Lots of Green gets $20,000 grant


July 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

Lots of Green gets $20,000 grant

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. has received $20,000 from the Youngstown Foundation to continue the development of the Lots of Green program.

The YNDC’s Lots of Green program transforms neighborhoods through the return of idled land to productive use.

The current focus is in the Idora neighborhood and seeks to reuse over 150 parcels of vacant, abandoned land for productive use through the creation of expanded side yards for existing homeowners, an urban farm and orchards, community gardens, expansion of Mill Creek MetroParks boundaries, passive green space, and the introduction of native plants and rain gardens.

For more information about the YNDC, go to www.yndc.org.

Open house for military, veterans

LIBERTY

The Youngstown Campus of National College, 3487 Belmont Ave., will host a Military & Veterans Open House on Tuesday. Sessions will take place at noon and 6 p.m. Information is available by calling 866-586-6184, toll-free.

National College also offers two exclusive education-grant programs for current and former eligible military service members and their family members: the Armed Services Recognition Grant, worth up to $4,000, and the Blue Ribbon Grant, worth up to $8,000.

Summer fun event

FOWLER

The historical society will have a summer fun on the green event, featuring the Rocky Chirchiglia Band, from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday. Food will be available.

‘Future of Food’ screening Thursday

CORTLAND

Grow Youngstown will show “The Future of Food” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Cortland Wine Cellar, 5292 Warren Meadville Road.

The movie concludes Grow Youngstown’s film series, The Real Dirt on Food.

“The Future of Food” is a documentary by Deborah Koons Garcia that chronicles Monsanto’s $8 billion takeover of the seed industry and raises a number of questions related to the safety of genetically engineered food and its long-term effect on agriculture and human beings.

Grow Youngstown is a Mahoning Valley-based nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a healthy, socially just, economically viable and inter-dependent food system in the community.