Burns files motion

Burns files motion

WARREN

Jason Burns, 33, of Aquadale Drive in Boardman, charged with two felony drug offenses while working as a paralegal assistant for Warren Law Director Greg Hicks, has asked to enter an alternative-sentencing program.

His attorney, Samuel Bluedorn, filed a motion with Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court asking that Burns be allowed to enter the intervention-in-lieu-of-conviction program. A participant who remains free of alcohol and drugs for a year can have charges dropped.

Burns was charged after police reported finding illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia in his possession while he was at work. Judge McKay has not ruled on whether Burns can enter the program.

Meeting at gardens

YOUNGSTOWN

The Garden District Neighborhood Association meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave.

Guest speakers will include Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally. A plant exchange will take place after the meeting; guests are asked to bring a plant and to take a plant home. The community is welcome.

Bars for Better Days

NORTH LIMA

Sheely’s Furniture and Appliance’s, 11450 South Ave., has teamed up with the HandsOn Volunteer Network of the Valley for a Memorial Day promotion. Take an unopened box of either granola or breakfast bars to donate to the Volunteer Network and earn a $100-off coupon for a $1,000 purchase made Monday, Memorial Day.

The HandsOn Volunteer Network of the Valley will take all the donated bars and distribute them to Valley children in need.

The program, “Bars for Better Days,” ends when the store closes at 5 p.m.

Seeking artists

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., with funding support from the Ohio Capital Improvement Corp., is seeking local and regional artists to paint two large, public murals along Glenwood Avenue in the Idora Neighborhood.

One mural will be on the Park Inn building at the intersection of Parkview Avenue; and the other will be located on two sides of the La France Cleaners building at West Princeton Avenue.

Interested artists should, by June 1, send a cover letter, examples of their work, a resume and references to YNDC offices, 820 Canfield Road, Youngstown, OH 44511. For information, call Tom Hetrick at 330-480-0423.

Pleads to theft

WARREN

Roderick Lewis Jr., 24, a community volunteer and former candidate for the Warren school board, has pleaded guilty to theft from an elderly person, theft and misuse of credit cards.

He will be sentenced in about four weeks, after the Trumbull County Adult Probation Department conducts a pre-sentence investigation.

Howland police charged him with those offenses and impersonating a police officer, accusing him of charging more than $2,100 on a 92-year-old Howland woman’s credit cards in June.

Police say the woman lost her purse at a department store, then learned that charges of $2,050 had been made on her cards before she got home.

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