The Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown, will present an art exhibit entitled, ‘Ron Mistovich: A Retrospective’, in the Mesaros Gallery, on Sun., May 13 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Come and meet the artist, Ron Mistovich of Boardman, as you view his works.
      As a painter, Ron loves to explore the relationships between light, color and structure. He was born in Youngstown and graduated from Cardinal Mooney High School. He received a BS in Art Education from Youngstown State University and a MA from Kent State University. Ron has exhibited nationally at the Montclair Art Museum, NJ; Sidney Rothman Gallery, NJ; George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, MA; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton NJ: Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, North Dakota; Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, NC; The Butler Institute of American Art; Canton Museum of Art, Massillon Museum, as well as many other museums across the county.
      Ron Mistovich’s paintings may be found in the permanent collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, Canton Museum of Art, Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, Cuyahoga Valley Art Center and Kent State University. His paintings were represented in the 1001 Collectors’ Gallery, Canton Museum of Art, and may be found in numerous private collections.
      He has received many awards on his works including: Meritorious Works in all Media, The Butler Institute of American Art; First Prize, Honorable Mention and Purchase Award, Ohio Drawing and Print show, Cuyohoga Valley Art Center and Purchase Award, Canton Museum of Art. Ron Mistovich has exhibited in the Area Artist Annual at the Butler Institute of American Art for over 40 years, receiving many awards. Additionally, his work has been exhibited in the Butler Institute of American Art’s National Midyear exhibitions.
      He is a past member of the Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ and The Springfield Art League, Springfield, MA and a current member of the Butler Institute of America Art and The McDonough Museum in Youngstown.
      Ron Mistovich is listed in the Library of Congress’s ‘Who’s Who in the Arts.’ He has been recognized as Outstanding Art Educator, Steel Valley Art Teachers Association; President, Treasurer, Historian, Steel Valley Art Teachers Assoc.; Northeastern Ohio Scholastic Award, Chairman and Advisory Committee; and Outstanding Young Men of America, U.S. Jaycees. He was instrumental in undertaking a fundraising project in collaboration with the Youngstown Area Arts Council to purchase the George Segal Sculpture ‘The Steelworkers.’ Mistovich received the American Freedom Award in 1978 sponsored by the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars.
      Ron states, ‘My artwork is a collaboration of colors, shapes, lines, and textures. Creating a painting gives me a feeling of exuberance; color excites my emotions and provides great joy as I paint. The circular shapes in my paintings and mixed media works have transformed through time; however one element remains constant and that is my passion for exploring the world of color and shape.’
      Ron Mistovich is a retired Art Educator and taught in the Struthers School System. He is a Limited Service Instructor in the Art Department at Youngstown State University. Ron and his wife wife Joyce reside in Boardman. They have three children, Joy of Boardman, Justin and his wife Keli and Ryan and his fiancé, Huanan, of Pittsburgh.

     Paula Jakubek was honored as the Mahoning County Medical Society Alliance ‘Gem of the Year’, at a joint dinner meeting with the Medical Society on Apr. 27 at Los Gallos Banquet Center in Boardman. The Gem of the Year recognizes a member who has served the Medical Alliance and community with distinction. Paula is a native of Hubbard and attended Trumbull Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and the St. Elizabeth School for Nurse Anesthetists. She worked for Bel-Park Anesthesia Associates for over 20 years. Paula recently retired from working at the School of Anesthesia at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
      Active in the Medical Alliance, Paula served as president in 2009 and co-president in 2011. She helped the Alliance raise $22,500 for the Akron Children’s Garden of Hope. She has been on the Charity Fashion Show committee many years. During the past presidency, funds were raised for the Midlothian Free Clinic and the Second Harvest Food Bank Backpack Program for school children. She has coordinated the Alliance’s Blood Drive and Holiday Bake Sale.
      Paula is also an active member of The Junior League of Youngstown, Kid’s Crew of Akron Children’s Hospital of Mahoning Valley, St. Maron’s Church, and spent years working with Angels for Animals. As a co-leader with the Girl Scouts, she led her troop to achieve their Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards.
      Paula and her husband John, live in Canfield. They have two children, Joy and John Jr. Her husband is an Anesthesiologist with Bel-Park Anesthesia Associates and a member of the YSU Board of Trustees.

