Remember When 4.20.2009

Posted Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:00 pm

10 Years Ago

April 20 1999

NORTH MANCHESTER - Manchester College's Office of Volunteer Services has released its list of top volunteers for the fall 1998 semester.

Local OVS volunteers for fall 1998 were: Tara Niles, daughter of Roger and Cindy Niles, Syracuse, who contributed 48 volunteer hours; and Ambrosia Brown, daughter of Michael and Judith Brown, North Manchester, who contributed 33 volunteer hours.

25 Years Ago

April 20 1984

Jason Lemler, Jason Eppert, Chad Cannan, Brian Lowry, Lora Patterson, Liberty Reichert, Summer Rettinger, Dawne Murray, Kim Clase and Kristi Holderman, all second-graders at Triton Elementary School, celebrated Arbor Day recently with a tree-planting ceremony. A tulip tree was planted.

50 Years Ago

April 20 1959

Warsaw won every event except the broad jump in rolling up an emphatic triumph over Goshen in a high school track meet at Goshen. The final scores were Warsaw 81-1/3, Goshen 27-2/3.

Larry Ruch, who broke the Warsaw school record last week with a vault of 11 feet 11 inches, bettered it again with a tremendous vault of 12 feet 2 inches, which seemingly would make him a definite candidate for state honors in that event.

75 Years Ago

April 20 1934

This week's specials at Sharp Hardware Co. are bamboo broom, 29 cents; steel broom, 79 cents; spading forks, $1; garden spade, $1.15; full bow, one pierce garden rakes, $1; good ash handle garden hoe, 95 cents; lawn mowers, 16-inch cut, $5.95 to $9.95; peas, 20 cents per pound; beans, 20 cents per pound; and rose bushes, just arrived, finest bloomers, 45 cents.