Meetings
• Sharon Steel Retirees will meet at noon Thursday for lunch, fellowship and bingo in Sharon American Legion Post 299, East State Street, Sharon. The Herald listed the wrong date in Wednesday’s paper.
All hourly Sharon Steel retirees are welcome.
• Grove City Area AARP 3423 will hold its noon luncheon Aug. 14 at the Keystone Shelter in Grove City Memorial Park.
Program will be bingo so please take 10 dimes.
The meeting is open to anyone older than age 50.
Those attending are asked to take a hot or cold dish, your own table service and beverage.
AARP board will meet at 11 a.m. in the Keystone Shelter before the lunch and meeting.
Info: 814-786-7431.
• Wimodausis will gather at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 11 for its monthly meeting in the Scottish Rite Cathedral, New Castle.
There will be another musical program.
Reservations: Dorothy Bort, Fairmont Avenue, or Judy Barron, East Maitland Lane, both New Castle, by Sunday.
Special event
• Mercer Area Library will hold a Patron Appreciation Day from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 14. The library staff would like to thank community members with cake and punch for their patronage and support during the last year.
Info: 724-662-4233.
Picnic
• The annual picnic of AARP Shenagno Valley Chapter 3616 will begin at noon Wednesday at shelter 4 in Buhl Farm park, Hermitage.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased by calling 724-342-0053.
Events of interest to the community are published as space permits. Send written information to The Herald, Box 51, Sharon 16146. Information is not taken over the phone.
Community
Things To Do from Aug. 4, 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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