21 WFMJ archives / August 1, 1990 | Children from the J. Ford Crandall Easter Seal Center joined in a drive that resulted in the collection of 2,224,985 pennies during a fund-raising campaign for Easter Seals 35 years ago. Four-year-old Kayla Rantamaki of Youngstown put in her two cents' worth. Lisa Conti, a disc jockey at WBBG "Oldies 93," spent five days atop a Naegele billboard on Boardman-Canfield Road to promote the campaign. 

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2000: Promoters say the Steel Valley Cluster Dog Show at the Canfield Fairgrounds is the largest in the country, with 4,000 dogs registered.

Melissa Long, mayor of Cortland, says Vice President Al Gore is being asked to join the local fight to stop drilling for oil and gas beneath Mosquito Lake. 

Mike Ranttila, a Delphi tool and die apprentice and member of the International Union of Electrical Workers, Local 717, from Cortland, speaks at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.  He said he trusts Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the GOP nominee, to protect Social Security and to cut taxes. 

 

1985: Youngstown State University is investigating two full-time professors in the business school who have outside jobs at other universities, one full-time and one part-time.  YSU President Neil Humphrey says, "Appointment to a position of a full-time faculty member at YSU assumes full-time -- at least 40 hours a week."

Football greats Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson are in Canton for their induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After the ceremony, they will join Hall of Famer Frank Gifford in the ABC broadcast booth for the telecast of the New York Giants-Houston Oilers exhibition game. 

As marijuana harvesting season approaches, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says 2,200 members of state, federal, and local law enforcement agencies are poised to swoop down in coordinated raids on plots of marijuana plants being cultivated in fields and woods in all 50 states. 

 

1975: The Mahoning Archery Club marks more than 30 years of activity by hosting a meet that attracted 110 shooters from 29 different clubs. 

Unofficial figures for the Trumbull County Fair show attendance of 146,000 over eight days. 

At the Kenley Players in Warren, Dyan Cannon and Keir Dullea in "Private Lives."

 

1950: Charles J. Weick, 78, prominent Youngstown baker, dies at his home on Illinois Avenue. In a day when every family did its baking, Weick introduced commercial baking to Youngstown and served the city's leading families. 

Youngstown Municipal Railway announces it is increasing bus fares by 50 percent, from 10 cents to 15 cents. 

Joyce Coney, 10, saves her three-year-old sister by throwing her from a window when fire breaks out at their W. Scott Street home.