Groundbreaking

Groundbreaking

NEWTON FALLS

The Ohio National Guard will conduct an official groundbreaking ceremony at 11:30 a.m. Monday for a new barracks facility and utilities upgrade project at the Camp Ravenna Joint Military Training Center located at 1438 state Route 534 SW.

The new 7,940-square-foot, two-story barracks facility will accommodate 116 beds and includes laundry facilities and a supply room along with Internet connection. The project is scheduled for completion on March 1, 2011, at an estimated cost of about $2 million. The event also will acknowledge efforts by U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Niles, D-17th, in securing funding.

Suspects in jail

Youngstown

Three people arraigned Friday morning in a Thursday shooting remain in jail. Dana D. Penson, 33, of Boardman, and Loraine D. McKinnon, 40, and Richard Hickson, 34, both of Youngstown, are charged with felonious assault. Penson and McKinnon are being held in lieu of $100,000 bond, and Hickson, who faces two counts of felonious assault, has $100,000 bond for each charge.

Penson, McKinnon and Hickson are accused of shooting at a West LaClede Avenue home about midnight Thursday. All three were driving in a car on Market Street when officers stopped and arrested them after finding a handgun near the car, police said.

Back to School event

greenford

The Big Reach Center of Hope is preparing for its seventh annual Back to School event. The center will be reaching out to give hope to more than 1,000 children and 500 families for the 2010-11 school year.

Back to School will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 7 at the center for families who preregistered during April. The families are invited to the Center of Hope to receive free haircuts and more. Home Savings & Loan and Unison Health Care have provided a new book bag for each child filled with school supplies courtesy of donations from V & M Star and community members.

Each child also will receive a new school outfit purchased by area employees and local church members. Families also will receive nonperishable food and personal-care items courtesy of Operation Blessing of Chesapeake, Va., and a Bible provided by Greenford Christian Church Missions. Refreshments will be served to attendees including pizzas contributed by Pizza Hut.

Burglary charge

Boardman

Police officers arrested a 36-year-old Youngstown man on a burglary charge.

A patrolman in an unmarked police car noticed a man later identified as Jesse Lamont Cooper of Ravenwood Avenue dressed in all black with a drawstring backpack walking along Midlothian Boulevard around 2 a.m. Friday. The officer attempted to stop Cooper near 4010 Hillman Way. He turned around, dropped a metal flashlight and climbed a fence in the house’s backyard, according to police reports.

More officers arrived, as did a police dog from Beaver township, and searched the attached, enclosed porch of 4115 Hudson Drive. The porch was unlocked, and officers found Cooper under a table.

Cooper faces charges of obstructing official business, burglary involving trespassing in an occupied structure, possessing criminal tools and resisting arrest.