Warren City Schools’ Preschool Program helped light up the festivities during the annual Hometown Holidays Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024.
The preschool program boarded its own decorated float to participate in the annual parade.
Warren G. Harding High School’s marching band and choir performed holiday favorites.
The Hometown Holidays celebration is a collaborative effort between the Fine Arts Council, the Trumbull County Historical Society, the Rotary Club, and the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library.
About 30 Warren City Schools students spent some time shopping inside the Trumbull County Mobile Market when the store on wheels visited the Lincoln PK-8 School on Tuesday, Dec. 17.
The students each had $5 vouchers to purchase anything inside the store they wanted. Some bought fresh vegetables and fruit; others chose pudding and ice cream snacks. One students bought a loaf of bread to take home.
“It really is a great way for them to learn budgeting and the importance of making wise, and healthy, choices,” said school/community liaison Sonya Williams.
The mobile market is a 33-foot specially outfitted vehicle with refrigerated units for meats, juices and other foods needing refrigeration, as well as shelving for nonrefrigerated produce, canned, boxed and bottled foods.
The vehicle travels countywide, offering fresh meats, vegetables and other grocery items to area residents.
The Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing our Neighborhoods, also known as ACTION, and the nonprofit Flying HIGH Inc. teamed up to bring the Mobile Market to residents who don’t have easy access to brick-and-mortar grocery stores.
Some of the food products sold in the buses are bought from area farmers.
Eight Warren City students were among Trumbull County’s top 20 individuals under the age of 20 recognized at a banquet on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
WGH’s Courtney Wilcox made it into the top five. Each of the top five recipients received a portion of $1,000 to be donated to a charity of their choice.
Harding students Samantha Barkley, Jane Faulk, Sophie Gardner, Sarah Herko, Yurielis Navarro Jimenez and Sonia Pitts and Nicole Ruckman were also among this year’s 20 recipients.
Each year, the event, co-sponsored by the Tribune Chronicle, Akron Children’s and its newest sponsor, AVI Foodsystems, recognizes 20 students who have gone into their communities to make a difference in the lives of others. This was the event’s 12th year.
The committee weighted 50% of the students’ overall score as leadership, 25% as extracurricular activities and 25% as academic achievement when they chose the winners out of more than 50 nominations. Each of the honorees received a flame award and a one-year digital subscription to the Tribune Chronicle.
The Harding Quiz Bowl teams competing at the TCTC academic challenge tournament Saturday, December 7, 2024, made impressive scores while competing against more than a dozen teams from across Trumbull County.
The A team, consisting of Rose Strother, Zavier Taff and Sophie Gardner went all the way through to the semi-finals and beat Girard with a score of 44-37 to take 3rd place overall.
The field represented 16 teams from around the county. Harding’s B team of Daniel Long, Eliana Burker, and Donovan Stringer also did a great job making it to the 5th round before being eliminated.
A new program at the Lincoln PK-8 School is helping students and families who are experiencing grief this holiday season.
The program kicked off Wednesday, December 4, 2024, with a session designed to provide support, resources and an awareness of how difficult time of the year can be for those grieving or experiencing loss.
School counselor Suzanne Goodyear planned and organized the event. About 25 PK-8 students/families registered to attended on Wednesday. Participants made a craft and received a resource bag and refreshments.
