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AKRON
Genealogy programs
AKRON: The Akron-Summit County Public Library will hold seminars starting in January to acquaint participants with family history sources available at the library.
Here is the schedule:
• Getting Started in Family History, Jan. 6 and May 5.
• Finding Your Family in the Census, Feb. 3 and June 2.
• Introduction to Internet Genealogy, March 3 and July 7. • Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors, April 7 and Aug. 4.
All workshops begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Special Collections Division on the third floor of the Main Library in downtown Akron.
For details and to sign up, call 330-643-9030 or e-mail speccollections@akronlibrary.org.
Nominations sought
AKRON: The Akron Human and Community Relations Commission is seeking nominees for the 14th annual Charles Salem Humanitarian Award. The award will be presented at 5 p.m. Jan. 18 during the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the House of the Lord, 1695 Diagonal Road.
Salem was a University of Akron professor and admissions director who served as a mentor to students. He died in 1990.
For a nomination form, call Billy Soule, assistant to the mayor for community relations, at 330-375-2660.
Completed forms can be returned to Soule, 200 Municipal Building, 166 S. High St., Akron, OH 44308 or faxed to 330-376-8071.
Nominations are due Jan. 9.
Buchtel legal clinic
AKRON: Community Legal Aid's Volunteer Legal Services Program will team with local attorneys for the Buchtel Neighborhood Counsel and Advice Clinic Jan. 6. at the Lawton Community Center, 1225 Lawton St.
The clinic, which is co-sponsored by Hahn, Loeser & Parks, offers free legal advice on a walk-in basis to Summit County residents who cannot afford a lawyer. The clinic will begin with registration at 5 p.m.
More information about the clinic is available by calling the Volunteer Legal Services Program at 877-401-0088.
Attorneys interested in volunteering for the program should call Managing Attorney Jennifer van Dulmen at 866-584-2350, Ext. 2531.
People with a legal problem should call the Community Legal Aid HelpLine at 800-998-9454.
CUYAHOGA VALLEY
Volunteers wanted
CUYAHOGA VALLEY: The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is seeking about 60 volunteers for its Trailblazers patrol.
Volunteers provide information, first aid and bike repairs along the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail and about 100 miles of hiking trails within the 33,000-acre federal park between Akron and Cleveland.
There will be an informational meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Happy Days Lodge off state Route 303 in Boston Heights.
Volunteers can sign up through Jan. 16.
Candidates will be interviewed in January and the selection of volunteers will be completed by early February.
Initial training includes park orientation, assisting rangers, radio communication and first aid. Volunteers will then have three sessions with trained Trailblazer members.
Volunteers selected for the program will be required to patrol at least 40 hours a year.
Applications are available by contacting Trailblazer program manager Jared Brewer at 440-546-5955 or Wayne Whitmore, the park's visitor-use assistant, at 440-546-5956.
GREEN
Booster Club event
GREEN: The Green All Sports Booster Club will hold a fundraiser Feb. 7 at Guy's Party Centre in Akron.
The event will include a reverse raffle, dinner, open bar and entertainment. Cost is $75 a ticket.
Proceeds benefit Green Middle and Green High School student athletes.
Doors open at 6 p.m., with the dinner and raffle at 7 p.m. and dancing until midnight.
For details or tickets, call Laura Spray at 330-896-2612 or visit http://www.bulldogfans.com.
HUDSON
School wins award
HUDSON: McDowell Elementary School has won an Energy Star from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
It is the first school in Summit County and one of 18 in Ohio to earn the award for energy savings and cutting emissions of carbon dioxide, a global-warming gas.
Schools must cut energy use 40 percent and carbon dioxide emissions by 35 percent to earn the award.
The Hudson school district in 2007 worked with Richfield-based CCG Energy Solutions Inc. to curtail energy use at McDowell.
MEDINA COUNTY
Photos to be shown
SHARON TWP.: The Medina County Park District will open an exhibit Jan. 17 of nature photographs submitted in its annual photo contest.
The show will be at the Wolf Creek Environmental Center, 6100 Ridge Road (state Route 94). Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 19.
The best-of-show photographs will be displayed from Feb. 20 through March 6.
For more information, call 330-722-9364.
NORTHEAST OHIO
Bridge repairs set
The Ohio Department of Transportation will repair 10 Interstate 77 bridges and resurface portions of the highway next year.
At least one lane will remain open to motorists in the construction area from just north of the U.S. Route 30 interchange to state Route 800 in Canton during bridge maintenance and paving operations.
The $4.6 million project is expected to begin in the spring and be completed by summer.
Boat safety grants
NORTHEAST OHIO: Six groups and agencies in the Akron area are getting grants from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for boat safety education.
