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Singing for peace

YOUNGSTOWN

The Montessori School of the Mahoning Valley will be participating in Sing Peace Around the World, an international event that celebrates the United Nation’s Day of Peace at 10:30 a.m. Thursday.

Children all over the world will come together to sing for peace. The singing will begin on the shores of New Zealand and continue from country to country until it reaches the shores of the Hawaiian Islands 24 hours later.

Last year, more than 150,000 children from 65 countries joined together to sing for peace.

Dads and Kids’ Pizza

AUSTINTOWN

Austintown Intermediate School, 225 Idaho Road-Lloyd Loop, will have its second annual Dads and Kids’ Pizza Night from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today. Free pizza and drinks will be provided at 6 p.m., and presentation about the WATCH D.O.G.S. program will follow at 6:15 p.m.

WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) is an innovative program being used in schools across America that helps them to be positively impacted by the committed involvement of fathers and father-figures in their students’ lives. More than 700 students and fathers, uncles and grandfathers attended the event last year.

Fair donations

CANFIELD

The Canfield Fair Foundation announced Tuesday it recently received 10 donations totaling $950,000 for the capital campaign raising money for a new Junior Fair Coliseum. These gifts bring the capital campaign contributions to more than $2 million, according to a news release.

Among the recent donations is an anonymous contribution for which the donor will match other donations up to $200,000.

The campaign also received donations from the John F. and Doris M. Andrews Trust, Youngstown Foundation, Farmers National Bank, a gift honoring Ray and Mildred Hendricks, Hollywood Gaming, the Ralph Witmer Family, Leonard Truck and Trailer, the Brian Benyo family and Ohio Ag Equipment.

Reported stabbing

YOUNGSTOWN

A 29-year-old man told police Monday evening he was stabbed in the back after arguing with someone over a gas pump at an East Side service station.

Officers were called to Northside Medical Center about 10 p.m., where the man told police he had pulled up to a gas pump at McGuffey Road and Albert Street about the same time as another car.

The victim and a person in his car argued with the driver of the other car over who would pump gas first, reports said. The victim said he was walking inside to pay for his gas when he was stabbed in the back.

The victim gave police a description of the other car, reports said.

Urged to boil water

NORTH JACKSON

The Mahoning County Metro Sewer District experienced a water depressurization event due to a waterline break Tuesday. The failure affected customers on these Jackson Township streets: Tolland, Jersey, Delaware, Kenmore, Normady, Friedham, Rosemont, Avalon, Lynfield and Red Dog Lane.

Due to the low water pressure that resulted from the break, the county Sanitary Engineering Department is recommending all Jackson Milton Metro Water customers in the affected area boil their water that is used for drinking and cooking. A rolling boil for one minute is adequate. Contact the sanitary engineering department with questions at 330-793-5514.

New math curriculum

POLAND

Union Elementary this school year introduced a new math curriculum for kindergarten through second-grade students.

The school will host a math night to introduce parents to the new program.

The first event, for kindergarten parents, is scheduled for 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Thursday. First-grade math night is scheduled for 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Second-grade math night is scheduled for 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. Sept. 28.

Principal Mike Masucci will talk to parents about the curriculum, and then parents will go to their child’s classroom to look at a lesson with a teacher.

Sentenced for fraud

WARREN

Robert M. Leonard of Cynthia Court in Niles, former operator of the McMenamy’s banquet hall on Youngstown Road in Niles, has been sentenced to two years’ probation after pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor attempted worker’s compensation fraud.

Leonard, 68, received the sentence from Judge Peter Kontos of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. Authorities said Leonard failed to pay worker’s compensation payments of $13,024 from 2012 to 2015.

He previously paid the $13,024 in restitution. The business closed earlier this year.

5-vehicle crash

NORTH LIMA

Two people were transported to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries suffered in a five-vehicle crash at 1:30 p.m. in a construction zone at the intersection of state Route 164 and Market Street.

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, one lane had been closed before the rear-end crash. The highway was reopened to traffic later in the afternoon.