$15K grant to school

$15K grant to school

BOARDMAN

The Mahoning Valley Hospital Foundation has awarded a $15,000 grant to Boardman local schools to implement the Brain Power Drug Education Program, which aims to train K-12th-grade teachers to lead interactive lessons that illustrate what drugs do to the brain.

Other Mahoning County school districts have previously received grant funds for the program.

“Brain Power is a comprehensive K-12 program that takes a different approach to drug education – namely protecting and keeping your brain healthy through good decision-making,” Superintendent Frank Lazzeri said in a release.

Victim’s Flag raised

WARREN

The Trumbull County Victim’s Flag was raised Tuesday morning in memory of Russell Cottrill, 3, who died Nov. 30 as a result of head trauma suffered at his home Nov. 28.

His mother’s common-law husband, Arthur Harper, 43, was indicted last week in Russell’s death.

Harper was arraigned Monday on a murder charge and is in the county jail in lieu of a $1 million bond.

Miriam Fife, the county’s victim-witness advocate, organized the event, which takes place any time a child under age 18 dies of a homicide.

The flag will fly outside the sheriff’s office on Courthouse Square downtown throughout this week. Another flag will fly at the Municipal Justice Building on South Street.

EGCC programs

YOUNGSTOWN

Eastern Gateway Community College ramps up its welding and machining programs, leasing space at Choffin Career and Technical Center, 200 E. Wood St., to house the programs.

EGCC and its partner, Lorain County Community College in Elyria, received two grants totaling $3.5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to develop the classes.

Classes begin for the spring semester Tuesday. Financial aid is available.

Administrative offices are in the Chase Bank Building, 6 W. Federal St.

No sled-riding hill

CORTLAND

The long-awaited sled-riding hill at Eastlake Metropark on state Route 46 in Cortland, just north of the Lake Vista retirement community, won’t be ready this winter.

Zachary Svette, projects manager for the Trumbull County MetroParks, said the city is still working to get the hill seeded with grass.

An erosion problem prevented the hill from being used last year.

The project was jointly constructed by the MetroParks and Cortland in 2014.

Donald Wittman, city service director, said in late 2014 the city acquired dirt from various city projects to create a hill about 25 feet high with slopes of different types, including areas for smaller children.

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