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Free Easter meal

WARREN

The Warren Family Mission, 361 Elm Road NE, is offering its free community Easter meal Friday from noon to 5 p.m. For information, call Michelle Beauchene at 330-394-5437.

On-line healthy living challenge

CANFIELD

Live Healthy, Live Well, a program offered by the Mahoning County Ohio State University Extension Office, is an online challenge designed to help participants get fit by encouraging regular exercise, nutrition and wellness tips. Participants will receive weekly e-communications via e-mail, Facebook, blogs and other social media with tips and recipes to help them get fit. Additionally participants will be participating in a research study to determine the effectiveness of social media as a means of disseminating educational information. All participant information will be kept confidential.

Each week, participants will receive free e-communications containing nutrition, health and fitness tips. Additional food and activity logs will be available for download to help participants track their progress. A post-assessment Zoomerang survey will be used to collect comments to improve future challenges and track participant progress.

To enroll, call Beth Stefura, Extension Office educator, at 330-533-5538 or e-mail her at stefura.2@osu.edu with Live Healthy, Live Well in the subject line and subscribe in the body of the e-mail. Participants will begin receiving e-communications April 23.

CPR & defibrillator classes offered

YOUNGSTOWN

The National Safety Council, Northern Ohio Chapter in the Ohio One Building, 25 E. Boardman St., Suite 343, is offering safety classes in April. Pre-register by April 13 by calling 330-747-8657.

Offerings are: CPR/AED (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator) course, adult/child/infant, April 27, 8 a.m., fee $32; and Standard First Aid, April 27, 1 p.m., fee $32.

End-of-life planning

DAMASCUS

A free seminar is offered for people who have questions about what will happen to them at the end of their lives or if they are unable to make their own decisions about medical care is offer. The event is Monday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Damascus Friends Church, 28857 Walnut St. Light refreshments will be served.

Chaplain Kathleen Zimmerman from Senior Independence Hospice will present “Advance Directives: Pray for the Best, Plan for the Rest,” which provides information to participants should they or a family member be unable to make health-care or financial decisions, including about durable power of attorney and living wills. For information or to register, call Heath Flickinger at Pleasant View North at 330-537-4621.

MS walk-a-thon

NILES

The 2012 Mahoning Valley Walk MS (multiple sclerosis) is April 21 at Scrappers Stadium, 111 Eastwood Mall Blvd., behind the Eastwood Mall in Niles. Check-in begins at 8 a.m.

The average Walk MS participant raises $225. Funds from the event go toward local programs and to support 17 research projects in Ohio. The National MS Society has invested more than $6.3 million over a three-year period for researchers at Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and The Ohio State University. More than 20,000 Ohioans are affected by MS. Symptoms range from fatigue, numbness and weakness to total paralysis.