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Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Country-themed event raises money for cancer research
POLAND, Ohio (WKBN) — A country-themed party at the Lake Club Saturday raised thousands for cancer research. It was the 19th annual Cattle Baron's Ball. First News evening anchor Lindsey Watson emceed the event while Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford was one of the 2025 survivor honorees. The other survivor honoree was Skylar Scarnecchia, a Champion native who had a leg amputated due to cancer. All the money raised at the event supports the American Cancer Society. 'When patients were diagnosed with stage four melanoma, they had six months to live and now they, you know, ten years later, they're still coming in for a skin check. So it's then the medical breakthroughs have been amazing,' said 2025 honoree Jennifer Lloyd. Over the years, the ball has raised over $2 million for cancer research, including $290,000 last year. Wilson Corbisello contributed to this story. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Health
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In Depth on Youngstown health improvement zones
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – WKBN 27 First News Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford sat down with representatives from the Youngstown Health Department to talk about community health improvement zones. Through a state grant, Youngstown started health improvement zones. It was an initiative that came through the Ohio Department of Health and funneled down to the local level. 'We began in November 2022 with this initiative. We received a grant of $450,000 from the Ohio Department of Health to begin the Youngstown Health Improvement Zones. We strategically chose parts of town where each part of town is represented, but we strategically chose location zones throughout the city to place our community health advocates in those zones. So we have four zones. We have four sides of town, east, south, north and west. And each side of town is represented by a community health worker,' said Andrea Bivens, community health advocate supervisor. The program works out of offices on the north, south, east and west sides of town. You can find the locations online. 'Two of our community health workers are active with the Mahoning County Pathways Hubs, so they do home visits with our expecting mothers and those who have had babies,' Bivens said. 'They're in and out of our East Side and our South Side location. The same thing because we do a lot of community outreach. So we ask our community residents to call, and they can come into the center. They're usually there between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Dee continues the conversation on the health zones and the services available in tomorrow's segment. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Business
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In Depth with United Way's Roxann Sebest
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – WKBN Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford sits down with United Way's Roxann Sebest to talk about the organization's work in the Valley. United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley has been around for 106 years, but it's been in the last 15 years that it's directive has been to look the community and its unique needs. 'During that time, we saw that education, our school systems needed some extra help, and emergency services were still a huge need — food, clothing, shelter, that was still something that the community needed. So in that last 10 years, we've made that shift to really focus on early education, programming Success By Six, Success After Six, really providing wraparound services for the children and their families,' Sebest said. United Way has broken a record with $3.7 million raised in the community and another $1 million in federal grants to help with its programming. Payroll deductions for United Way have decreased. Sebest said it used to account for 70% of their fundraising campaign and now it's just 40%. 'So, we needed to make up those funds. We were able to do that through private donations, bigger corporate gifts. A lot of people seeing what we're doing and making those larger gifts,'she said. 'We really needed to diversify our giving not just workplace campaigns. Dee continues the conversation Wednesday and drills down in to the specific programs United Way has to offer. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
In Depth with Youngstown Mayor Tito Brown
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – It's a new year, and WKBN 27 First News Community Affairs Director Dee Crawford sat down with Youngstown Mayor Tito Brown to talk about what's ahead. Brown said the city's administration is working on a plan and date for him to deliver his State of City address. 'We've identified a couple of dates for our State of the City. We also like to get it where we can know all of our books are finished, and we want to make sure we can invite some guests,' Brown said. 'I like to have an interactive State of the City.' The venue will most likely be the DeYor Performing Arts Center. 'I like the location. I like the size of hospitality,' Brown said. 'We are looking forward to talking about what 2024 looked like as well as what 2025 will be for us.' Anyone is invited to attend and get a first-hand look at some of the changes in downtown Youngstown. It's been a $22 million investment and challenging. 'We never planned for the pandemic. We never planned for anything to happen to our construction. But when you look at the old, aging cities with infrastructure, we can see what is above ground, but when you get below ground, we never know what we are going to find.' The State of the City will include some topics Brown says he is most proud of such as coming out of deficit spending from 2018 and being in the black over eight budget cycles. 'Three years in a row, we've had audits that said we are clean, you are doing well with the public's money, and I am proud of that,' Brown said. 'The other piece is that crime is down.' Tune in Thursday to hear more about the State of the City plans. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
