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Model train group announces open houses
The Youngstown Model Railroad Association will have four weekends of open houses before the end of the year.
Open houses are scheduled from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Nov. 14 and 15 and Dec. 5, 6, 12 and 13 at its location on the corner of Raccoon and Four Mile Run roads in Austintown.
YMRA features both O and HO scale layouts featuring more than 100 scale miles of track. New additions will be on display. Admission is $5 with children ages 11 and younger admitted free.
YSU military history series continues at steel museum
The second program in Youngstown State University's "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Military History" starts at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, 151 W. Wood St.
Amy Fluker, Kyle Starkey and Laura Beadling will participate in a panel discussion on "Remembering War: Memory, Media and Cultural Trauma," moderated by Stephanie Smith.
Admission is free, and a reception will follow the program.
Lit Youngstown offers writing intensives
Registration is open for a series of intensives offered by Lit Youngstown on writing dialogue for fiction.
Participants will look at examples of fictional exchanges, learn from visiting writers and offer suggestions on one another’s work. Participating authors in person are Eric Harper, David Swerdlow, Dante Delbene, Mike Dittman and Jennifer Bannan, and Janet Beard and Rachel Sweargin will lead virtual sessions in December and June.
The group will meet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the second Saturday of the month from January to May at LOOP Youngstown Arts & Culture Center, 805 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. The cost is $225, with manuscript review sessions available for an additional fee.
To register or for more information, go to lityoungstown.org/current-workshops.
4th Senior Showcase event announced
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the 4th Senior Showcase.
The performance features singers, comedians, musicians and other local talent, all ages 55 and older.
Tickets for the 3 p.m. Jan. 9 performance will be available at the Robins box office and through Etix.