Search continues for missing boater

October 17, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

BAZETTA

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources searched throughout the day Monday for John Schuster, 51, from the Youngstown-Girard area, who is presumed to have drowned in Mosquito Lake Sunday when his 12-foot plastic kayak with an electric motor capsized.

Searchers focused attention on the area on the east side of the lake where the other man on the craft was taken after being rescued by another boater.

Searchers were preparing to resume again about 8:30 a.m. today.

Nursing-home patient faces drug charge

BOARDMAN

Township police arrested a nursing-home patient on a drug charge after a nurse reported finding a bag of opioid pain pills on the patient.

Edna Hector, 33, of Youngstown is charged with drug possession/drug abuse, according to court records.

According to a police report, officers were called to Greenbriar Healthcare on South Avenue last week.

A nurse told police that while helping Hector get up after a fall, the nurse found a bag containing oxycodone/acetaminophen pills under Hector.

The nurse said the pills did not match anything dispensed at the facility “and must have been brought in by an outside party and given to Hector,” according to the report.

Drop off donations for Puerto Rico aid

YOUNGSTOWN

This week, donation drop-off sites will be available at each of the Youngstown city schools to aid hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.

The school district, in partnership with Organizacion Civica y Cultural Hispana Americana, New Life Church, “The Linc” and the Convoy of Hope, is collecting bottled water, powdered baby formula, baby wipes, canned goods, nonperishable food items and solar lights to be delivered to the victims.

Items also may be dropped off at “The Linc,” 128 Jacobs Road, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Professor to lecture on seismic activity

YOUNGSTOWN

Mike Brudzinski, a professor of seismology in the department of geology and environmental earth science at Miami University of Ohio, will lecture on seismic activity in Ohio at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Cushwa Hall on Youngstown State University’s campus.

The lecture will take place in room B100.

Brudzinski’s research is focused on the origins of hazardous earthquakes and has worked to help uncover relationships between oil and gas development and earthquakes originating in Ohio and the surrounding region.

Launch party for new disc golf course

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University Campus Rec, along with CityScape and the city, will celebrate the opening of the new disc golf course at Wick Park during a launch party 11:30 a.m. Friday at the North Side park.

The new, nine-hole course, which stretches the perimeter of the park, is an outgrowth of the new outdoor fitness stations installed in the park in the spring.

With the opening of the new course, Campus Rec is offering disc golf clinics for the novice to the experienced player.

Clinics are offered every semester and are free to the YSU community.

Campus Rec has also purchased sets of discs available for checkout in the Adventure Rec Resource Center at the Andrews Student Recreation and Wellness Center on campus. Campus Rec also hopes to start an intramural disc league in the spring.

For information, contact Joy Polkabla Byers, director of Campus Rec, at jlbyers@ysu.edu or 330-941-2242.