Boardman seniors unable to unearth 4th-grade time capsule today

BOARDMAN

Ginny Yazbek’s fourth-grade class of 2008 returned to Stadium Drive Elementary this afternoon, hoping to dig up the time capsule the students had buried back then.

They couldn’t find it after a few dozen holes and two hours – but they did recover the memories of a simpler time.

“I’m not disappointed at all,” said Taylor Harden, now a senior at Boardman High School. “This was fun. It was fun looking for it.”

The class, now 18- and 19-year-olds, brought shovels and a few friends and family and dug around the specific area where the capsule should have been, finding nothing. The group was confused about the directions it had recorded at the time.

Yazbek, now 64, retired in 2009. She wrote down directions to find the capsule: “adjacent area to rooms 111 & 112, 3rd tree closest to the woods, 16 paces from the tree toward Market St. (east).”

Yazbek said she had the children in 2008 draw what they’d look like eight years later, write a note to themselves and include a series of newspaper clips about the capsules unearthed before at the school.

Read more about the project in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.