Drug-abuse charges

Drug-abuse charges

BOARDMAN

A township man faces four drug-abuse charges after his arrest Thursday morning.

According to a police report, Jordan Darby, 20, of Sabrina Drive, left home after his mother called 911 warning that her son wanted to end his life.

Police found him traveling with a bag of items on Belmont Avenue and searched him for any weapons he could use to hurt himself. Instead they found suspected ecstasy pills, psychotropic mushrooms, suspected LSD, suspected marijuana and other illicit drugs.

Police took Darby to St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital for treatment.

Closed for festival

WARREN

Mahoning Avenue at High Street and Market Street, Market at Mahoning and Park Avenue, and High at Park and Mahoning will be closed from 6 p.m. Wednesday through 10 a.m. Aug. 15 for the annual Warren Italian-American Festival.

Cheer Kiddie Camp

CANFIELD

More than 130 Canfield girls from prekindergarten through eighth grade will attend the annual Cheer Kiddie Camp from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Wednesday at Canfield High School, Cardinal Drive, in the gym.

Campers will learn sideline cheers, crowd chants, a band dance and more. The Disney-themed camp will have a cheer and dance exhibition beginning at 11:15 a.m., featuring all high-school cheerleaders and campers.

CSEA plans open house

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County Child Support Enforcement Agency will have its annual Child Support Awareness Day open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 17 at Oak-hill Renaissance Place, 345 Oak Hill Ave., Lobby B.

The event also will feature a book-bag and school-supply giveaway for school-age children attending with their parents, while supplies last.

The agency is again featuring this month the Deals for Your Wheels program, in which child-support debtors can get their suspended driver’s licenses reinstated for payment of one month’s support, plus $1 toward the arrearage and a $25 reinstatement fee. Those who aren’t working also must agree to seek employment.

Work on Raspberry Pi

YOUNGSTOWN

The Oak Hill Collaborative, 507 Oak Hill Ave., recently had 12 youths in STEM education and hands-on training build and program a Raspberry Pi microcomputer.

The target population for this program, which ends today, were students between age 10 and 15 who live within a 10-mile radius of the Oak Hill Collaborative on the city’s South Side. The majority of these students came from low- to moderate-income households.

This is the second of three multiday programs that help bridge the digital divide by serving those children who may have limited access to the internet and other key technologies by teaching them skills and providing internet access through the Raspberry Pi devices they built and programmed themselves, says a collaborative news release. The next program begins next week.

Backing Strickland

COLUMBUS

Labor groups reiterated their support Friday for Democratic U.S. Sen. candidate Ted Strickland, after other unions endorsed Republican incumbent Sen. Rob Portman in their heated and tight race in Ohio.

Representatives of teachers, building trades and other unions, which endorsed the former governor’s candidacy months ago, said Strickland’s positions on trade, right to work, wages and other issues are more in line with working Ohioans.

“We’re here today in solidarity with over 600,000 workers that we represent – by far the lion’s share of workers represented in the state of Ohio by a trade union,” said Tim Burga, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO. “Their support is with Ted Strickland because Ted Strickland has been with us while in Congress and while the governor and as a private citizen. Rob Portman, on all the issues that matter most, is not with us.”