     Boardman High School’s 60th Annual Art Show will be held on Thurs., May 10 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Judges for this year’s show will be Angela Pandolph, photographer and jewelry artist and Carl Rubino, retired art teacher from Boardman High School. The awards ceremony will begin at 7:30 p.m. On display will be art work from high school art students in all art classes: Art 1 through Advanced Placement Art, Photography classes and Computer Graphics classes. High School art teachers include: Edie Davidson, Art Department Leader; Jim Cliff and Alyssa Calautti. Pictured, left, Kylie Kreps, Junior, as she works on a background for a character that she developed out of Sculpey; right, Shawn Rich, Junior, as he puts finishing touches on his oil painting for this year’s art show.
     

     Boardman Trustees have appointed Rick Schafer CPA to the township’s Civil Service Commission. Schafer replaces Steve Hierro. Schafer is active in the community serving as a board member of the Boardman Schools Foundation for Educational Excellence and the Boardman Civic Association, and as treasurer for Boardman Community Baseball and Send-A-Kid-To-Camp. He is a past president of the Four Square Club.

     Grade 5: Sara Aey, Ayed Alemaishat, James Baker, Jenna Benko, Ivan Bosnjak, Kaylin Burkey, Avamarie Colaluca, Jaiden Dempsey, Meganne Evans, Michael Fetsko, Mary Garrett, Cate Green, Mara Hierro, Zachary Hillard, Joseph Jarvis, Shawn Korpi, Cristina LaRocca, Abbey Lipinski, Emily Maroni, Sophia McGee, Logan Menosky, Nikitas Missos, Hannah Nawrocki, Isabella Nordquist, Justin Olsen, Brigita Ositis, Manny Perez, Natalie Perham, Jeffrey Policy, Delaney Pollack, Donovan Roberts, Alexandra Swavel, and Cassandra Wigley.
       Grade 6: Annabelle Adkins, Carly Amendola, Allison Blackburn, Emily Brown, Monica Brown, Mitchell Brunko, Benjamin Burkey, William Cammack, Leigh Carabbia, Justin Chapman, Rebecca Choleva, Makayla D’Eramo, Noah Falleti, John Fleet, Nicholas Fuese, Emily Garrett, Judy Garzanich, Rachel Hritz, Megan Janak, James Lagese, Holden Lipke, Briana Lytle, Jacob Mahood, Matthew Moradian, Haley Nock, Pranav Padmanabhan, Angelina Ricciardi, Neha Shah, Zoe Sims, Madison Soles, Marissa Sudac, Rita Sulebi, Brandon Thoreson, Jarod Wilson, and Casey Zaitzew.
       Grade 7: Nicholas Augustine, Dante Colaluca, Andy Gretsinger, Matthew Hillard, Alison Janak, Mackenzie Kondas, Noah Land, Noah Ogan, Kishan Pandya, Lauren Pavlansky, John Ryan, Sophia Schuler, Mark Smaldino, Emily Wagner, Anna Warhol, and Kristie White.
       Grade 8: Noah Al-Shemmari, Anthony Bell, Emily Bluedorn, Mirella Boulos, Hayley Eicher, Elizabeth Hritz, Victoria Johngrass, Krista Johnson, Alexandra Liller, Matthew Perham, Mikayla Pickett, Courtney Platt, Kathryn Platt, Nico Ruggieri, Mark Slavens, David Suarez, Samuel Varga, and Andrew Wagner.
      Honor Roll
       Grade 5: Nick Beck, Blake Courtis, Nathan Cuttica, Liliana D’Andrea, Melissa Davanzo, Jason Davis, Jackson DeJoseph, Shay Eicher, Jwad Eleyan, Ryan Faubel, Amanda Flak, Andrew Fryda, Marina Furman, Anthony Habuda, Langston Harris, Benjamin Henderson, Kailee James, Patrick Kennedy, David Kimpton, Delaney LaBelle, Zachary Larrier, Jordan Lowery, Jacob Madick, Tyra McClendon, Nicholas Ogan, Enoch Ojewale, Aliyah Pattie, Madison Perez, Harley Realty, Kathleen Reilly, David Santiago, Michael Semond, Nadia Shirilla, Brianna Simione, Gizalia Smith, Nasya Stevenson, Tylor Storey, Alexander Tackett, Nicholas Torres, Emily Warhol, Bilal Wekhyan, Cory Wert, and Alexander Wood.
       Grade 6: Emily Adorno, Nicole Anderson, John Anzevino, David Bader, Abigail Beight, Frank Bell, Savannah Beule, Jordyn Bissell, Mia Bruno, Sean Buck, Cameron Burford, Matthew Burns, Alex Cordona, Ashley Clark, Keyshawn Colmon, Grace Coppola, Nicholas Crawford, Amberly Danks, Kaylee Davis, Paige Dill, Ashlynn Downie, JaJuan Forte, Alaina Fullerman, Nadine Gabriel, Kenneth Goldsboro, Adam Gutheridge, Travis Harvey, Sarah Henderson, Ethan Himes, Kaitlyn Hruska, Gloria Hynes, Morgan Jewell, Isabella Jones, Jacob Kimble, Alexander Laberto, Thao Le, Deven Lowry, Hailey Marcus, Aunna-Marie Mileto, Mark Moradian, Shanza Munawar, Mazin Musleh, Destiny Neapolitan,Hannah Nitzsky, Christopher Petrus, Ceara Rasley, Krista Ring, Brandon Russo, Calvin Shurell, Austin Sikora, Rebekah Stamp, Cassandra Stitt, Brian Terlesky, Olivia Thomas, Riley Timms, Tien Tran, Destini Twyman, Jett Ventresco, Clayton Wehr, Jacob Xiao and Aadam Zocolo.
       Grade 7: Ahmet Akkaya, Nathaniel Ams, Sioghan Bacha, Kristen Bean, Amanda Bendel, Morgan Brandt, Elizabeth Butto, Faith Clear, Serena Fix, Conner Gallagher, Pierre Grizzard, Taylor Halowell, Zackerah Howell, Richard Jones, Matthew Maroni, Nicolette Martino, Logan Mitchell, Hanna Roache, Artemus Scissum, Manan Shah, Katelyn Snyder, Brittany Storey, Erin Straker, Alexis Stutz, Lauren Thompson, Johnathan Tran, Linh Tran, Maryssa Wagner, Kayla Welton, and Jenny Xiao.
       Grade 8: Sydney Aey, Lauren Banko, Jenna Brown, Brett Brunko, Louis Cardona, Sarah Childs, Paige Clendenin, Caitlyn Conner, Addison Cooke-Murphy, Devin Curd, Sharon Dang, Mackenzie Davis, Tyler Dempsey, Shawn Devlin, Gavin Dill, Brooklyn Donachie, Emily Fetsko, Brandon Fuese, Devan Gallagher, Seth Golden, Alexis Grim, Emma Hamilton, Kelsie Harnishfeger, Alisa Hutter, Amanda Joerndt, Jade Kimble, Conner kochansky, Sabrina Kurelko, Antonia Ladd, Emily Lisowski, Alexa Marco, Justin McClellan, Addison Menosky, Jenafer Milanowski, Mark Miller, Brittany Morris, Stephanie Nguyen, Evan Noll, Ayooluwa Ojewale, Nicholas Patoray, Natalie Pilolli, Jayse Rednour, Brandon Rozzi, Madison Rubicky, Emily Scheckelhoff, Preston Stitt, and Joseph Voytko.

