Green project

Green project

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. is offering a grant opportunity to help groups involve youths in vacant-lot greening projects across the city.

The grant was funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is being led by the University of Michigan as part of a five-year, three-city study of vacant-land reuse. A variety of groups may apply, but youth-involvement from age 10 to 24 must be at the core of proposed projects. Funds awarded can be used to pay stipends to youths involved in the project.

This funding will be awarded to improve vacant and unused lots. Attendance at application training sessions at the YNDC offices, 820 Canfield Road, is mandatory. Classes are planned for 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. today; 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25; 1 to 2 p.m. Feb. 27; and 5 to 6 p.m. Feb. 29. To participate or for information, call Liberty Merrill at 330-480-0423 or email lmerrill@yndc.org.

Issues and insights

YOUNGSTOWN

Bernard Goldstein of the University of Pittsburgh Grad School of Public Health will discuss differing European Union and United States approaches to environmental and energy issues and insights from shale-gas development at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Cushwa Hall Room B112 at Youngstown State University.

Goldstein is emeritus dean and emeritus professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. On shale-gas issues, he has published on scientific and policy aspects and has served on both the U.S. National Research Council and Canadian Council of Academies shale-gas committees. The lecture is free to the public. There is free on-street parking after 5 p.m. at the metered parking spaces along Lincoln Avenue and nearby streets. For information, visit tinyurl.com/YSU-Energy-S16.

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