barberton
Event has Halloween theme
BARBERTON: This month’s Barberton Fourth Friday event will, appropriately, have a Halloween theme.
Each month, merchants along West Tuscarawas Avenue downtown offer special deals, activities, pop-up markets and live music and art demonstrations from 5 to 9 p.m.
This Friday, the Barberton Public Library will show Hotel Transylvania, with candy and coloring available throughout the evening. The Magical Theatre will have a costume contest with prizes for children and adults, and costumes for sale on its stage. Bunny B’s will have brats and hotdogs for sale, and Kave Coffee Bar will have special drinks brewing.
Festivities will reach down Second Street to R-D Bike Shop, where all bikes in stock will be on sale. They also will have game night, featuring Barbertonopoly.
For more activities and locations, visit the Barberton Fourth Friday page on Facebook.
SUMMIT COUNTY
Holiday donations needed
AKRON: Summit County Children Services is once again requesting donations for its annual holiday toy and gift card programs.
The Holiday Toy Room is a place where foster parents, caregivers and families shop for toys and gifts to give to their children. Last year, more than 1,300 children received gifts through the program.
No money is exchanged — everything is available at no cost.
Donations of new toys and gifts for all ages, especially infants and teens, and financial contributions to buy toys are greatly needed. Donations may be made directly to Summit County Children Services, 264 S. Arlington St. The Toy Room opens in early December.
Meanwhile, the Food Gift Card Program provides $20 or $25 gift cards to local grocery stores for needy families at the holidays. Donations are being accepted through Dec. 9.
Last year, more than 70 needy families received gift cards for holiday meals.
For more details on the programs, contact Sandy DeLuca at 330-379-1994 or sdeluca@summitkids.org.
CUYAHOGA VALLEY
Park holds photo contest
Get your best digital photos ready for the annual Cuyahoga Valley National Park Photography Contest. Sponsored by the Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society, the contest is now accepting entries through Nov. 3.
Awards will be presented Nov. 17 at Happy Days Lodge. Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the awards program will begin at 7 p.m.
Campus Camera gift cards will be awarded to first-, second-, and third-place winners, in each of four categories: landscape; animals and insects; plants and flowers; and black and white or monochrome.
For contest rules, entry details and submission fees, click on the “Annual Contest” tab at www.cvps.org.
STATE NEWS
Ohio to help fund funerals
COLUMBUS: Ohio’s attorney general approved $22,500 to help pay for the funerals of three siblings who were among eight family members slain in southern Ohio earlier this year.
The Columbus Dispatch reported the Ohio Victims of Crime Compensation Program approved the maximum of $7,500 each for funeral costs for Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden, 20, Hanna Rhoden, 19, and Christopher Rhoden Jr., 16.
YOUNGSTOWN
Cuyahoga Falls man robbed
YOUNGSTOWN: A man and a woman are in the Mahoning County jail on $75,000 bond each after being arraigned in municipal court on charges they lured a Cuyahoga Falls man to a house with sex then robbed him at gunpoint of $140 and his cellphone.
Youngstown residents Jazmin Wilkins, 23, and Dewey Burkes, 26, were arraigned Friday on a felony charge of aggravated robbery.
Reports said the man met Wilkins while he was looking online for a “sensual massage,” and arranged to meet her Aug. 28 for sex. Instead, at the home, two men rushed him, stuck a gun in his chest and took the money and his phone. The third person is not yet in custody.