     Grade 2: Samantha Aey, Louis Andrews, Kailyn Brantley, Olivia Cmil, Raymond Cmil, Samuel Cortes, Josh Cubarrubia, Alexander DePinto, Jason Fuese, Mia Gagliano, Jacob Gibson, Taylor Greenaway, Shayne Harris, Madison Kelso, Naji Khoury, Carter Mascola, Aidan Miller, Tommy Nawrocki, Liam Parker, Karlynn Riccitelli, Miranda Russell, Ryan Sam, Joseph Sferra, Harriet Sherman, Kira Vasko, Guy Young, Daniel Zahran, and Connor Zimmer.
       Grade 3: Ethan Andersen, Raegan Burkey, Alexis Chizmar, Michael Conklin, Teddy Conway, Isabella Dwyer, Jacob Gehring, Makenna Glaser, Tien Hoang, Jake Hughes, Jenna Hughes, Anthony Iandimarino, Madison Keich, Zac Khoury, Ryleigh Neill, Kathryn O’Horo, Michael Pastella, Evan Samford, Jay Solman, Ranean Sulebi, Ryan Sweder, Emma Tokarsky, Abbey Wagner, Katerina Warchola, Savannah White, Jacob Woods, and Caleb Zupanek..
       Grade 4: Seth Barrett, Noah Basista, Ray Boggs, Mary Brown, McKayla Bryan, Hope Burford, Andrew Clark, Katie Demetrios, Matt DunLany, Emma Ericson, Kaylee Goldsboro, Isaac Land, Anthony Lonsway, Justin Marrie, Connor Miller, Zach Ryan, Sammy Santangelo, Jordan Solman, Andrew Theophanous, and Abby Yocum.
      Honor Roll
       Grade 2: Leah Cuttica, Ashli Casanova, Ben Bucci, Ryder Kreps, Jenna Madick, Abdul Mousa, Alyssa Norton, Zac Saluga, Dominic Shaffer, Justin Yocum, Alyssa Alberti, Corey Cook, Patrick Dorazio, Ethan Slick, Elena Woods, Lucas Beeman, Alec Bosnjak, Daniel Chiaberta, Logan Ciavarella, Malysea Flood, Raymond Griggy, Mia Hightower, Ayden Lesko, Mason Martin, Sean O’Horo, Lianna Sulebi, Casidy Bryan, Faith Colkitt, Jack Dascenzo, Lauren Lowery, Jenna Olexa, Nadia Rawhneh, and Bryanna Schobel.
       Grade 3: Cam Adamowicz, Angela Bulone, Patsy Carlini-Pruitt, Aidan Corbley, Amber Fazal, Desiree Girardi, Luke Huzicka, Reed James, Katie Kellgren, Serene Khatib, Ian Knaus, Michael Krohn, Jason Lagese, Anna Leshinsky, Bella Lonsway, Justin Mackey, Siman Mascola, Laci May, Bonnie Missos, Emily Olexa, Christian Scissum, Aidan Slocum, Spencer Smith, Kaitlyn Stamp, Adian Swavel, Jonathon Vaschak, and Natlie Viars.
       Grade 4: Isabella Alvarico, Allison Ariza, Alyssa Berardi, Leah Blakeman, Jenna Burns, Jimmy Clacko, Michael Flood, Chloe Freedy, Tommy Fryda, Bryson Harris, Clifton Hickman, David King, Dean Markovich, Wrentie Martin, Dominic Meyer, Steven Moradian, Jakob Peters, Abigail Rizzo, Isabella Roush, Josh Sandora, Ceci Schuler, Nate Thompson, Niki Vellanki, Anthony Vivacqua, Tyler Williams, Amari Williams, Joseph Zahran, and Alicia Zoccali.
     

