Multi-Generational Center offers classes

June 2, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

GIRARD — Girard Multi-Generational Center, 443 Trumbull Ave., is offering computer classes. Sessions are free for displaced workers and members of the center. Others who wish to take a class are asked to get a membership.

All classes are from 10 a.m. to noon in the computer lab. Classes are offered multiple times for students’ convenience. Registration is required as seating is limited. Call (330) 545-6596. Sessions on beginning Internet and e-mail will be Thursday and Friday and cover how to search online and how to manage e-mail.

Microsoft Word will be June 8-12. Sessions will focus on word processing, learning how to create, edit, format and save documents. Microsoft Excel will be June 15-19 and focus on spreadsheets and graphs.

KSU improvements

CHAMPION — The state Controlling Board released more than $640,000 for improvements at Kent State University Trumbull Campus. About $632,000 will be used to repave parking lots and roads, repair curbs and replace aging light poles. Delta Asphalt Co. Inc. of Tallmadge, Penn-Ohio Electric Co. of Masury and KSU Design Services will handle the work. An additional $14,900 will be used to upgrade fire alarms at the Warren campus library, theater and other office space in the main classroom building.

Police seek gray Olds

YOUNGSTOWN — Police are asking for help from the public in the search for a car that hit two women in wheelchairs.

The gray Oldsmobile Delta 88 that hit the two women likely has damage to the right side and missing parts after the accident. Police recovered two pieces of the car — one with “Eighty Eight” engraved on it and the other with “Delta Royal” engraved on it.

Police are asking that anyone with information about the hit-and-run accident call Detective Sgt. Patricia A. Garcar at (330) 742-8777.

According to police, Brandy Spangler, 29, of Seneca Street, and Kerri Bartelson, 31, of Verona Avenue, were traveling along McCartney Road in the wheelchairs just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when the car struck the two women from behind. Spangler was hit first, and then the car swerved left and struck Bartelson. They were hospitalized after the accident.

Canfield baccalaureate

CANFIELD — Canfield High School’s baccalaureate will be at 7 p.m. Friday in the high school auditorium. The service is led by students, and Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams will be the keynote speaker.

Agency’s office moved

NILES — The Area Agency on Aging’s main office has been moved from downtown Youngstown to Suite 2685 on the second floor of the Eastwood Mall at 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road. New contact information for the office are: phone, (330) 505-2300; and fax, (330) 530-8862.

Satellite offices in Ashtabula and Columbiana counties and the Girard Multi-Generational Center will remain where they are until their leases expire, at which time they will also be moved to the Niles location, said Lisa Solley, chief of community relations, wellness and training.

Man shot in calf

WARREN — A 37-year-old Oak Street Southwest man was shot in the calf, apparently during an incident in the Fairview Gardens housing project at Benton and Draper streets Southeast early Sunday. Police were called to St. Joseph Medical Center at about 4 a.m. for a shooting victim. An officer talked to the victim but didn’t get much, police said.

Warren KFC robbed

WARREN — A man wearing a scarf over his face robbed a cashier and the safe inside the KFC restaurant, 855 W. Market St., at gunpoint at 8:40 p.m. Sunday.