Niles Relay for Life moved to Waddell Park

April 27, 2009 at 12:05a.m.

NILES — The Niles Relay for Life on Friday and Saturday will be at a new location this year: the Ralph Infante Wellness Center track at Waddell Park, beginning at 6 p.m. Friday.

The Relay For Life, the American Cancer Society’s signature event to raise money, is a family-oriented team event in which participants walk relay-style around the track and take part in fun activities off the track.

The public also is invited to attend the luminaria ceremony at 9 p.m. to honor cancer survivors and to remember those lost to the disease. Survivors will circle the luminaria- rimmed track while the names of survivors and those lost to the disease are read aloud. Luminaria can be purchased for $10 by calling (330) 841-4970.

Grave decorations to be removed in Hartford

HARTFORD — Township trustees are asking that all decorations be removed from the township cemeteries by Friday in order to prepare for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.

Food drive set May 9 by letter carriers

YOUNGSTOWN — The National Association of Letter Carriers is having its 17th annual food drive May 9.

This is the day that postal patrons are asked to leave food near their mailboxes so that their letter carrier may pick it up and deliver it to a local food bank.

Last year on this day, the carriers collected 214,300 pounds of food in the tri-county area.

Postal carriers will kick off the food drive at 10 a.m. May 7 at the U.S. Postal Main Office Lobby, 99 S. Walnut St.

5th Ward will have town-hall meeting

YOUNGSTOWN — Councilman Paul Drennen is having a 5th-Ward town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Kirkmere Elementary School, 2851 Kirk Road. Expected to attend the meeting are Mayor Jay Williams and city department heads. The meeting is open to the public, and those in attendance are welcome to ask questions and raise concerns.

Animal-relief fund plans meeting for volunteers

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — The Lawrence County Animal Relief Fund will have a volunteer meeting Wednesday. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at Lawrence County Government Center on Washington Street.

Those who would like to help animals in the county should meet in the commissioners’ meeting room on the lower level of the center.

Camp Fitch schedules spring open house

NORTH SPRINGFIELD, Pa. — YMCA’s Camp Fitch is having open house from 1-4 p.m. May 17.

Visitors can enjoy wagon tours, the chance to try some traditional camp activities, toast marshmallows and learn more about Camp Fitch.

The camp is just west of Erie, Pa., with a mile of Lake Erie shoreline, 450 acres of forests, streams and fields. Summer camp consists of seven one-week sessions.

Campers can sign up for one, two or all seven weeks. The summer season ends with two one-week sessions of family camping.

Camp Fitch is at 12600 Abels Road, North Springfield, PA 16430, or call the camp at (814) 922-3219. Everyone is welcome, and no preregistration is required. The Web site is www.campfitchymca.org.

Niles Historical Society offers tours of museum

NILES — Tours of the Ward-Thomas Museum and grounds will be available during open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Docents, volunteers who are members of the Niles Historical Society, will point out the artifacts on display in the Ward-Thomas House, built during the Civil War era.

The museum is at 503 Brown St., off Route 46 on the city’s South Side.