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Driver escapes bullets that strike his car
YOUNGSTOWN — Police are looking for the people responsible for shooting at a city man as he left a South Side business.
According to police, the 43-year-old Moherman Avenue man was coming out of an animal hospital at Southern Boulevard and Hilton Avenue on Friday afternoon when he heard about eight shots and ducked down in the front seat of his car.
The car’s rear window was shattered, and a bullet went through the front windshield. The man was not wounded but told police the bullet missed him by inches.
Reception for YSU artist
NILES — There will be a reception from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Eastwood Mall’s Art Outreach Gallery for artist Halley Snow, who will be exhibiting her artwork through Sept. 6.
Snow is a student at Youngstown State University and plans to earn a fine-art degree. She is a recent graduate from South Range High School and the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center.
During her high school years, she spent much of her time completing freelance projects for individuals and businesses, producing portraits, murals and graphic design.
She won the Purchase Award in the 2008 Mahoning County Art Show and has received numerous silver and gold keys in the annual Scholastics art show.
Sentenced to prison
WARREN — A former Weathersfield man convicted by a jury of felonious assault and child endangering has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Jeremy Hendrex, 29, of Sandusky, caused serious injuries to his 10-week-old daughter in 2007 while living with the child’s mother in Weathersfield Township.
His daughter, now 2, is partially blind and has brain damage, apparently resulting from shaken- baby syndrome, said Marcia Tiger, executive director, Trumbull County Children Services Board.
Hendrex was sentenced Monday by Judge Peter Kontos in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.
School-supply giveaway
YOUNGSTOWN — Third Baptist Church, 1177 Park Hill Drive, will have its 11th annual school-supply giveaway at 5 p.m. Sunday in the church fellowship hall.
A family movie night including popcorn and snacks, sponsored by the Baptist Training Union, will be featured. School supplies will be distributed immediately after the movie. School items include notebooks, pencils, pens, binders, crayons, scissors, glue and more.
Fifth Quarter program
NEW WATERFORD — Abundant Life Fellowship, 46469 state Route 46, is launching a Fifth Quarter program exclusively for Crestview High School students after all home football games.
The free programs, planned from 9:30 p.m. to midnight, will start Friday. Other dates will be Sept. 4, Oct. 2, Oct. 23 and Oct. 30.
Students are invited to the church fellowship hall to play basketball, board games or cards, listen to music, hang out with classmates, enjoy free food and participate in random drawings for prizes.
Students must show a Crestview ID card and sign in to get in the doors. For more information, call the church office at (330) 457-7317.
Stuff the Bus campaign
The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley reminds residents the organization’s Give to Stuff the Bus campaign continues through Aug. 31 to help the underprivileged children in the Mahoning Valley start the school year off on a positive note.
The United Way is collecting donations of school supplies.
What is needed are book bags, loose-leaf paper, spiral notebooks, pencil cases, crayons, pens and pencils, highlighters, erasers, rulers, pocket folders, glue sticks and book covers.
Donations can be dropped off at any of these collection sites: the Boardman YMCA on McClurg Road; Christopher & Banks and C.J. Banks in the Southern Park Mall; Knoll Run Golf Course in Coitsville; the Jewish Community Center, Gypsy Lane, and the United Way office, 255 Watt St., both in Youngstown.