21 WFMJ archives  / November 27, 2002 | Boardman High School Band members practiced outside the school 22 years ago to prepare 210 band members to march in the Target Parade on Thanksgiving Day in Chicago. 

November 27

1999: In their inaugural game in the International Basketball Association at the former South High Fieldhouse, the Youngstown Hawks lose a hard-fought battle with the Des Moines Dragons, 110-105.

The Poland Bulldogs defeated Orville, 31-21, to win a trip to the state championship game against Columbus Watterson in Division III. Canfield High ninth graders decorate a pine tree at Canfield Middle School in memory of a former classmate, Jack Campbell, who died at age 13 in the seventh grade. 

1984: Lewis E. Baughman, chairman of the board of Trumbull Memorial Hospital, says that more than $4.4 million in donations received from industry and the public will allow the hospital to hold its daily rates at the current level. 

Pennsylvania game officials say 31,000 deer were killed on the first day of buck season. Two hunters died of gunshot wounds, including Bradley Hennigh, 15, of Crawford County. 

Youngstown Councilman George M. McKelvey calls for new safeguards to prevent city cabinet members from being paid for accumulated vacation and compensatory time. 

1974: Arsonists hurl Molotov cocktails into occupied houses in Hillman Street and Republic Avenue, frightening occupants and causing some fire damage. 

A 19-year-old YSU coed is apprehended running from a room in the old Rayen School where a fire was started with a flammable liquid. She admits to setting the fire and three others in the building in the last month. 

Chicago police charged a woman they have dubbed the "Welfare Queen" with grand theft, bigamy, and perjury. She is believed to have collected as much as $150,000 in welfare benefits. 

1949: The Industrial Information Institute produced a movie, "Our Valleys are Greener," which will be shown to boys and girls in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys to show them the opportunities available at home. 

Wet, sticky snow, the heaviest and most prolonged of the season, fell for two and a half hours, blanketing Youngstown and the surrounding district. 

New Castle  High School earns its seventh WPIAL Class A football championship with a win in Pittsburgh over McKeesport, 8-7.