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April 23, 2008

Community briefs April 24, 2008

Sandy Lake Presbyterian taking Angel Food orders



SANDY LAKE TOWNSHIP — Angel Food Ministries signups will be 11 a.m. to 12:30 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday and May 5 at Sandy Lake (Township) Presbyterian Church, 3461 Sandy Lake-New Lebanon Road.

The value of these grocery items is $50 to $60 for only $30. Meat for the grill, a steak box and chicken combo box are this month’s specials. Each box or special is $20 each.

One or more special can be purchased along with a $30 unit. Regardless of income payment can be made by cash, cashier’s check, money order or food stamps. Personal checks are not accepted.

Food distribution will be 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. May 17 at the church. Participants should take a large box, basket or ice chest at the time of pickup to carry the food.

Info: 724-376-2630, 724-376-3893 or 724-992-1226.

Bartramian Audubon group plans programs



SLIPPERY ROCK — Bartramian Audubon Society has announced these events:

• Second annual oil region birding festival — May 2 through 4. Info: 800-483-6264, Ext. 110; or on-line, www.oilregion.org

• Annual awards night — 7 p.m. May 12 in Jennings Environmental Education Center, near Slippery Rock. The eighth Mike Allen Starker Scholarship will be presented to a Slippery Rock University student majoring in environmental studies and the fourth Helen R. Ferguson Fund of the Bartramian Audubon Society Scholarship in Environmental Sciences to a student at Westminster College in New Wilmington. Scholarship winners to the Hogg Island Audubon camp in Maine will be introduced and new member of the society’s Bird and Butterfly and Wildlife Sanctuary programs will receive sanctuary signs. Info: Nancy Baker, 814-437-5858; or e-mail, nbaker@csonline.net

• Piney Tract field trip — To meet at 7 a.m. May 24 in front of BJ’s Eatery in Knox, Pa. Info: 814-676-6320; or e-mail, pabirder@verizon.net

• Annual picnic — 4 to 7:30 p.m. June 8 at the wildlife sanctuary of Linda and Henry Lenz. Those attending should bring a dish to share, a place setting and a folding chair. For directions, attend the meeting at 7 p.m. May 12 in Jennings Environmental Education Center. Info: Ms. Baker, 814-437-5858; or e-mail, nbaker@csonline.net

Mill Creek MetroParks opening boathouses



YOUNGSTOWN — Lake Glacier and Lake Newport boathouses will open for weekends starting May 3 at Mill Creek MetroParks, Youngstown. Pedal boats, rowboats and kayaks will be available for rental from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The boathouses will be open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, including holidays, starting May 26.

Lake Glacier’s passenger boat will resume public rides as of Memorial Day weekend, operating noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

Private charters of the passenger boat will be available Wednesdays through Fridays by calling 330-702-3000.

Info: 330-740-7126.

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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.

    May 17, 2012

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    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.

    May 10, 2012 1 Photo

  • 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.

    May 8, 2012

  • 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.

    May 8, 2012

  • 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.

    May 3, 2012

  • Songwriter’s isolation blooms into ‘Marigold’

    Rick Hornyak had just moved to San Antonio and, separated from his friends in Austin, looked inward.

    April 26, 2012

  • Local girl has way with poetry

    Marissa Works came from nowhere to win a poetry recitation competition at Hickory High School.

    April 24, 2012

  • bmwomen Women's work

    Calling the Masury-Brookfield Woman’s Club a social organization is just half of it.

    April 22, 2012 1 Photo

  • 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.
    “Does that mean we did it ourselves?” Dach asked.

    April 12, 2012

  • 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.

    April 8, 2012