METRO DIGEST || Idora Neighborhood Workday Saturday

Neighborhood workday

YOUNGSTOWN

The Idora Neighborhood Workday is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, rain or shine. Volunteers are asked to meet at the Youngstown Playhouse off Glenwood Avenue.

Assignments are painting and installing boards to secure vacant homes and debris removal from a vacant home.

To volunteer or for more information, call the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. office at 330-480-0423.

Public indecency

Austintown

A township man is charged with public indecency after exposing himself outside Phoenix House.

William Bednar, 55, a resident of Phoenix House on North Meridian Road, was arraigned on the charge Wednesday in Mahoning County Area Court here. He’s due back in court for a pretrial hearing at 2:30 p.m. Monday.

Phoenix House is considered low-income senior housing in Austintown.

An employee said she went outside to bring residents back inside after the fire alarm was pulled at about 2:15 p.m. Monday. At that time, she saw Bednar lying on a bench with his pants unzipped and his genitals exposed, according to a police report.

Thank You Meals

NILES

Nearly all of Applebee’s 1,800 restaurants in the United States plan to serve more than a million free Thank You Meals to veterans and active duty military personnel on Friday, Veterans Day, between 11 a.m. and midnight.

These include the Niles, Boardman and Hermitage, Pa., locations, from 10 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Interested veterans and active- duty military members should contact their local Applebee’s Restaurant to find out if it is participating in the program and what hours it is serving the free meals.