METRO DIGEST || Vets to be honored

Vets to be honored

YOUNGSTOWN

Lincoln Knolls Community Watch will meet 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the East Branch Library, 430 Early Road. Guest speaker at the meeting will be a representative from the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.

Veterans from the Lincoln Knolls area are urged to attend the Tuesday meeting or call 330-565-2906 from 5 to 7 p.m. to register for an upcoming event that will honor active, retired and deceased veterans from Lincoln Knolls.

Crash shears pole

CORTLAND

Police charged Calvin Shaw II, 23, of Warren with operating a motor vehicle impaired and failure to control after his car traveled off North High Street near Phillips Rice Road and crashed into a utility pole, shearing it off.

Shaw, whose blood-alcohol level was 0.208, more than double the legal limit of 0.08, said he “just wanted to go home,” Cortland police said.

The vehicle left 295 feet of skid marks on the roadway and was estimated to be traveling 80 mph when the driver lost control near a curve, police said. The entire crash scene was 521 feet long, they added.

After hitting the pole, the vehicle hit a tree and continued into a field.

Hydrant flushing

HOWLAND

Trumbull County Sanitary Engineers will begin flushing fire hydrants throughout the Howland Water District today. Hydrant flushing is a planned process in the water-distribution system to improve water quality by removing stagnant water, sediment and excessive mineral deposits from the inside walls of the water mains and discharging them out of the system through fire hydrants.

Customers may experience temporary discoloration. This discoloration is not harmful and should clear within one to two hours of flushing in a resident’s area. If discoloration continues for more than two hours after the crews have left an area, call the engineer’s office at 330-675-2775.

Home alone for days

SEBRING

A 30-year-old Sebring woman has been arrested after authorities say two children were left home alone for days.

According to 21 WFMJ-TV, The Vindicator’s broadcast partner, Yaisa Eliz Quintana Laboy was booked in the Mahoning County Jail on Thursday on two counts of child endangering. The other parent, Hiram Diaz, was arrested Monday.

Goshen Township police became aware of the situation after a school counselor contacted them on March 10 reporting that a 13-year-old student was unable to get into his Calla Road home.

The student told the counselor he had locked himself out of the house while putting his little brother on the school bus.

The counselor told police the student said he had to take a taxi to get to school March 8 because his parents had gone to Philadelphia for a few days. The student said his parents were supposed to be back that same day.

When the teen talked to the counselor March 10, however, his parents still were not home, and he was left to care for his 5-year-old brother.

The children were placed in the custody of Mahoning County Children Services. Diaz is out on bond and has a pretrial hearing scheduled for April 28.

Down Syndrome Day

Youngstown

The Down Syndrome Association of the Valley will celebrate the 11th annual World Down Syndrome Day with a dance and pizza party from 6 to 8:30 p.m. today at St. Mary’s Assumption Social Hall, 356 S. Belle Vista Road.

Occurring on the 21st day of the third month of the year, the date is symbolic of the third copy of the 21st chromosome that characterizes Down Syndrome.

Road closing

VIENNA

Warren Sharon Road between Sodom Hutchings Road and state Route 193 in will be closed from Tuesday through March 28 for sanitary sewer repair. Kirila Contractors is performing the repair.

The recommended detour route is south on Route 193, east on state Route 82 and north on Sodom Hutchings Road.

‘Prisons for Profit’

WARREN

The documentary “Prisons for Profit” will be shown at 6 p.m. March 29 in Warren City Council chambers by Avery Martens of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and Atty. Jocelyn Rosnick, Councilwoman Cheryl Saffold has announced.

The movie illustrates what happens when a correctional facility becomes a for-profit business and how a profit-driven model within a prison affects health care, sanitation, rehabilitation, safety, and the furtherance of crime, Saffold says.

Rosnick and Martens will address the audience after the movie to give an overview of problems associated with mass incarceration prison-privatization. They also will discuss disproportionate sentencing and proposed alternative sentencing for heroin users. There also will be a question-and-answer segment.

Free egg hunt

YOUNGSTOWN

Stambaugh Charter Academy, 2420 Donald Ave., will host a free community egg hunt from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today. The event will include prizes, eggs and opportunities to meet Stambaugh administration.

Beekeeping scholarship

CANFIELD

Joe Kovaleski, regional director of the Ohio State Beekeepers Association, will present Erica Shafer, member of the Columbiana and Mahoning Counties Beekeepers Association, with a $400 scholarship of beekeeping equipment at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm, 7574 Columbiana- Canfield Road.

A potluck luncheon will be offered at 1 and the association’s business meeting will follow the presentation.