Art-contest event

Art-contest event

YOUNGSTOWN

The Hispanic Heritage Student Art Exhibition Celebration will be at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Newport Branch Library, 3730 Market St.

The event features 11 art entries and will showcase the top three winners of this year’s contest. The exhibit will continue until Tuesday. For more information, contact the Youngstown State University Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity at 330-941-3370 or Deborah Liptak, director, Youngstown Library Development, at 330-744-8638, ext. 118.

Housing grant

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The city received a $500,000 FY 2010 Community Housing Improvement Program grant. Part of the grant will be used to make home-repair and private rehabilitation improvements to single-family housing. The city will initiate the Emergency Monthly Housing Assistance Program, which will provide financial assistance to homeowners to prevent foreclosures.

Private rehabilitation will be available only to applicants living in U.S. Census tracts 9323002, 9323003, 9322002 and 9322004.

To learn more, attend a public meeting at 6 p.m. Sept. 28 in the second-floor conference room at the city building, 100 W. Main St.

Facial sculpture

BAZETTA

The Bazetta Township Police Department is nearly ready to show the public a facial reconstruction sculpture of a skeleton found four years ago at Mosquito Lake State Park.

The sculpture was prepared by the FBI’s Special Projects Unit to help the police department identify the body.

A Washington, D.C., forensic anthropologist said the skeleton belonged to a black man at least 50 years old. It was recovered July 23, 2006, from a marshy area off state Route 305 near the entrance to the state park on the south end of the reservoir.

A fisherman found the skeleton, which the forensic anthropologist estimated was at the lake a year or less.

Police will have a press conference at 10 a.m. Monday at the Bazetta Police Department on McCleary-Jacoby Road to unveil the reconstruction.

‘Health at Home’

YOUNGSTOWN

Carol Vitelli, a community- health educator at Humility of Mary Health Partners, will give a free discussion ,“Health at Home,” a guide to symptoms, solutions and self-care, today at Organizacion Civica y Cultural Hispana Americana hall, 3660 Shirley Road. The discussion will be in English at 10 a.m. and in Spanish at 11 a.m.