The recipients are Akron Power Squadron, $18,732; Stark County Park District, $18,164; University of Akron, $12,031; Barberton Parks & Recreation, $4,454; Kent State University, $3,923; and Boy Scouts of America Great Trail Council, $3,600.
The grants are among $365,419 to support 34 community boating safety education and boating skill classes across Ohio in 2009.
PLAIN TWP.
Rescuers save man
PLAIN TWP.: Plain Township Fire & Rescue saved a man stranded on a small lake when his hovercraft became disabled 400 feet from shore Wednesday afternoon.
Rescuers were challenged by rain, high winds and variable ice thickness after arriving at the lake, located in the 5000 block of Harmont Avenue Northeast, according to a report issued by Capt. Rob Skolmutch.
An attempt to use a rescue boat was abandoned, because the ice was too thick in some areas. Then four firefighters in cold-water exposure suits attempted to reach the man, but kept encountering ice too thin to support their rescue sled.
After about an hour and a half, rescuers reached Philip Roholt of Plain Township and returned him to shore, where he did not require any medical treatment, the report said.
REVERE SCHOOLS
Kindergarten event
RICHFIELD TWP.: Revere Local Schools invite the parents of children eligible to attend kindergarten in the 2009-10 school year to attend a Curious About Kindergarten program Jan. 15.
The event will run from 6 to 7 p.m.
Parents can meet and talk with elementary school administrators, faculty and staff, as well as address questions to a panel of parents.
The program will take place at Hillcrest Elementary School, 3080 Revere Road, at Everett Road in Richfield Township.
For details, call the school at 330-523-3604.
STREETSBORO
Sponsors needed
STREETSBORO: Streetsboro Family Days Inc., the nonprofit group that organizes the annual event, is seeking financial sponsors for 2009.
The event is July 30-Aug. 2.
For more details, call founder and Chairman Chuck Kocisko at 216-905-8031 or go online to http://www.streetsborofamilydays.org.
SUMMIT COUNTY
Health-care meeting
AKRON: Summit County Executive Russ Pry and the County Council will sponsor a Health Care Community Discussion at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Akron Children's Hospital Considine Professional Building auditorium, 215 W. Bowery St.
The public is invited.
The purpose of the event is to provide President-elect Barack Obama's transition team with information on key health-care issues affecting local residents.
Health Care Community Discussions are being held across the country.
''This community discussion will provide our citizens with an open forum to express their concerns about skyrocketing health-care costs, health care for the uninsured and more,'' Pry said in a prepared statement.
Representatives from county offices will collect the opinions and report them to the Presidential Transition Health Policy Team.
Library MLK lecture
AKRON: Civil-rights icon Minnijean Brown-Trickey has been tapped to deliver the 2009 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lecture at the Akron-Summit Public Library (Main Library auditorium, 60 S. High St., Akron) at 2 p.m. Jan. 18.
Brown-Trickey — profiled in the the film Journey to Little Rock: The Untold Story of Minnijean Brown Trickey — was one of a group of African-American teenagers known as the ''Little Rock Nine.''
Under the protective gaze of 1,200 armed soldiers and a world-wide audience on Sept. 25, 1957, Brown-Trickey faced down an angry, white mob on the verge of rioting to help desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.
For that and the body of her work in the vanguard of the civil-rights movement, she received the U.S. Congressional Medal, the Wolf Award, the Spingarn Medal and numerous other awards and honors.
The free Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series is sponsored by the library and Eta Tau Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
For information, call the library at 330-643-9000 or visit http://www.akronlibrary.org.
New board officers
AKRON: The Summit County Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services board has elected officers for next year.
Thomas F. Haskins Jr. was elected chairman. David E. Martin and Christine C. Yuhasz were selected as vice chairman and secretary, respectively.
Also, Dr. David J. Peter has been appointed to the board of directors. His term will run through December 2009.
Peter is the chief medical information officer at Akron General Medical Center. He also serves as the medical director of palliative and hospice care for the Visiting Nurse Services of Akron and is a practicing emergency physician at Akron General.
The ADM board is responsible for planning, funding and evaluating treatment and prevention services for people with alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness. The board contracts with 30 community agencies to provide the services.
Recycle cell phones
AKRON: Residents can recycle their old cell phones and accessories at two locations, thanks to Metro Parks, Serving Summit County.
The equipment can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays at park offices, 975 Treaty Line Road, or from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at Goodyear Heights Metro Park, 2077 Newton St.
Call 330-867-5511 for information.
YOUNGSTOWN
Fundraising at YSU
YOUNGSTOWN: The Kresge Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million challenge grant to help Youngstown State build a new facility for the Williamson College of Business Administration.
Fundraising for the project is nearing the $12.4 million mark with $3.6 million more to be raised. If YSU raises $2.4 million more, Kresge will provide $1.2 million to meet the campaign's $16 million goal.
Construction of YSU's 11,000-square-foot business
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