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100 years ago in 1924:
A laundry establishment owned and operated by Albert Lowrie of Fulton Street was damaged to the extent of $2,000 when a consignment of clothes he laundered and hung in the drying room caught fire from a gas hot plate in the same room. The flames spread very rapidly to all departments of the building.
The fire department made a record run to the place and succeeded in overcoming the flames before the entire place was destroyed. The soft drink parlor of Jane L. Pinkney, next door, was slightly damaged when a flame leaped along the side of the frame building.
Lowrie and his family escaped from the building uninjured.
Rowland Cassidy, aged 37, was painfully burned the same morning about the arms and legs when a kerosine oil can, which he was using to fill an old stove, exploded and threw the burning oil over his clothing. The accident occurred at his summer cottage on the bank of the river at Leavittsburg.
Mrs. Cassidy, who was sleeping in an adjoining room, heard the explosion and immediately arose from her bed. Help was summoned but before anything could be done the interior of the house was practically gutted by fire. Several weeks before, Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy moved just enough of their furniture to tide them over until they could get into their own home in Perkinswood and they were using an oil stove for cooking there.
50 years ago in 1974:
With two employee groups signed to new contracts, the city had only to reach a settlement with the Warren Police Association, which was not scheduled to meet again with the city’s bargaining team for a week.
Warren city firemen and service personnel began their jobs under new, separate two-year working agreements with the administration that were ratified. Members of Firefighters Local 204, AFL-CIO, voted by a tow-to-one margin to ratify a new working agreement that would allow for a seven per cent pay adjustment, and another seven per cent pay hike in 1975. Members of 350 city service personnel voted by a three-to-one to ratify a new working agreement with the same pay as the fireman’s pact.
Policemen returned to work after the WPA and the city agree to one week’s "cooling off period," having staged two days of "blu flu" in protest over the city’s wage offers the previous week. City Council was expected to wait until the police negotiations were concluded to pass one ordinance and cover all employees.
25 years ago in 1999:
About 35 Warren G. Harding students were expecting to be on their way to the White House to shake hands with the president. The national championship trophy the student robotics team won at the nationwide competition at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., secured an invitation to Washington - although team members were watching the mailbox for their official confirmation letter. When Team ELITE (Encouraging Learning In Technology and Engineering) received two bins of spare parts four months previous, students had a hard time envisioning how to construct a robot that would be able to pick up objects. And they never imagined their creation would go on to beat 207 other high school and college teams from across America and Canada. The team members, who were supported by 40 Delphi-Packard engineers and six teachers, said hard work - sometimes up to 25 hours a week - paid off when their robot, Xtremachen 2, (pronounced "extreme machine"), won the gold medal. Based on attendance and their contributions to the project, 20 students were picked to travel to the national competition, sponsored by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology- the non-profit program which had the goal to show the link between classroom lessons and engineering.
10 years ago in 2014:
U.S. Marines veteran James Skok shook his head in awe as he held a page of loose leaf notebook paper bearing a youngster’s best penmanship written in royal blue ink. The letter thanked Skok for his service and described how the writer wanted so badly to stay home from school to help work on the house being built for Skok’s family by volunteers for Habitat for Humanity – 10 volunteers from the GM Lordstown complex management team, and 10 members of UAW Locals 1112 and 1714 spent several hours working at the home. The project was being funded by an $80,000 donation from the GM Foundation, part of a larger $1,45 million foundation grant to Habitat for Humanity International.
"Teamwork is teamwork," said UAW Local 1112 President Glenn Johnson who was on hand for the project.
Robert Morales, president of UAW 1714 echoed the sentiment, "We thought it was a great opportunity to give back not only to the community, but to give back to those people that do so much for us and our country."
"These guys are a blessing. I can’t thank them enough, so I pray for them," Skok said. "It’s not about me. It’s about future veterans." He was referring to the plans for Humanity to build a house for a veteran each year.
Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart.