the library asked that they be removed because of increased dumping of garbage, broken glass, trash and hazardous waste, causing unsightly and unsafe conditions in the lot.
Woman reports gang rape
YOUNGSTOWN -- A 24-year-old Champion woman told police she was held against her will and gang-raped at a house in the 500 block of Willis Avenue, where she had been given heroin and couldn't come up with $400 to pay for the drugs.
The woman said she went to the house Sunday with a friend she'd met while both were incarcerated at the Trumbull County jail. She told police that the resident of the house made her call her family several times to try to get the $400.
When that failed, he forced her into the attic and threatened her with a metal pipe, saying, "You take care of these guys or I'll beat your a-- with this pipe," reports show. She told police she then was sexually attacked by five men.
The woman escaped Monday and ran to a house on West Chalmers Avenue, where the resident let her in to call police.
Mecca corn roast
MECCA -- The fifth annual Mecca Community Corn Roast will be at the Mecca Community Park from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday.
This year's event will feature live entertainment and a classic car show. There will be games for the children, bingo and a Chinese auction.
Kicking off the event will be a parade beginning at 11 a.m. from the Moose Lodge and ending at the park, located on state Route 46, just south of Route 88 in the township.
Anyone interested in participating in the parade should contact Mary Owens at (330) 889-3899. For more information about the car show, call Earl at Earl's Muffler, (330) 889-2426.
The event is co-sponsored by the Cortland Moose Lodge, and all proceeds will be used for local community projects.
Niles tire collection
NILES -- The city will offer curbside pickup of scrap tires in each ward.
Tires will be picked up between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day of the collection, with 1st Ward set for Aug. 23, 2nd Ward on Aug. 24, 3rd Ward scheduled for Aug. 25 and 4th Ward on Aug. 26.
A special pickup of any tires that may have been missed throughout the city will be Aug. 27.
There is a limit of four tires per household, and no rims will be picked up.