Jeans collection

Jeans collection

STRUTHERS — The Struthers High School National Honor Society is helping people in need by collecting jeans.

The society is participating in the collection with Aeropostale stores, which want to send 200,000 jeans to Haiti and 200,000 jeans to rescue missions in the United States.

The society will have three drop-off sites Friday in the main lobby of each Struthers school building. Because it is the district’s parent-teacher conference night, the collection runs from 1:30 to 8 p.m.

Animal-cruelty case

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — Shenango Township police are investigating an animal-cruelty case at a house on Ellwood Road.

Police said they learned the residents hadn’t been home for at least four days, leaving two dogs, two cats and two turtles to fend for themselves.

The animals were taken away Sunday, and charges are pending.

Police said a Rottweiler was in a pen outside with no food or water, and the snow was limiting its movements.

A great Dane and the cats were inside the house, which was in deplorable condition with animal feces throughout, police said.

Police said there was no food or water available to the animals, and they had torn open bags of trash looking for food.

Autographed shirt offered at Crisis Shelter Auction

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — The 22nd annual Crisis Shelter Auction will be Feb. 27 at the Scottish Rite Cathedral. Last year’s auction was a sellout. No tickets will be sold at the door.

This year’s items include a Bahamas T-shirt with authentic signatures from Ben Roethlisberger, Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky, Alonzo Mourning, Vince Coleman, Ken Griffey Jr., Julius Erving, John Smoltz, Charles Oakley, Stone Phillips and Chris Tucker. The signatures were obtained at a Michael Jordan charity golf outing in the Bahamas last month.

There also are two Air Tran tickets to any U.S. Air Tran destination and a catered dinner for 12 in your home from Medure’s Catering. Tickets are $35 each and include a dinner by Medure’s. To obtain tickets, to donate a new item, to place an ad or for more information, call the Crisis Shelter of Lawrence County at (724) 652-9206, ext. 123.

Tickets can be purchased by phone using MasterCard, Visa, Discover or American Express or by stopping by the Shelter business office Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.