Special events
• New Beginnings Christian Church, 73 Hamburg Road, Hempfield Township, holds a free skate night at Papa Wheely’s, 3087 Hadley Road, Hadley, from 6 to 8 p.m. March 30.
All welcome. Take your own roller blades or skates or rent them for $1.
Info: 724-588-1276.
• Mercer Area Library, 143 N. Pitt St., will hold a Family Movie Day from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday In this G-rated animated comedy, “Ratatouille,” Remy loves fine French food, which is a problem since he happens to be a rat. He lives in an expensive French restaurant and desires to become a chef despite the disapproval of his father and brother who are happy eating garbage.
All youth and their families are invited. Info: 724-662-4233.
Fundraiser
• East Side Church, 201 Spruce Ave., Sharon, holds a roast beef dinner from 4 to 6:30 p.m. March 29.
Menu includes potato, vegetable, salad, beverage and dessert.
Cost is $7 for adults and $3.50 for children ages 11 and younger. Takeouts available. Tickets: 724-981-4223.
Meeting
• The Farrell-Wheatland Memorial Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Murray Bell Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7597, 314 Idaho St., Farrell.
All commanders or representatives are asked to attend this first meeting in preparation for Memorial Day, May 26.
Community
Things to do from March 22, 2008
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Check out The Exhibit
Current and past art students at Sharpsville Area High School will show their wares this weekend in the school’s second student-organized art show.
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Art show highlights new GC gardens
Elementary kids in Grove City adopted Grove City Community Gardens to highlight at their spring art show, and were given a unique garden of their own by a noted sculptor.
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Scouts to fete Knecht, Mastrian
French Creek Council, Boy Scouts of America, will honor Will Knecht and John “Chip” Mastrian with its 24th Annual Distinguished Citizen Award at a banquet May 22 in The Corinthian, Sharon.
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Academy as popular as ever
Hermitage School District Summer Academy is offering more courses than last year and has already equaled last year’s course enrollments.
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Chorale family affair
Christine and Terry Bowman met in the Sharon High marching band, and music has been an integral part of their life together.
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Songwriter’s isolation blooms into ‘Marigold’
Rick Hornyak had just moved to San Antonio and, separated from his friends in Austin, looked inward.
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Local girl has way with poetry
Marissa Works came from nowhere to win a poetry recitation competition at Hickory High School.
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Women's work
Calling the Masury-Brookfield Woman’s Club a social organization is just half of it.
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Local band’s music reflects ‘sense of place’
Terry Dach described his new recording as “organic,” but immediately turned to James Willaman for a definition of the term in a musical sense.
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Old school
Generations of students learned to read and write in the Hutchinson School, a one-room schoolhouse on Mitchell Road in Shenango Township. Today, historians hope those students’ descendants step forward to furnish and refurbish the small, red brick school to its former glory.
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