METRO DIGEST || Open house Sunday at spay/neuter clinic

Open house Sunday at spay/neuter clinic

GIRARD

The Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic, 405 S. State St. (U.S. Route 422), is celebrating its fifth anniversary with an open house Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Since it opened, with a mission of providing low-cost spay/ neuter and wellness services for pet owners, the clinic has treated more than 15,000 dogs and cats. Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic is locally owned and operated by Dr. Suzanne Wilcox.

During the open house, visitors are invited to tour the facility and meet the staff and Magoo, the resident cat. There will be door prizes, giveaways and refreshments.

During September, the clinic will donate $5 for every spay and neuter procedure done, to be divided between the clinic’s top five animal-rescue and shelter facilities. For information, call 330-545-2255.

Salem hospital entrance change

SALEM

To help people safely access its facilities during construction of a new patient tower, Salem Community Hospital is asking patients and visitors to enter the hospital through the ground-floor lobby entrance at the Salem Medical Center across the street from the main hospital, next to the north parking lot on East State Street.

Beginning Monday, receptionists will provide wheelchair assistance at the center’s lobby entrance from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Staff members will be available to transport those needing assistance to and from the main hospital. After 9 p.m. each day, visitors and patients must enter the hospital through the emergency department.

Bus and golf-cart shuttle service will be available to transport patients and visitors from the parking lot to the main entrance, and limited parking will be available in front of the hospital’s main and business office entrances.

Cash Explosion at mall today

NILES

Local residents can take part in the taping of two episodes of the Ohio Lottery’s Cash Explosion show today at Eastwood Mall in Niles.

The daylong event will start at 10 a.m. with Cash Explosion promotional games, according to The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, 21 WFMJ-TV. There will be $5,000 in cash prizes, $1,000 in mall gift cards and Cash Explosion and Ohio Lottery merchandise giveaways. Visitors can also meet the Cash Explosion co-hosts Sharon Bicknell, Cherie McClain and David McCreary, as well as 21 WFMJ’s Leslie Barrett and Jess Briganti.

Show tapings begin at 2 and 4 p.m. in the mall’s center court. General seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Friendly wager

CANFIELD

The Western Reserve and Cardinal joint fire districts placed a friendly wager on the outcome of Friday’s football showdown between Poland and Canfield, with each department supporting its hometown.

The winner — Poland — will get its department’s firetruck washed at the next training session by Canfield’s fire department. The final score was 13-0.

Man hit by train

YOUNGSTOWN

Firefighters lowered a man from a CSX railroad overpass for continued medical treatment after he reportedly was hit by a train at Oak Hill Avenue and Marshall Street at 2:34 p.m. Thursday.

A Rural Metro ambulance crew was treating the victim on the trestle, when firefighters rigged a stokes basket and rigid stretcher via a rope and pulley system to lower the victim from the trestle and return him to the care of the ambulance crew and rescue squad. The victim, who wasn’t seriously hurt, was taken to St. Elizabeth Health Center, said Fire Capt. Alvin Ware. The fire department report did not identify the victim or elaborate on the circumstances.