Workshop on kids

Workshop on kids

Austintown

The Austintown Library will host Elizabeth Jarman for a seminar on the impact of a child’s learning environment.

Jarman, founder and manager of Elizabeth Jarman in the United Kingdom, will be at the library, 600 S. Raccoon Road, at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The focus of the seminar is to show that a child’s learning environment can affect his or her speaking and listening skills, emotional well-being and overall levels of engagement, the release said.

For more information, contact Diana Lyon at 330-240-3980.

New citizens in Valley

YOUNGSTOWN

These people became U.S. citizens in a naturalization ceremony Thursday before Judge Mark A. Belinky of Mahoning County Probate Court. Their names, hometowns and countries of origin are: Musawar Jamil, Boardman, Pakistan; Bernardo Victor Cavour, Poland, Ohio, Bolivia; Rajvinder Kaur, Boardman, India; Gloria Patricia Johnston, Poland, Ohio, Peru; Ba Thi Nguyen, Poland, Ohio, Vietnam; Mariana Grimes, Austintown, Romania; Kay Norma Gardner, Canfield, United Kingdom; David John Gardner, Canfield, United Kingdom; Guosheng Dong, Boardman, People’s Republic of China; Roger Melbourne Garvey, Boardman, Jamaica.

No financial peace? Try classes at church

YOUNGSTOWN

Financial Peace University, a 13-week program taught by Dave Ramsey, has helped more than 750,000 families change their financial future. Four Mile Run Christian Church, 701 N. Four Mile Run Road, will begin classes at 5 p.m. Sept. 18. The cost is $100. For more information or registration, contact Mike Smith at the church, 330-799-7831.

Among topics are budgeting, buying bargains, getting out of debt, understanding investments and insurance, and retirement and college planning.

Ramsey is the author of “The Total Money Makeover,” “Financial Peace” and “More Than Enough.”

Health & fitness day

YOUNGSTOWN

Warriors Inc. is seeking participants for its second annual Fun with Fitness and Health Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Volney Rogers football field behind Mill Creek Community Center, 496 Glenwood Ave. To reserve a space or for more information, call Wendy Robinson at 330-783-5440.

EGCC enrollment up

Steubenville

Enrollment at Eastern Gateway Community College is on the rise.

The fall head count surpassed 2,400 students for the first time in college history, according to EGCC. A 10 percent growth from last fall sets the student population at 2,435 with 56 percent of the students from Jefferson County, 18 percent from Mahoning County, 6 percent from Trumbull County and 5 percent from Columbiana County.

Nearly 35 percent of all students take at least one online class, the news release said.

Child-porn convict to be jailed 30 months

PITTSBURGH

A Sharpsville, Pa., resident, who pleaded guilty to a child- pornography charge, has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release.

U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti imposed the sentence Friday on Robert Allen Chamberlain, 49, who must register as a sex offender. On or about Dec. 31, 2009, Chamberlain knowingly possessed images and videos in computer graphics files, the production of which involved the use of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct, the U.S. Attorney said. The case was prosecuted by Jessica Lieber Smolar, an assistant U.S. Attorney, after a Pennsylvania State Police investigation.

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