AKRON
Luncheon Sept. 18
AKRON: Emerging female leaders in Greater Akron will be celebrated at the annual ATHENA International Women’s Leadership Day Luncheon Sept. 18.
The luncheon, which benefits the Women’s Endowment Fund of the Akron Community Foundation, will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Portage Country Club, 240 N. Portage Path, in Akron.
The fund offers luncheon tickets for $80, with each ticket including admission for one established and one emerging leader. Additional tickets for emerging leaders can be purchased for $40 each.
This year’s luncheon speaker will be Candace Campbell Jackson, University of Akron vice president and chief of staff, who is the 2012 recipient of the Akron ATHENA Leadership Award.
For luncheon reservations, call Diane Bray at 330-571-9461. To pay by credit card, call the Akron Community Foundation at 330-376-8522.
The Women’s Endowment Fund, founded in 1993, has awarded more than $500,000 in grants aimed at improving the quality of life for women and girls in the area.
For information, call 330-376-8522 or visit www. akroncommunityfdn.org/wef.
BARBERTON
Update on flooding
BARBERTON: Mayor Bill Judge is inviting the community to a flood action committee meeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Community Holiness Church at 299 Frank St.
The purpose of the meeting is to update the community on the work the committee has been doing over the last seven months concerning the city’s flooding issues.
Speakers will include the mayor and other city officials.
COPLEY TOWNSHIP
Anti-abortion bus
COPLEY TWP.: An anti-abortion bus tour will visit Copley Friday in a 30-stop tour across the country.
The bus will stop at the parking lot across from the Bob Evans restaurant at 4076 Medina Road at 10 a.m.
The Susan B. Anthony List Women Speak Out: Abortion is Not Health Care will also visit Steubenville. State Rep. Kristina Roegner, R-Hudson, will join the tour.
The Susan B. Anthony List is a Political Action Committee.
For information about the tour, visit www.SBAbus.com.
MACEDONIA
Woman arrested
MACEDONIA: A Green woman is accused of robbing and assaulting an elderly woman at a Macedonia grocery store.
Kimberly Tromski, 43, was being held in the Summit County Jail on robbery and felonious assault charges in the Aug. 5 attack.
According to sheriff’s deputies, an 82-year-old woman was knocked to the ground and robbed at the Giant Eagle at 290 E. Aurora Road.
Bystanders intervened, and the robber fled. The victim was treated for unspecified injuries.
Deputies at the scene were given a description of the robber and her vehicle.
On Wednesday, Tromski was arrested in Northfield Center Township after a deputy on patrol saw her in her car.
Food to be given
AKRON: Area residents can get emergency food and free financial education today through a partnership of the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank and Fifth Third’s Financial Empowerment Bus, a mobile financial literacy classroom.
The food giveaway will begin at noon and be on a first-come, first-served basis in the parking lot of the Salvation Army’s site in Barberton, at 560 Wooster Road. The bus will be parked from 11:30 to 3 p.m. in the lot.
Participants can have their finances evaluated and get information on foreclosure prevention programs, among other initiatives by boarding the Financial Empowerment bus, which Fifth Third has dubbed the eBus.
Representatives of various social service agencies, such as Buckeye Community Health and Summit County’s Department of Job and Family Services, will be on hand to share information about various programs aimed at low-income families.