Vindicator file photo / May 20, 1987 | Joyce Pogany, left, outgoing president of the Mahoning Valley Camp Fire Council received the 20-year tenure award and Barbara Smith, second from right, received the Luther Halsey Gulick Award for service when the council held its annual dinner 35 years ago. Presenting the awards were Barbara Watson, income president, and Nancy Cox, right, executive director.
 
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1997: Mahoning Common Pleas Judge Robert Lisotto declares Annette Giancola of Canfield mentally incompetent and unable to stand trial for the drowning deaths of her 3-year-old twins, Jonathan and Rebecca. 
 
The same Mahoning County jury that found Sidney Cornwell guilty of killing 3-year-old Jessica Ballew recommends that he die in Ohio's electric chair.
 
Lee Seiple, superintendent of Bloomfield-Mesopotamia schools, and high school Principal Frank DiPiera give Petunia the pig a couple of big kisses,  making good on a promise they made if students logged 1 million minutes of reading during the school year. 
 
1982: The Youngstown Area Arts Council's first Walk on Wick festival attracts thousands to Youngstown's North Side. 
 
Five members of a South Side family, ranging in age from 5 to 60 years old, are hospitalized with burns and the effects of smoke inhalation they suffered before firefighters rescued them from their burning St. Louis Avenue home. 
 
The Supreme Court of the United States agrees to judge the constitutionality of sweeping regulations on abortion the city of Akron enacted in 1978.
 
1972: John Dubyak of Campbell donates his 100th pint of blood to the Red Cross. 
 
Two plants of the Molded Fiberglass Co. in Ashtabula are reopened after company officials said the source of fumes that sent 31 workers to the hospital has been identified as a malfunctioning vent over one of the ovens. 
 
The state orders 59 Ohio cities and counties to begin fluoridating their drinking water. Among them were Sebring, Conneaut, Columbiana, Campbell, Wellsville, East Palestine, and Newton Falls. 
 
1947: Thirteen residents of Canfield are receiving the Pasteur treatment against rabies after being bitten or exposed to a rabid cat that roamed the neighborhood. 
 
The House appropriations committee cuts the U.S. farm budget by 32 percent with about $30 million cuts from the school lunch program.
 
Republican congressmen and senators from Ohio and the Cleveland Plain Dealer alleged that the release of 100,000 muskellunge fingerlings into Mosquito Creek Reservoir by the Interior Department was an abuse of power by Michael J. Kirwan, D-Youngstown.