Citywide variety show seeks talented youths

February 5, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — Talented youths are being sought for the All-City Variety Show, to be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Buckeye Elks Youth Center, 421 North Ave. Singers, dancers, dance groups, vocal and musical groups, rappers, poets and comedians are some of the types of entertainers needed for the show. Young people from grade school through high school can sign up by calling (330) 746-9486 or (330) 720-2485.

The audience will pick the winners. Admission will be $5 ($4 with the donation of a canned good for the Rescue Mission).

LEGO teams to compete at mall’s center court

NILES — The first LEGO League Competition at Eastwood Mall will begin at noon Saturday in the center court, with an awards ceremony at 2 p.m.

Participating students will come from Warren Willard Middle School, Champion Middle School, Christian Star Academy from Mount Vernon, and the Eastwood Mall Team, which includes students from surrounding schools including the Akiva Academy at the Youngstown Jewish Community Center.

Students from the Trumbull Career and Technical Center’s Tech Challenge Team and students from local high school robotics teams will join the middle school students at center court.

At 3:30 p.m. Saturday, the Boardman Center Middle School Orchestral Ensemble will perform in the mall’s Art Outreach Gallery.

High School Rock Off winners are announced

CLEVELAND — Rock outfit trio the Sharp Edges from Marion L. Steele and Elyria high schools beat out 17 other bands in the High School Rock Off finals Sunday to win the annual battle of the bands for Northeast Ohio. The event was held at House of Blues.

Second place went to metal rockers Cheyne-Stokes from Cloverleaf High School.

Blast Shields Up! from Our Lady of the Elms in Akron and Cloverleaf High School took third place.

PBS station wins award

KENT — A multimedia package created for educators by Western Reserve Public Media, formerly PBS 45/49, was named 2008’s finest instructional media product in a small market when the National Educational telecommunications Association (NETA) honored 23 public broadcasters with awards in January at the organization’s annual conference in Tampa, Fla. Western Reserve Public Media was the only Ohio station to win an award.

“Big or Small: Measure It All!,” created for grades 4-6, shows pupils how measurement is used in the everyday world and how to use measurements in a hands-on manner to accomplish a goal. The project has already received high marks from Ohio teachers who evaluated the materials for classroom use.