     The following students were inducted into the National Honor Society at Boardman High School during a ceremony held on Wed., Apr. 4.
       Seniors: Courtney Augustine, Amber Bohac, Sarah Filipovich, Craig Higham, Arina Kravitz, Ineeqa Munawar, Daniel Popio, Cameron Rogers, Allen Starkey, Cory Thomas, Samantha Wadman and Kayla Zitello.
       Juniors: Joshua Abraham, Ryan Bailey, Ryan Betts, Anthony Calautti, Gianna Centotanti, Maya Condori, Casey Cottrell, Paisley Curtis, Gabriella DeAscentis, Nicole Deley, Madison Dempsey, Michael Duda, Amy Dutko, Kaitlyn Emery, Megan Evans, Rocco Falleti, Monique Fernback, Travis Filicky, Emily Gibbs, Kayla Giuliani, Angelina Gresko, Brock Hull, Jaclyn Jones, Georgia Kasamias, Audrey Keleman, Nicholas Klein, Joseph Lendak, Nicholas Lockshaw, Colleen Manning, Luke Markovitch, Sydney Metzel, Alexandria Moffo, Lauren Moliterno, P. Jacob Noll, Lyndsay Olenych, Ciara Oslin, Frederic Ouimet, Angela Parillo, Nicole Pavlansky, Nicole Pilollo, Paige Rowland, Jason Shilling, Michael Shobel, Han Bit (Sarah) Shon, Christina Slavens, Peter Stafford, John Umble, Ashlynn Wardle, Mikel Zeidenstein and Dominic Zocolo.

     United Methodist Community Lenten Services will begin on Sun., Feb. 26 and will continue through Lent every Sunday evening at 7:00 p.m. at the following United Methodist churches:
       Feb. 26: Western Reserve UMC, 4580 Canfield Rd., Canfield; Preacher, Don Christensen.
       Mar. 4: Mahoning UMC, 2214 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown; Preacher, David Hill.
       Mar. 11: Poland UMC, 1940 Boardman-Poland Rd., Poland; Preacher, Rev. Welch.
       Mar. 18: Lockwood UMC, 261 Pierce Dr., Boardman; Preacher, Russ Adams.
       Mar. 25: Canfield UMC, 27 South Broad St., Canfield; Preacher, Mike Grant.
       Apr. 1: Boardman UMC, 6809 Market St., Boardman; Preacher, Joyce Lawson.
       (The Apr. 1 service will be a communion service with all clergy serving.)

