Railroading expo

Railroading expo

NILES

Miniature railroading is highlighted today and Sunday at the Great Train Expo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days at the Eastwood Expo Center, 5555 Youngstown-Warren Road.

Admission is $7 for adults and is good for both days. Children under 12 will be admitted free.

Model and toy train experts will be on hand with exhibits and informative demonstrations.

The event will include operating train layouts, featuring Miami Valley Module Club’s HO Scale layout, tables of shopping at the hobby marketplace and more.

The hobby market offers thousands and thousands of model and toy trains from all the leading manufacturers. People will find everything needed to start their first layout.

Man faces charges

YOUNGSTOWN

A 40-year-old Poland man, who is in critical condition in St. Elizabeth Health Center, is charged with driving under the influence and failure to control after city police found his vehicle in the woods off the Oakwood Avenue ramp to Interstate 680 southbound at 11:49 p.m. Thursday.

Police said they found Michael Niro lying across the front seat of his heavily damaged vehicle, smelling strongly of alcohol and moaning, but otherwise unresponsive. A blood sample taken from Niro, who was on a ventilator at the hospital, was placed in the police evidence room refrigerator, but the police report did not state his blood-alcohol level.

Reservists return

VIENNA

Ten Marine Corps reservists from Detachment-3, Maintenance Co., Combat Logistics Battalion 453 (Det.-3) stationed at the Youngstown Air Reserve Station returned home Friday from a seven-month deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The Marines were reunited with their families at the Cleveland United Service Organization. They will report midweek to YARS, a spokesman said.

While deployed, the reservists were attached to the Redeployment and Retrograde in Support of Reset and Reconstitution Operations Group (R4OG), based out of Camp Leatherneck. The R4OG receives equipment from units, repairs it if needed and sends it out of the battle space back to the United States.

The reservists were activated in March and deployed from Camp Lejeune, N.C., in May.

Photo contest

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership is asking for the community’s support in the statewide Community Action Agencies Facebook photo contest that runs through Tuesday.

The Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies is sponsor of the contest, which includes photos highlighting activities from Community Action Agencies.

“MYCAP’s entry, titled ‘Alfred,’ is a picture of Stymie the Clown from an activity held in May at our Western Mahoning County office in Sebring,” said Al Stabilito, director of outreach and communications.

People can vote for “Alfred” by visitingwww.facebook.com/pages/Ohio-Association-of-Community-Action-Agencies.

The winning agency will receive a 7-inch Xelio Multi-Touch Screen Tablet, and the runner-up will receive a free registration to the OACAA 2014 Winter Legislative Conference in Columbus and a $25 American Express gift card.

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