Vindicator file photo /  March 13, 1985 | Area high school students worked with government, business, and industry leaders on Youngstown YMCA’s 47th Civic Day 37 years ago. Joining Mayor Patrick Ungaro, from left, were: Susan Bindas, Elizabeth Kimes, Lynn Maro, Karen Smith, Rick Vantell, Mark Nichols, Mark Demechko, Jeff Hinchcliffe, Michelle Peck, Wayne Hassay, and Christopher Altiere.
 
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1997: John  G. Sava, superintendent of Farrell, Pa., schools, tells the Rotary Club of Youngstown how his district turned around from one of the worst in Pennsylvania to one of national acclaim.
 
Five years after leaving Boardman for downtown Youngstown, the 19th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade is headed back to the township.
 
Paul Colby, vice president for sales at Spirex Corp. in Boardman, says Gov. George Voinovich's trade trip to the Pacific Rim has opened up new markets in Korea, Japan, and Australia for the local producer of machinery for the plastics industry.  
   
1982: Youngstown Guardian Angels make a trial patrol of Kimmel Brook Homes and group leader Ron Stevens tells residents that neighborhood young people will be needed to form a permanent patrol unit there.
 
The basement of Recovery Drug Inc. at 1264 E. Market St. in Warren filled with a dangerous level of gasoline fumes from a gasoline leak at the Sohio service station at E. Market and Laird Ave. The gasoline had been pulled into the basement by the building's sump pump.
 
Dr. Vincent DeSanctis, assistant professor of education at Southern Illinois University, is named director of the Pennsylvania State University's Shenango Valley Campus. 
 
1972: Sophisticated equipment that can get a written answer to a request for information from Harrisburg in three seconds has been installed at the New Castle police station.
 
Fiddlesticks '72, this year's version of the annual variety show by John F. Kennedy High students, will be performed on the Packard Music Hall stage in Warren.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Popovich of Orangeville have two daughters in The Vindicator Spelling Bee: Brenda, a sixth-grader at Vernon Elementary, and Sheryl, an eighth-grader at Vernon Middle School. 
 
1947: The Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway would make Beaver Falls a port on the inland waterways with economically important access to Lake Erie, says Col. W.E. Lorence,  U.S. Army district engineer.
 
The will of Clarence J. Strouss shows him as generous in death as he was in life, with bequests to 24 Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions.  
 
The Youngstown Bears give up a 40-26 lead at the beginning of the fourth quarter and lose their last National Basketball League game of the season to Sheboygan, 45-44, before 800 fans at South Field House.