Medicare event

Medicare event

YOUNGSTOWN

The Ohio Senior Health Insurance Information Program will conduct a “Welcome to Medicare” event at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Youngstown Senior Center, 1110 Fifth Ave.

The event will help new and soon-to-be beneficiaries understand the basics of Medicare.

OSHIIP, the state’s official source for free and unbiased Medicare information and counseling, is having 19 “Welcome to Medicare” events across the state this month and in May.

For a schedule and information about these events and Medicare, visit www.insurance.ohio.gov or call OSHIIP at 800-686-1578.

Tour of station

YOUNGSTOWN

The Brownlee Woods Neighborhood Association will take a tour of the new Youngstown Number 9 fire station, 1624 E. Midlothian Blvd., on Thursday. Participants are asked to meet at the parking lot next to the fire station at 5:45 p.m.

After the tour, the group will go to Faith Community Church, 1919 E. Midlothian Blvd., for refreshments and the association’s regular monthly meeting. The business meeting will begin at 6:30.

A representative from Trees Please will be guest speaker and discuss the meadow-planting program for 2014. The group also will discuss plans for the upcoming cleanup day May 31 and a fundraiser in June.

Victim sought

AUSTINTOWN

Police are looking for a Wednesday-night assault victim to find out why he was found on the ground outside of a residence.

Authorities found a man at 10:53 p.m. in front of a home in the 200 block of North Main Street, close to the intersection of Main and Four Mile Run Road. Police did not know the extent of his injuries, but he was treated at St. Elizabeth Health Center.

Detective Jeff Solic said the man checked himself out of the hospital Thursday morning. The man was visiting a female at a home on North Main when three people entered the residence and an altercation occurred. Solic said because police hadn’t talked to the victim before he checked himself out of the hospital, they don’t know details of what happened or what was used to purportedly beat him.

New president

CLEVELAND

Robert W. Briggs has been appointed president of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education, a nonprofit organization that has worked across business and education boundaries for 64 years.

Briggs is the immediate past chairman of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the former president of the GAR Foundation of Akron and began this week as president of NOCHE. He replaces Ann Womer Benjamin, who left NOCHE in December after being elected mayor of Aurora.

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