Hearing set for Nov. in vehicular homicide

Hearing set for Nov.in vehicular homicide
WARREN -- A pretrial hearing is set for 10:15 a.m. Nov. 17 for Michael Hummell, 56, of Greenfield Street Northwest, charged with vehicular homicide in the Sept. 3 death of motorcyclist Michael Greathouse, 53, of Lynwood Drive Northwest. After a warrant was issued for his arrest, Hummell turned himself in Friday, was arraigned before Municipal Judge Terry Ivanchak and posted a $5,000 surety bond. Hummell was driving a car north on Elmhill Drive Northwest, attempted a left turn onto Greenfield, failed to yield to the southbound motorcycle and collided with it, police said.
Rites for new school
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown City School District will have a ribbon cutting and public tour for the new West Elementary School, 310 S. Schenley Ave., at 2 p.m. Sunday. The 97,000-square-foot building, with a cost of $12.8 million, is designed to house 825 pupils. Gary Kasper, a representative of the Ohio School Facilities Commission, will participate in the ribbon cutting. His agency picked up 80 percent of the school project cost. The school is part of a $202 million building replacement and renovation program now under way in the district.
Charity horse showset for Perkins Park
WARREN -- The 21st annual Western Reserve Classic Charity Horse Show will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Perkins Park. Sessions will be at noon and 6 p.m. Friday; and 8 a.m., 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday; with championship classes at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. The event features food vendors, pony rides and a silent auction. All proceeds benefit the Animal Welfare League of Trumbull County.
Democrats will meet
POLAND -- The Democrats of the 17th and 6th Districts, a local political organization, will meet at 7 tonight at the Poland Community Baseball Association hall on Sheridan Road in Poland. Candidates seeking the Mahoning County Democratic Party's appointment to the vacant county auditor position have been invited to speak at the organization's meeting.
Rose Society will meet
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Mahoning Valley Rose Society will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Davis Center at Mill Creek MetroParks' Fellows Riverside Gardens. The speaker will be master gardener Ray Carroll, who will speak on landscaping with roses. The public is invited. There is a $5 fee for nonmembers.
Free musical show
SHARON, Pa. -- Singer and songwriter Javier Mendoza will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Lartz Memorial Library on the Penn State Shenango campus. The event is free and open to the public. Mendoza is an American/Spanish singer songwriter. He has performed with varied artists including Bed Folds, The Roots, Los Lobos, Ziggy Marley and Duran Duran.
Lecturer at Thiel
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- Jane Elliott, the originator of the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes discrimination experiment of 1968, will be a guest lecturer at Thiel College at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Lutheran Heritage Room of the Howard Miller Student Center. Elliott's lecture, part of the Thiel's First-Year Perspectives Program, is free and open to the public. The controversial Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise -- in which participants were labeled inferior or superior based on the color of their eyes -- began in Elliott's third-grade classroom in the all-white, all-Christian town of Riceville, Iowa, immediately after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elliott and the results of her exercise have been featured in a number of documentary films, including "A Class Divided," a staple on many PBS channels, in high schools and in college courses.
Free library matinee
COLUMBIANA -- The Columbiana Public Library, 332 N. Middle St., will have a free movie matinee at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Salchow room. There will be door prizes and free refreshments.