Vindicator file photo /  August  25,  1982 | Misty Harris, 11, of King Road, Salem, and her yearling Guernsey, “Nan,” got a blue ribbon 40 years ago at the Columbiana County Fair.

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1997: The Warren Board of Education votes 5-0 to hire Jane McGee Rafal as the district's superintendent, the first woman to hold the job.

Moving the Old North Baptist Church in Canfield from the Ohio Turnpike's path in 1936 to Skyline Avenue was a tough job, but moving the congregation to a new church 60 years later may be just as difficult, says Pastor Brent Allen. 

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. of Poland introduces a school bus safety bill calling for national safety standards for buses and criminal background checks for bus drivers, among other things.  

1982: The weather station at Youngstown Municipal Airport records frost with a record low of 32 degrees, the earliest such reading since the service began keeping records in Youngstown in 1942.

After 18 hours in the water on an unseasonably cold day, an exhausted Jose Manuel Villalovos, a 33-year-old grocery worker, abandons his attempt to swim 23 miles across Lake Erie with about three miles to go. The last person to succeed was Pat Budny of Erie, who was 17 years old when he swam the lake in 1975.  

Playing at the Canfield Fair grandstand on Saturday, the Beach Boys, and Donny and Marie Osmond on Sunday. 

1972: Mahoning County Sheriff Ray T. Davis and deputies converge on a large crop of marijuana growing at Ellsworth and Duck Creek roads in Milton Township.

Advertisement: Back to school special, Partridge Family lunchbox, $1.76 at K mart. 

1947: Cleveland became the first major city in the United States with a downtown airport with the opening of Cleveland Lakefront Airport. 

The 101 st Canfield Fair opens with a record 12,000 on the first day and 20,000 expected on the second day. 

G.T. Baker, 46, a brakeman at the B&O Railroad yard in New Castle, Pa., is killed when he falls beneath a rail car.