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SECOND HARVEST BUILD DAY: Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley will host the annual “Canstruction” event 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at the Eastwood Mall, with judging at noon Saturday. The event is a unique competition where teams design and build large-scale structures entirely out of canned food. After the event, all food used in the builds will be donated back to the food bank to help fight hunger across Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. This year’s theme is aquarium. Local businesses, organizations and community teams will participate. This event helps ...

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• MILL CREEK METROPARKS Natural Resources Citizens Advisory Committee to the park commissioners will meet at 3 p.m. today at the Ford Nature Center Education Building, 840 Old Furnace Road, Youngstown. • AUSTINTOWN BOARD OF EDUCATION will have a special meeting at 3 p.m. today at the middle school library for interviewing mechanical engineering firms. • MAHONING COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday in the hearing room at the county courthouse basement for the board meeting and 11 a.m. in the conference room at the county administration building for a staff ...

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• POLAND BOARD OF EDUCATION will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Dobbins Elementary boardroom. • CANFIELD CITY COUNCIL will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building. • CANFIELD PARKS, RECREATION, CEMETERY BOARD will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the municipal building. • CAMPBELL CITY COUNCIL will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the municipal building with caucus at 6:30 p.m. • AUSTINTOWN BOARD OF EDUCATION will have a special meeting at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the middle school library. • YOUNGSTOWN CITY COUNCIL will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at council ...

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PLANT SWAP FUNDRAISER: Rebel Rescue Ranch will host its third annual Plant Swap fundraiser 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Penguin City, 460 E. Federal St., Youngstown. Participants are asked to bring six or more plants and exchange them for other plants. There is a $10 donation to participate. WALK WITH A DOC: Youngstown State University’s Bitonte College of Health and Human Services continues its commitment to public health through the Walk with a Doc program, a free community wellness initiative at the Southern Park Mall. The program takes place 10 to 11 a.m. the first Thursday of ...

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• AUSTINTOWN TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Austintown Senior Center, 112 Westchester Drive. • MAHONING COUNTY BUDGET COMMISSION will have a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. today at the county auditor’s office. • OHIO ONE REGION 7 COLLABORATIVE will meet at 5 p.m. today at Direction Home of Eastern Ohio, 1030 N. Meridian Road, Youngstown. • POLAND VILLAGE COUNCIL will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the municipal building. • AUSTINTOWN-BOARDMAN MAHONING COUNTY Joint Communications District will meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Boardman Township Government ...

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SUPPORT GROUP MEETING: The Youngstown Area Scleroderma Support Group will meet at 5:30 p.m. today by Zoom. The meeting is open to the public and focuses on issues of people affected in all ways by scleroderma. For more information and zoom numbers, contact the group leader Leni Schulz, at 330-501-2401 or lenipenny1@neo.rr.com. This is an affiliate of the Lower Great Lakes Chapter and the National Scleroderma Foundation (scleroderma.org). COLLECTION SET: A household hazardous waste collection will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Canfield Fairgrounds Gate 9, State Route 46. The ...