Protest rally set

Protest rally set

YOUNGSTOWN

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union is organizing a protest rally at 1 p.m. today at George V. Voinovich Government Center, 242 W. Federal St., urging U.S. Sen. George V. Voinovich to support a federal jobs bill.

Voinovich, a Republican leaving the Senate, doesn’t have a regional office in the Mahoning Valley so the protest will be outside the downtown building named for him.

An e-mail from AFSCME says Republican senators are blocking the passage of the jobs bill that provides Medicaid funding to Ohio, and without the funding, the state will be forced to eliminate thousands of public employees.

Fugitive caught

YOUNGSTOWN

The city police department caught the U.S. Marshals Service in Northeast Ohio’s fugitive of the week.

Police found Calvin S. Shelton Jr., 20, in his Dogwood Lane apartment about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday.

Shelton was wanted for a Dec. 13, 2009, aggravated robbery in Youngstown as well as a parole violation and the improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

Event canceled

NILES

The inaugural American Cancer Society Bark For Life event for dogs and dog owners planned for Saturday at Eastwood Field has been canceled because of high temperatures to protect the health and safety of the pets.

The cancer society announcement, released Thursday, did not indicate when or if the event would be rescheduled.

Free hot lunch

YOUNGSTOWN

Price Memorial AME Zion Church, 920 Dryden Ave., will serve free hot lunches to the community today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Agency on Aging

NILES

The trustee board of the Area Agency on Aging 11 Inc. will have a special meeting at 10 a.m. today in the agency’s multipurpose room, 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road.

Woman injured

LIBERTY

A 34-year-old Austintown woman was seriously injured when she crashed her motorcycle on Interstate 80, just east of the Belmont Avenue exit.

Shannon Heeter was traveling west on I-80 about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when she hit a guardrail on the side of the road and was thrown from her motorcycle, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. She was not wearing a helmet.

She was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, where she was listed in serious condition late Thursday. The crash is under investigation.

Ecumenical service

YOUNGSTOWN

Dr. Cynthia Anderson, Youngstown State University president, along with other community members, will offer greetings as congregants from Wick District churches gather for the seventh annual ecumenical service, a part of the 2010 Youngstown State University’s Summer Festival of the Arts.

The service will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church, 201 Wick Ave. Refreshments will follow.

Participants from the Wick district are St. John’s Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Butler Memorial Presbyterian Church, Oak Baptist Presbyterian Church and St. Columba Cathedral.

The Rev. Nick Mager of First Presbyterian will lead the service, and Dr. Donna Sloan, a member of First Presbyterian, will give the sermon titled “Who is My Neighbor?”

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