21 WFMJ archives / December 13, 1987 | Winners of the Canfield Kiwanis Invitational Speech Tournament 36 years ago were, from left, Skylor Winegate, Cardinal Mooney; Kris Seeger, Austintown Fitch; Lisa McDavid, Ursuline; Dheepa Rammohan, Howland; Nick Gracilla, Howland; Shannon Sweeney, Mooney; Jennifer Shaffer, Fitch; Rob Accordino, Niles; Michelle Kapturasky, Niles; Connie Bertilacci, president of the Fitch team that won the Sweepstakes Award, and Bob Little, president-elect of the Canfield Kiwanis.

December 11
1998: Chicago-based Dean Foods has invested $23 million in the Dean Dairy plant at Sharpsville, Pa., which is producing "Milk Chugs" for markets in eight states.
Niles school officials have narrowed the site for a new $25 million Niles McKinley High School to either a 4-acre area being used for band practice and soccer games just east of the present school or 4 acres north of Bo Rein Stadium.   
Some Boardman residents are voicing their opposition to the possible lease of Boardman Park land for a branch of the Youngstown YMCA.
 
1983: The state of Ohio is working on a financial package that would facilitate the sale of the unused Commuter Aircraft Corp. plant in Vienna Township for use as an aircraft-rebuilding plant. 
Roberta L. Petrucci, who raised money for gifts and food for children at Tod Babies and Children Hospital for a decade, died of cancer two weeks before she was to be honored by throwing the switch at the lighting of the hospital's Christmas tree. 
Cortland, the last "dry" city in Trumbull County, is facing the prospect of local option issues on the ballot that would allow the sale of beer and wine at convenience stores. The issues would not affect restaurants in a city that remained dry after prohibition was repealed 50 years ago. 
 
1973: Cortland is rocked for the second time in six months by the shotgun slaying of a couple. The bodies of Hermer and Edna McLaughlin are found in their High Street home. 
President Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, is remembered in Sebring, where she grew up as a freckled-faced kid who would almost rather dance than eat. 
 
1948: Youngstown College student council establishes a permanent memorial project that will purchase a book for the college library in the name of any deceased student. The book will be in the field in which the student was majoring. 
Youngstown traffic policemen will work overtime without pay to maintain traffic flows on Monday evenings during the Christmas shopping season. 
The United Nations approved a 30-page article, Declaration of Human Relations.