Veterans Day parade set

Veterans Day parade set

HERMITAGE, PA. — The annual Shenango Valley Veterans Day Parade will march down East State Street on Nov. 11.

Six divisions representing the communities of Sharon, Hermitage, Farrell, Sharpsville, Wheatland and West Middlesex will form at Kerrwood Drive at 5:30 p.m. and then move west on State Street at 6:30 p.m. The route covers one mile and ends at the Sharon city line.

The Hickory Veterans of Foreign Wars is the host post for the event.

$10,000 foundation grant

YOUNGSTOWN — Burdman Group Inc. and its Sojourner House Domestic Violence Program received a $10,000 grant from the Kennedy Family Foundation, a component fund of the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley.

Sojourner House is Mahoning County’s only protective shelter for victims of domestic violence. Sojourner’s goal is to create a safe place for women to stay by providing a confidential shelter and supportive living environment.

Sojourner’s program provides emergency protective shelter, individualized safety planning, a 24-hour crisis line, domestic-violence education, children’s programming, case management, judicial advocacy, aftercare, support groups and outreach.

For more information, contact Joseph F. Caruso, Burdman Group executive director, at (330) 743-9275, ext. 113, or Malinda Gavins, Sojourner House program director, at (330) 747-4040.

Grant-writing program

NORTH LIMA — Good Hope Lutheran Church, 12030 Market St., will sponsor a program on grant writing for beginners from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church. The session will focus on fundamentals of grant writing for nonprofit organizations.

The cost is the donation of 10 nonperishable food items. Sponsors are the church and the Evangelical Lutheran Coalition for Mission in Appalachia.

Registration is due by Thursday to (330) 549-2406 or e-mail to office@goodhope-elca.org.

Beekeepers set meeting

CORTLAND — The Trumbull County Beekeepers Association will meet at 2 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Trumbull County Agricultural Building, 520 W. Main St.

Kim Flottum, editor of Bee Culture magazine, will be the speaker. The public is invited. Bring a food item to share, as a potluck dinner will be after the meeting. For more information, go to www.trumbullcountybeekeepers.org.

Judge Swift elected to national group

WARREN — Judge Thomas A. Swift of the Trumbull County Probate Court has been elected to a three-year term on the American Judges Association Board of Governors.

The AJA represents more than 3,000 judges from all levels of jurisdiction across the United States and Canada in promoting and improving the administration of justice, maintaining the status and independence of the judiciary and providing a forum for continuing education.

Judge Swift is also chairman of the Probate and Elder Law Committee. He is past president of the Ohio Association of Probate Judges.

2 killed in cycle-car crash

WARREN — Two Warren men were killed when a motorcycle slammed broadside into the driver’s side of a car at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Merriweather Street Northwest and Commerce Avenue Northwest, police said.

Killed were Rylin Robinson, 64, of Clearwater Street Northwest, driver of the car; and Jimmy May, 38, of Merriweather, riding the motorcycle. Police said the men were pronounced dead at local hospitals. No other vehicles were involved in the crash and neither vehicle carried passengers. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.