Fatal crash probed

Fatal crash probed

LISBON

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed a Canonsburg, Pa., man Sunday on U.S. Route 30 west of Lynchburgh Road in West Township.

Pronounced dead at the scene by the Columbiana County Coroner’s Office was Andrew David Fedorchak, 27, who was driving an eastbound 2007 Chevrolet Silverado that left the road, struck a ditch and a utility pole and overturned, the patrol said.

Buggy-car accident

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.

Three occupants thrown from a horse-drawn buggy when it was rear-ended by a car were treated at UPMC Shenango Valley and released, state police said.

Treated after the 5:45 p.m. Saturday crash on state Route 956 near Hayes Lane were buggy driver Jacob Shetler, 20, and his passengers, Elma Shetler, 44, and Anna Shetler, 24, all of New Castle. The northbound car was driven by Eric L. Peters, 53, of New Castle, who was not injured.

State police charged Peters with driving at an unsafe speed.

Driver suffers stroke

GROVE CITY, Pa.

A 63-year-old man was flown by helicopter from Grove City Hospital to UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh after he suffered a stroke behind the wheel of the 2000 Ford Explorer he was driving and hit a bridge railing, state police said.

James L. Deitrick of Grove City, who wasn’t wearing his seat belt, suffered rib and facial-bone fractures after the eastbound vehicle he was driving hit the railing of the bridge carrying Daugherty Road over Wolf Creek in Pine Township at 9:39 a.m. Saturday.

Fire victim identified

YOUNGSTOWN

The man who died in a Saturday evening fire at 29 Williamson Ave. has been identified by the fire department as Lonza Anderson, 50, who resided at that South Side address.

The cause of the 10 p.m. fire is still under investigation, but the blaze does not appear to be of suspicious origin, said Battalion Chief Terrance Jordon.

The fire, which erupted in the dining-room area of the three-story wood-frame house just east of Market Street, caused an estimated $12,000 in damage to the house and its contents, Jordon said.

The victim was found on the first floor of the house, said Fire Chief John J. O’Neill Jr.

Man hurt in car crash

RAVENNA

A 20-year-old Salem man was seriously injured in a two-vehicle hit-skip crash early Sunday on state Route 14 south of state Route 5.

Clayton Hull was taken to Robinson Memorial Hospital and then flown by helicopter in critical condition to Akron City Hospital after the 12:31 a.m. crash.

Hull was driving southeast in a 1998 Chevrolet Blazer when a 2005 Chevrolet Venture Van, which was headed northwest, went off the right side of the road and struck several mailboxes. The van re-entered the road and went left of center, striking the Blazer in the left rear and causing it to roll once and land back on its wheels, ejecting Hull, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.

The van driver fled on foot, the patrol said.

Toy, food collection

NEW SPRINGFIELD

Springfield Township Fire & EMS Auxiliaries/Associations will collect toys and nonperishable food for needy residents at any township fire station from 1 to 4 p.m. Dec. 3 or from 7 to 9 p.m. any Monday until Dec. 5.

Monetary donations also will be accepted. Checks should be made payable to “STCCC.”

The food and toys will be given to Springfield Township Council of Churches & Community for its annual Christmas project.

OH WOW! gets grant

YOUNGSTOWN

The Ruth H. Beecher Charitable Trust recently awarded a $5,000 grant to OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology.

The funds will be used to support the center’s mission, to foster independent thinking and enrich the lives of children by helping them to develop learning skills and knowledge through the exploration of hands-on exhibits and educational programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Director’s award

WASHINGTON, D.C.

David M. Toepfer, the Youngstown-based assistant U.S. attorney, will receive the director’s award for excellence in litigation from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

Toepfer will receive the award Dec. 9 in Washington for his prosecution of gun-carrying felons in the VGRIP (Violence and Gun Reduction Interdiction Program) in the Mahoning Valley.

More than two dozen people have been prosecuted in federal court, scores more in state court and hundreds of firearms have been seized as part of VGRIP.

Having previously been an assistant Trumbull County prosecutor for nine years, Toepfer joined the U. S. Attorney’s office in 2008.

Cuban perspective

YOUNGSTOWN

Jorge Alberto Bola ±os Suarez, a member of the Cuban Foreign Ministry since 1963, will lecture on “Current U.S. – Cuba Relations: A Perspective from Cuba,” at 1 p.m. Friday in the Board of Trustees Meeting Room in Tod Hall at Youngstown State University.

The lecture is sponsored by YSU’s Global Education Program, Visiting Diplomat Series and the Dr. James Dale Ethics Center.

Bola ±os Suarez has a long and distinguished diplomatic career, having served as Cuban ambassador to Poland, Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom, Brazil and Mexico, and since 2007 as Chief of the Cuban Interests Section, Embassy of Switzerland, in the U.S.

‘Weight a Minute’ talk

YOUNGSTOWN

John Jakicic, professor and chair of the Department of Health and Physical Activity at the University of Pittsburgh, presents “Weight a Minute: Is Physical Activity and Obesity Just About Weight Loss” at 4 p.m. Nov. 30 in Room B031 of Cushwa Hall at Youngstown State University.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Jakicic is the director of the Physical Activity and Weight Management Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh and has an international reputation as a leading scholar in the area of physical activity and weight control.