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2015 dog licenses

YOUNGSTOWN

Feb. 28 is the deadline to buy 2015 dog licenses without penalty in Mahoning County, the county auditor’s and dog warden’s offices have announced. The licenses, required for all dogs older than 3 months, cost $20 annually and may be bought by mail or in person through the auditor’s or dog warden’s offices, or online through the auditor’s website: ww.mahoningcountyoh.gov.

They also may be purchased in person at motor- vehicle license bureaus and at various retail stores throughout the county. Licenses help the dog warden’s office safely return lost dogs to their owners, said Dianne L. Fry, dog warden.

Sojourn grant

YOUNGSTOWN

Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past received a $10,000 grant from the Thomases Family Endowment.

Mahoning Valley Sojourn to the Past is a nonprofit organization that takes Youngstown high-school students on a trip to the civil-rights sites in the South. Students are immersed in the history of the civil-rights movement, meeting leaders such as Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine, and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, whose skull was fractured in Selma, Ala.

Students learn the lessons of the movement and return to Youngstown with an action plan to implement in their schools and community. Sojourn students proposed the “Nonviolence Week in Ohio” law, which designates the first week of October as Nonviolence Week in the state. The annual Nonviolence Parade and Rally on the first Sunday of October was the idea of Sojourn students.

Maple-syrup class

MERCER, PA.

Munnell Run Farm, 753 Greenville Road, is offering a program from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 10 on the basics of producing homemade maple syrup. Hosts are Laura Dengler, owner and operator of How Sweet It Is Maple Products, who has been in the maple business for more than 37 years, and Mark Lewis, a service forester from Crawford County with 22 years’ experience. Participants will learn to identify and tap maple trees, why sap flows, the process of gathering, storing and boiling down sap, and how to filter, grade, taste, can and store syrup. Cost is $10. Registeration and payment are due by Tuesday; call 724-662- 2242 and ask for Jacqueline McCullough. Space is limited.

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