Stabbing in Youngstown

Stabbing in Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Steve Simpson of Garfield Street was arrested and charged with felonious assault after an incident in which Zina Wright was stabbed.

Officers responded to a call on Garfield Street and found Wright on the front porch of the home bleeding from the left side of her chest.

Wright told police Simpson, who was walking down the street, had stabbed her. Police apprehended Simpson, who said Wright was playing with a steak knife and he was trying to take it from her.

Upon release, Simpson will be taken to the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Department.

Wright was taken into the operating room at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Mandatory sick leave

BOARDMAN — The Regional Chamber will host a luncheon event at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Holiday Inn to inform the public of efforts being made to pass mandated paid sick leave in Ohio in November and why it believes such passage is likely to stifle the business community.

Tony Fiore, director of Labor & Human Resources for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, will give a presentation on the proposal.

If passed, the law would require Ohio businesses with more than 25 employees to provide seven days of paid sick leave a year for full-time employees.

Bug Day at Mill Creek

CANFIELD — Mill Creek MetroParks will present Bug Day from noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 3 at the MetroParks Farm, state Route 46.

The event includes bug games, races and hunts.

All participants may earn a master of “bugology” degree. Special displays will feature live and preserved insects and arachnids.

All aboard for state fair

CANFIELD — The Mahoning County Farm Bureau will sponsor a day trip Aug. 8 to the Ohio State Fair in Columbus.

Seats will be available on a first-come, first-served basis for the motor coach trip. The cost is $40 for farm bureau members and $50 for nonmembers and both include admission to the fair. The trip is open to all; an adult must accompany a minor.

The bus will leave MillCreek MetroParks Farm parking lot, state Route 46, at 7 a.m. and return after midnight.

Fair features include livestock exhibitions, cooking demonstrations and performances by the Ohio State Fair band and chorus.

Prepaid reservations are required. Call the farm bureau at (330) 533-5553.

Food bank gets grant

YOUNGSTOWN — Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley has received a $5,000 grant from the John F. and Loretta Hynes Foundation for technology upgrade.

“The grant received will help us operate more efficiently,” said Michael Iberis, the food bank’s executive director.

Second Harvest provides food to 165 hunger relief organizations in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. In 2007, the food bank distributed 5.3 million pounds of food including 1.4 million pounds of produce.