Events at the park

Events at the park

LISBON

Certified yoga instructor Dee Brown will guide participants through an hourlong, free de-stress yoga session designed for both beginning and advanced yoga practitioners during “Yoga in the Park” at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Scenic Vista Park just off U.S. Route 30 near Lisbon. For information, call (330) 277-7588 or e-mail her at destress09@yahoo.com.

On May 15, the Mahoning Valley Astronomical Society’s Star Party will be at the park. The society will meet at noon for its annual regional meeting. There will be model-rocket and model-airplane demonstrations throughout the afternoon. At dusk, the members will set up their telescopes. For more information, visit their Web site at mvobservatory.com.

Cinco de Mayo fiesta

GIRARD

A fiesta of Latin music and dancing to celebrate Cinco de Mayo will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Kuzman’s Dance Hall, 1025 S. State St.

There also will be ballroom, swing and hustle dancing. Chips and salsa will be served.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call the dance hall at (330) 545-8521 or (330) 545-8995 or Stephen Barba at (330) 502-5492.

Giving Made Simple

YOUNGSTOWN

Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley has been selected to participate in the Sam’s Club Giving Made Simple campaign with the chance to win a $1 million grant.

Giving Made Simple is an online voting campaign in which Sam’s Club members and associates will determine how the company will allocate $4 million in charitable contributions to eight nonprofit organizations that support programs dedicated to education and small-business development. The campaign runs until Sunday.

Supporters can vote by logging onto www.samsclub.com/giving (or by visiting Sam’s Club’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/samsclub and clicking on the “Giving” tab). Sam’s Club members and associates can vote for one of the eight participating organizations. They can cast one vote per day for the duration of the campaign.

Family to be honored

SALEM

The Apicella family will be honored at Salem Golf Club Friday as Friends of the Kent State University Salem Campus, and more than 100 students will be honored for their academic excellence.

Dean Jeffrey Nolte will present the campus’s highest honor, its Friends of the Campus Award, to the family that includes Dr. Frank Apicella, Dr. Salvatore and Alma Apicella and Dr. Peter and Sherri Apicella.

“Over the years, the Apicellas have done so much for Kent State Salem,” Nolte said, adding: “The Apicellas have diligently provided insight on how we can better serve our students. They have also acted as ambassadors on the Salem Campus’ behalf and hosted campus-related events.”

For more information, visit www.col.kent.edu.

School-board meeting

Youngstown

Youngstown Academy of Excellence board meets at 3:30 p.m. today. The open session for the public will be at the school at 1408 Rigby St.

Collision avoidance

CANFIELD

Some students were jostled during a sudden stop by a school bus trying to avoid a collision Tuesday morning.

Schools Superintendent Dante Zambrini said a bus with a load of students was cut off at the intersection of Shields and Messerly roads by another driver. The bus driver, he said, hit the brakes to avoid a collision, jostling some of the students.

The bus driver pulled over to make sure the students were not injured, and a deputy sheriff, seeing the bus pulled over, stopped to assist, but no report was taken.

Zambrini said the school’s nurse attended to the students to make sure no one was injured. He said parents will be notified about the event.

Build a birdhouse

GIRARD

Girard Free Library, 105 E. Prospect Ave., is sponsoring a make-your-own-birdhouse event at 1 p.m. Saturday. The family-oriented program is for children ages 6-12 and will be presented by Gus Selak, husband of the children’s librarian, Maria Selak. You must register for this program and bring your own hammer. Call (330) 545-2508 or come in and sign up at the circulation desk.

Shoe store robbed

YOUNGSTOWN

Police are looking for a man who robbed a South Side shoe store at gunpoint.

According to police, a black man believed to be in his teens wearing a black ski mask, blue- and-black checkered shirt and dark-blue jeans walked into the Shoe Warehouse on Midlothian Boulevard just before 5 p.m. Monday and pointed a gun at the front-desk employee. He demanded cash be put into a bag.

The employee handed the man all the cash from the cash register, and the thief ran out of the store.