Donations sought

Donations sought

STRUTHERS

The Struthers Shop with a Cop committee reported it still is in need of financial donations and volunteers for its Dec. 14 event. Shop with a Cop is a program in which officers take local children from less-privileged families shopping near Christmas time for clothes and toys with donated money.

The committee wants to raise $10,000 this year, which would fund shopping trips for 100 children. The team is at 80 percent of its goal. Donations can be dropped off at the police station at 6 Elm Street in Struthers or be mailed to P.O. Box 29 in Struthers.

With 100 kids to take shopping Dec. 14, the officers also are in need of volunteers to take kids around the store. For information, call Denise Collingwood at 330-755-3750.

Classes at park

YOUNGSTOWN

Mill Creek MetroParks will offer t’ai chi classes at Fellows Riverside Gardens, 123 McKinley Ave., on Wednesday and Dec. 10 and 17 from noon to 1 p.m.

Led by Marie Lew, the class will include warm-ups, breathing exercises and selected movements from a classic Chen T’ai Chi form. The exercises are meant to ease stress, improve health and increase vitality.

Registration is not required. The cost is $10 per class.

Insurance info

GIRARD

A free Ohio Department of Insurance Senior Health Insurance Information Program, an educational program that helped Ohioans with Medicare save a record $16.4 million in 2013, is offering a Medicare Check-up Day counseling-by-appointment-only event at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Girard Multi-Generational Center. Call 330-545-6596 to schedule.

OSHIIP is Medicare’s designated free and impartial educational and enrollment-assistance program in the state for those utilizing Medicare, family members and health care professionals.

Ohioans can visit www.medicare.gov to enroll into Medicare coverage and to get information about checkup days and other Medicare information. Call the OSHIIP hotline at 1-800-686-1578 and 1-800-633-4227 for assistance.

Board appointee

YOUNGSTOWN

Marilee Meloy of North Lima was appointed Friday to the Mahoning County Board of Developmental Disabilities by Mahoning County Probate Judge Robert N. Rusu Jr.

Meloy is filling the unexpired term of Frank Santisi, which ends at the first regular MCBDD meeting in January 2016. He resigned his position earlier this year.

Meloy, actively involved with the MCBDD, has a teenage son who receives services from the MCBDD and attends the Leonard Kirtz School in Austintown.

Woman shot

WARREN

A 24-year-old city woman was treated at ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg at 1:37 a.m. Thursday.

When police arrived, the victim’s 32-year-old sister reported that she drove her sister to the hospital after her sister was shot outside a North Park Avenue tavern by a female.

But police also were called to a residence on Vernon Avenue Northwest at 12:57 a.m. by a 28-year-old woman who reported that three females in a car knocked out her front windows and were circling the block. The females were gone when police arrived on Vernon.

Police said they believe the two incidents are related.