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1998

Jennifer Snyder and Tricia Staggers recently had poetry published in a poetry anthology. They were among students in Julie Moffet's freshman English classes who submitted poetry to the Creative Communication and Anthology of Poetry By Young Americans. They both had poems selected to be published in Creative Communications, which publishes poems by Ohio students in grades 7 to 12. In addition to having their poems published, Creative Communications selects the top 10 poems from all those they published, (approximately 4,000) and Snyder and Staggers poems were both chosen as top-10 poems. The girls both received a page of their own in the anthology and a $50 savings bond.

Fifth-grade students in Sandra Gahan's reading class recently entertained other classmates with their version of "Cinder-Ella and the Prince of Pollution." Following a unit on recycling, the class members put on the play that revolved around pollution issues. All class members were involved in some way as they worked on scenery, writing a third act, props, character, narrating and directing.

1988

Sixteen acts will perform in a talent show in Malvern Schools. The purpose of the program is to help the Excellence Committee raise $1,000 to send 30 Malvern elementary students on a weekend trip to Ontario, Canada. Students in grades four, five and six who were on the honor roll the first five of the six grading periods thus far are eligible to go. Some of the 25 acts are piano players, Samantha Reed and Christina Burchhert, karate kid Cimarron Bugh, guitar player Troy Clark, gymnastic dancers Kelli DeDent and Malanie Kidder and lip-sync performer Jason Smith.

The time capsule was removed from the 1937 cornerstone of M.I. Day Elementary building on April 7 and was opened during an assembly. The contents of the time capsule removed from the cornerstone included several newspapers and lists of officers and/or members of various service clubs in Minerva.

1978

Charles Peters, Minerva Lions Club president, was honored during the district spring conference. Peters was selected to serve as Zone 8 chairman in District 13-D for the 1978-79 term. He will be responsible to the district for seven clubs: Paris, Homeworth, Hanoverton, Salem, Waynesburg, Magnolia and Minerva. Charlie stepped into the limelight at the conference by presenting retiring District Governor Jackson Sewell, of Girard, a large hand-tooled leather scrapbook, beautifully embossed with the map of Ohio.

Cynthia Hoobler, of Malvern, is one of the 24 candidates selected for the semi-finals of the Canton Hall of Fame queen title. She and other candidates were chosen from 137 candidates after a week of judging by the Queen Committee. They will now participate in the Queen's Pageant. Each candidate will be introduced at the pageant and the judges will select 12 finalists who will answer questions from the master of ceremonies.

1968

Minerva High School Band, with directors, James Lamb and John Shaffer, have received an official invitation to attend the 22nd annual Midwest National Band Clinic, which will be held in Chicago. Minerva is one of five high-school bands to be selected in the nation. This is the fifth Ohio band to be chosen in 22 years.

1958

Under the direction of Leonard Welch, vocal instructor, the Minerva High School vocalists will be on stage in their new red robes when their spring concert is presented in the high-school auditorium.

1948

Two girls from New Franklin School are winners of the Paris Township grade-school spelling contest held at Robertsville. The winners are Miss Patty Ramser and Miss Martha Jean Tomlinson. After winning the New Franklin spelling bee, the girls competed with other Paris Township students and pupils from Hostetter Special District, winning this spell-down also.

"Life" magazine has selected IGA to carry on a great experiment in retail grocery merchandising. Harry P. Sauvain, owner of the local IGA Market, is coordinating with the IGA-Life promotion.

1938

Harry H. Heston, owner of Heston's Restaurant, sold the business, including the ice-cream manufacturing plant, equipment and fixtures to Harry C. Hawkins, of East Rochester.