Normal pickup

Normal pickup

Youngstown

Residential garbage collection in Youngstown will not be affected by Monday’s being Columbus Day. Ohio Valley Waste, the city’s garbage hauler, will follow its normal pickup schedule.

Village manager

NEWTON FALLS

Village council has agreed to a contract with Harry Benetis to become village manager starting Jan. 1 and agreed to a three-year contract with A. Joseph Fritz to be law director.

Benetis, of Newton Falls, is a retired educator, having served as superintendent at four local school districts between 1963 and 2001. He will replace Jack Haney, whose contract expires at the end of 2011.

Fritz had been working on a month-to-month basis. Pay and other terms are unchanged from what he worked under before, council members said.

The hiring of Benetis and the contract with Fritz were approved by a 3-1 vote, with councilwoman Nancy Hoffman voting no. Councilman Richard Zamecnik was absent from the meeting, which took place earlier this week.

Free dental care

HUBBARD

Drs. Mark and Rudolph Braydich will provide free dental care to the first 100 patients age 18 or older with no dental insurance who come to their offices starting at 7 a.m. Friday. It continues until 5 p.m.

Their offices are at 45 E. Liberty St.

The event is part of Dentistry From The Heart, a nonprofit organization that provides free dental work to people in need.

Patients will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Braydich Dentistry will provide one free filling, cleaning, extraction, denture repair or adjustment.

Donation received

WARREN

Trumbull Mobile Meals has received a $1,000 donation from the Sen. Maurice and Florence Lipscher Charitable Fund to buy a heated cabinet for the Mobile Meals kitchen.

The cabinet will be used to keep meals at a safe and constant temperature once they are removed from the oven.

The cabinet will assist Mobile Meals as its number of delivered meals continues to grow.

For more information, call Mobile Meals at 330-394-2538.

Suffrage program

SALEM

The Salem Historical Society will present “Women’s Suffrage: A Study of Persistence,” after its 7 p.m. business meeting Tuesday at the museum, 208 S. Broadway Ave.

Kim Kenney, curator of the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum in Canton, will present the program. Attendees will learn about the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., how the abolition movement sparked the fight for suffrage, and how the 19th Amendment came to be. Refreshments will be provided.

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