METRO DIGEST

Hubbard car show

HUBBARD — Greenwood’s Hubbard Chevrolet and the Shenango Valley Corvette Club will present the third annual Corvette and Classic Car Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m, Saturday at the Greenwood dealership just off Interstate 80 here.

The Corvette club will donate proceeds from the show to the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., a nonprofit organization, for the expansion project that is under way. Attending the show will be Wendel Strode, museum executive director. The museum will have a display.

Registration is $10. Disc jockey Big Rick will play oldies. Thirty-six trophies will be presented for various classes.

Brookfield Band Boosters will provide food and refreshments with proceeds to benefit the band. Other area vendors will be in attendance.

St. Joseph School, Sharon, Pa., will sell raffle tickets for a new 2010 Camaro SS and a 2009 Corvette convertible. Drawings will be Oct. 31; proceeds benefit the school.

Last year’s event attracted some 180 cars and 500 spectators.

Campbell house fire

CAMPBELL — Fire destroyed a vacant house at 36 Sixth St. Wednesday night.

The house, which had been vacant for many years, was owned by the city, the fire department said.

The department was called to the blaze at 10:15 p.m., and the fire was already consuming the house. The cause is under investigation, the department said.

Realty Tower plan OK’d

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s design-review committee approved plans Wednesday for the parking lot behind the Realty Tower Apartments project, about two weeks after rejecting the initial plan.

Realty owners agreed to the committee’s recommendations to increase the parking lot entrance/exit on South Champion Street from 12 feet to 14 feet wide. Members had said the lot entrance was too small.

The lot was to hold 36 cars under the original plan. The change reduced the number of spaces to 34.

Construction of the $8.4 million, 23-apartment complex at 24 Central Federal St. is almost done.

The design-review committee oversees exterior work to buildings and properties downtown and in surrounding areas.

Arson suspect in jail

YOUNGSTOWN — A 22-year-old city woman is in Mahoning County jail in lieu of $10,000 bond after police say she tried to burn down a West Ravenwood Avenue woman’s home.

Deana Jenkins, 22, of Woodford Avenue, was arraigned before Judge Robert A. Douglas Jr. in Youngstown Municipal Court on misdemeanor charges of criminal damaging and criminal menacing. She was ordered to have no contact with the owner of the Ravenwood Avenue home if she posts bond.

Police say Jenkins sprayed the front of the woman’s house as well as the inside of a door with lighter fluid during an argument and said she was going to burn down the house. Police and fire units responded to the house.

Police said they found a bottle of charcoal lighter fluid in the driveway and took two lighters from Jenkins.

Loan for church revamp

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — No one objected at a public hearing Thursday to Lawrence County commissioners’ borrowing $1.5 million to buy and renovate Second Presbyterian Church. The money will be borrowed from ESB Bank at 4.5 percent interest.

After the hearing, Commissioners Steve Craig and Daniel Vogler authorized an ordinance to borrow the money. Commissioner Richard DeBlasio is out of the office this week on family business.

Chief Clerk and Administrator Jim Gagliano said the county will seek architects’ proposals for the project until July 31.

Commissioners bought the church at 429 Countyline St. earlier this month for $275,000 from Paul Lynch Investments and plan to renovate the 25,000-square-foot structure for county office space.