Submit info for Holy Week, Easter

Submit info for Holy Week, Easter

The Vindicator will run a listing of area services that are open to the public in observance of Palm Sunday, April 9; Holy Thursday, April 13; Good Friday, April 14; Holy Saturday, April 15; and Easter, April 16.

The deadline to submit information is 5 p.m. March 28. Publication will be April 1.

Information should include the denomination and name of the church, address, city or suburb, the day, time, type of service, your name and a phone number for verification.

Send the information by email to religion@vindy.com, mail to the Religion Desk at The Vindicator, P.O. Box 780, Youngstown, OH 44501-0780, or by fax to 330-747-6712.

Rally for Trump set

BOARDMAN

A rally in support of President Donald J. Trump is set from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at 631 Boardman-Canfield Road, the Summitville Tile parking lot.

The local “Spirit of America” rally is among several being organized nationwide so citizens can show support for Trump, a Republican, and his Make America Great Again campaign in a “positive, upbeat manner,” said Mark Munroe, chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Party. Participants will wave flags and listen to patriotic music, he said. U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson of Marietta, R-6th, is scheduled to speak about 1:45 p.m.

A similar event will start at noon Saturday in Lisbon with a march from Columbiana County Republican Party headquarters, 124 W. Lincoln Way, to the gazebo in the center of the village.

Seeking paving bids

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning County commissioners Thursday approved advertising for bids for this summer’s repaving and upgrade of 2.79 miles of South Meridian Road from Canfield Road to Mahoning Avenue. The job, which includes some catch basin and manhole reconstruction, is estimated to cost nearly $2.5 million, and bids will be opened at 1:30 p.m. April 5 in the county purchasing office.

This followed Youngstown City Council’s approval Wednesday of spending up to $4.1 million to repave and upgrade Meridian Road between Mahoning Avenue and the Interstate 680 ramps this year.

The commissioners also approved a $12,930 agreement with Penn Ohio Sealing LLC of Lowellville for purchase and delivery of hot-mix asphalt for road patching. The county commissioners’ next meeting will take place at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the county Board of Developmental Disabilities center at 153 Javit Court, Austintown.

Intruder response

YOUNGSTOWN

New Bethel Baptist Church, 1507 Hillman St., will host a two-day security planning and intruder response course from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today and Saturday. The training is open to all area churches and ministries, but registration is required at intruderresponse.com/schedule.

Strategos’ Church Security Planning and Intruder Response training equips faith-based organizations to identify suspicious people and activities and defuse violence before it starts, empower church volunteers to be on the alert for unusual activity, choose and train a paid or volunteer security team, and lock down a facility and respond to intruders.

ODOT spending bill

COLUMBUS

The Ohio House approved legislation setting nearly $8 billion in spending over the next two fiscal years by the Ohio Department of Transportation and several other state agencies. It now heads to the Ohio Senate for further consideration.

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