21 WFMJ archives  / April  5, 1989 | Robert J. Catlin, front left, outgoing president of the Trumbull County United Way board of directors, and Parry Hesselman, right, 1988 campaign chairman, display the Distinguished Service Award they received during a UW luncheon 36 years ago. Looking on, Randall S. Evans, left, new board of directors president, and James L. Crouse, 1989  campaign chairman.

April 4

2000: With its opening two weeks away, Ponderosa Park near Salem is being taken to bankruptcy court by creditors who say they are owed nearly $2 million.

The Way Station, a Christian ministry in Columbiana, says it will return to the state a liquor license that came into its possession when it bought the former Goldies Bar at 236 S. Main St. Wayside has already resold the property to Columbiana Buick-Olds-Cadillac, which intends to raze the building and create a parking lot. 

Spring practice opens at Youngstown State University with a familiar face on the sidelines. John Heacock, a defensive backs coach at Indiana  University, has joined Jim Tressel's staff as the Penguins defensive coordinator. 

1985: Mayor Patrick Ungaro says the city, which owed $222,366 in back taxes on the municipal parking deck, is stepping up efforts to sell the building.  

The Troutman Department Store on E. Washington Street in New Castle, founded in 1905, is under new management after Tripco Ltd. purchased it from Allied Department Stores, the store's owner since 1951.

During a congressional hearing, Gov. Richard F. Celeste acknowledged that Ohio's savings and loan crisis, which saw 70 institutions closed for more than a week and some sold or merged, was triggered by inadequate state oversight. 

1975: Michael Sop Jr., 65, and his wife, Kathryn, 63, of Brookfield, are killed when their car is smashed by a tractor-trailer rig at Routes 62 and 7.

The Packard Electric Division of General Motors recalls 170 production workers, reflecting a gradual increase in GM car and truck output.

Steve Sapusic, 22, an employee at Queen's supermarket in Girard, is gunned down, apparently because he did not respond quickly enough to a robber's demand for cash. He is hospitalized in guarded condition. 

1950: Youngstown Sixth Ware Councilman George L. Stowe opposes a proposed 1 percent tax on all business profits as discriminatory.

Warren Councilman Raymond J. Little complains pigeons in Courthouse Park have become so numerous that women are afraid to wear Easter hats. He offers no solution.  

The Boardman High School mixed chorus, under the direction of Richard S. Bame, will sing at the Sunrise Service in the Warned Theater on Easter Sunday.