Comprehensive Pet First Aid workshop

Comprehensive Pet First Aid workshop

Youngstown

Learn how to recognize, respond to and prevent life-threatening conditions in dogs and cats at Pet First Aid, a comprehensive workshop scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Birch Hill Cabin in Mill Creek Park.

Participants will receive pet first-aid certification, and one manual, either dog or cat.

Cost to attend is $35 for members of MetroMutts and $45 for nonmembers.

Additional manuals will be available for $20 each.

Light refreshments will be served in the morning. Participants may bring a brown- bag lunch. No pets allowed.

Registration and payment must be received by Friday.

For information and registration, call Mill Creek MetroParks at 330-702-3000.

WRTA board to meet

Youngstown

The Board of Trustees of the Western Reserve Transit Authority will have a regular meeting at 3 p.m. today in the board room at 604 Mahoning Ave.

Authorities probing Pa. bank robbery

NEW wilmington, Pa.

Borough police and the Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle are investigating a Tuesday afternoon robbery at Huntington Bank, South Market Street.

An man believed to be in his late 30s to early 40s entered the bank and produced a demand note indicating that he had a gun, though no gun was displayed.

The teller provided the robber with an undisclosed amount of money from her drawer and he left the bank. Anyone with information regarding the robbery is asked to call police.

Gifted students can attend inauguration

Lisbon

Columbiana County Educational Service Center will have an informational meeting for high school students, who are identified as gifted, to attend the 45th Presidential Inauguration.

The students and their parents are invited to attend the meeting at the Columbiana County Educational Service Center, 38720 Saltwell Road, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The trip is for students identified as gifted who will be in ninth through 12th grades in the 2012-13 school year.

Students will participate in a student Inaugural Ball; tour the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Pentagon, 911 Memorial, Smithsonian Institutions, and much more.

Contact Yvonne Lipinsky, gifted coordinator, at 330-424-9591, ext. 179, to reserve a spot at the meeting by Friday.

City fire personnel investigating blaze

Youngstown

City fire personnel continue to investigate a blaze that broke out on Cameron Avenue on Wednesday morning.

Capt. Terry Stephens, of the Youngstown Fire Department, said the fire started about 9:30 a.m. in the living room of a home at 927 Cameron Ave.

The captain said the house is occupied, but no one was home at the time of the fire.

Damages were estimated at about $5,000.

Arson investigators stayed on scene throughout the day Wednesday, and Stephens said the fire is still under investigation.

Report of possible abduction attempt

YOUNGSTOWN

A 12-year-old girl, who was the subject of a possible abduction attempt Monday while walking her dog near the intersection of Woodcrest and Magnolia avenues, told police she saw the same man, but in a different car, Tuesday at the same location.

A witness told police a man driving a burgundy-colored Cadillac approached the girl about 4:40 p.m. Monday and motioned for her to get into his car.

When she refused and the suspect started to get out of his vehicle, the girl ran, leaving her dog behind.

The next day, the girl saw a man in a red Pontiac Grand Am at the same location and thought it was the same person who was in the Cadillac the previous day.

However, other witnesses said it was not the same man.

The man driving the Pontiac told police he was working at the time of Monday’s attempted abduction.

Police are investigating the incidents but no arrests had been made as of Wednesday.

Work session planned

Lordstown

The Lordstown Water and Sewer Department Board of Public Affairs has scheduled a work session at 4 p.m. today to review: Warren water pollution control billing, rates and agreements; and water deposits.

The meeting will be at the Lordstown Administration Building, 1455 Salt Springs Road.