VALLEY UPDATE Warren Library to close for renovations Feb. 28
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he Warren Library, 444 Mahoning Ave. N.W., will close to the public beginning Feb. 28, while materials are moved into the library’s newly built addition and renovations are started on sections of the original building. The Warren Library is expected to be closed for at least six weeks. The Warren-Trumbull County Public Library system began construc- The Warren-Trumtion last April on bull County Public a 14,800 square- Library system foot addition to began construction the Warren Li- last April on a 14,800 brary. The $4.8 square-foot addimillion project tion to the Warren also includes a Library. The $4.8 milrenovation of the lion project includes original section a renovation of the that opened in original section that opened in 1971. 1971. The project will provide more room to house the library’s collection of books, music, and other materials for all ages and will feature expanded space for the Children’s Department and Teen Area to offer enhanced programming and resources. Sections of the original building are also being renovated to better support the library’s increasing technology needs and the need for more flexible spaces and public meeting rooms. The library will increase its number of study and meeting rooms from three to 11, with various size rooms to accommodate from two to 120 people. During the closure, books, videos, and other materials from the children’s and teen areas of the library will be moved into the new section and renovations will begin on the first floor of the original library space. The new section that will house the Children’s Department and Teen Central is tentatively scheduled to open to the public on April 11. Due dates for books and other library materials are being adjusted so that no items will be due back to the Warren Library during the closure. Customers who would like to return items may place them in the library’s outside return drops. Renovations to the original library building will continue after the new section is See LIBRARY, Page 6
TNT benefit to feature Austin Pendleton Feb. 10
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oungstown State University’s Cliffe College of Creative Arts will host “An Evening with Austin Pendleton” 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 10 in Bliss Hall’s Ford Theater on the YSU campus. The event will benefit Trumbull New Theatre, an organization that Pendleton, a Warren native, has supported his entire life as an actor, director and patron. Tickets are all general admission and $20 each, available online at www.ysu. tix.com, by calling the University Theatre Box Office at 330-941-310 or at the door prior to the production. The event’s unscripted and casual format will include Pendleton talking about his extraordinary professional life. “Welcoming Austin Pendleton to Bliss Hall for an event to benefit Trumbull New Theatre speaks to the importance of our continued collaborations with our greater arts and cultural community,” said Dr. Phyllis M. Paul, dean of the Cliffe College of Creative Arts. “Mr. Pendleton is a legendary stage and film professional who cultivated his love for the arts as a child here in the Valley. ‘An Evening with Austin Pendleton’ will be entertaining, informative and fun.” Pendleton is an actor, director, and playwright. He graduated from The University School in Shaker Heights and from Yale in 1961. He has made hundreds of appearances in film and TV and appeared several times in such TV shows as “Homicide,” ”Oz,” and “Law and Order.” His film credits include “A Beautiful Mind,” “Finding Dory,” “Finding Nemo,”
The benefit’s unscripted and casual format will include Pendleton talking about his extraordinary professional life.
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“Christmas with the Kranks,” “Amistad” and others. He has acted on Broadway (“Choir Boy” at Manhattan Theatre Club; “The Diary of Anne Frank” (with Natalie Portman); and as Motel the Tailor in the original cast of “Fiddler on the Roof.” As director, he has been represented by the premiere productions of “A Thousand Pines,” by Matthew Greene; “Between Riverside and Crazy,” by Stephen Adly Giurgis, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize; “Fifty Words,” by Michael Weller, with Elizabeth Marvel and Norbert Leo Butz; Chekhov productions at Classic Stage Company such as “Three Sisters” (for which he won the Obie), “Ivanov, which starred Ethan Hawke, and Uncle Vanya,
with Mamie Gummer; “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur,” by Tennessee Williams, with Kristine Nielsen and Annette O’Toole; “War of the Roses” (Shakespeare, at HB Studio); “Hamlet” (also at CSC, with Peter Sarsgaard); “The Little Foxes,” on Broadway, with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton (five Tony nominations, one for direction and three for actors, including Taylor and Stapleton). He has written three plays: “Orson’s Shadow” (which ran off-Broadway for a year and was then staged in London); “Uncle Bob,” (which ran at the Mint Theatre in New York, and was then produced in Paris, translated by Jean-Marie Besset), and “Booth,” which was staged in New York starring Frank Langella. He has taught at HB Studio in New York since 1969. “We so appreciate the generosity and kindness offered by YSU Cliffe College of Creative Arts and Austin Pendleton to benefit Trumbull New Theatre. TNT is proud to call Austin’s mother, Frances, a founder of our theater. We look forward to continuing the mission set before us by sharing our passion for theatre and fostering that same fervor within our community for years to come,” said Melanie Lucas, TNT president. More information is available by calling the Office of Community Engagement and Events at 330-727-7514.
Ohio’s no surprise medical billing law goes into effect in January COLUMBUS – A new Ohio law went into effect in January that shields patients from receiving and paying surprise medical bills after certain unanticipated treatment. Surprise medical bills typically range hundreds to thousands of dollars, and a recent national study indicates that unexpected medical bills, including surprise medical bills, lead the list of expenses most Americans fear they cannot afford. The law protects patients from receiving and paying surprise medical bills above the patient’s in-network rate from health care providers for emergency care or, in certain circumstances, unanticipated out-of-network care, such as at
an in-network health care facility from an out-ofnetwork provider and including lab/pathology services. Cost sharing amounts, which include coinsurance, copayments, and deductibles, are limited to the patient’s lower in-network amounts. The Ohio Department of Insurance is responsible for administering and enforcing many of the law’s provisions, and addressing complaints from consumers who receive surprise medical bills. The department established a payment reconciliation process for health care providers and health insurers to work through billing discrepancies instead of surprise billing the patient. “We will be aggressive in order to protect con-
sumers on matters relating to surprise medical billing,” said Ohio Department of Insurance director Judith L. French. “I urge anyone with surprise medical billing questions or concerns to contact us.” The department, which is conducting a statewide consumer education campaign informing consumers of their rights under the new law, created a surprise medical billing toolkit at www. insurance.ohio.gov. The department's consumer hotline is 1-800-686-1526. A federal surprise medical billing law, called the No Surprises Act, went into effect on Jan. 1. The federal law and Ohio's law work together to protect consumers in surprise billing situations.
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