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4-H raffle for resort trip

LISBON

Columbiana County 4-H club members are selling raffle tickets to support the 4-H program.

The tickets are $1 each or a book of six for $5. Prizes include a weekend stay at Mountaineer Resort that includes dinner and breakfast for two, a $50 Walmart card and a half-hog processed by Kiko Meats.

Other gifts and gift certificates donated by area businesses will be awarded. The tickets can be purchased from any 4-H member. The drawing will be at 3 p.m. Aug. 5 at the Columbiana County Fair 4-H Building.

Veterans’ benefits

NEW CASTLE, Pa.

Shirley Noga, director of the Lawrence County Veterans Affairs Office, announced that the monthly benefits seminar topic for March will be veterans’ medical benefits. The seminar will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the county commissioners’ meeting room in the basement of the Lawrence County Government Center.

Student art show

NILES

The Art Outreach Gallery at the Eastwood Mall will kick off National Poetry Month on Friday with its Fifth Annual School Art Exhibition.

The show will feature artwork by local students from kindergarten through 12th grade. This year, a second storefront will be used to exhibit students’ artwork. That storefront is across from the current gallery along the Sears concourse.

The show will feature students’ artwork from Trumbull Career and Technical Center and Howland, Hubbard and McDonald schools.

The gallery also will feature a display of the winning poems from the Pig Iron Literary and Arts Works Poetry Contest. This is the second of four-consecutive art shows. The show will run through April 17.

STEM Showcase at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

Students of all ages and their parents who are interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are invited to attend the Youngtown State University STEM Showcase on April 10.

Projects will be displayed from 2 to 5 p.m. in Moser Hall.

Featured at the showcase will be research and other projects by students in YSU’s STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics] college, including the concrete canoe, mini-Baja car, steel bridge, moon rover and more.

Guests can tour Moser Hall’s computer and laboratory facilities, watch technology and research demonstrations and meet with faculty, students and industry representatives to talk about STEM careers.

Free parking is available in the M7 parking lot at the corner of Fifth and Lincoln avenues. Call 330-941-3015 for more information. Reservations are preferred, but not mandatory.

Wall Street executive to lecture at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN

Derek Penn, a native of Youngstown and managing director and head of equity sales and training at Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon Co., will address students and business representatives April 7 in Williamson Hall as part of the Williamson Symposium Lecture Series at Youngstown State University.

Penn, recognized as one of the leading African-American executives on Wall Street, will present “A Window into Wall Street” at noon in Room 3422. Sessions will also be at 2 and 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Williamson Hall. To make a luncheon reservation, visit www.ysu.edu/wcba and use the Williamson Symposium Link, or call Christine Shelton at 330-941-3068. Free parking is available in the gravel lot on Wood Street across from the south entrance to Williamson Hall.

Penn is responsible for equity sales and trading for the Trading Services unit of Pershing LLC as well as Pershing’s international and domestic equity sales and trading businesses, which encompass institutional and registered-investment adviser sales, foreign exchange trading, international trading, Nasdaq and Bulletin Board trading, the London equity-trading desk and the firm’s New York Stock Exchange operation.