Roads to close
Roads to close
Youngstown
The Mill Creek Metro-Parks will close several Mill Creek Park roads Saturday for the YMCA Memorial 5-mile run. These roads will be closed from 8 to 11 a.m.: Price Road, East Glacier, West Glacier and Memorial Hill drives.
Wine Shoppe arrest
Youngstown
Police arrested at least one suspect involved in a robbery of the Mahoning Wine Shoppe. The robbery at the Mahoning Avenue business on the city’s West Side occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday. A worker was injured during the crime. Police wouldn’t provide further details late Thursday.
Click-it kickoff
LISBON
The Family Recovery Center will kick off the Click it or Ticket campaign from 11:30 a.m. to noon today at the Gazebo in Lisbon Square.
Community leaders and musical presentations are scheduled, and refreshments will be served. The nationwide campaign begins every Memorial Day weekend to encourage people to wear seatbelts, and runs through June 3. Law enforcement officers will give tickets to drivers stopped for other offenses who are not wearing a seat belt.
Board Up campaign
WARREN
Trumbull Business College will partner with Trumbull County Weed & Seed and Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership as part of their Board Up campaign this summer. Staff and students, and agency volunteers will be gathering at the Trumbull Business College campus, 3200 Ridge Ave. SE, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. They will be painting boards used to secure abandoned homes. The upgraded look will keep the structures from becoming community eyesores until they are demolished or renovated. Weed & Seed is a federally funded program of law enforcement and community activities designed to stabilize neighborhoods.
Food collection
COLUMBIANA
People who bring in at least four cans of food to Ohio Gas of Columbiana, 2705 State Route 7, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. today will get a 20-pound propane cylinder for standard gas grills filled for only $10.
All food received will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley. Second Harvest distributes food to 153 hunger-relief organizations in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Meeting planned
POLAND
Township trustees will have an informational meeting at 5:30 p.m. June 6 at the government center about extending natural-gas lines to the area of Quarry, Stymie and Lowellville roads. Debra Mettle, coordinator of engineering design support services for Dominion East Ohio Gas, been will answer questions about the project.