This Week in History: Vienna Homecoming welcomes native sons … – Warren Tribune Chronicle

100 years ago in 1923:

Vienna welcomed hundreds back home to Homecoming Day. More than a thousand people were on the village green to witness a program of sports or in attendance at a baseball game which was to wind up the afternoons program.

The Vienna Boosters club had charge of the years Homecoming affair, which had been an annual event for some time among the loyal present and past residents there.

Every store and every house at the center of the village was decorated with flags and bunting. From telephone poles, banners bore Welcome Home! inscriptions.

A parade which was formed at the school house and traversed the village streets to the town square opened the days program, led by the Gilliland band of Warren which was to be one of the feature attractions of the day.

50 years ago in 1973:

Warren attorney George Gentithes was main speaker at the dedication of the citys new Municipal Justice Building on South SE, and took the occasion to laud the city for making progress, yet declared the $2 million structure was only a symbol and reminder of all that still needed to be done.

Gentithes said Warren must get busy in improving its streets and roads, improving services to citizens and in learning how to get along better among ourselves.

Warren has been criticized for a certain conservativeness, a certain slowness. Yet there has been a certain sureness, too, and this building is a symbol of that sureness, Gentithes said.

25 years ago in 1998:

Thirty U.S. Air Force reservists left the Youngstown Air Force Reserve station for a 15-day cargo delivery operation at the air force base in Anchorage, Alaska.

The units took turns throughout the year traveling around the world supporting other bases, helping to evacuate people in emergencies or dropping supplies and food into war torn areas.

10 years ago in 2013:

Weathersfield Township Community Leadership awards were presented to its first group of honorees. The group included four men who contributed to the community through their work and volunteering.

Those honored included assistant fire Chief Ken Boring, William Rummell, Harlan Collier and Frank Wodogaza. Their names were placed on a new marker at the main entrance of the township administration building.

Rummell, Collier and Wodogaza were honored posthumously.

Among their accomplishments: Boring has served 48 years with the fire department as captain and assistant chief; Rummell was a math teacher, baseball and basketball coach, principal and superintendent in the Mineral Ridge School District; Collier was a member and chief of the fire department and zoning board member, and a U.S. Air Force veteran; and Wodogaza was a local businessman, precinct committeeman and veteran of the Army.

Compiled from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Emily Earnhart.

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