Saturday, December 19, 2009
Food/clothing giveaway
YOUNGSTOWN — New Beginnings Outreach Ministry, 2007 Schenley Ave., is having a food and clothing giveaway from 9 a.m. to noon today. All are welcome.
Festival of Lights set
YOUNGSTOWN — City Councilman Jamael Tito Brown, D-3rd, along with various block-watch and community leaders, will host a Festival of Lights and Decoration Tour of the city’s North Side from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The tour will begin and end at the Heart Reach Ministries 211 Redondo Road.
The tour will showcase the homes and spirit of the citizens of the community. “This is a way to display the talent and creativity of those who live and work on the greater North Side of Youngstown,” Brown said.
The tour bus will begin going through the neighborhoods at 5:30 p.m. Anyone who wants to participate has until Wednesday to decorate. All participants are asked to have all their lights on and ready for viewing by that date and time.
Prizes will be given to the winners selected. Anyone interested in having their home showcased and placed on the tour route should call Brown at (330) 747-3592.
Beaver trustees meeting
NORTH LIMA — Beaver Township trustees will have a workshop meeting at 7 a.m. today at the township administration office, 11999 South Ave. The purpose is to prepare the 2010 budget.
Demolition contract
YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County commissioners have awarded a $26,800 contract to All Excavating Co. of Canfield for demolition of 11 vacant, dilapidated houses in Campbell using federal neighborhood- stabilization money.
The contract covers the first installment of the 137 abandoned properties to be demolished in Campbell under the program, for which Campbell is allotted $727,000.
Probe of fatal crash on I-80 continues
AUSTINTOWN — Authorities are now investigating whether alcohol was a factor in the car crash that claimed the life of a Girard police dispatcher.
Thomas Zuppo, 47, of Girard, was killed just after midnight Wednesday after he rear-ended a Ohio Department of Transportation salt truck on Interstate 80 in Austintown.
Patrol Sgt. Nakia Hendrix previously said they didn’t believe weather was a factor in the accident.
Officials for the Canfield Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said results of the investigation are pending. Results of the coroner’s report won’t be released for six to eight weeks.
Man is sentenced to 6 years in prison
YOUNGSTOWN — A man who pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide in a July accident that killed a 4-year-old girl has been sentenced to six years in prison.
Judge John M. Durkin of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court imposed the prison time Thursday on Charles George, 41, of Market Street, in the death of NDeya Davis, who was killed instantly when she was ejected from the van George was driving. The van hit a utility pole and flipped over on lower Mahoning Avenue near the Western Reserve Transit Authority offices.
Fire at candy company
NEW CASTLE, Pa. — A fire at the New Castle Candy Co. on Croton Avenue on Thursday did $100,000 in damage to the two-story building, the city fire department said.
The fire broke out at 6:42 p.m. after a small amount of a mineral oil boiled over and hit an open flame, the department said.
Five or six people were in the building at the time. One employee had minor burns to his hand and face, the department said. The department put the fire out as it was starting through the roof.
MammoVan screenings
YOUNGSTOWN — The MammoVan, a mobile mammography unit, will offer breast-cancer screenings from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at Oakhill Renaissance Center, 345 Oak Hill Ave., Youngstown; and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at ACOP Center, 2051 Niles Road, Warren.
Financial assistance may be available for those who qualify. The service is sponsored by the YWCA of Youngstown’s ENCOREplus breast-cancer-awareness program. For more information, call (330) 746-6361.