METRO DIGEST || Special screening for veterans

Veterans movie

BOARDMAN

North Coast WAVES Unit 21 and AMVETS Post 44 are hosting a special screening of “Honor Flight the Movie” at 7:30 p.m. March 20 at Cinemark Tinseltown Theatre next to Southern Park Mall.

People who want to attend should reserve their tickets by using the www.tugg.com/events/2895 event website. Tickets are $10.

This event will take place only if 80 tickets are reserved in advance of the showing by Tuesday. Groups are encouraged to order for any World War II or senior veterans who may not use the Internet.

For information, contact Jennifer Baun, North Coast WAVES Unit 21 event coordinator at 330-788-8488; or Jan Brown, AMVETS Post 44 events coordinator, at 330-518-5532.

Benefit auction

GREENVILLE, PA.

United Way of Mercer County and Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce are jointly hosting a benefit auction Friday in the Howard Miller Center at Thiel College in Greenville. All proceeds benefit the host organizations.

The event has an island theme, and guests are asked to wear tropical attire and will receive a lei at the door. An assortment of items will be available to bid on in several auction formats. Items include weekend getaways, jewelry, gourmet food baskets, wine baskets, a golf package, theatre tickets, zoo tickets and autographed sports memorabilia.

Tickets are available at the United Way or Greenville Chamber offices. Individual reservations and tables of eight are available by calling the Greenville Chamber of Commerce at 724-588-7150. Tickets are $45 per person or $350 for a table of eight. For information, visit www.uwmercercounty.org or www.greenvillechamber-pa.com.

Luncheon for veterans

POLAND

The Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities is having its second annual Veterans of the Valley luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Poland United Methodist Church, 1940 Boardman-Poland Road.

The event honors and recognizes service veterans as part of the board’s Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month celebrations. The guest of honor is Raymond J. Braidich, a Marine Corps veteran who served in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

All veterans are invited to the event. For information, call George Gabriel at 330-797-2902.

Making family history

YOUNGSTOWN

Do you want to know more about your family history? Where they came from? How they got here? If these and other such questions intrigue you, the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor is sponsoring two workshops, March 16, that may help provide the answers.

At 10 a.m., “Capturing Your Family’s Oral History,” presented by Donna DeBlasio, YSU professor of history, will help participants plan and record oral-history stories of family members and friends. Learn how to identify individuals with stories to share, frame questions, guide the conversation, and document work.

At 1 p.m. “Your Immigrant Ancestors,” presented by DeBlasio and Martha Pallante, YSU professor of history, will look at the ethnic neighborhoods that shaped the community and continue to do so decades later.

The cost is $10 per person per workshop. For more information or to make reservations, call 330-941-1314 or 330-941-1433. The Youngstown Historical Center, known as the Steel Museum, is at 151 W. Wood St., in downtown Youngstown.

Pizza driver robbed

WARREN

A pizza-delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint in a residential area just north of downtown late in the evening.

At 10:48 p.m. Monday, a 38-year-old driver for Domino’s Pizza reported he walked up to the back of the residence at 229 Porter St. Northeast with pizza and wings that had been ordered, saw a male and female on the porch and asked if they had ordered pizza. They both nodded yes, then a third person, a male, stuck a pistol in his back and ordered him to lay on the ground and give him money.

The driver handed the armed man money, and the two people on the porch took the food, and all three ran through the yards. Value of the food, cash and food warmer was about $70.