Grant for meal program

Grant for meal program

WARREN — Trumbull Mobile Meals has received a grant for $2,000 from The Senator Maurice and Florence Lipscher Charitable Trust. The funds were used to purchase new vinyl food transport bags for mobile home-delivery service.

Trumbull Mobile Meals is a community-based agency dedicated to provide home-delivered meals to people in the community who are ill, frail and homebound, have limited mobility, and/or cannot secure a nutritious diet for themselves. Vinyl food service bags are used Monday through Friday, 260 days per year.

Scholarship applications

HUBBARD — Applications are available for the 2009 annual J.P. Marsh & Co. Memorial Scholarship for all Hubbard High School seniors. To be eligible, Hubbard students must have a GPA of 3.0 or better and plan to attend Youngstown State University’s Williamson School of Business Administration.

Applicants must write a short essay on why they choose to pursue a business career. The scholarship was created in memory of John and Marie Marsh, both honors graduates of YSU. Applications may be picked up at the high school guidance office and must be submitted by March 25.

Tornado drill planned

YOUNGSTOWN — Emergency sirens will sound at 9:50 a.m. March 25 in a statewide tornado drill, according to the Mahoning County Emergency Management Agency. The drill will be part of the annual observance of Ohio’s Severe Weather Safety Awareness Week.

Health care jobs

BOARDMAN — Area residents interested in applying for entry-level positions in health care at Humility House are encouraged to attend recruitment from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 31 at Mahoning County One Stop located at 141 Boardman-Canfield Road.

Current openings include certified resident assistants and state-tested nurses’ aides. There are full and part-time positions available with benefits. For information about the recruitment contact Danita Logan, (330) 965-1787, ext. 115.

This recruitment is offered in part by the Northeast Ohio HealthForce, which is a cooperative of area health-care providers, educators and work force development experts focused on collaborative actions that address shortages in the health-care industry.

Hermitage man robbed

HERMITAGE, Pa. — A 31-year-old city man was robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday, police said. The man reported that two men who pulled up behind him while he was walking home around 3 a.m. in the area of Shady and March streets robbed him of $350.

Food distribution

YOUNGSTOWN — The Greater Youngstown Point Inc., (The Point) has a food distribution between 10 and 11 a.m. today at its headquarters at 1555 Belmont Ave., Suite 3. Participants must be Mahoning County residents and be prepared to show identification.

Rose society meeting

YOUNGSTOWN — Jim Zimmerman, the district director of the Buckeye District of the American Rose Society, is the featured speaker at the meeting of the Mahoning Valley Rose Society at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Davis Center in Fellows Riverside Gardens.

Zimmerman and his wife, Barbara, have won many national trophies in horticulture, and Jim has won several national trophies in arrangements. His topic will be, “How to Grow and Show Good Roses.” A question-and-answer period will follow. Refreshments will be served. All rose growers are invited to attend.