Vindicator file photo / Dec. 20,  1980 | Youngstown recording artist Maureen McGovern made a special appearance for a sing-along at the Christmas party of Big Brothers and Big Sisters at Duff’s Smorgasbord in Liberty. With Miss McGovern at the piano is John Loshuk, left, Leslie Balla, Sharon Hunter, Mark McCoy and Eugene Uhrin. Big Brothers and Big Sisters singing along are Probate Judge Charles P. Henderson and Socrates Kolitsos, Arline Anderson and Frank Smith.  
 
 
December 20
 
1995: Youngstown records 11.6 inches of snow in 24 hours, the highest one-day snowfall on a December day. The previous December high was 10.8 inches on Dec. 11, 1948. The one-day record was 17.2 inches on Jan. 24, 1948.
 
Mrs. Margaret Bentz of Girard gives birth to her son, Allan, in a Girard ambulance during a trip over snow-clogged roads to North Side Hospital. The delivery was a first for firefighters Jim Quinn, Tim Britt and Kenneth Bornemiss. It was Mrs. Bentz' third.  
 
A Health Department inspection of a group home on Cohasset Drive for 13 mentally impaired residents finds food left on the table for three hours, temperatures between 58 and 60 degrees in every room except the kitchen and residents left alone in darkened rooms without TVs or any other means of entertainment. 
 
1980: A South Side woman, Jessie Evans, 48, her son and six grandchildren die in a fire at a home at 2521 Hudson Ave. Also dead are Randall Evans, 16; Id'Reese Evans, 3; Teran Axel, 6; Tijuan Axel, 7; Camille Thornton, 4; Christopher Thornton, 8, and Latreese Thornton, 9. Fire Chief Charles O'Nesti says it is the worst fatal fire in the city in his memory. 
 
Dr. Sidney Berkowitz, rabbi of Rodef Shalom Temple, presents a $1,000 check to Bishop James W. Malone toward restoration of St. Columba Cathedral after an arson fire caused $50,000 damage to the cathedral.
 
Three men escaped with about $10,000 in food stamps from the Youngstown Area Urban League after forcing Shirley Oliver into a bathroom. One warned her, "Don't make me kill you."
 
1970: Lombard Corp. of Youngstown develops a hydraulic press for compacting solid waste into easy-to-handle bales that can be dumped into strip mines to help convert them to useable land.
 
Susan Stetson, a Chaney High graduate and honors student nurse at Youngstown State University, is crowned queen of the Youngstown Hospital Association's Stardust Ball, which was attended by 1,000 people at the Idora Park Ballroom. 
 
The South Side Library at 1771 Market St. will be expanded by 50 percent in a $200,000 remodeling.
 
1945: George C. Brainard resigns as president of General Fireproofing Co. to become president of Addressograph-Multigraph Co., the Cleveland business machine maker. 
 
Mrs. Charles W. Catterson is traveling to high school and elementary school assemblies telling the story of "Hansel and Gretel" in preparation for a performance of the opera at Stambaugh Auditorium. 
 
Dr. Edward J. Reilly, Campbell health commissioner, is elected president of the Mahoning County Medical Society.