Luncheon planned

Luncheon planned

BOARDMAN

The Help Hotline Crisis Center Victims’ Assistance Program is having its annual luncheon to honor Victims of Crime on April 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 7410 South Ave. The keynote speaker is Youngstown Police Chief Rod Foley, and the guest speaker is Kelli Grace of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office.

The cost is $15. Reservations are due by April 19. Checks should be made payable to Help Hotline Crisis Center Victims’ Assistance Program in the memo space, and mailed to P.O. Box 46, Youngstown, OH 44501. Continuing education units (1.5) are available for counseling and social work. For information, call Brenda Gray-Morgan at 330-747-2696.

Pantry expanded

Youngstown

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley has expanded its Mobile Pantry Program into Trumbull County. The Mobile Pantry will be open on the second Tuesday of each month from 10 a.m. to noon at Mecca Community Church, 5920 Phillips-Rice Road in Cortland; and on the last Tuesday of each month from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Bristol Area Food Ministry at Kings Brothers Business, 1306 state Route 88 in Bristol.

The food bank will distribute prepackaged boxes of food containing nonperishable food items to families in the community who present photo identification.

The Mobile Pantry Program is specifically designed to serve individuals and families who do not have access to one of the food bank’s member agencies.

Second Harvest also operates Mobile Pantry Programs in Lake Milton and Ellsworth and Goshen Townships in Mahoning County.

For information on the Mobile Pantry Program, call Kim Peters at 330-792-5522, ext. 16.

Take-back day

YOUNGSTOWN/WARREN

Humility of Mary Health Partners, as part of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, will collect unused prescription medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 28 at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngs-town and St. Joseph Health Center in Warren.

Unused and expired prescription drugs can be dropped off at drive-through collection sites on the Belmont Avenue ramp at St. Elizabeth and at the main entrance at St. Joseph. Participation is free and anonymous.

Unused prescription medications are susceptible to misuse, abuse and improper disposal, said Robert Martin, who is organizing HMHP’s drug take-back program and is a member of HMHP’s police department.

Collection protocols include: Medications need not be in original containers; if medication is disposed of in its original container, identifying information should be removed; and liquid medications, intravenous solutions, injectable drugs and syringes will not be accepted.

Anonymous gift

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Help Hotline Crisis Center’s William and Arden Farragher Endowment Fund has received an anonymous $10,000 gift.

“Whoever you are, we thank you and want you to know that this gift to our endowment fund will help this agency continue to be the community’s safety net,” said Todd Marian, Help Hotline chief operating officer.

Help Hotline Crisis Center in a nonprofit crisis intervention, suicide prevention and community resource center that answers an average of 15,000 calls every month.

For information, visit www.helphotline.org.