Nostalgia: Choffin students create new logo for historic Idora Park

YOUNGSTOWN — Idora Park may be long gone, but, for a few short weeks, it’s memory was alive in some city school students who never had a chance to visit the amusement center.

The students in Kathy Duraney’s graphic communications class at Choffin Carer & Technical Center rose to the challenge of creating a new logo design for the park, even though it closed 25 years ago.

“Most of them didn’t know Idora Park. Their parents did, but they didn’t,” Duraney said.

The exercise started with a telephone call from Richard Scarsella, a teacher at Chaney High School and chairman of the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society, who suggested the logo-design contest as a class project, Duraney said.

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