     The National Parks and Recreation Association has released its 2012 National Database Report that was developed thru a national survey of 275 agencies. The survey results are categorized into generally three demographic groups: 1) Budget size 2) Jurisdiction population 3) Acres of parkland maintained.
      Boardman Park is in the following categories:
       1) Budget size: $1 million to $5 million: The Park’s Budget is $1.8 million, with $1.375 million allocated to operating costs,
       2) Jurisdiction population: 20,000 to 49,999: The population of Boardman Township is approximately 41,000,
       3) Acres of parkland maintained: 250 acres or less: Boardman Park consists of 227 acres, with 60 acres developed with recreational facilities, and the balance 167 acres preserved as natural habitat.
      According to the park’s executive director, Daniel Slagle Jr., other highlights of the data in the report, compare Boardman Township Park to other similar park and recreation agencies at the national level:
       •Median Number of Full-Time Employees {FTE} based on Budget size: National median – 22.18, Boardman Park – 10.
       •Median Number of Part-Time Employees based on Budget Size: National median – 85, Boardman Park – 16.
       •Programming attendance per FTE Program Staffing: National median – 2,115, Boardman Park - 3,140 Note – the Database refers to program staffing, Boardman Park has only one staff member dedicated to programming, for this response, the local park considered its entire 10 full-time staff.
       •Median annual attendance based on Acres Maintained 250 or less: National median – 3,292, Boardman Park – 31,050.
       •Operating expense per acre of parkland maintained based on $1 million to $5 million budget: National median - $5,288, Boardman Park - $5,514.
       •Operating expense per acre of parkland maintained based on 20,000 to 49,999 population: National median - $8,244, Boardman Park - $5,514.
       •Operating expense per acre of parkland maintained based on 250 acres or less: National median - $11,009, Boardman Park - $5,514.
       •Median number of acres of parkland maintained per FTE based Budget size $1 million to $5 million: National median – 18.5, Boardman Park – 22.7.
       •Median number of acres of parkland maintained per FTE based on less than 10 parks: National median – 13.4, Boardman Park – 22.7.
       •Median number of Acres of parkland maintained per FTE based on 250 acres or less: National median – 11.7, Boardman Park – 22.7.
      Boardman Park has operated on the same two voted tax levies for over 30 years. Last year’s its annual budget was some $1.3 million. An estimated 415,200 people visited the park last year.
      With attendance set at just 3500 people at last year’s Oktoberfest (hampered by bad weather), the largest, single event in Boardman Park last year was its annual July 4 U.S. military band concert that drew upwards of 6,000 people. Other large draws to the park last year included Boardman Rotary’s annual Maple Syrup festival where more than 1200 attended, Halloween activities that brought some 4200 people into the park, and the weekly-series Music in the Park drew an estimated 7200 people during its dozen shows.
      According to figures from the park, the district handled some 3000 reservations for its facilities last year, drawing 225,000 people to the park.
      “We have learned how to operate in an efficient and effective manner. We always have developed the park’s budget in a prudent and conservative fashion, while pursuing the mission of the park---To provide a diversity of recreational and educational opportunities in an environment that lends itself to pleasant family experiences, and to preserve areas of Natural Habitat,” Slagle said.
      “The results of the National Database Report support our belief in the popularity of the Park; however, it is this realization that gives us great satisfaction knowing how popular and efficient we are compared to other similar agencies across the country,” noted the executive director.
      “Considering the above results, the Board of Park Commissioners and its Staff are very proud and somewhat surprised of the survey results that compares Boardman Township Park to other similar agencies at the National level.
      “First and foremost, credit has to be given to the dedicated Staff, who has been instrumental in the success of the Park. It is their knowledge of the job coupled with a strong work ethic that has contributed to the efficient and effective delivery of recreational services to the community,” the executive director said.

      Officers of the Boardman High School Alumni Association are seeking new members of the Boardman High School Alumni Council. The Alumni Association is a newly formed 501c3 and is officially recognized by the Boardman Local Schools and Boardman Board of Education.
      Its mission statement reads “The Boardman High School Alumni Association is organized as a nonprofit corporation to promote interest in academics, athletics, and arts of the Boardman Locals School, foster fellowship among the alumni, and support social and charitable activities of the school and community.”
      “We are looking for local and out of town members that represent all decades of alumni. The Alumni Council meets quarterly in Boardman, but those living out of town may conference call in to participate.,” says Cheryl Tarantino, adding “A strong alumni association needs input and direction from its members. We have a new voice—what should we do with it? What activities are members interested in? How can we support the older alumni? How can we support the schools?”
      Persons interested and who want to learn more, you may email boardmanalumni@gmail.com with your contact information or call Tarantino at 330-507-5454.