Awesome-town festival meeting scheduled

February 10, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

AUSTINTOWN — A planning meeting for the “Awesome-town” Fall Festival is scheduled for 7 p.m. Feb. 18 in Stacey Pavilion at Austintown Township Park, 6000 Kirk Road.

The Awesome-town Fall Festival is scheduled for Oct. 9-10 at the park. Everyone is invited to join in to help make the community a better place. Your business or organization can be part of the celebration.

For more information, contact Brad Bloomster, director of ministries of Austintown Community Church, at (330) 799-4214, fax at (330) 799-3640 or bbloomster@your acc.org.

McBride House open

HUBBARD — Hubbard Historical Society will open the McBride House, 27 Hager St., to visitors from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Guides will be present to answer questions.

Plans have been made for the house to be open from 2 to 5 p.m. the second Sunday of each month. For more information call Cel Cooper at (330) 534-4247.

American-Hungarian club elects officers

YOUNGSTOWN — Officers elected during the Nov. 22 meeting of the Youngstown American Hungarian Club on Donald Avenue were installed by Ethel Kripchak during the Jan. 22 meeting at the club.

Inducted were Frank Tobias, president; Margaret Artz, vice president; Dolores Gran, secretary; and Irene Nemeth, treasurer.

Lifetime trustees are Kripchak, Arthur Szoke, Nemeth, Gran and Frank Soos.

Tobias is also serving as house manager and Rose Simion and Gran are in charge of event reservations and telephones.

Black nurses association offers 2010 scholarships

Youngstown-Warren Ohio Black Nurses Association has scholarship assistance available for those who are in an accredited nursing program. The deadline to apply is March 31.

Applications will not be accepted if all guidelines are not followed. Write to YWOBNA, P.O. Box 514, 44501-0514 Youngstown, OH or call (330) 788-8151 or (330) 747-4900. Online, visit www.ywobna.org.

Recipients of the 2009 scholarships were Latarsha Carter-Robinson, $1,000; Alyssa Monroe, $500; Shallon Hobbs, $500.

YWOBNA is an affiliate of the National Black Nurses Association. The local YWOBNA was organized in 1989.

Pet photo contest deadline announced

SALEM — The Humane Society of Columbiana County is sponsoring a pet photo contest. “How I Survived the Blizzard of 2010 With My Pet” is the theme for the event. Judges will be Jan Palmer, Humane agent; Marcus Stanley, youth volunteer, and Matt Feichter, volunteer.

A total of $150 in prizes will be award to first, second- and third-place photos, the owners will receive a complimentary membership and tickets to all Humane Society events in 2010, and the photos will be displayed at HSCC events.

Photos can be mailed to HSCC, P.O. Box 101, Salem, Oh 44460, by e-mail to hsccpets@yahoo.com, of delivered in person to the HSCC Rescue Center, 1825 S. Lincoln Ave. between noon and 6 p.m. daily. The deadline for submissions is 6 p.m. Feb. 20.

Speaker named for Friends meeting

AUSTINTOWN — The featured speaker at the 10 a.m. Monday meeting of Austintown Friends of the Library at the community room of the library will be Christopher Barzak, local author and creative writing instructor at Youngstown State University. The meeting is open to the public.

Barzak, author of the novel “The Love We Share Without Knowing,” published by Bantam Books, short stories and poems, organized the Y-Town Reading Series, which provides local authors and book fans with an opportunity to share their literary works.