Saturday, June 21, 2014
Motorcycle ride today
WARREN
The Northcoast Motorcycle Safety Ride will take place at 11 a.m. today at the Canfield Fairgrounds. Registration begins at 10 a.m.
It’s a 100-mile ride escorted by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The ending point is at the Cortland Moose Lodge, 6400 state Route 46 in Cortland. Price is $15 for a single rider and $5 for a passenger. Ticket includes food, soft drinks and a raffle ticket.
The ninth annual event is sponsored by the patrol and Safe Communities coalitions in Ashtabula, Lake, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. Its goal is to decrease the number of motorcyclists killed on Ohio roads.
Block party planned
YOUNGSTOWN
A block party will take place from noon to 6 p.m. today at Boston Avenue and Southern Boulevard. The event, which features free refreshments and activities for all ages, will kick off the GEARS program, which stands for Generating Energy Activity Recreation Safely.
Idora farmers market
YOUNGSTOWN
The Idora Neighborhood Farmers’ Market will take place from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday through Sept. 30 at 2600 Glenwood Ave.
Products available at the market include goods from Carol’s Homemade Baked Goods, Dandelion Lane Farm, Her Primitive Ways, Iron Roots Urban Farm, Lady Buggs Farm, Jackson Maters Farm, The Zaney Pearl and more. Gourmet food trucks will be parked at the market to offer prepared food.
The Idora Neighborhood Farmers Market is a farmer-only, safe, family-friendly environment committed to food equality. It accepts Ohio Electronic Benefit Transfer cards; Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) coupons, and Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program coupons.
The market is hosted by the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. For questions about the market or to get involved, contact Danielle Seidita, market manager, at 330-480-0423 or dseidita@yndc.org. Senior-citizen art show
BOARDMAN
“Centered: Slightly Off-Center,” a senior-citizen art show, is at the Davis Family YMCA, 45 McClurg Road, through the end of the month.
The show features more than 80 paintings by residents of 12 area assisted-living and specialty-care facilities.
An artists’ reception is set for 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday. More than $600 in prize money will be awarded. This year’s judge was Marcie Roepke-Applegate, a founding member of Artists of the Rustbelt and Artists of the Mahoning Commons.
Hubbard to begin picking up branches
HUBBARD
The city street department will pick up branches for a week, starting Monday. Branches have to be less than 3 inches thick and less than 5 feet long. Crews will stay no longer than 10 minutes at one house.
They will begin in the 1st Ward and finish in the 4th Ward. Call Dan Livingston, city service director, at 330-534-7755 with questions.
Vienna Fire Dept. receives grant
VIENNA
The Vienna Township Fire Department has been awarded $24,883 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency Assistance to Firefighters Grants program.
Fire Chief Richard Brannon said the money will be used to purchase the attack hose and appliances that go with it for a new fire truck the department expects to receive in about nine months.
The fire department is hoping for approval from township trustees next week to go forward with the purchase of the new truck.
By using the grant, the department will have additional money available for other equipment for the truck, Brannon said.
Landscaping seminar
WARREN
Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership and Tru Cut Landscaping of Warren will have a landscaping and exterior home-maintenance seminar at 453 Vine Ave. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 12.
The program will teach skills needed to improve and maintain a home’s exterior. The program is hands-on, so appropriate attire is recommended.
Volunteers needed for meal delivery
WARREN
Trumbull Mobile Meals is in need of volunteer drivers to deliver meals. There is an urgent need for Girard, Niles and Warren drivers, but all areas of Trumbull County can use help, Mobile Meals says.
Police investigate Boardman break-in
BOARDMAN
Township police are investigating the break-in at a home in the 5900 block of Market Street.
According to a police report filed Thursday, someone broke into the unoccupied house sometime between Sunday and Thursday and stole thousands of dollars worth of property from the homeowner.
The homeowner said that when she came to check on the house, she found it ransacked. Jewelry, a home furnace, gold and silver coins, two window air-conditioner units and several tools were missing from the house and garage.
Domestic-violence charge against man
YOUNGSTOWN
Police took a Fairmont Avenue man to the Mahoning County jail Thursday afternoon after they say he refused to let a woman in his home leave.
Police were called to the man’s home in the 700 block of Fairmont on the North Side at about 4:15 p.m., and the first officer there could hear a man and woman arguing. When the officer went inside, he saw Roy Donaldson, 23, holding a pair of scissors and keeping a woman from leaving.
The officer ordered Donaldson to drop the scissors, and he refused. The officer then drew his stun gun and ordered him to drop them again, which he did when another officer arrived. Donaldson refused a request to go into another room so police could talk to the woman. He was arrested and is charged with domestic violence.
Possible misuse of food stamps probed
CAMPBELL
City police are investigating a 36-year-old Youngstown woman’s possible misuse of food stamps.
Officers arrested Lakeisha J. Felder of Carroll Street at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday after a traffic stop on Struthers-Liberty Road. Police cited Felder for speeding, then discovered she was driving under suspension.
An inventory of the car produced an Ohio Direction card, which Felder said belonged to her boyfriend. She added that he was in jail, and that money had just been put on the card, so she used it, not wanting the benefits to go to waste.
Felder is set to appear in Campbell Municipal Court at 9 a.m. July 8 on the traffic charges.
One cited, one arrested in motorcycle incident
YOUNGSTOWN
Police cited one man and arrested a second man after they investigated a call about someone riding a motorcycle with excessive speed on Powers Way at about 11:45 p.m. Thursday.
Officers spotted the motorcycle, which reports say was driven by 22-year-old Kenneth Patterson of Youngstown, and it pulled into the drive of a nearby South Side home. It was discovered that Patterson had four open suspensions on his license as well as having no valid license to operate a motorcycle. He was cited for those traffic violations and given a court date.
Reports said there were several men and a woman in the yard of the home, and they were drunk. A records check showed one of them, Gary Conrad, 36, of Youngstown, had a warrant for driving under suspension and another traffic charge. He was arrested and taken to the Mahoning County jail.