21 WFMJ archives / March 21, 1982 | A group of Trumbull County women founded the Western Reserve Embroiderers’ Guild 42 years ago to revive the art of needlework. Displaying some of their work were, from left, Lauren Guarnieri, Penny Gembarosky, June Karovic and Betty Kerner.

March 21

1999: Some college students are heading to Florida for spring break, but others are doing something different, such as 13 students from Mount Union who will spend two weeks rebuilding a hurricane-damaged school in El Salvador and 12 YSU students going to Michigan to rehabilitate houses for Habitat for Humanity.  

Mercer High School's junior class play will be performed four nights in Judge Francis J. Fornelli's courtroom in the Mercer County Courthouse. The setting is appropriate for "Twelve Angry Jurors." 

Ohio State holds off St. John's, 77 to 74, to punch a ticket to the NCAA Final Four.

1984: Passenger Marie Leonard, who hadn't driven a car in 25 years, steered a WRTA bus to a stop on Gibson Street after the bus driver, John Lisko, died of a heart attack.   

The Youngstown Board of Education approved a $62.5 million budget for 1984 that added 36 jobs, most of them added specialists, including 16 reading teachers, five science teachers, and five mathematics teachers. 

Richard Hodge, 36, died in a fire at his home on Wilson Avenue in Struthers when he was overcome by smoke and collapsed inside the house after helping his wife to safety through an upstairs window. 

1974: Dr. Thomas D. Sopkovich of Boardman says he has temporarily wired shut the jaws of eight or nine patients who want to lose weight and have failed through conventional diets.

Girls high school track, long sought by Youngstown students, is being stymied by a demand for higher pay for female coaches. Superintendent Robert Pegues has offered supplemental contracts at $368; the teachers union wants $441.

Lynn Anderson, a senior at Poland Seminary High School, has been named the winner of the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Commission's medallion-design contest and will receive a $1,500 college scholarship. 

1949: Youngstown police report that burglars stole eight shotguns and four revolvers in a break-in at the Sport Center, 1696 Mahoning Ave. 

Four New Castle firemen were slightly injured while fighting a $200,000 fire that destroyed Central Presbyterian Church, a landmark on the Diamond.

The court of appeals upholds a Salineville ordinance prohibiting strip mining within the village, meaning the Marshall Mining Co. will not be able to mine 50 acres of a 69-acre farm that straddles the village line. 

The state suspends four liquor licenses for gambling, including one in Youngstown, that of the Dew Drop Inn on Walton Street.