New boots for kids

New boots for kids

BOARDMAN

More than 200 Mahoning County children got new boots this week through a joint effort between Making Kids Count and the Italian Education Foundation. The foundation approached Making Kids Count with the idea with insistence that the boots be made in the United States.

Making Kids Count worked with guidance counselors at Boardman middle and elementary schools, Austintown Elementary School, Youngstown City elementary schools and Boys & Girls Club. Guidance counselors referred children and relayed their shoe sizes back to the organization. Making Kids County ordered the boots from Family Farm and Home in Austintown.

The boots were delivered Thursday and Friday.

Man shot in stomach

YOUNGSTOWN

A 35-year-old man is being treated for a gunshot wound after he was found about 11:50 p.m. Thursday at an East Side home.

Reports said police were called to a home in the 1300 block of Lansdowne Boulevard and found the man inside with a gunshot wound to the stomach.

He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. His condition was not available.

Mental-health service providers get funds

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D&E Counseling Center, Trumbull Country Mental Health and Recovery Board and The Counseling Center of Columbiana County have been awarded $374,604 from the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Board.

Joe Shorokey, D&E CEO, said that funds will be used to expand early-childhood mental-health consultation services to area preschools, kindergarten programs and parents in Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties.

Tractor flips, kills man

NORTH BLOOMFIELD

A Greene Township man died Tuesday afternoon in a tractor accident at his home on Dennison Ashtabula Road.

Justin L. Stevens, 43, was in the woods behind his home and using a tractor to remove a log from between two trees when the tractor flipped over on him, according to a report fom the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office.

His daughter, 18, was with him at the time and called 911, but Stevens was pronounced dead at the scene.

Stevens had been employed by the United Steelworkers Union from 1988 to 1990 and the Laborers International Union of North America Local 125 in Youngstown from 1990 to the present.

Man confronted

WARREN

A man, 24, of Warren, reported being confronted by a gunman as the victim sat in his car on Peace Avenue Northwest waiting to pick up his girlfriend at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

The victim said he had closed his eyes and then opened them to see a man wearing all black and a mask on his face pointing a gun at him.

The suspect told the victim to “get out of the car,” but the victim drove away instead. He heard gunshots, and police found three gunshot holes in the vehicle, including one that went through two passenger windows.

Man reports robbery

WARREN

A man, 66, of Warren, reported Thursday that he was robbed of $500 as he walked along Willard Avenue Southeast at 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The victim said a large male wearing gray pants and a brown coat walked from behind him and struck him in the hip with a piece of wood, knocking him to the ground and taking the money from his pocket.