Metro digest || Mill Creek seasonal road closures

Mill Creek closures

YOUNGSTOWN

Effective Monday, these roads in Mill Creek Park will be closed to motor vehicles for the winter: Chestnut Hill Drive, between Canfield Road and Kirkmere Spur; High Drive, between Kirkmere Spur and West Cohasset Drive; and Calvary Run Drive, between Belle Vista Avenue and Milton Avenue.

These roads are closed to motor vehicles each winter to improve the safety of the public and park personnel, to reduce snow- and ice-removal costs, to reduce the environmental damage from road salt, and to offer a safe place for winter hiking, bicycling and cross-country skiing, park officials said.

These roads would present significant winter-driving hazards because they lack guardrails and feature steep hills, park officials explained. The roads will reopen in the spring.

TubaChristmas

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The 12th annual Tuba-Christmas concert is set for noon Saturday in the main concourse at Eastwood Mall. Conductor is Wes O’Connor, director of bands at Austintown Fitch High School and musician in The House Band and W.D. Packard Concert Band. Guest conductor is Ken Young, retired band director from Lakeview High School.

Those interested in participating must be a tuba or baritone player of any age. Registration is from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday, with rehearsal from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the community room across from Payless shoe store in the Dillard concourse.

To participate or for more information, call Teresa Kirkland, coordinator, at 330-219-2998.

Felony drug arrests

WARREN

David Abel and Tracy Abel, both 36 and both of Ravenna, pleaded innocent in Warren Municipal Court to felony drug-possession and were released on $3,500 bond after drug agents arrested them Monday.

Agents with the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force and Warren Police Department arrested them while serving a search warrant at 166 Haymaker Ave. NW after a two-month investigation.

Russell Mazzola, 37, of Warren, also was arrested in the home. He pleaded innocent to misdemeanor drug-possession and was released on $1,000 bond.

Hypodermic needles and other people not yet charged were found throughout the home.

Police also seized suspected heroin and crack cocaine packaged for sale, $350 and small amounts of suspected marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Festival of Trees

YOUNGSTOWN

Humility of Mary Health Partners’ annual Festival of Trees is today through next Friday; 80 Christmas trees decorated by hospital staff members will be available for raffle at the health-care organization’s three acute-care hospitals — St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, St. Joseph Health Center in Warren and St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center.

Proceeds from all three events help employees when facing a crisis. Proceeds from the St. Elizabeth Boardman event also will go to a mission closet for patients and families who may need clothing or other supplies while at the hospital.

The viewing schedule is 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 a.m. to noon next Friday.

Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. Winning tickets will be drawn at noon next Friday, and tree pickup is 4 to 6 p.m. that day. Winners need not be present.