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MVOC panel objects to liquor licenses

YOUNGSTOWN

As part of its commitment to clean, healthy and safe neighborhood stores, the Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative Health Equity Committee will gather to object to liquor-license renewals for three city stores.

The committee will gather outside Youngstown City Hall, 26 S. Phelps St., from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today during the liquor-license- renewal hearings for Belmont Drive-Thru, 1840 Belmont Ave.; Gina’s Food Market, 1942 Glenwood Ave.; and One-Stop Food Mart, 1395 Wick Ave.

As part of the two-hour program, the group will offer prayer for the community, share testimony from neighborhood leaders and provide local leaders’ plan for change.

The three stores have a long-term history as “nuisance properties” in their neighborhoods, the MVOC says in a press release.

‘JA IN A DAY’ event

WARREN

Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley and volunteers from the Mahoning Valley Scrappers’ front office will present a “JA IN A DAY” community program to second-graders at Willard Elementary, 2020 Willard Ave. SE, from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday.

The one-day format allows volunteers to teach five lessons in a blitz format. Each 30-minute lesson provides hands-on activities related to the interdependent roles of workers in a community, the work they perform and how communities work.

Scrappers employees will teach business ideas that will help the children progress as future members of the work force, J.A. says. Scrappy the Scrappers mascot also will make an appearance.

Cinco de Mayo

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown State University Latino Student Organization presents “The Battle of Puebla Cinco de Mayo Celebration” from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the DeBartolo Stadium Club.

The event will feature food, music and student performances. The event is organized by the YSU Latino Student Organization, Los Buenos Vecinos, Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana, and the Office of Student Diversity Programs. It is co-sponsored by the James Dale Ethics Center.

The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP and for more information, call 330-941-2087.

Stabbing reported

WARREN

A 23-year-old Henn-Hyde Road, Bazetta Township, man reported that a man confronted him in the parking lot of 960 Quick Stop, 960 Mahoning Ave. NW, about 1:50 a.m. Friday, brandished a knife and stabbed him several times in his hip.

The victim drove himself to his house in Bazetta Township and was later transported to Trumbull Memorial Hospital.