Computer for police car

Computer for police car
LOWELLVILLE -- One of the village's two police cars will soon be equipped with a laptop computer. A benefit steak dinner held earlier this month raised $4,700, enough to have the equipment installed in one vehicle, said Chief William Vance, who helped organize the fund-raiser. Vance and his fund-raising committee, made up of three Lowellville police officers -- Roger Vance, J.R. Jackson and Lou Agnone -- are planning another steak fry for sometime next year. A date hasn't been set yet, the chief said. The committee is also considering a golf outing.
Center receives funding
YOUNGSTOWN -- Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro awarded $2,500 to Help Hotline Crisis Center, a Mahoning County organization. The discretionary funding is made available through charitable-gambling settlements reached on behalf of the state. The organization was chosen to receive funding because of its continued efforts to provide quality service to Mahoning County's senior citizens and disabled. The Help Hotline Crisis Center will use the funds for their emergency beacon light bulb program. Through the program, porch lights are made available for senior citizens and the disabled to turn on in case of an emergency.
Firewood collecting
YOUNGSTOWN -- Mill Creek MetroParks' wood storage lot on West Golf Drive, just south of Stitt Pavilion, will be open Oct. 30 and 31 and Nov. 6 and 7 for those who would like to collect firewood. There is no fee for the firewood, but individuals must cut and load their own. The lot will be open from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Only 15 vehicles will be allowed in the storage lot at one time. Trucks larger than pickup size are not allowed. Trailers attached to trucks also are not allowed. Automobiles with trailers under eight feet are allowed. For information, call (330) 702-3000.
Candidates night
YOUNGSTOWN -- The North Side Citizens' Coalition and the League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown will have a candidates night at 6 p.m. Monday in the Gathering Room at Park Vista, 1216 Fifth Ave. Guest panelists will include Bertram de Souza, editorial writer and columnist at The Vindicator; Elsie Dursi, executive director of the Mahoning Valley Association of Churches; and James Boyd, a former coalition staffer.
Air base presentation
AUSTINTOWN -- Ret. Brig. Gen. Michael F. Gjede, executive director of Save Our Airbase Reservists, is to give a presentation at 10 a.m. Monday at a meeting of the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments' general policy board. Gjede is expected to discuss how local communities can work to keep the federal government from closing the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.
Grant for school
AUSTINTOWN -- Lynn Kirk Elementary recently received a $3,015 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for its "Learning What Scientists Do Through Scientific Inquiry" program. The money will allow the school to develop programming that includes animal tracking, dissecting owl pellets, constructing a bluebird trail, recycling, a pond study, raising and tagging monarch butterflies, and studying bats, spiders and tadpoles in their habitats. The activities will be conducted on the school's 10-acre land lab.
Armed robbery
YOUNGSTOWN -- Terrell Vaughn, 20, of Youngstown was arrested on an aggravated robbery charge after a Park Vista couple were robbed at their home around 5:40 p.m. Thursday by four armed men, police said. The victims -- she's 66, he's 72 -- had just arrived home when the robbers -- two with shotguns, two with pistols -- approached. The couple told police that the robbers ransacked the house, taking cash and guns. Vaughn was found at a house on Oak Lane. A shotgun was found in a closet at the house and seized, police said.
Sign replacements
WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. -- Drivers using Pa. Route 60 can expect short delays Saturday and Sunday as new overhead signs are placed along the road near the Interstate 80 and Pa. Routes 18 and 318 intersections between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Traffic delays shouldn't last more than 15 minutes, according to the department of transportation.