T-shirt fundraiser

T-shirt fundraiser

AUSTINTOWN

The Austintown Fire Department has started taking orders for the department’s $15 breast-cancer awareness T-shirt for 2014.

Fire Chief Andrew Frost III said the department has been selling the shirts during September for the past three years. Each year, he said the department gets a new design and that Steel Valley Apparel designs the shirts.

He said this year’s design features a pink logo on both sides of the blue T-shirt.

The department sold 250 last year, and Frost said he hopes to sell between 300 and 400 this year.

Frost said any profit from the T-shirt sale will go toward the National Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation. He said shirt orders will be available for pickup a few days before Oct. 1.

To purchase a shirt, call 330-799-8502 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. by Sept. 30.

Pleads not guilty

WARREN

Sergio DiPaolo of Girard, owner of the former Packard Electric buildings on Dana and Griswold Streets, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Warren Municipal Court to two misdemeanor building-department charges.

He was released after posting a personal recognizance bond, meaning he didn’t have to pay anything.

The city cited him for failing to complete the demolition of the buildings by the date in 2012 that he said he would and for occupying one or more of the buildings as recently as July 30 without applying for an occupancy permit.

He will return to court at 10:15 a.m. Oct. 24.

Struck by car

WARREN

A 44-year-old Lodwick Street Northwest man reported being struck by his own car at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday on Atlantic Street Northeast by a friend who had borrowed his car.

The victim said the friend, whose name he doesn’t know, sat down in the driver’s seat of his car and drove off.

The victim got on his bicycle and rode after the other man. When he caught up to him, the suspect drove directly at him, running over the rear tire of the bicycle, which landed on the victim’s ankle, injuring it. The man then drove off.

Decision appealed

YOUNGSTOWN

The Trumbull County commissioners filed an appeal of the decision by Judge Benita Y. Pearson of U.S. District Court in Youngstown regarding the sewer-district dispute between the county and village of Lordstown.

Judge Pearson ruled last month the village acted legally in creating its own sewer district in 2007 to manage the Eastside sewer system it installed in recent years.

The county and its sanitary engineer’s office sued the village for creating the sewer district for an area the county felt was its sewer jurisdiction. The county sued Warren for entering into an agreement with Lordstown to accept and treat the waste. Litigation costs for the county and village have already reached about $1 million.

NAACP youth

YOUNGSTOWN

The youth council of the Youngstown Unit of the NAACP will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the East Branch library, 430 Early Road.

Youths are putting together an upcoming events calendar and discussiing attending the historically black college fair at Warrensville High School in Warrensville, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 22. Youths and their parents and guardians are encouraged to attend.

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