Friday, September 28, 2007
Benefit wine taste
BOARDMAN — A wine taste will be from 7 to 10 tonight at Antone’s Banquet Centre on Market Street, to benefit St. Michael Church Family Life Center in Canfield. Live, silent and Chinese auctions will be held, and entertainment will be provided by Rick Blackson and Mary Jo Maluso. Tickets are $50 each and can be purchased at the door, or by calling the parish office at (330) 533-6839.
Dinner for the needy
WARREN — Monument of Faith Church of God in Christ, 2165 Highland Ave., will have a free spaghetti dinner for the needy and homeless from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the church. A benefit praise and worship concert will follow at 6 to raise funds for the Community Family Outreach Complex. Among performers will be Elder Michael Herron and the church mass choir, Praise Report, Terry Carter and One Voice.
Bomb threat at school
MADISON — Two 14-year-old boys are being questioned as suspects in a bomb threat that emptied the Beaver Local High School on Thursday morning. Chief Deputy Allen Hauter said the Columbiana County sheriff’s office was notified by a school official at 10:06 a.m.
Students were placed in the football bleachers while the school was searched. The search cleared the school of any bomb, according to a statement by Hauter. Students were placed in the district’s middle school for the rest of the day. Sheriff’s office detectives were still interviewing the two youths late in the day. Detectives and school officials could not be reached to comment.
YSU seeks STEM grant
YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University intends to take advantage of a new state grant program that will provide funding to colleges and universities to advance the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. The Ohio Board of Regents is looking for letters of interest by Nov. 7 from schools seeking funds from the Ohio Innovation Partnership, which has $150 million set aside for schools seeking to recruit world-class faculty with a focus on regional economic development and $100 million available to help recruit Ohio residents into current STEM programs. An academic realignment at YSU created a College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics this fall, putting the university in a good position to seek some of that funding, a spokesman said.
Neighborhood cleanup
YOUNGSTOWN — There will be a cleanup for the Idora neighborhood on the city’s South Side from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday. The neighborhood gets its name from the former Idora Park amusement park. All participants should meet on Parkview Avenue in front of the former amusement park site. Trash bags and equipment will be provided. Parkview Avenue is off Glenwood Avenue north of Canfield Road.
Scrap tire drive
STRUTHERS — The city, in conjunction with The Recycling Division of Mahoning County, the Green Team, is offering a scrap tire drive Saturday. Struthers residents may drop off unwanted car and small truck tires behind the Struthers Municipal Building, 6 Elm St., between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. A fee of 50 cents per tire, or $1 if the tire is on a rim, will be collected. There is a limit of four tires per resident. The Green Team will reimburse the city up to $3,000 for tires collected as well as pay for the cost of advertising the scrap tire drive. For more information, call (330) 755-2181, ext. 138.
Health fair at Northside
YOUNGSTOWN — The annual Western Reserve Care System Family Practice Residents’ Health Fair is from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Medical Education Building at Northside Medical Center, 500 Gypsy Lane. The event is free and open to the public. The fair offers a variety of free screenings, educational displays and the opportunity for visitors to ask questions of the resident physicians in an informal setting.
Family practice residents see about 250 patients a week in the Family Practice Center during their three-year residency.
Put on probation
MERCER, Pa. — Judge Thomas Dobson of Mercer County Common Pleas Court placed Kevin Gamble, 28, of Third Street, Warren, Ohio, on 18 months’ probation for felony possession with intent to manufacture at a hearing Thursday. Court documents state that on May 4, 2005, police caught Gamble at a Baldwin Avenue, Sharon address with several grams of marijuana in his possession.