Block party scheduled

Block party scheduled
YOUNGSTOWN -- The North Side Citizens' Coalition will have its annual block party from 4:30 p.m. to midnight Friday between Fifth Avenue and Elm Street.
There will be food, live music, auctions and prizes.
The party is a fund-raising event to raise awareness of the coalition's rehabilitation work, new home construction and other programs.
After-school tutoring
YOUNGSTOWN -- Operation Learning Community Program Inc. is offering an after-school tutorial program for children in the second grade beginning Oct. 12.
The program will operate Tuesday-Thursday and will provide free tutoring services to help children improve their reading and math skills. The program also includes homework assistance, recreation, arts and crafts and computer activities. All children will receive a hot meal.
The program is located in Victory Lutheran Church, 2110 Glenwood Ave. Please call (330) 788-0353 to register your child.
Presidential debate party
BOARDMAN -- The public is invited when the Mahoning County Democratic Party holds a presidential debate party at 8 p.m. Thursday at Mr. Anthony's Banquet Center on South Avenue.
The debate between President Bush and U.S. Sen. John Kerry, his Democratic challenger, begins at 9 p.m., and will be shown on large-screen televisions.
For leaves, use paper bags
GIRARD -- The city will again require use of paper lawn bags for the annual leaf collection.
Bags can be picked up from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays through Nov. 20 at the street department garage, 943 S. State St.
The first five bags are free upon proof of residency, such as an identification card or utility bill. Additional bags are $1 for five.
Collection of the bags will be combined with the weekly trash pickup. For information, call (330) 545-1322.
Internet scam victim
YOUNGSTOWN -- A Bryson Street woman was duped by an e-mail purportedly from eBay, an online auction service, that said someone had used her bank account and to correct the matter requested, she was to provide her Social Security and bank account numbers. The 39-year-old woman complied, believing the e-mail was valid because it had the eBay logo. The woman told police Tuesday that someone later used an ATM to withdraw $107 from her bank account.
FOP lodge plans rally
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 141 will hold a rally at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Maronite Center pavilion, 1555 S. Meridian Road, Austintown, to raise funds for promotion of a 0.5 percent Mahoning County sales tax on the Nov. 2 ballot.
The FOP is holding the rally in conjunction with Citizens to Support the Progress, a group formed to promote the tax issue.
The FOP represents deputies in the county sheriff's department.
Teen is charged
CANFIELD -- Police charged Christian Mang, 17, of Sharrott Road, North Lima, with two counts of possessing a deadly weapon on school property Tuesday morning after finding two swords in the back of a car he was driving at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center on Palmyra Road. Mang told police he had the swords because he'd just gotten them sharpened.
Dogs shot in ears
AUSTINTOWN -- A Rosemont Avenue woman told police Tuesday that her dogs had been shot in the ears with BBs several times in the last two months. The woman said her house and back porch had also been shot several times and that on Tuesday the window of her back door had been shot out by a BB. Police said they talked to a man who lives behind the woman on South Navarre Avenue who said he had a BB gun that he used to kill chipmunks. Police are investigating a possible connection.
Driver dies in crash
HARTFORD -- The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a one-car crash that killed a 43-year-old Orangeville man.
According to the patrol, Stephen J. Unangst, no street address available, was driving west on Hayes-Orangeville Road around 3:15 a.m. today when he lost control of his vehicle and traveled off the right side of the road, striking a culvert. Unangst's vehicle overturned, and he was ejected.