Hangar project to begin

Hangar project to begin

VIENNA

The Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport will break ground for the construction of Phase I of a project to create 14 T-hangars at 11 a.m. today at the airport.

The Western Reserve Port Authority, which runs the airport and conducts economic-development activities, authorized a $470,000 loan in April to pay for construction of the hangars, which are shaped like a “T” to conform to the shape of an aircraft.

The airport has commitments from 14 tenants interested in occupying the hangars.

The hangars will be built near state Route 193 along a new taxi lane to be built this year.

Man injured in crash

NEW CASTLE, Pa.

A Youngstown man was in critical condition after he fell asleep while driving and crashed in a construction zone on U.S. Route 224, Pennsylvania State Police said.

Bradley L. Smith, 34, of Old Furnace Road was traveling east when he crashed at 1 a.m. Tuesday at the site of the new bridge. He went airborne, hit a cement pier and then crashed on the railroad tracks below the bridge. He struck another cement pier.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center. The hospital would not release information on his condition Tuesday night.

Children’s books sought

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Hubbard Friends of the Public Library, 436 W. Liberty St., needs children’s books to sell and redistribute within the community.

Donations of clean, used books, DVDs, videotapes, cassette tapes, CDs, puzzles and games will be accepted at the circulation desk at the library. Encyclopedia sets and magazines are not accepted.

Friends sell books to raise funds for the library. For information, call president Bonnie Viele at 330-534-1394.

Donating to Fairhaven

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Delphi Packard Electric’s Plant 47 recently had an “Excellence Week” during which time employees raised $385 through dress- down days and coffee collections.

The money went to the Fairhaven School in Niles for new playground equipment for its early intervention program, which is for students from birth to age 3.

New adviser for group

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ACTION, a faith-based community-organizing group, will work with a new adviser, Lois Campbell, executive director of Pennsylvania Interfaith Impact Network or PIIN.

PIIN is a faith-based community organization that addresses a wide range of issues affecting urban neighborhoods.

Greg Galluzzo, former executive director of the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation, had served as an adviser to Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods and its executive director, Minister Rose Carter, since 2008.

Galluzzo retired from Gamaliel in January 2011, but he continued to work with ACTION until recently. Under Galluzzo’s tenure, which began in 1986, the Gamaliel Foundation was restructured as a community-organizing leadership institute that was dedicated to training activists in low-income communities.

Resurfacing to begin

EAST LIVERPOOL

Work is set to begin next Wednesday to resurface state Route 267 in East Liverpool.

Just less than two miles of Route 267 will be resurfaced from state Route 7 to the city’s north corporation line. Traffic will be maintained with flaggers.

Ohio Department of Transportation contractor for the $313,504 project is Lash Paving Inc. from Colerain, Ohio. Completion date is Aug. 31.

Senior citizen art show

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The Davis Family YMCA is hosting the second annual senior citizen art show this month at the McClurg Road facility.

More than 75 paintings by residents of local assisted-living and specialty-care centers are on display. An artists’ reception, which is free and open to the public, is planned from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday.