Local NAACP unit offers scholarships

Local NAACP unit offers scholarships

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Unit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is offering scholarships to 2015 graduating seniors living in Mahoning or Trumbull counties.

Students interested in the scholarships must apply via the unit’s website at www.naacpyoungstown.org. Click on the NAACP Scholarship link, and download the application.

The scholarship application deadline is March 1.

For information, contact the NAACP branch office at 330-782-9777 or by email at naacpyoungstown@yahoo.com.

Juvenile court gets drug-court certified

WARREN

The Trumbull County Juvenile Court has received final certification of its Drug Court from the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Specialized Dockets and began to accept participants in July.

The juvenile drug court will work much like the adult drug court that operates in the county’s common pleas court. Juveniles with a pending criminal case and a substance-abuse problem who are good candidates will report once per week to the juvenile court.

They will talk to substance-abuse and mental-health counselors, a county Children Services representative, a probation officer and Juvenile Court Magistrate Monte Horton. The process will last one year, and candidates will be subject to random drug screens.

Artisan to teach tole painting program

MERCER, PA.

Munnell Run Farm, 753 Greenville Road, and the Mercer County Conservation District have teamed with guest artisan Georgia Mosebach for an art program, “The Lost Art of Tole Painting: An Introductory Class to Decorative Acrylic Painting.”

Mosebach has more than 25 years of tole painting experience and will introduce class participants to the decorative art. The first class will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 6, and participants will complete an 8-by-8-by-4-inch decorative box with a snowman and cardinals. No art experience is required, and all materials are provided.

The cost is $25 and participants are asked to register and pay by Dec. 29 by calling 724-662-2242 and asking for Jacqueline McCullough or Larissa Cassano. Make checks payable to Munnell Run Farm, 24 Avalon Court, Suite 300, Mercer, PA 16137.

2 policemen join staff

SHARON, PA.

Two new police officers have joined the Penn State Shenango Campus staff. They are Brian McBride and Travis Young. The university hired them to complete the University Police Department at the campus.

McBride and Young will work alongside Officer Joe Izzo, who was hired in 2013. Penn State Shenango and Beaver Campus Police Chief Anthony Budris oversees the police departments at both campuses.