Sports Digest

Hockey match

YOUNGSTOWN — Officers and Firefighters of the Youngstown area Police and Fire Departments will meet each other on the ice rink to engage in the Guns “N” Hoses Hockey Game at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Covelli Centre. A part of the attendance price will benefit of the Michael Hartzell Scholarship Fund.

This same night, at the Covelli Centre, the Youngstown Phantoms will take on the Fargo Force at 7:15 p.m.

The public may pick up a flier at the Youngstown Police Department then present it at the Covelli Centre box office when purchasing a ticket. One ticket will enable them to see both games, and the Michael Hartzell Scholarship Fund will receive $3 for each flier presented when purchasing a ticket. Tickets cost $9 and $11 at the center box office. Officer Michael Hartzell was shot to death while working night-turn cruiser duty on April 29, 2003. His assailant, Martin Kolesar, later committed suicide on Ohio’s death row.

Learn Polish language

YOUNGSTOWN — PolishYoungstown is offering conversation-based Polish language and culture classes Tuesdays from 6 to 8 p.m. at Pig Iron Press, 26 N. Phelps St., beginning Tuesday.

Classes will run for 15 weeks. Registration is open at $50 per student, and a minimum of 10 students is needed.

Martyna Matusiak is the instructor. A class syllabus and registration forms are available at polishyoungstown.com. For more information, call (330) 646-4082.

These classes would be in addition to the free basic Polish classes currently offered from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays at Sts. Peter & Paul Church.

Lunch to be served

YOUNGSTOWN — St. Andrewes AME Church, 512 W. Earle Ave., will serve lunch from noon to 2 p.m. today to the public.

Community-center idea

AUSTINTOWN — The township administration wants community input on its idea for starting a multigenerational center.

Anyone interested in learning more about the possibility of a community center in the township should attend a meeting at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Township Administration Building, 82 Ohltown Road.

Representatives from the Niles Senior Center and the Girard Multigenerational Center will give presentations before residents are asked for their opinions and ideas.

The township trustees plan to attend to answer questions.

Man faces charges

HUBBARD — Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force arrested Lilton C. Morris, 18, of 860 Early Road, Youngstown, about 9:30 Tuesday morning at his residence on charges of aggravated robbery and felonious assault. Sgt. James R. Taafe of Hubbard said the charges stem from carjackings Dec. 11 and 13 on Westview Avenue in which a gun was used. No one was hurt in the incidents.

Morris was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Girard Municipal Court. A bond of $250,000 was reduced to $35,000; Morris did not post bond. He is in Trumbull County Jail. His preliminary hearing is set for 9 a.m. next Wednesday.

Candidacy announced

LIBERTY — J.D. Williams of Liberty will announce today he’s running in the May Democratic primary for the 65th Ohio House District seat.

Williams is special assistant to the wing commander at the Youngstown Air Reserve Base in Vienna, and a commercial pilot for United Airlines.

Two other candidates — Sean J. O’Brien, an assistant Trumbull County prosecutor, and Niles Councilman Edward Stredney, D-3rd — also are running in the Democratic primary. State Rep. Sandra Stabile Harwood, a Niles Democrat, can’t run this year because of the state’s term- limits law. She’s serving her fourth two-year term.