21 WFMJ archives / November 24, 1989 | Gail Keffer, owner of the Amish Peddler, a co-op store in New Wilmington, Pa., set out pies and other Amish-made baked goods being sold 34 years ago as a fundraiser to help two Amish families injured in separate car-buggy crashes on area roads. 

 
November 27
 
1998: Laid-off steel workers in the Mahoning Valley say they are bearing the brunt of an increase in cheap steel imports. 
 
Columbiana County Commissioner Jim Hoppel isn't giving up on his plan to demolish four abandoned infirmary buildings owned by the county on County Home Road, but finding the money is a challenge. 
 
Nine volunteer maintenance workers struggled through their lunch hour to erect a 21-foot blue spruce in the lobby of the Mercer County Courthouse. Revenue Department Director Michael DeForest spent three evenings decorating it. 
 
1983: The Youngstown Symphony Society broke with its "Nutcracker" tradition and brought a different holiday production to Powers Auditorium, a Dayton Ballet presentation of "Sleeping Beauty."
 
Brig. Gen. Donald R. Infante, a 1954 graduate of Austintown Fitch High School and 1958 graduate of Youngstown University, is named project manager for Patriot, the Army's newest and most sophisticated mobile air defense missile system. 
 
Youngstown State's talented guard combination of Bruce Timko and Kevin Cherry led the Penguins to an 87-60 victory over Ferris State before 3,100 fans at the Beeghly Center for the opening game of the Penguins season. 
 
1973: Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon's personal secretary, testifies that she thinks she accidentally erased 18 minutes of a tape of a June 20, 1972 meeting between the president and H.R. Haldeman. 
 
Youngstown Mayor Jack C. Hunter says he isn't ruling out a run for the 19th District congressional seat held by Democrat Charles Carney. 
 
Two East Side youths, 13 and 14 years old, admit to a Youngstown juvenile officer that they vandalized the Harrison Elementary School after one of the boys became angry at a teacher. 
 
1948: A West Rayen Avenue mother of 15 children is sentenced to a year in the Marysville Reformatory for child neglect after leaving three of her children, 3 and 4 years old, home alone. A fire claimed the lives of two of them. 
 
Youngstown Judge Robert B. Nevin introduces a new traffic safety measure in Municipal Court, showing persons guilty of driving offense photographs taken at fatal traffic accidents. 
 
The East Ohio Gas Co. says it will plug up gas lines at about 1,000 homes where heating units have been installed without permission.