Exhibit focuses on 4 disasters in Valley

Exhibit focuses on 4 disasters in Valley

YOUNGSTOWN

“Disasters in Mahoning Valley History,” a new exhibition at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, opens 4 p.m. Wednesday.

The temporary exhibit, which will be on display in the Archives, was developed and executed by students in the Museum Curation and Interpretation class at Youngstown State University. The cases feature four disasters important in area history: The Great Flood of 1913, the Thanksgiving Day Snowstorm of 1950, the Wheatland Tornado of 1985 and “Black Monday” on Sept. 19, 1977. The exhibit is part of the celebration of Ohio Archives month, which selected as its 2013 theme “Disasters in Ohio History.”

The event at the Steel Museum at 151 W. Wood St. is free and open to the public. For more information, call 330-941-3158.

World Polio Day

YOUNGSTOWN

The Rotary Club of Youngstown will host Janet Newcomer, Rotary International Foundation major gifts officer, at its meeting Wednesday. She will talk about the Rotary International Foundation and how it has impacted philanthropy. Her appearance coincides with World Polio Day on Thursday.

Rotary, a humanitarian service organization with nearly 34,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas, made polio eradication its top priority in 1985. Rotary has since contributed $1.2 billion to immunize more than 2 billion children in 122 countries.