Looking Back – September 22

Team members, from left, Radhika Fernando (in dog costume), Steve Wilson, David Langenderfer and Katie Doyle dressed like Scooby Doo characters to participate in the Columbus Young Professionals Amazing Race at the United Way building in 2009. From The Republic archives

2009

Racers disguised as secret agents, sleuths and Scooby-Doo characters followed clues through United Way to end the third leg of Columbus Young Professionals Amazing Race.

1994

Studies were being conducted to determine the feasibility of turning the former National Guard Armory at Seventh and Franklin streets into apartments for the elderly.

1969

More than 300 workers at the Reliance Electric Master Division plant rejected a new company contract proposal by a 210 to 77 vote prompting the third industrial plant strike in Columbus in a little over six months.