METRO DIGEST || Preregistration for Feed the Children next week

Preregistration for Feed the Children

Youngstown

The Salvation Army, 1501 Glenwood Ave., will host Feed the Children preregistration sign-ups from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.

Applicants must be residents of Mahoning County, have custody of children in their home under age 18, bring valid picture identification, birth certificates, and a bill or piece of mail.

The distribution date for preregistered families will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 12. For information, call 330-746-8403.

Press conference

Youngstown

Demaine Kitchen, Youngstown chief of staff, and the city of Youngstown will host a press conference today at 10:30 a.m. in council chambers at city hall, 26 S. Phelps St. The purpose of the event is to announce and launch new neighborhood improvement websites.

Blaze at business

BOARDMAN

Firefighters battled a blaze Tuesday evening at the same McClurg Road business damaged by flames in March.

No one was injured in the fire that broke out about 7 p.m. at D&D Industrial Services. No damage estimate had been determined, but firefighters said it appeared the fire started in an area of the business that houses industrial washers and dryers.

The business was closed at the time, but D&D shares a building with a handful of other businesses which were operating at the time of the fire.

D&D provides uniforms, linens, mops and other items to businesses.

On March 18, fire damaged the same building.

Boy beaten by teens

youngstown

A 16-year-old male told police he was beaten and robbed by a group of 20 young men Tuesday night. The teen said he was at Borts Pool on North Belle Vista Avenue on the West Side with his girlfriend and when she left, he sat down to smoke a cigarette. The group of teenage boys, between 17 and 18, came up behind him, and one struck him in the head with a pipe, a police report said. The boy fell and the group followed, beating and kicking him before taking his wallet, $50, an MP3 player, pocket knife and chewing gum. The boy was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Half-price admission

YOungstown

All visitors to OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St., will be offered half-price admission Saturday and Sunday. The discounted admission will be available during the regularly scheduled hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. During the promotion, cost for general admission will be $4, seniors and veterans will pay $3.50, and children under 2 get in for free. The center will be closed Labor Day. This is the second-consecutive year First National Bank has underwritten the public’s cost of admission for the Labor Day weekend. Last year, hundreds of visitors took advantage of a similar opportunity, Susan Barbati said.