METRO DIGEST || Free car checks

Car Care Month event

NILES

October is Car Care Month, and to celebrate, AAA East Central is offering free battery and electrical-system checks to help motorists prepare for the winter driving season.

Battery-wellness clinics will take place at select AAA locations throughout the month. A local event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 14 at AAA Trumbull County, 937 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles.

Participants are not required to be a AAA member for the clinics; however, AAA members do qualify for a discounted price on a replacement battery if they need one.

For information about the Trumbull County event, call the store at 330-652-6466.

Wellness retreat

BOARDMAN

The Lariccia Community Center will host “Inside Out,” a women’s wellness retreat, Oct. 26. The center is in Boardman Township Park.

The event will start at 7:30 a.m. and will include breakfast, lunch, a spa/tapas dinner by David Armstrong of Cater 2 U, fitness sessions from Loree Pankewicz of Studio 24 and a food demonstration from Cathy Fisher, a California-based cooking instructor who specializes in healthful cooking. The retreat is sponsored by the National Health Association.

The cost is $95 per person. Payment of 50 percent to hold a spot is due by Sunday. Checks can be made to Wanda Huberman, 4620 Euclid Blvd., Youngstown. For more information, visit the “Women’s Wellness Retreat” page on Facebook or call Huberman at 330-788-5711.

Woman dies in fall

PORTERSVILLE, Pa. (AP)

Officials at a western Pennsylvania state park have identified a woman who fell to her death trying to retrieve a camera she had dropped near a rocky ledge.

Bryan Moore, who supervises park rangers at McConnells Mill State Park in Lawrence County, says the victim is 58-year-old Cheryl Goebel of Cranberry Township, Butler County.

She was with her husband taking pictures of fall foliage Wednesday evening when she dropped the camera while standing on Breakneck Bridge, which spans Cheeseman Run.

Goebel was trying to climb along a rocky ledge to reach the camera when she fell about 20 feet about 7 p.m.

A rope rescue team and paramedics were called, but Goebel had died at the scene.

Cemetery cleanup

GIRARD

Fall cleanup at the Girard City Cemetery has been scheduled through Oct. 26 for pulling flowers and cleaning graves. After Oct. 26, employees will remove any plants on graves in preparation for upcoming holiday wreaths.

Building communities

YOUNGSTOWN

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Office of the Comptroller of the currency, in collaboration with the city of Youngstown’s Office of Economic Development, are sponsoring a series of discussions on assessing community-development needs and building communities through affordable housing and enabling entrepreneurship from 8:30 a.m. to noon today at the DeYor Performing Arts Center, 260 W. Federal St.