21 WFMJ archives / August 5, 1995 | Denise Collins of Media, Pa., grooms a West Highland white terrier at the Steel Valley Cluster Dog Show at the Canfield Fairgrounds 28 years ago.

August 8 

1998: Youngstown City Council President Charles Sammarone says he wants more details before he supports Mayor George McKelvey's proposal to use $287,000 in park funds to hire ten additional police officers.

Jeff Olsen, 40, and Deborah Miekle, 43, are killed when their motorcycle left the road and struck a utility pole on Hendricks Road in Austintown. 

Elvis Presley is the first rocker to have a major exhibit dedicated solely to him at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. 

1983: Members of Local 4300, Communications Workers of America, picket Ohio Bell's Youngstown office at Phelps and Rayen Avenue after the 675,000 employees strike AT&T for the second time in 12 years. 

The Mahoning-Shenango Kennel Club attracted 1,300 dogs, their owners, and handlers to the 45th annual dog show at the Canfield Fairgrounds. A schnauzer won top honors. Nancy Hritzo of Liberty was named the show's best young handler. 

James R. Soda, owner, and operator of the construction company that bore his name for 40 years, dies in South Side Hospital after a brief illness at the age of 69.

1973: The 22-year-old Louisiana mother of a baby found in the toilet of a United Airlines plane at Youngstown Municipal Airport is given probation by a federal judge in Cleveland after being found guilty of attempting manslaughter aboard an aircraft.

Youngstown is one of 94 major American cities that showed a substantial decrease in serious crime in 1972.

In a rarity, two Youngstown area gridders are selected captains of the North squad in the 28th annual Ohio High School All-Star Game at Fawcett Stadium in Canton: John Pelusi of Youngstown Chaney and Ross Browner of Warren Western Reserve. Other area players on the North squad are Alan DiRienzo of Campbell Memorial, Mickey Palenda of Austintown Fitch, Cal Washington of Warren Western Reserve and Bob Mannella of Niles. 

1948: Paul J. Reagan, Trumbull County prosecutor, dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Girard home.

Five children, three from Columbiana County and two from Trumbull County are being treated for polio at St. Elizabeth Hospital. None is in serious condition. 

Mahoning United Presbyterian Church, the oldest church in the Youngstown district, marks its 150 th anniversary.