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WRTA to change some bus routes

YOUNGSTOWN

The Western Reserve Transit Authority will have a few route alterations beginning Sept. 12.

A new Buckeye-Struthers route will go to Struthers and come back to the city through Poland Avenue. Riders headed to Boardman must connect at Federal Station.

Trips to Belmont Avenue have been added. The bus will go to the Belmont stop at 10:40 and 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 1:40 and 2:40 p.m.

The Wilson route is returning to its original service areas and will no longer go to Struthers.

For complete route information, go to www.WRTAonline.com.

Dedication ceremony

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Girard City School District will have a dedication ceremony and open house Saturday at the new junior-senior high school, 1244 Shannon Road. Speakers will be Gov. Ted Strickland, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Niles, D-17th, and school officials.

The dedication and ribbon- cutting will be at 1 p.m. followed by an open house from 2 to 4 p.m.

Police seek robber

YOUNGSTOWN

City police are looking for the man who robbed a South Side business at gunpoint.

According to police, a 46-year-old employee at The American Legion on East Indianola Avenue was entering the building shortly after 1 p.m. Monday when a man wearing a ski mask shoved a gun in her back and demanded she get the money from the business.

The employee handed over two blue money bags containing a total of $400.

The man ordered the woman to the floor then ran out of the business.

No arrests have been made.

Choffin’s success

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Choffin Career & Technical Center exceeds the Career Technical Education state graduation standard by 5.4 percent.

The state minimum requirement is 73.6 percent, and Choffin finished the school year with a 79 percent graduation rate.

Choffin served 614 students in 21 programs last year. Eight of the programs are college-tech prep where students can earn up to 16 semester-hours of credit at Youngstown State University. All programs at Choffin will be college-tech prep by 2014.

Concert reunion to benefit cancer center

WARREN

The Second Annual Breast Cancer Benefit Concert Reunion and Barbeque is Sunday beginning at noon at Up A Creek Tavern in Howland. Proceeds will benefit the Ireland Cancer Center at Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren.

The benefit features musicians including the Holes in the Road, Glass Harp, the Shaddows, L.A.W., MF Rattlesnake, Mom’s Apple Pie and My Uncle’s Army Buddies.

The event is hosted by Tommy McCoy in honor of his wife, Vicki Taylor McCoy, a registered nurse who died of breast cancer in 1997. Co-hosts are Madam Weez and Damian Knapp.

Mark Matash, owner of Up A Creek, is donating barbecue, and all of the musicians are donating their time. An auction will feature a guitar donated by The Music Center in Niles and a collection of Beatles music donated by Dorothy Kvesich, from her late daughter Susan Kvesich. The corporate sponsor is Microphome.com.

Tickets are $10 at the door and include entertainment and food for the day. For more information, contact Christine Ruggieri at 330- 240-4838.