Warren Harding band seeks votes by remote

Warren Harding band seeks votes by remote

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Fans can vote for the Warren G. Harding Marching Band in Time Warner Cable’s “Vote With Your TWC Remote” high-school marching-band video contest.

Voting runs through Nov. 15 on Local On Demand channel 411 in the Vote with Remote category. The contest is sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Ford dealers.

The marching band that receives the most votes will earn $1,000 for its school.

To vote, viewers can tune to Local On Demand channel 411, access the Vote with Remote category and watch the school’s video you want to vote for.

Harding is the only Mahoning Valley school entered in the contest.

Trash-treasure sale

GIRARD

The Girard High School FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Team will have a trash-and-treasure sale 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Girard City Gym, at Market and Main streets.

Items from more than 25 families will be offered. Included are a 50/50 raffle and bake sale.

Proceeds will help cover competition and travel fees and the cost of equipment and supplies for the team that’s in its 12th year of designing, building and programming robots to compete in regional competitions.

For more information about FIRST go to www.usfirst.org.

Walking exercise

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Girard Recreation Department announced a walking-exercise program will begin Nov. 1 and take place from 9 to 11 a.m. Mondays through Fridays at Girard City Gym, 100 W. Main St. Participants must be city residents. For information, call city hall at 330-545-3879.

Snoop watchers meet

Youngstown

The Powerstown Neighbors (Snoop Block Watch) will meet at 7 p.m. today at Fairview Outreach & Performing Arts Center, 4220 Youngstown- Poland Road. Councilman John R. Swierz will attend to discuss neighborhood issues.

Camp at Boardman Y

BOARDMAN

The D.D. & Velma Davis Family YMCA is offering an Off-School Camp from 9 a.m to 4 p.m. Friday and Monday.

During Off-School Camp, children will use the youth recreation room and multi-purpose gym. They will also take a field trip to see a movie.

Camp fees are $25 for members, $35 for non-members. Extended hours are offered from 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. Extended hours fees are $5 for members; $7 for non-members. For information, call Jordan Shaver at 330-480-5656.

Infant-loss memorial to take place in Canfield

Canfield

A candlelight memorial will honor National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. The ceremony is from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday on the Green at the corner of state Route 46 and U.S. Route 224 in Canfield, and will honor those lost to stillbirth, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or neonatal death.

In the event of inclement weather, the event will be at Canfield Presbyterian Church, 140 W. Main St.

Participants will light candles from 7 to 8 p.m. as a part of the worldwide Wave of Light that will take place all over the world as a way to bring awareness to the issue.

Names of lost babies will be read and luminaries will be lit during the memorial. Anyone who would like to include their baby should e-mail their name, their child’s name and the child’s date of birth and death to Sherri Horvat at sherri@giannaslight.org.

Author visit postponed

AUSTINTOWN

The appearance of Becca Fitzpatrick, New York Times best-selling author of “Hush, Hush,” has been postponed due to illness.

Fitzpatrick had been scheduled to appear today at the Austintown Library at 9 a.m. and at the Poland Library at 12:30 and 6:30 p.m. to discuss writing novels for teens and to talk about her new novel, “Crescendo.”

The event will be rescheduled for a later date.

Vindicator staff reports