Vaccines offered at mall

Vaccines offered at mall

NILES — St. Joe’s at the Mall is offering flu and pneumonia vaccines. Cost is $25 for seasonal flu vaccination and $38 for pneumonia vaccination.

Medicare, Medicaid and Medicare HMO will be billed. St. Joe’s at the Mall is located in the Eastwood Mall, Niles, next to Sears. Call (330) 652-7542 for day and times.

Concert will aid Haiti

YOUNGSTOWN — A benefit concert, “hip-hop 4 Haiti,” will be from 8 p.m. to midnight today at the Love Lounge, 15 W. Federal St., in the city’s downtown.

Donations will be taken at the door for the Haiti relief effort, and all proceeds will be given to the American Red Cross.

Scheduled to perform are True 2 Life Fam, Derrty Primetime, Da Kreek, We Famous, Steve the Recruit, 400 Block Ent, Young Trajik, Grizz, C.T., Jay Howell, Yung Monsta, Next Level, Flyboi Jay, Blackface, Aleah Karon, Kenny Ali, Jay Five, B.O.F., and Young Black Mob.

The event is hosted by Lamont and The 2 White Guys. There will be an after-party following the concert. For more information, call (330) 782-2308 or (330) 942-7687.

Rejected by parole board

WARREN — The Ohio Parole Board has rejected the request of Martin Petersime to be released from prison and won’t reconsider for nearly five years.

Petersime, 56, was owner of the Warren Music Store on High Street Northeast in 1992 when he was convicted of 20 felony sex offenses involving six young people at his music store.

Petersime was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison and was eligible to be released this month. His next parole hearing comes up in November 2014.

Petersime gave drugs to children to facilitate sex with them, had group sex with them, produced pornographic films with them and himself and many other types of sexual deviancy, county Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said.

Church relief effort

COLUMBIANA — The Columbiana Church of Christ, 191 E. State Route 14, P.O. Box 385, is asking for donations of materials and money to aid in the Haitian earthquake relief.

Items will be taken from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today through Friday, and at other times by appointment by calling (330) 720-5628 or via e-mail at biscuitwinner@zoominternet.net.

The church is asking people to provide a 5-gallon plastic bucket with a lid that will include a 1-gallon bag of personal items. Both are to include personal hygiene items such as soap, shampoo, deodorant and cooking items, but no food.

For a full list of items, visit the church’s Web site at www.columbianacofc.org. The items will be driven to Tennessee then flown to Haiti by the U.S. military.

Domestic-abuse program

EAST LIVERPOOL — Sheridan African Methodist Episcopal Church, 301 W. Ninth St., will host “From Victims To Victorious,” a domestic-abuse survivors program at 4 p.m. Sunday. Special guests include Brenda Gray-Morgan of Help Hotline and Debbie Fears, board member of Sojourner House. The program is free and open to all. Used cell phones are being collected, which will be donated to Sojourner House. For more information, contact Pastor Monica Beasley-Martin at (330) 518-5753.