SCOUTS

SCOUTS
Eagle award honors
Bryan Filicky, son of Rich and Sherry Filicky of Poland, recently received his Eagle Scout award, Boy Scouts' highest honor. Bryan is a member of Troop 101 of Struthers, and his scoutmaster is Jeff Wormley.
Bryan, who has earned 23 merit badges, has held positions of junior assistant scoutmaster, senior patrol leader, assistant den chief, chaplain's aide and historian. He is a member of the Order of the Arrow and St. Nicholas Church in Struthers. His Eagle Scout service project was to supervise and construct a new hiking trail in Boardman Township Park.
Bryan is a senior at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center, where he studies electricity. He is a member of the National Technical Honor Society and Physics Club.
Gold Award winners
Chaleese Murray and Brittany Watts are the recent recipients of the Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouting.
Chaleese of Warren is the daughter of Gwendolyn Lampley and Carl Murray and is a sophomore at Warren G. Harding High School. She is a member of Troop 324, which is led by Melanie Jones, and is a nine-year member of Scouting. Her honors include Leadership and Silver awards. She is active at her school and at Antioch Baptist Church.
Brittany is the daughter of Annette Watts of Warren, and she also is a sophomore at Harding. She has been in Scouting for seven years with Troop 324 and earned the Leadership and Silver awards.
For their Gold Award service project, the girls gathered information on the black American holiday of Kwanzaa. Resources on Kwanzaa's principles, symbols and history were presented to the Girl Scouts of the Lake to River Council to be used for the education of girls in the future.
Brittany is a member of First Baptist Church of Braceville and its Girls Assembly.
LAWYERS
Ethics award winner
Canfield attorney Ronald E. Slipski was honored earlier this month with the Ohio State Bar Association's 2006 Eugene R. Weir Award for Ethics and Professionalism. The award, presented at the OSBA's annual convention in Akron, recognizes the demonstration of exceptional professional responsibility among Ohio lawyers.
The OSBA represents 25,000 members of the bench and bar.
Slipski is a partner in the law firm of Green, Haines, Sgambati Co., where he has practiced for more than 25 years in the area of labor and employment law, especially in workers' compensation work. Before joining the firm, he served as a law clerk to presiding Judge Joseph Donofrio of the 7th District Court of Appeals.
He earned his law degree from the University of Akron School of Law and his bachelor's and master's degrees from Youngstown State University.
Slipski is president-elect of the Mahoning County Bar Association and has served as the association's bar counsel, chairman of its Certified Grievance Committee and member of its Inquiry Committee. He is a member of the executive committee of the Workers' Compensation Section of the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers and a member of the OSBA, the American Bar Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers in America.
Slipski has received both the Lawyer of the Year and the Distinguished Service Award from the Mahoning County Bar Association and is listed in "Who's Who In American Law."
He is married to the former Geralyn Balchak, and they have five children -- Jana, Marek, Lukas, Adrian and Viktor.
DOCTORS
Medical degree
Vanessa Teaberry, a 1997 graduate of Canfield High School and a 2001 graduate of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, received her doctor of medicine degree today from the Duke University Medical School, Durham, N.C.
Dr. Teaberry will begin general surgery residency at Duke University this summer. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rick Teaberry of Callawoods Drive, Canfield, and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lepsik of Boardman and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Teaberry Sr. of Canfield.
HONORS
Corrections officer of year
Karen A. Willingham of the Trumbull Correctional Institution, Leavittsburg, was named state corrections officer of the year for 2006. She was selected from a statewide pool of 30 such officers representing each of Ohio's prisons.
Having joined TCI in 1996, Willingham serves as a mentor to new corrections officers and participates on numerous committees, including the Women's Issues Team, Corrections Staff Fellowship and Return to Work program. She also works with offenders at the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center and also tutors students at a local church.
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