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You can help beautify Glenwood Avenue

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. is having a community work day from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday to clean up and beautify Glenwood Avenue by mulching and planting flowers. A senior citizen’s home may also be painted.

Volunteers are asked to meet at the YNDC office at 820 Canfield Road. Parking is available at the cellphone tower across the street on Canfield Road. A cookout will be at 12:30 p.m. at the office. For information, call Eric Shehadi at 330-480-0423.

Youth day camp offers array of classes

YOUNGSTOWN

Registration for McGuffey Centre’s Summer Day Camp starts at 10 a.m. Monday at the center, 1649 Jacobs Road.

The camp, for ages 6 to 14, begins June 24. A co-ed basketball camp, etiquette workshops, beginning karate classes, golf lessons and gardening will be offered to participants. Instructors will include Brunilda Turner, Kathy Baldwin, David Hight, Vince Shivers and Samantha Turner.

The camp is co-sponsored by the Youngstown Community Initiative to Reduce Violence.

For information, call 330-744-4377.

$10,000 duplex fire reported on South Side

YOUNGSTOWN

A fire at a South Side duplex about 12:30 p.m. Thursday caused $10,000 in damage, fire reports said.

Crews were called to 142-144 W. Phliadelphia Ave., and found fire on the second floor when they arrived. A woman who lives there told firefighters she saw smoke and fire coming from a love seat and tried to put it out by throwing water on it before leaving.

The fire remains under investigation.

Talk on Ohio & Erie Canal at library

WARREN

A free presentation about The Ohio and Erie Canal and the Making of Modern Ohio will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, 444 Mahoning Avenue NW.

Kevin F. Kern will discuss how the Ohio and Erie Canal fundamentally changed Ohio through its role in three interlocking “revolutions” — the Market Revolution, Transportation Revolution and Industrial Revolution.

Kern is associate professor of history at the University of Akron. He is co-author of the forthcoming book “Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State.” He is co-founder and co-editor of the “Northeast Ohio Journal of History.”

Seeking owner of roaming dog

New Middletown

New Middletown police are encouraging residents to contact them or the Mahoning County dog warden if they encounter a large dog that has been roaming the village this week.

The dog is a large brown mastiff wearing a collar with tags and a shredded leather leash. The dog has eluded capture and hasn’t been aggressive in encounters with the police and public. His large size, however, may scare some residents. The owner of the animal is asked to call village police at 330-542-2846.

Budget meeting delayed

COLUMBUS

A legislative panel has pushed back its first meeting over differences between the House and Senate versions of the state budget.

The six-member, bipartisan conference committee had planned to meet Thursday afternoon to hear updated state revenue and Medicaid caseload projections.

The office of House Finance Chairman Ron Amstutz’s (AHM’-stutses) now says the meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday. Lawmakers face a June 30 deadline to pass the $61.7 billion, two-year state budget. A new fiscal year begins July 1.

The two chambers have separate tax plans and school funding formulas that must be reconciled.

Lawmakers have dropped the governor’s proposal to expand the Medicaid program from the budget. A separate, bipartisan bill to reform the Medicaid system was expected to be introduced on Thursday.