Lowellville district accepts applications

Lowellville district accepts applications

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Applications for open enrollment in the Lowellville School District will be available from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. school days through March 31.

Mineral Ridge grad earns awards

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Nicole Morrone of Mineral Ridge, a student at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, recently earned the Jo-Ann Hilton Cates Award, President’s Choice and Student Choice Honorable Mention awards at the Annual Juried Student Exhibition.

Morrone, a graduate of Mineral Ridge High School majoring in studio art, won the honor for “Dancer” and “Aboriginal Series.” She will graduate this year. The show was juried by artist Nancy Manter, who conducted a one-day workshop.

Thiel symposium

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Thiel College’s second- annual Haer Family Symposium will feature cardiologist and author Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, and Johns Hopkins University economist and author Douglas Hough discussing “The Healthcare Conundrum” on March 30 and 31.

Free and open to the public, the event features distinguished professionals speaking about health care from the perspective of physicians and, with an economic slant, from the perspective of patients as health care consumers. Dr. Jauhar is the author of two books, “Doctored” and “Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation.” He will speak at 7 p.m. March 30 in the Howard Miller Student Center’s Lutheran Heritage Room on the Thiel campus. Hough, author of “Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why,” will speak at 7 p.m. March 31, also in Lutheran Heritage Room.

Essay contest open to third-graders

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The Ohio Livestock Coalition is sponsoring a statewide essay contest for third-grade students, with an all-expenses-paid field trip to an Ohio livestock farm awarded to the winning essay writers’ entire class. The essay contest is part of OLC’s For Your InFARMation program, which offers Ohio teachers free educational materials designed to teach third-graders about the origins of the food they eat every day and about the important role agriculture plays in the state’s economy.

To participate, students are asked to answer the question, “How do Ohio farmers make sure we have good, safe food to eat?” Essays are due Friday; winners will be notified by April 10.

Materials can be downloaded for free at www.ForYourInFARMation.com. Students will learn about farmers and the Ohio economy, livestock farming, keys to safe and healthy food, energy and renewable resources, as well as careers in agriculture.

St. Rose registration

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St. Rose School is accepting registration for kindergarten through eighth grade for the 2015-16 school year. A $50 registration fee is required. Call the school office at 330-545-1163 to secure registration material or to schedule a tour. For students entering first through eighth grades, parents may call the school office to set up a shadow day, a day when students could come and spend a day with the class they would be entering.

The school is an Ohio Education Choice Scholarship (voucher) and Ohio Income Based Scholarship participating school. The school offers busing from Girard, Liberty, McDonald, Niles and Youngstown. Before- and after-school programs are available through Sunny Days Day Care and Pre-School in the St. Rose building. Kindergarten screening will take place March 31 and May 5. Call the school office for an appointment.