Seniors earn awards at annual YMCA art show

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Donna Galey, front, of The Manor in Austintown, won best of show for her painting “Birds & Berries,” upper right corner. Galey is pictured with Suzanne Gray, YMCA art coordinator.

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The second annual “Centered: Slightly Off-Center” senior citizen art show took place June 24 at Davis Family YMCA. More than 70 artists from nine area assisted living and specialty care center painting clubs participated.

Guests of honor were the 90+ Club nonagenarians who learned to paint in their 90s.

Donna Galey of The Manor in Austintown won best of show for her painting “Birds & Berries.”

Guests enjoyed refreshments and perused the exhibit while Tamra Lucas and Chris Hughes entertained with songs. Denise DeBartolo York, Theresa Hickson, Rebecca Bavuso, Alice Bort and Elizabeth Gray donated funds for prizes.

Award winners were: Donna Adams, Mary Meese, Hickson, Jean Boesch, Janet Freisen, Carole Stasiak, Harry Wasson and Lawyer Williams from Ashley Circle; Joe Hall, Leroy Wireman, Josephine Acierno, Marsha Burr, Susan Huffman and John Keller from Autumn Hills; Louise Stombock, Eileen Sullivan, Linnea Berg, Lillian Coe, Shelly Gabler, Frank Lombard and Jean Thomas from Beeghly Oaks; Donna Brodigan, Marianne Gifford and Barb Mikesell from Boardman Briarfield; Sue Hepp, Anne Smolko, Helen Wasko, Carmela Bucci, Mary Delia and Laura Price from Inn at Christine Valley; Lois Dieter, MaryAnne Kresovski, Peter Balaban, Stella Chojnacki, Jane Mason, Anne Pawlyschyn and Maxine Saunders of The Manor; Rose DeChristopher, Mary Anne Ulrich and Janis Nochta of the Manor at Autumn Hills; Ruth Heslep, Rose Stramella and Connie Ryan of The Ridge; and Mary Bagin, Barb Melanson, Alice Kendrick, Irma Dombrowski, Eleanor Dupay and Marjorie Harkabus of Victoria House.

For information about the residential painting clubs contact Suzanne Gray, YMCA art coordinator, at 330-480-5656 or sgray@youngstownymca.org.