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Friday, March 7, the Art Outreach Gallery at the Eastwood Mall in Niles, will kick off National Youth Art Month featuring artwork by over 1000 local K through 12th grade art students. The entire gallery will feature students artwork from Girard and McDonald School Districts along with the Trumbull County Educational Service Center Annual Art Show and Auction. This is the first of three consecutive shows; each show three weekends in length exhibiting students artwork. The first show is scheduled March 7-March 23.
The Girard and McDonald School Districts art receptions are scheduled for Saturday, March 8, 6-9 p.m.. The TCESC Annual Art Awards and Auction is scheduled for Sunday, March 9 3-5 pm. The receptions are free and open to the public.
The following art educators are participating in the show by exhibiting over their students art work:
Melissa Mills from McDonald Junior High and High School, Andrea Mason from Roosevelt Elementary in McDonald, Jamie Williams from Girard high School Melissa Acierno, Student Teacher from Girard High School, Carol Rastaedt from Prospect Elementary, Girard High School, Jean Rhoads from Prospect Elementary, Girard Intermediate and Girard Junior High.
This special showcase of students work is made possible by the partnership between the art educators from the participating schools, the Warren Junior Womens league/GFWC and the Eastwood Mall. The Art Outreach Gallery is an art appreciation initiative and community development project. The gallery serves the community by exhibiting artwork from local youth and adult artists.
If you would like to participate in helping assist with gallery sitting, or provide other volunteer services, please contact Gail Stark at 330-394-3384 or DaMarla Guffey at 330-372-6191. The gallery will be operating through volunteer assistance, please consider sharing some of you time. Thank you.

New Divorce Recovery
Program in session

Open to all denominations-St Patrick Church sponsors a program to help individuals cope with the difficulties and struggles associated with separation and divorce. Our program is educational, supportive, and confidential and facilitated by a parishioner who has experienced divorce as well. We view 13 different videos throughout the course which include but is not limited too, how to cope with depression, loneliness, kidcare, finances, new relationships, etc. Additional information is offered from Consumer Credit Counseling Services and the Diocese on Annulments - as needed. There is no cost to the program and no obligation.
This is our 5th year - with over 200 people having gone through our program. Social Networking beyond weekly meeting is available also. For more information, call in confidence to 330-534-1928 or 330-261-2911 or come - Tuesday Evenings 6-8 p.m. Basement of Administration Building 225 North Main St., Hubbard,-enter through South Side of Building near Divorce Recovery Sign.

A drawing of a downy woodpecker by an elementary student from Franklin is featured in materials designed to promote the Second Annual Oil Region Birding Festival. Raleigh Schofield, daughter of Doug and Piper Schofield and now a fifth grade student at Sandycreek Elementary School in Venango County, entered her drawing in a poster contest that was conducted last year by the Oil Region Alliance of Business, Industry & Tourism. The poster was one of five selected as finalists in the contest and as such it was enlarged, matted and framed. It was then displayed at the Transit Fine Arts Gallery in Oil City.
Attendees of last year's birding festival chose it as the winner of the "People's Choice" Award and the drawing is now being used in materials to promote the Second Annual Oil Region Birding Festival, which will be held May 2, 3, 4.
Two art contests are now underway to involve the area youth, the next generation of birders, in the Second Annual Oil Region Birding Festival. Fourth and fifth grade students may enter the poster contest, which has the theme, "The Birds in Your Backyard." This is the same contest that Raleigh entered last year. Students in grades six through eight may enter a new contest this year, a mixed media contest, which has the theme, "Bird Day."
Both contests are open to all public, private and home-schooled students in the Allegheny-Clarion Valley, Cranberry, Franklin, Oil City, Titusville or Valley Grove School District. Five finalists will be selected for each of the contests. Their art will be displayed at the Transits Fine Arts Gallery in Oil City during the month of April. The artists who have created the finalists' entries will be invited to attend the Birder's Banquet as guests of the Oil Region Alliance. The dinner will be held at Venango Campus in Oil City on May 3, and feature a talk by Paul Baicich, a renowned author and tour guide. His keynote address is titled, "Nifty Nesters - What we know and Don't Know about Birds."
For additional information about the art contests, or the Second Annual Oil Region Birding Festival, please call Toni Kresinski, Events Manager, at 800-483-6264, ext. 110.