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Good Friday breakfast planned

Youngstown

YMCA of Youngstown will host its annual Good Friday breakfast and service April 6 at the Central Y, corner of Commerce and Champion streets.

Guest speaker Pastor Gary Koerth of Tabernacle Evangelical Presbyterian Church will lead the service in the gym.

A breakfast buffet prepared by Jorgine’s Deli will be served at 7:15 a.m. with the program at 8. The event will conclude at 8:45.

Tickets are $10; reservations for tables of eight are $75. Contact Patty Tchoryk at 330-742-4781. Information is available at www.YoungstownYMCA.org.

Last year, nearly 500 people attended, said Tim Hilk, chief executive officer and executive director.

Cemetery cleanup

NORTH JACKSON

Jackson Township trustees are requesting that all township cemetery Christmas decorations be removed by March 31.

Removal of flowers needed at cemetery

East Palestine

All flowers and decorations at Glenview Cemetery must be removed by Thursday, or they will discarded. Spring and summer decorations may be put on the graves as of April 1. Call 330-426-4367, ext. 19, for cemetery information.

Skywarn training

AUSTINTOWN

Mahoning County Skywarn, a volunteer organization of weather spotters, will be conducting training on how to recognize approaching storms and tornadoes.

Gary Garnet, warning- coordinator meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Cleveland, will conduct the training at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Austintown Fitch High School Auditorium, 4560 Falcon Drive. Training is free.

Due to construction, it is advised to enter off of Falcon Drive at the new street, Lloyd Loop. Follow Lloyd Loop until you reach the front of the high school. Parking is at the lot in front of the school.

Idora work day

YOUNGSTOWN

There will be an Idora Neighborhood work day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today regardless of the weather.

Participants are asked to meet at the Youngstown Playhouse on Glenwood Avenue. Work will include cleaning the playhouse parking lot and painting in preparation for the playhouse mural project. Participants also will install boards on vacant homes on West LaClede Avenue.

Must give up dogs

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP)

A city woman must forfeit three pit bulls and pay $8,100 to an animal shelter where they have been quarantined since an attack on her 91-year-old neighbor last year.

A Lawrence County judge also ordered 48-year-old Janet Karnes to spend a year on probation after she pleaded guilty to being responsible for a dog attack causing serious injury.

The woman told authorities she had her son let the dogs out a rear door when she heard neighbors screaming moments later as the elderly woman was being attacked April 10. The woman was treated at a local hospital before she was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital. Authorities say only one of the dogs actually bit the victim.

Program on birds

SANDY LAKE, pa.

McKeever Environmental Learning Center and the Bluebird Society of Pennsylvania present a free program on bluebirds from 10 a.m. to noon today at the center, 55 McKeever Lane.

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