SMARTS recognition

SMARTS recognition

Youngstown

Students Motivated by the Arts, a YSU program, was selected for the second time in four years as a semifinalist for the 2010 Coming Up Awards.

The program was one of 50 chosen from nearly 500 nominations. The award recognizes outstanding community-arts and humanities programs for America’s young people.

SMARTS, created in 1997, gives students in kindergarten through 12th grade free classes in visual arts, music, dance, theater and creative writing.

Award finalists will be announced in June.

SMARTS also was named a semifinalist in 2006.

Veterans memorial

EAST PALESTINE

A veterans memorial will be dedicated at 2 p.m. today between 90 and 74 N. Market St.

Appliance recycling

CANFIELD

An appliance-recycling drive sponsored by the Mahoning County recycling division for county residents will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Canfield Fairgrounds. The entrance will be Gate 9 off state Route 46.

Refrigerators, water heaters, air conditioners, stoves, water softeners, dehumidifiers, microwave ovens, washers, small appliances and any other scrap metal will be accepted.

Freon removal will be free.

TVs, radios, tires, VCRs and computers won’t be accepted.

Man’s identity sought

COLUMBIANA

Police say it may take until sometime this week to determine the identity of a man they have charged with driving while under the influence, having an open container of alcohol and having no operator’s license after he drove through a yard in a borrowed car around 2:40 a.m. Thursday.

Police Chief Tim Gladis said the man first identified himself as Cornelio Mendez-Gomez. He also had identification stating his name was Ezequiel Lopez.

He had a birth certificate in Spanish, two credit cards and a debit card. Two of the cards have the same numbers but different names. The man also had a Social Security card that Gladis said was a fake.

The man is being held in the Columbiana County Jail. Federal immigration and security officials have been notified.