Community Walk planned for Saturday

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Community Walk
planned for Saturday

YOUNGSTOWN — City school district staff, parents and volunteers will be canvassing individual school neighborhoods Saturday in the fifth annual Community Walk.

The program has school personnel walking through each school neighborhood, knocking on doors, handing out brochures about school programs and asking about residents' concerns or issues related to the schools.

This year's walk also will feature information about the 9.5-mill, five-year tax levy issue on the Nov. 6 election ballot. District officials said the city schools need the $5 million a year the levy will generate to overcome a $15 million budget deficit last year.

Groups will met at each school building at 9 a.m. and travel through each school's residential service area until 11:30 a.m. Everyone will then travel downtown for a rally at noon on Federal Plaza. There will be entertainment at the rally.

Salem city auditor
will receive award

SALEM — Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor on Tuesday will present Salem City Auditor Jim Armeni the "Making Your Tax Dollars Count" award. There will be a public reception from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Salem Community Center, 1098 N. Ellsworth Ave., and refreshments will be available.

The public can meet Taylor, Armeni, as well as other elected officials from the county. Republican Jim Armeni has been Salem auditor for 10 years and is seeking re-election this November.

Sobriety checkpoint
results in citations

WASHINGTONVILLE — A 31/2-hour sobriety checkpoint Saturday evening, in which police checked 628 vehicles on state Route 14, yielded one drunken-driving arrest, according to the Mahoning County OVI (operating a vehicle impaired) task force. There were also two citations each for driving without a license and having expired plates, one for possessing drugs and drug paraphernalia and one for driving under license suspension.

Deadly fire probed

HARMONY, Pa. — The State Police Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a blaze that killed a man and a woman early Saturday in their residence. The deaths of Heather Nicole Snyder, 24, and Brian Peter Forgatch, 39, both of 339 Perry Highway, were listed as accidental. Harmony firefighters found the residence engulfed in flames when they arrived at 2:16 a.m. They were assisted by Zelienople and Evans City firefighters.

Center accredited

YOUNGSTOWN — The Martin P. Joyce Juvenile Justice Center has received accreditation from the American Correctional Association, meeting or exceeding mandatory and nonmandatory standards, according to a press release from Judge Theresa Dellick. The American Correctional Association accreditation "confirms our commitment to providing for and serving our community, families and children," the judge said.

Monday, October 1, 2007