Thursday, August 21, 2008
3-year-old boy found crying and alone in car
WARREN — A 23-year-old city woman faces a misdemeanor charge of child endangering after a police officer found her 3-year-old son alone and crying in her car in the parking lot of the Trumbull Plaza on Parkman Road.
An officer was responding to a theft report at a store in the plaza at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when a woman told the officer about a child locked in a vehicle. The officer found the boy crying.
The boy’s mother arrived soon afterward and told the officer she had left the boy in the car for only a few minutes because he was sleeping when she got to the store. She noted that she left the windows cracked for him.
The boy and a 2-year-old brother were both taken from the woman and to the police station, where workers from the Trumbull County Children’s Services Board took possession of them pending an investigation.
Woman wakes to burglar
WARREN — A Reo Court Northwest woman awoke to a person standing in her kitchen early Wednesday, apparently trying to steal food.
The woman said she awoke at about 2 a.m. when she heard the back door slam shut to her Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority home. She went downstairs to find someone standing in the kitchen. She screamed and ran upstairs, then returned down the stairs with her two children and ran out the door to a neighbor’s house.
When officers arrived, they found numerous food items stacked on the kitchen counter, apparently in preparation for being stolen, a police report says. Nothing was missing from the home, however.
Search begins for zoning board alternates
BAZETTA — Bazetta Township trustees are taking applications for alternates to serve on the township zoning board and zoning board of appeals. Applicants must live in Bazetta Township and must submit a r sum to the township by Sept. 5.
Send r sum s to Bazetta Township Trustees, 3372 state Route 5 N.E., Cortland, Ohio 44410.
Salem pool to close for maintenance
SALEM — The entire pool area at the Salem Community Center will be closed from Monday through Sept. 1 for maintenance, and will reopen at 6 a.m. Sept. 2.
Canfield Fair seeking singers for service
CANFIELD — Invited back to the Canfield Fair again this year are those wishing to sing during the fair’s Ecumenical Church service.
Singers should meet for a rehearsal at the stage near the grandstand at 9 a.m. Aug. 31 with the service beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The choir will sing songs such as “I Shall Not Be Moved” and “The Old Irish Blessing.” Additional music will be presented by Canfield Fair Choir director Tom Scurich.
Admission to the fair will be reimbursed that day for those who sing.
Festival for Heart Walk
WARREN — A festival to benefit the American Heart Association Heart Walk is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in the parking lot in front of the main entrance at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, 1350 E. Market St. The festival will have a basket raffle, food and entertainment.
Softball game raised money for foundation
NILES — Community leaders, politicians and businessmen from Mahoning and Trumbull counties were pitted against each other in a charity softball game that raised $5,000 for the Hope Foundation of the Mahoning Valley.
The game was Saturday at Eastwood Field before a Scrappers game.
In addition, the foundation was able to make a $1,000 donation to Make-A-Wish Foundation from a fund-raising basketball game last winter.