School to stay open for Project Walk Warm

School to stay open for Project Walk Warm CHAMPION -- Champion Middle School will be open from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays beginning Nov. 7 for adults wishing to walk indoors for fitness during inclement weather. A school nurse will take blood pressures there from 3:30 to 4 p.m. on the first Monday of every month. The program, known as Project Walk Warm, will conclude April 27. Race, fun walk set POLAND -- The annual Home Run 5K Race & amp; 2 Mile Fun Walk to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Mahoning County will be here at 9 a.m. Saturday. The walk starts and finishes at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, corner of Shawbutte and U.S. Route 224, east of Interstate 680. Registration fee is $15 on race day from 7 to 8:30 a.m. or $12 before race day. Awards will be presented to the first three finishers overall and for male and female, by age groups. The first 250 registrants will receive a race shirt. For more information or to receive a registration form, contact Race Committee Chairman George Sutton at (330) 757-2660 or by e-mail at gesutton@cboss.com. All proceeds support the Habitat for Humanity mission of building simple, decent and affordable housing for and in partnership with low-income families in Mahoning County. Local police get grant AUSTINTOWN -- The township police department has received a $10,205 grant from the Ohio Governor's Highway Safety Office. Bryan Kloss, interim police chief, said the grant is to pay for more enforcement of speed and seat-belt laws. Roads that have been identified as high accident and fatality areas will be targeted, he said. Candidates forum CANFIELD -- The Canfield Historical Society will host a "Meet the Candidates" forum at 2 p.m. Sunday. Candidates for the office of mayor and Canfield City Council will be available to answer questions. The Canfield Historical Society is at 44 W. Main St. Parking will be available at the Canfield Public Library Academic awards HOWLAND -- The academic awards ceremony for high school students will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at the high school physical education complex. To be eligible, a student must have maintained a 3.4 grade-point average the previous year. Atty. Raymond Tisone, a school board member, will be guest speaker. No inspection was done EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- PPL Corp. officials never inspected the part of a power plant's discharge area that eventually failed in August, causing a major environmental problem on the Delaware River, according to state records. The plant's 1,500-foot-long basin was designed to let the fly ash -- a byproduct of burning coal -- settle to the bottom while clear water from the top flows out a discharge pipe. But a leaking barrier allowed the ash to mix with the discharge water, officials said. About 100 million gallons of coal ash slurry spilled into the Delaware before PPL stopped the leak. The discharge structure had concrete walls on three sides and the wooden stop logs on the fourth. The stop logs, which look like railroad ties, were the part that failed. "There were no provisions for regular inspection of the stop logs in the design," PPL spokesman Dan McCarthy said. "The stop logs themselves were expected to last the life of the basin, basically without maintenance. In the field, they've been used for more than 30 years and not had a problem."