Liturgy at Wick Park

Liturgy at Wick Park

YOUNGSTOWN — In support of Youngstown State University’s Festival of the Arts, St. Patrick Church, 1420 Oak Hill Ave., will have its 10 a.m. liturgy today in the pavilion area of Wick Park on the city’s North Side.

Parishioner and guitarist Jim Johnston will lead the hymns. After the liturgy, Caf Cimmento, the downtown restaurant, will provide breakfast sandwiches, coffee and juice.

Those in attendance will then be able to make their way to the festival, which is within walking distance of the park.

$2M for shoot house

RAVENNA — The U.S. House approved a spending bill that includes $2 million to build a new shoot house at the Ravenna Arsenal. The bill must also be passed by the Senate and signed into law by the president.

“I believe that the Ravenna Arsenal can be one of the premier training facilities in the country,” said U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Niles, D-17th, who was able to put the $2 million for the facility into the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs spending bill.

The Ohio National Guard wants to turn the arsenal into a full-scale premobilization training center that would allow Ohio soldiers to train there rather than having them sent to Indiana or Michigan. The shoot house would allow the Guard to train more than 1,000 soldiers annually there.

Ryan, a member of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, was able to get $4.5 million in federal funding in recent years for sewer lines and to rehabilitate buildings at the arsenal.

Man shot in left leg

YOUNGSTOWN — A Youngstown man was in stable condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center late Saturday after he was shot in his lower left leg about 10:10 p.m. Friday.

The victim told police he and his cousin drove to a home on West Woodland Avenue on the South Side.

His cousin went inside the house. The victim said he was standing outside by the car when he was struck by a bullet.

Robbed outside eatery

YOUNGSTOWN — Two people reported they were robbed in the parking lot of a Belmont Avenue restaurant about 1:30 a.m. Saturday.

A 49-year-old man from Youngstown and a 24-year-old woman from Lowellville told city police were in the parking lot when three men who were about 16 to 18 years old appeared and demanded money. One suspect produced a pistol.

The woman turned over about $200, and the man turned over about $30 and several credit cards. The robbers ran away, and the victims said one of the three fired a shot.

Home invasion

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police said a man broke into a Miller Road residence in Union Township at 4:20 p.m. Saturday, pulled a gun on 19-year-old victim and fled with $1,100 and a gold chain