BEACON JOURNAL
Call center holiday hours
AKRON: The Beacon Journal Customer Service Call Center will be taking calls 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The phone number is 330-996-3600 or 800-777-2442.
Regular business hours of 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. will resume Tuesday.
The Public Service Counter inside the Beacon Journal at 44 E. Exchange St., Akron, will be closed Monday. Regular business hours of 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. will resume Tuesday.
HUDSON
City services over holidays
HUDSON: Some December notes from the city of Hudson:
• Trash pickup will not change for the weeks of Christmas and New Year’s since the holidays fall on a weekend.
• City offices will be closed Friday through Monday for the next two weeks, with regular hours resuming Jan. 3.
• Residents can recycle their Christmas trees through a free curbside Merry Mulch program. Live trees will be collected and processed for a natural mulch product. Place trees out by Jan. 8 or Jan. 22 to participate.
SUMMIT COUNTY
Hanukkah event at mall
FAIRLAWN: Summit Mall will host “Chanukah at the Mall” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The event, to be held in the food court area of the mall on West Market Street, will feature live music, latkes and donuts and crafts.
The morning of the event, organizers will also build a giant Lego menorah.
Visitors are asked to contribute cans of food for a collection to be donated to the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank.
HIRAM
College gets $1 million gift
HIRAM: Hiram College received a $1 million cash gift this week from trustee Paula Frohring through the Paul and Maxine Frohring Foundation.
It is the largest single gift of the foundation’s nearly $6.5 million total to the college in Portage County.
The money will support scholarships for biology and chemistry students, as well as faculty and student research at Hiram’s 500-plus-acre James H. Barrow Field Station.
“The Frohring family has long supported our beloved Hiram College, its unique field station and the hands-on and personalized learning opportunities we offer there and throughout the campus,” President Lori Varlotta said in a statement. “This most recent and very generous gift will further enhance the field station and bolster the college’s curricular and co-curricular offerings in sustainability.”
The Frohrings have collectively given about $15 million to the college.
The gift also will support the stewardship of the Field Station’s natural resources and the maintenance of its physical plant.
The area is home to wetlands, the state’s second-largest uncut maple-beech forest and a wildlife conservation program that includes an endangered duck species and a rehabilitation wing.
“This gift certainly helps to end 2016 on a high note and positions the year to come in the most wonderful way,” Varlotta said.
NORTHEAST OHIO
Girl dies in mobile home fire
LORAIN: Authorities say a 9-year-old girl has died in a fire that destroyed a mobile home in Lorain.
The Lorain County coroner identified the girl who died in the Friday morning blaze as Nadeysha Rodriguez. Coroner Stephen Evans says the initial report indicates she suffered from smoke inhalation, but the official cause of death has not been determined.
Evans said the girl’s grandmother also was in the home. Authorities say the woman was taken to a hospital, where she was treated and discharged.
Firefighters found the home engulfed in flames when they arrived around 3:30 a.m.
State Fire Marshal spokeswoman Kelly Stincer says the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Stincer says there were no working smoke detectors in the home.