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Youngstown

The Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club (MSKC) donated 400 20-pound bags of super-premium mix dog food, provided by Blackwood Pet Food of Lisbon, to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley.

The donation was made possible by funds raised from the MSKC’s Annual Dog Show. Rogers Feed Mill of Rogers, Ohio, delivered the 8,000 pounds of dog food free of charge.

The dog food is intended for people in the community suffering financial hardships who need help feeding their dogs to prevent them from starving, being abandoned or sent to a shelter due to inability to feed them. The Food Bank will distribute the dog food through a network of 153 hunger-relief organizations in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

Grant for Hope House

YOUNGSTOWN

Hope House Visitation Center, a nonprofit facility that provides supervised visitation and exchange of children between parents when families are going through issues surrounding divorce, custody, visitation and family violence, has received a $15,000 grant from The Youngstown Foundation and a donation of $5,000 from Trustmark Insurance.

Also, contracts with the Mahoning County Board of Commissioners, Mahoning County Job and Family Services, and Mahoning County Children Services were renewed enabling the facility to remain open, said Carole J. Bopp, Hope House director.

Hope House is partnering with The Youngstown Playhouse for its second annual fundraiser for the musical “Cabaret” on Sept. 15, 2012. Tickets are $30 and include the pre-show party. Call 330-788-8882 for information.

Grant for Food Bank

YOUNGSTOWN

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley received a grant for $3,000 through the Target’s Community Giving program to help fund the BackPack Program at Campbell Elementary School. This is the second consecutive year Target has provided funding to help feed hungry children in the community. The funds will help sustain the program for the 2012-13 school year.

The BackPack Program is a national program of Feeding America, and is designed to meet the needs of children when other resources for food are not available, such as weekends and holidays. Each Friday during the school year, 150 third- and fourth-graders at Campbell Elementary School take home a bag of child-friendly, nutritious food to eat over the weekend.

Advance Auto Parts donates $1,000

BOARDMAN

The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley was presented a $1,000 check from Advance Auto Parts at the store’s ribbon-cutting celebration last Thursday at its new location on the corner of U.S. Route 224 and West Boulevard. The gift will be a new corporate gift from Advance Auto Parts and will go to the 2012 United Way campaign.