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Supper with Santa

BOARDMAN — It is not too late to get tickets for Supper with Santa on Dec. 10. The event includes supper with Santa, games and crafts. Attendees will be able to take home a family picture with Santa as a souvenir.

Tickets are on sale at the Boardman Park office. Prices are $6 for residents and $8 for nonresidents. The event is at the Lariccia Family Community Center from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. No tickets will be sold at the door.

Elderly woman wanders from apartment, dies

BOARDMAN — An 86-year-old woman died after wandering away from the apartment building where she lived.

Police were called about 5 p.m. Saturday to the AHEPA apartments on Boardman Boulevard where a relative had reported Betty Chambers, who lived at the apartment building, missing. Chambers had previously been diagnosed with dementia.

The security cameras for the building showed Chambers, 86, leaving the building about 5:30 a.m. Saturday. She was wearing pajamas, slippers and a coat. Her body was found in a ditch along Boardman Boulevard between the road and a restaurant.

Ethnic intimidation

BOARDMAN — Two 20-year-old Woodview Avenue men are charged with ethnic intimidation and criminal damaging, accused of throwing pumpkins at the home of and damaging tires of vehicles belonging to Asian neighbors.

Richard Wanamaker, 20, also is charged with underage alcohol consumption, and Adam Kocjancic, 20, also is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

Residents of a Buena Visa Avenue home who are of Asian descent told police that the tires on their two vehicles parked in the driveway were damaged about 3 a.m. Saturday.

The victims said they were awakened by a loud bang at the front door and found several pumpkins had been thrown against the front screen door and were smashed on the front porch.

Police found Wanamaker and Kocjancic at a small fire in a back yard on Woodview. Wanamaker told police he had slashed the tires because he hated the victims.

Man robbed at gunpoint

BOARDMAN — A 49-year-old Shields Road man told police he was robbed at gunpoint at his home over the weekend.

The man said that on Saturday night, a man that he knows took his wallet that contained his state identification card, Social Security and bank cards along with his house keys and a cell phone.

The gunman struck the man in the jaw to get him to reveal his personal identification number for the bank card, the victim told police.

2 killed in car accident

WARREN — Troopers say alcohol and high speed were involved in a single-car accident at 2:20 a.m. Saturday that killed two people and injured three others on North Leavitt Road.

Passengers Benjamin Bosley, 25, of Leavittsburg, and Rory J. Drnek, 25, of Mansfield were pronounced dead at the scene. The accident happened near Canoe City, just north of West Market Street.

Being treated in the intensive-care unit at St. Elizabeth Health Center are the driver, David A. Eubank, 24, of Newton Falls, and Michael Lester, 24, of Leavittsburg.

A third passenger, Amber Hann, 23, of Newton Falls, was initially taken to Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital, where she was in critical condition, and then transferred to St. Elizabeth Health Center, but St. Elizabeth’s had no record of her Monday afternoon.

The highway patrol said the vehicle was southbound at a high speed, slid off the right side of the road and struck a tree.

The vehicle was torn in half, ejecting all five occupants, none of whom were wearing seat belts. The crash remains under investigation, said Sgt. Jeff Klem.

Restaurants to host benefit for hospital

Area Eat’n Park restaurants will be hosting “Caring for Kids” events to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley.

Fund-raising events will vary by location and will include “Tips for Tots” nights, raffles, prizes, games and more. Reservations are not needed.

Here are the dates and times:

U4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Warren Eat’n Park, 2057 Walmart Drive N.E.

U4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Boardman Eat’n Park, 8051 Market St.

U4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 8, Austintown Eat’n Park, 5451 Mahoning Ave.

The campaign is a five-week effort at which Eat’n Park conducts various fund-raising activities to benefit local children’s hospitals in the communities where their restaurants are located.