21 WFMJ archives  / August 1984 | Grabbing a snack of typical Canfield Fair food 40 years ago were siblings Maggie, Maureen, and James Moran, children of Mrs. And Mrs. James Moran of Poland.

August 29

1999: Members of the Horace Mann Elementary School Garden Club in Youngstown, under the watchful eye of adviser Dan Cokrlic, are harvesting tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, eggplant, and asparagus that they planted in the spring and cultivated over the summer. They also have a 75-pound pumpkin for Halloween.

Colleen Bagnoli, transportation supervisor of Austintown Schools, says becoming a school bus driver has become more complicated in recent years after the national Commercial Drivers License was instituted in 1992 and holding a CDL became a requirement for drivers. 

Austintown Township trustees are told there is little chance of the township switching its water supplier from Youngstown to negotiate a lower price Niles because Youngstown appears to have a valid claim to ownership of all supply lines in the township. 

 

1984: Youngstown Mayor Patrick Ungaro confirms that officials of the Geauga Lake Amusement Park in Aurora are looking at Lake Milton as the possible site of a new amusement park. 

Warren Councilman John Bennett will deliver a letter to Mayor Daniel Sferra identifying 17 city employees violating the city's residency rule. 

Hospice of Youngstown opens a drive to raise $95,000 to provide services to terminally ill people who wish to spend their final days at home with their families. 

 

1974: General Motors Corp. moves the changeover date for its 1975 Vega to Oct. 4-7 as full operations resume at the Lordstown Vega and van plants following a seven-week strike. 

Responding to a grand jury report that says Sheriff Ray T. Davis should direct his attention toward security in the jail, Davis says he "will not sacrifice the security of law-abiding citizens for the criminals who are locked up."

Robert E. Christian is named executive director of the Youngstown Community Action Council. 

 

1949: Youngstown Bishop James A. McFadden breaks ground for the new $175,000 school and social center at St. John the Baptist (Slovak) Parish in Campbell. There will be two floors of classrooms and a third-floor convent. 

The 103rd annual Canfield Fair gets in motion as exhibitors and concessionaires begin to arrive in preparation for the Sept. 1 opening. Attendance is expected to exceed the 1948 record of 112,000.

Alarmed by reports of "rats as big as tomcats" invading homes and raiding gardens near closed city dumps, the health commissioner announces that professional exterminators have been called in.