Mattress sale will benefit Fitch band

Mattress sale will benefit Fitch band

Austintown

The Austintown Fitch Band is hosting a mattress fundraising sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Austintown Fitch High School, 4560 Falcon Drive.

The band will sell mattress sets 30 percent to 60 percent off the retail price. The mattresses are brand-new with factory warranties, and pillow top, orthopedic and memory foam sets will be offered.

Free layaway and delivery will be available. Cash, check and credit cards will be accepted.

All profits from the sale will directly benefit the Austintown Fitch Band.

The event is being hosted in association with Custom Fundraising Solutions. Information can be found on the company’s Twitter page, www.twitter.com/funds4kids, and Facebook page, www.facebook.com/CustomFundraisingSolutionsCLE. On both sites, the company provides information for participants to earn a coupon for $50 off any mattress set.

Clinic to sponsor cat spay-a-thon

Girard

Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic, in support of TNR of Warren, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the feral- and stray-cat population by sterilization rather than euthanasia, will have a cat spay-a-thon starting at 7 a.m. today at Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic, 405 State St., Girard.

At an event earlier this year, Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic veterinarian Dr. Suzanne Wilcox and her staff performed more than 50 spay and neuter surgeries. The goal this time is 100 surgeries.

Surgery spaces are fully booked for today’s event, but two additional Spay-A-Thons are being planned for November and February. If you would like to help, TNR of Warren is accepting money, laundry detergent (any brand), paper towels, bleach, quart-size plastic zippered bags, trash bags and washable towels and blankets. For more information, call 330-330-8166.

Salem Hospital to mark centennial

Salem

Salem Community Hospital will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its opening with a special Founders’ Day Breakfast for community leaders Friday at Salem Community Center, 1098 N. Ellsworth Ave.

A breakfast buffet will begin at 7:30 a.m., and a program featuring guest speaker Coach Earle Bruce will take place at 8 a.m. For information, call Michele Hoffmeister, the hospital’s public relations director, at 330-509-4743.

Highway Patrol investigating death

COLUMBUS

The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the death of James Blackburn, 31, formerly of Warren, as a possible suicide after his death Tuesday in the Lebanon Correctional Institution in Warren County, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Blackburn was serving a 21-year prison sentence that began in 2006 for raping a young boy in 2005. Blackburn was found in his cell at 2:09 a.m. and pronounced dead 20 minutes later.

Blackburn’s death would mark the eighth suicide in Ohio prisons this year.

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