Tax levy placed on ballot after attempts to create a regional or countywide service failed
     
      BY JOHN A. DARNELL JR.
      associate editor
      Recognizing a need for an emergency medical services, Boardman Township Trustees explained to a half-dozen people who attended their meeting on Monday night, that it was only after they made unsuccessful attempts to merge ambulance services with Canfield, or to get Mahoning County Commissioners to form a countywide ambulance service, that a decision was made to place a 4.5-mil tax levy on the November ballot to provide a full-time ambulance service operated out of the township’s three fire stations.
      The levy, if approved, will generate some $30 million over the course of five years to purchase two ambulances, and equip and provide manpower (...Read More >>

     Good Hope Lutheran Church, 98 Homestead Dr. at Southern Blvd., will observe its 95 anniversary on Sun., Nov. 17.
      The church was founded in 1929 as a congregation of the North American Lutheran Church.
      Following the Sunday morning worship service, an anniversary dinner/presentation will be held from noon to 3:00 p.m.
      Special guests for the event include Bishop Dan Selbo, Pastor Bob Groenke, who served the church from 1972-197; and Pastor Tim Philabaum, son of Rev. Bernard Philabaum, who served as Good Hope pastor from 1968-1980.
      Current pastor is Bob Quaintance who has served the church since 1991.

      A veterans program of music and readings will be presented at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 119 Stadium Dr., on Sunday, November 10 at noon. The choirs of Westminster and Boardman United Methodist will combine with tenor soloist, William Ambert, and organist/pianist Kathryn Miller to present patriotic favorites. Notable selections will include Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” John Philip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever,” and choral settings of “The Navy Hymn” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” The program will open with the flag ceremony and conclude with the audience joining the choirs in singing “God Bless America.” A Power Point presentation will accompany the music with pictures of veterans. Photos (digital or physical copies) may be submitted to the church office for inclusion in the video. A bagged lunch will be served during the 45-minute concert. The event is free and open to the public.