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Oct. 13 community news: Fall festival set

FALL FESTIVAL: Smith Corners Community Church , 3000 S. Canfield-Niles Road, Austintown, will have a Fall Festival 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The festival is free. There will be hayrides, face painting, balloon sculpture, arts and crafts, food, bounce houses and pumpkin decorating. OSTOMY SUPPORT: The Youngstown Area Ostomy Support Group will meet 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, 8401 Market St., Boardman in the the Woodland room. Parking is free and light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Anna Fitzgerald Anna_Fitzgerald@mercy.com ...

Junior League hosts hundreds of survivors at annual tea

CANFIELD - "She held her mama's hand ... When they got the news ... Too close to home ... When it hits close to you ..." Those are lyrics from Candace Campana's "Pink Ink," a song she sang Monday for about 500 breast cancer survivors at Waypoint 4180, during the 32nd annual Pink Ribbon Tea. Sponsored by the Junior League of the Mahoning Valley, the tea brings together survivors and their caregivers for an afternoon of inspiration, music and fellowship. Vendors were on hand with information on products and services to support the breast cancer journey, and cellist Ed Madej provided ...

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Giant pumpkins attract hundreds to Canfield

CANFIELD - The only thing larger than the size of the produce at Parks Garden Center in Canfield on Saturday was the enthusiasm of the crowd. Approximately 200 people attended the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers World Weigh-off. Owner and Board Site Coordinator Tim Parks emceed the event as growers came to the stage with the fruits of their labor. Board Director Bill Hendricks said the weigh-off has taken place for about thirty years, even during COVID. Besides pumpkins, they weighed watermelons, tomatoes, long gourds and sunflowers. Hendricks described this as “the biggest day ...

Nonviolence Week closes out with roundtable discussion

YOUNGSTOWN - In 1959, legendary jazz and blues singer Dinah Washington popularized the hit song, "What a Difference a Day Makes." In a day, Steve Schultz articulated what a difference a hyphen makes. "Nonviolence with a hyphen means without violence; nonviolence without a hyphen means what you are going to do about the violence and injustice we see," Schultz, assistant director of the Millbrae, California-based Sojourn to the Past program, said. "Nonviolence (not hyphenated) is about action, not inaction." Schultz, who was in the Mahoning Valley from his home in the San Francisco ...

SOBE disconnects service to 2 downtown buildings

YOUNGSTOWN – SOBE Thermal Energy Systems LLC disconnected two of its downtown Youngstown customers for failing to pay their bills. SOBE shut off steam heat service to 22 Market Street Ohio LLC, which is developing the former Mahoning National Bank building, and FNB Youngstown LLC, which owns the First National Bank Building, also known as Central Tower. The two buildings were disconnected because of failure to pay their bills, which were more than 91 days delinquent as of an Oct. 2 court report filed by receiver John C. Collins and haven’t been paid as of Tuesday, said Michael ...