Lisbon pumpkin fest offers crafts, food, fun

Lisbon pumpkin fest offers crafts, food, fun

LISBON

The Third Annual Pumpkin Festival will be at Columbiana County Fairgrounds on Saturday and Sunday.

The family-oriented event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. More than 30 crafters will be at the festival.

Events will include horse-drawn wagon rides, adoptable pets, food, concessionaires, antique dealers, music on the Webb Family Stage, and antique tractors and engines on display.

Events on Sunday, along with all of activities from Saturday, include a car show, a petting zoo, and a corn-toss tournament with prizes hosted by the Fairfield Farmhands 4-H group. At 3 p.m., carved items made by Luree Magee will be auctioned.

A new event will be a “Best Carved Pumpkin Contest” open to all age groups and a Chili/Salsa Cook Off contest sponsored by the Lisbon Chamber of Commerce. For information call the chairman, Sharen Cope, at 330-651-3777.

Celebrating diversity

BOARDMAN

The 12th annual breakfast celebration for Partners for Workplace Diversity will focus on “Cultural Competency in Every Workplace.”

This year’s breakfast, which is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, is hosted and sponsored by Humility of Mary Health Partners.

More than 30 employers and invited community guests will gather at the breakfast to kick off a monthlong celebration in honor of Diversity Month. A special award also will be presented at the breakfast in the Azalea Room of St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center.

The Partners for Workplace Diversity is an alliance of area employers dedicated to developing successful diversity initiatives for their own workplace and for those of the community.

For more information, contact Jessica Ulbrichat either Jessica Ulbrich@hmis.org or 330-480-2258.

Warren man robbed

WARREN

A 53-year-old city man said he was robbed at gunpoint just before 8 p.m. Wednesday on Mason Street Northwest.

The victim said he was driving around Warren trying to sell a snow blower out of the back of his silver 2003 Pontiac Vibe. He asked a man walking along the road, and the man got in the car, saying he would take the driver to a house where someone would buy it.

The victim was directed to a vacant house on Mason Street, where the suspect got out, then returned a short time later holding a gun and demanding the car. The suspect left the area in the car.

Candidates forum COLUMBIANA

The Columbiana Christian Ministerial Association will host a free “Meet the Candidates Forum” at the Main Street Theater from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. National, state and local candidates have been invited to an informal evening designed to give constituents a look at the person behind the politician. The CCMA has given a list of five questions to each candidate. Candidates unable to attend can submit a written response.

NewsOutlet opens doors to public

youngstown

The NewsOutlet.org will have an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday.

The NewsOutlet.org, a collaboration among Youngstown State University’s journalism program, The Vindicator and WYSU, is producing news stories for print and broadcast.

The open house will be on the first floor of YSU’s Smith Hall, corner of Lincoln and Fifth avenues. Parking is available behind the hall in Lot M-26.

Family killings

CARROLLTON (AP)

A coroner in a rural area of Carroll County says a woman suspected of killing her two young children before taking her own life had been taking medication for depression. Carroll County Coroner Mandal Haas said Thursday that the woman hadn’t given any indication that she would kill her 18-month-old son and 6-year-old daughter.

The victims of Wednesday’s shootings have been identified as 24-year-old Madison Hallett of Carrollton and her children, Drayden and Natalya. The children had different fathers.

The coroner says each child was shot twice in the head and the woman had a single gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators are checking a note found at the home.