Vindicator file photo / July 10,  1984 | Ignacio Rodriguez Porrero, left, secretary-general of two YMCAs in Spain, goes over details of his tour of several YMCAs in Ohio with Bob Doyle, Youngstown YMCA Central Branch director. Porrero was also visiting Ys in Toledo, Canton, Akron, and Cleveland during his 1984 trip.
 
July 8
 
1996: A survey by the Mahoning County Solid Waste District finds in a survey of seven rural townships that older residents are more likely to recycle than younger ones. 
 
Living Word Church in New Wilmington, Pa., hosted a group of young Christian singers from Latvia, proving transportation, food, and lodging in New Wilmington and helping the group attend the Olympics in Atlanta. 
 
Firepearl Group, an organization of real estate investors in their 30s, is buying and renovating older homes in Youngstown, primarily on the North Side.
 
1981:  Selective Service, in the midst of a "total revitalization" -- hopes to place 20 men and women on draft boards in Mahoning, Trumbull, and Columbiana counties by Oct. 1.
 
A 23-year-old Petersburg man died of a fractured skull after diving 25 feet into shallow water at a strip mine pool off Unity Road in Springfield Township. Elmer Ware was pronounced dead at South Side Hospital. 
 
Two New Castle, Pa., men -- one a former postal employee -- are sentenced to three years and two years in a federal penitentiary in the theft of 216 income tax refund checks. The men were arrested after attempting to sell the checks for $20,000 to an undercover FBI agent. 
 
1971: U.S. Steel Corp. shuts down its huge Ohio Works, idling 2,700 workers, and will keep the plant down "until the order book improves."
 
A four-bed coronary treatment facility will be established in East Liverpool City Hospital. 
 
A cute 18-month-old who was abandoned in a parked car in Carroll Street has been put in a foster home until Youngstown police learn her identity.
 
1946: Jack Coyne and Nicholas Errington are in columnist Esther Hamilton's Hall of Fame. The boys saw a man throw something into the creek along Logan Avenue. Investigating, they found a jar containing two puppies. They retrieved it and the puppies are flourishing. 
 
Jean  McClure, 19, of Warren is a guest soloist at the pop concert of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. 
 
Playing at the Palace, Claude Thornhill and his orchestra and Eddie Peabody, "King of the Banjo.