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Nonprofit organizations selecting items for clients from JCC donation drive

By Staff report Mahoning Matters
Jewish Family and Community Services clients and those of other nonprofit organizations in the community received winter weather gear like blankets and hats.
Jewish Family and Community Services clients and those of other nonprofit organizations in the community received winter weather gear like blankets and hats. Elise Skolnick

Here are our top three picks for good news currently happening in Mahoning, Columbiana and Trumbull counties.

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Non-profits shop for clients at JCC donation drive

Jewish Family and Community Services helps seniors in the community.

Local nonprofit organizations joined the JFCS at the JCC of Youngstown to select items for their clients.

Jewish Family and Community Services partnered with Dollar General and Southwoods Health to collect gloves, hats, shoes, blankets and necessities for older adults in the community.

Students at MLK Elementary host first harvest event

Anne Rogerson from Fork Farms, helps students harvest their Flex Farms, mobile indoor hydroponic farms, from Fork Farms.
Anne Rogerson from Fork Farms, helps students harvest their Flex Farms, mobile indoor hydroponic farms, from Fork Farms. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School

Youngstown City School District received a USDA Farm-to-School grant which was used to add indoor mobile hydroponic farms to the students’ curriculum called Flex Farms.

They’re from a company called Fork Farms and they allow you to grow fresh produce inside.

The Flex Farms ensure every student has access to fresh food and gets to learn and watch the greens grow throughout the year.

The students were able to consume the fresh greens they’d been growing for the past month.

Anne Rogerson from Fork Farms helped students harvest their indoor hydroponic farms.

YCSD also has five Flex Farms in the district’s central kitchen that grow fresh greens for school lunches for all students.

Two neighboring districts, Boardman and West Branch, have also started Flex Farming programs with three farms in each each district.

West Branch also received a USDA Farm-to-School grant. Their agriculture and food science students maintain the three Flex Farms in the high school cafeteria.

Canfield student gets highest possible score on ACT

Tarik Mashqbeh is being celebrated by his peers, teachers and Canfield community for earning a composite score of 36 on his ACT test, the highest possible score.

Tarik Mashqbeh is being celebrated by his peers, teachers and Canfield community for earning a composite score of 36 on his ACT test, the highest possible score.
Tarik Mashqbeh is being celebrated by his peers, teachers and Canfield community for earning a composite score of 36 on his ACT test, the highest possible score. Canfield Local Schools

Mashqbeh, who will graduate from Canfield in 2025, took the test in June of this year. Fewer than 1% of test takers do this well on the ACT.

In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2022, only 3,376 out of 1.34 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36.

Canfield Local School superintendent Joseph Knoll shared his congratulations.

“Tarik’s achievement reflects not only his dedication but also the commitment to academic excellence we value at Canfield Local Schools. We’re incredibly proud of his accomplishment, and it speaks to the high caliber of students within our district,” said Knoll.

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