METRO DIGEST || Engineering, avionic youth workshops

Youth workshops start Monday

YOUNGSTOWN

YWCA of Youngstown, 25 W. Rayen Ave., will offer a Summer Manufacturing Institute that will include summer workshops for youths entering fourth to sixth grades in the fall; subjects will include Engineering Our Earth and avionics.

The engineering focus will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Participants will work with geologists and civil engineers to design and build models of systems to protect waterways.

The avionics focus is set for 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. July 25-29. Registration is due by July 1. Students will explore aviation and its many connections to the Mahoning Valley during this week of hands-on activities.

The cost for SMI camps is $150 per week. Youths may register for one or both. A limited number of scholarships are available. Breakfast and lunch are included.

For information, visit ywca.org/youngstown or contact Jennie Andrews at jandrews@ywcaofyoungstown.org or 330-746-6361, ext. 125.

Man killed in crash on U.S. Route 62

BUTLER

The Lisbon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Friday a Salem man was killed at about 11:25 a.m. on U.S. Route 62.

An OSHP news release said Paul Strawbridge, 77, of New Waterford, was driving a Jeep Cherokee west on Route 62 in Butler Township and when he tried to turn left into a private drive, the Jeep collided with a pickup truck traveling east on Route 62, driven by Stanley Miller, 68, of Salem.

Reports said the truck flipped onto its roof. Miller was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Strawbridge was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for treatment. The crash is under investigation.

Advisory lifted at Lake Milton

LAKE MILTON

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources lifted its water-pollution advisory for Lake Milton as of 3:30 p.m. Friday after receiving favorable results from two lake water samples tested for E. coli bacteria this week.

The pollution advisory was posted after a water sample collected June 9 at the swim beach on the west side of the lake showed 240 colony-forming units of E. coli per 100 milliliters of water, which was 5 units above the Ohio Department of Health’s advisory threshold of 235 for public swim beaches.

Samples collected there this week registered 12.7 Tuesday and 10 on Thursday, according to ODNR, which operates Lake Milton State Park.

E. coli dissipate quickly under the influence of wind, waves and sunlight, explained Brooke Betit, ODNR public information officer. The source of the elevated June 9 reading is listed as unknown on the ODH BeachGuard website.

Kovachik hearing is set for Aug. 2

BOARDMAN

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Linda Kovachik, 69, of Boardman at 9:30 p.m. Aug. 2 before Judge Joseph Houser at Mahoning County Area Court here.

The former congressional aide to the late James A. Traficant Jr. is accused of the theft of more than $100,000 from an elderly Canfield woman with dementia. Kovachik, according to a police report, befriended the 89-year-old victim in 2013 and took advantage of her bank accounts, savings bonds and annuities when Kovachik offered to manage her finances.

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