Looking Back – May 22

2009

Commons supporters reported their fund drive, known as “A Cause in Common,” had reached the $3 million goal in pledges for public support of the downtown mall.

1994

About 500 area adults and children participated in the weekend-long Community Fitness Festival at various locations around Columbus.

1969

A local engaged couple, Barbara Hensley and Gus M. Irani, won an all-expenses-paid formal wedding and a six-day honeymoon in Miami in conjunction with the premiere in that city of a Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason movie, “How to Commit Marriage.”