YMCA renovation

YMCA renovation

YOUNGSTOWN

Capital One bought $2 million in federal and state tax credits for the $5 million renovation of the Central YMCA.

The credits, awarded by the Development Fund of the Western Reserve, will allow the YMCA project to proceed as well as create 50 construction jobs and 19 full-time permanent jobs at the Y. Also, the 55 full-time workers there will maintain their jobs.

The award is earmarked for the YMCA’s renovation of nearly 20,000 square feet of the 100-year-old downtown facility.

“Forming a strong partnership with the community-development entity and the federal government allowed the Y to receive these credits,” stated Tim Hilk, the YMCA of Youngstown’s chief executive officer.

Assault conviction

WARREN

A jury found Jacob J. Asbury, 33, of Adelaide Avenue Southeast guilty Tuesday of two counts of felonious assault and one count of attempted murder for stabbing and choking his girlfriend at her home on Tod Avenue Southwest in Warren Township on Oct. 5, 2015.

Asbury could get 30 years in prison when he is sentenced April 25 in the courtroom of Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

In a videotaped interview, Asbury said he “snapped” after they argued, then put the woman in a “sleeper hold” and stabbed her twice in the neck with a paring knife that was nearby.

He drove her to ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital, where she was treated, he said. He was arrested in the hospital parking lot. “I didn’t mean to. I just lost control,” Asbury told the detective.

Homecoming event

WARREN

James B. Hayes, founder of Detroit Homecoming, an annual event initiated in 2014 to reach out to former Detroit natives and bring them back to the city to inspire its youth, will speak at 5:30 p.m. today at the Raymond J. Wean Foundation offices, 147 W. Market St.

Hayes, former publisher of Fortune magazine, will talk about the benefits that have been brought by Detroit Homecoming.

Hayes was invited by Dennis Blank of Warren, a mayoral candidate last year. Blank, the Fine Arts Council of Trumbull County and the Trumbull County Historical Society are organizers of a Warren Homecoming from Sept. 23 to Sept. 25 to celebrate the connection many Warren natives still have to their hometown even though they have moved away.

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