Workshop canceled

Workshop canceled

WARREN

National teacher and author Nicolai Bachman’s workshop on Yoga Philosophy, Chakra and Sanskrit set for Friday through Sunday at The Yoga Room, 2232 Elm Road NE, has been canceled. The Yoga Room will try to reschedule the workshop.

Monthly sirens test

hermitage, pa.

Hermitage Fire Department will conduct its monthly test of the area’s weather warning sirens at 10 a.m. today. The test will include activation of the Clark, Farrell, Sharpsville, West Middlesex and Wheatland weather sirens.

Sunflower work day

youngstown

A Project Sunflower work day is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, rain or shine. Participants should meet at St. Patrick Church, 1420 Oak Hill Ave.

Volunteers will clean up a vacant lot on Oak Hill and plant sunflowers. Bring gloves, shovels and rakes. For information, call the church at 330-743-1109.

Meeting canceled

Liberty

Liberty Township trustees’ special meeting scheduled for 11 a.m. today has been canceled.

Spring cleanup

Mineral Ridge

Weathersfield Township annual spring cleanup will be from Monday to next Friday on the regular garbage pickup day.

Garbage items that Allied Waste Systems cannot pick up are tires, car parts or batteries, hot ashes or embers, dead animals, steel drums, propane or gas cylinders, any type of liquids, hazardous waste, including poisons, fuel, paint solvents, oil, antifreeze or pesticides, herbacides and medical waste including all hypodermic needles, untied bushes or branches, sod, dirt, rock or bricks, unbagged animal feces, fluorescent light bulbs and explosives.

Liquid paint must be dry or in the solid form before placing in the trash.

Seat belt facts

SOUTHINGTON

Wearing a seat belt is the single most-effective factor protecting a driver or passenger in a motor-vehicle crash, and belts save more than 13,000 lives every year, the Ohio State Highway Patrol says.

In 2011, nearly 65 percent of the people killed on Ohio’s roadways were not wearing a seat belt, the patrol says. It’s one reason troopers issued 19 percent more seat-belt citations during the first three months of this year, said Lt. Brian Holt, commander of the patrol’s Southington post.

According to Ohio’s 2010 Observational Seatbelt Survey, 83.8 percent of motorists were in compliance with Ohio’s seat-belt law, a significant increase from the 72.9 percent observed in 2002.

YWCA Olympics

WARREN

Deadline to register and receive a T-shirt for YWCA Warren’s 29th annual Children’s Olympics is Monday.

The event, for children in grades 1 to 6, will start at 8:30 a.m. June 2 at Howland Middle School Track, 8100 South St. SE.

Those not interested in a shirt can still register through May 23. Cost is $12.50 per child, and registration forms are available at Satolli Carpet and the Saratoga Restaurant downtown or on the YWCA’s website at www.ywcaofwarren.org.

Tennis shoes are required. A participation ribbon will be presented to each child, and Olympic-style gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded to the top three boys and girls in each event.

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