Sunday, April 20, 2014
Friendly’s helping kids
POLAND
From now through next Sunday, Friendly’s Restaurant on U.S. Route 224 in Poland will offer customers two ways to make a difference for the Easter Seals and Youngstown Hearing & Speech Center’s programs and services for children with disabilities and special needs.
During the Easter Seals Camp Friendly’s Annual Campaign, for a $2 donation to Easter Seals, kids will receive their kids meals served on Friendly’s Frisbees, or customers can get a discount card good for 10 percent off all purchases through May 18 for a $1 donation.
Friendly’s Restaurants has supported Easter Seals affiliates in the U.S. since 1981, generating more than $28 million through their fundraising promotions.
For information, visit www.mtc.easterseals.com.
Charter schools
YOUNGSTOWN
The League of Women Voters of Greater Youngstown will moderate a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. April 28 at Union Baptist Church, 528 Lincoln Ave., to examine how accountable charter school and high-stakes testing reformers are.
Panel speakers are Doug Oplinger, managing editor of the Akron Beacon Journal; Sherry Tyson, assistant treasurer of Youngstown City Schools; Ronald J. Iarussi, superintendent, Mahoning County Educational Service Center; and Randy Hoover, professor emeritus, Youngstown State University.
Sponsoring the event are ACTION, Mayor John A. McNally, city council, Youngstown Board of Education, Youngstown Junior Civic League, YSU College of Education, YWCA of Youngstown, and the Core Team of Union Baptist.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the program ends at 8:30.
Charged in killing
BUTLER, PA.
Jeremey D. Sickenberger, 22, of Portersville, Pa., has been charged with criminal homicide in the shooting death Thursday of Thomas J. Stockman, 21, of Harmony, Pa.
The Butler Station of the Pennsylvania State Police reported that Sickenberger is being held in Butler County jail awaiting a preliminary arraignment. The shooting occurred at 8 p.m. at 146 Robbie Way, Muddy Creek Township, police said.
Work discrimination
YOUNGSTOWN
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s mobile-outreach center will visit the Youngstown unit of the NAACP from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday to accept complaints of employment discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, age (40 and older), disability or retaliation.
The EEOC considers retaliation the firing of a worker who complained about job discrimination, gave evidence in a job-discrimination matter or filed a charge of job discrimination with the commission.
The unit prefers appointments, but walk-ins are welcome.
The local unit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is at 16 Wick Ave., Suite 721, downtown. Call the local office at 330-782-9777, or email naacpyoungstown@yahoo.com.