Annual water report

Annual water report

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Water Department recently mailed a copy of its consumer confidence report to its customers.

The report informs customers of what is in their drinking water, which the city purchases from Meander Water. The department is required under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act to provide the information to its customers annually by July 1.

There are approximately 65,000 laboratory tests per year performed on 145 contaminants. No violations occurred in this 2008 calendar year, according to the department.

The city purchases and distributes approximately 19 million gallons per day through 750 miles of pipelines to residents of Youngstown and to the townships of Austintown, Boardman, Canfield and Liberty. It also sells bulk water to Mineral Ridge, Girard and the city of Canfield as well as to North Jackson.

Further information and/or another copy of the report can be obtained by contacted the department’s engineering office at (330) 742-8765.

Campaign to be formed

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley Organizing Cooperative will have a noon meeting Thursday at the Center for Community Empowerment, 1420 Dogwood Drive, to discuss organizing a criminal-justice reform campaign.

Sharod Gordon, director of criminal justice and policy for Target Area Development Corp., an Illinois community-based organization that organized a similar campaign, will be the guest speaker. For more information, contact DaMareo Cooper at MVOC at (330) 319-0703 or by e-mail at dcooper@mvorganizing.org. The MVOC is an organization that works with neighborhood groups to improve the quality of life in the Mahoning Valley.

Mosquito spraying

HUBBARD — Mosquito spraying in the city is planned June 10. Alexander Pest Control will do the spraying of the entire city. Spraying will start at 6 p.m. and continue for six to eight hours. Harding Park will be the last area sprayed. The chemical to be used leaves no residual and dissipates into the air.

Sirens to be tested

HERMITAGE, Pa. — Hermitage Fire Department will conduct its monthly test of the city’s weather warning sirens at 10 a.m. Thursday. The test will include activation of the Clark, Farrell, Sharpsville, West Middlesex and Wheatland weather sirens. Citizens are asked to disregard the sirens during the test.

Tire recycling set

HUBBARD — Tire recycling for city and township residents is planned from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the rear parking lot of the township administration building, 2600 Elmwood Drive Extension.

Car and small-truck tires will be accepted. There is a limit of four tires per person. The recycling is funded by Geauga-Trumbull Solid Waste District. For information, call Walter White at (330) 534-0798.

Drug charges

SALEM — Dann Arnold, 46, the manager at the Foxes Denn, was charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a raid at the establishment.

Detective Dan Downard, the director of the Columbiana County Drug Task Force, said Tuesday that authorities seized an ounce of marijuana, drug paraphernalia, a 1995 Jeep, a loaded handgun and more than $3,000.

There may be additional charges after the investigation is finished, he said.

Officers from the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Youngstown unit took part in Monday’s raid, along with the Salem Police Department and an agent from the Ohio Investigative Unit.