Reunion
• The Ansell family reunion will be held July 20 at Trent State Park. Lunch will be at noon.
Info: Kim Kerns, 724-806-0343 or rkkerns@cvzoom.net
Fundraisers
• A spaghetti dinner and Chinese auction to benefit Heather Lorigan Turk will be Sunday at Hempfield Township Volunteer Fire Department’s Station One Banquet Center on Sixth Avenue. Serving will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m.
Cost is $5 for ages 12 and older; $3 for senior citizens and children ages 5 to 12; and free for children ages 4 and younger. Takeouts available.
Sponsored by Heather’s friends. Info: friendsofheather@gmail.com
• The annual ice cream social at Jerusalem Christian Church, 560 Donation Road, Otter Creek Township, will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday or until the ice cream is gone.
Sandwiches will be available and cake will also be served.
The social is open to the public.
• Sharpsville Area Historical Society holds an old-fashioned ice cream social from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at Mahaney Park (Sharpsville Plaza).
Ice cream and toppings, cake, hot dogs, soft drinks and a variety of entertainment will be part of the fun.
Ice cream and cake are $5 for adults and $3 for children younger than age 10. Hot dog plates will be $1.50.
Meetings
• Penn High School class of 1957 meets for dinner at 6 p.m. July 1 at Carini’s Restaurant, Hempfield Township.
All classmates, guests and spouses are welcome.
• Farrell High School class of 1951 meets for breakfast at 9 a.m. Saturday at Perkin’s Restaurant, 2945 E. State St., Hermitage.
Classmates and guests are welcome.
• Women of Sharon High School class of 1946 gather for a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. July 2 at Jess’s Restaurant, Hermitage.
• West Middlesex High School class of 1957 meets at 1 p.m. Thursday at The Golden Corral, Hermitage.
• Farrell High School class of 1947 meets at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Perkins Restaurant, 2945 E. State St., Hermitage.
• Sharon High School class of 1960 meets for brunch at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at The Cookery, North Hermitage Road, Hermitage.
All classmates welcome.
Dance
• Want to help your wedding party enjoy the reception even more? Schedule your own dance workshop with Dori Yez at the F.H. Buhl Club, Sharon.
Participants will learn line dances personalized to your music preferences. Couples dances will also be reviewed.
To schedule a session, call 724-981-3700.
Special event
• Christian Associates of the Shenango Valley, in conjunction with the American Red Cross, are sponsoring a blood drive from noon to 6 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church of Sharon, 237 W. Silver St.
Walk-in donors are welcome and encouraged. Info: 724-983-0200.
Community
Things to do from June 24, 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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