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September 2, 2008

Community briefs Sept. 3, 2008

Law requires drivers to stop, wait for school bus



Hermitage Police Chief Patrick B. McElhinny reminds motorists that state law requires them to stop at least 10 feet before they get to a school bus with its red lights flashing and side signal stop arm activated. Vehicles cannot resume travel until the lights are off and children have reached a safe place.

When a bus stops in an intersection, drivers in all directions must stop.

VFW opens field office to help with VA benefits



GIRARD, Pa. – Veterans in Mercer County can receive assistance at Veterans of Foreign Wars National Service Organization’s new Erie field office at 142 Main St. E., Girard.

The site will help Pennsylvania’s estimated 1.1 million honorably discharged veterans file for Veterans Administration benefits.

A state service officer will be available 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays for appointments and walk-in service. A state liaison officer will visit veterans who cannot travel to the site and also the area VA clinics.

Veterans do no have to be members of the VFW to receive help.

Info: vfweriefieldoffice.org

Lupus Loop 5K Walk set in Vernon Township



VERNON TOWNSHIP – Participants are being sought for the eighth annual Lupus Loop 5K Walk on Sept. 20 at Roche Park, off U.S. Route 19 in Vernon Township. Registration starts at 9:30 a.m.

Money raised through the event for Lupus Foundation of Pennsylvania’s Erie Branch will go to research, promoting awareness and education and providing patient support.

Five people are needed for a team and $20 registration costs will be taken with pledges of $20 or more collected. Teams can win prizes for raising more than $100, $200 or $300. The top three pledge raisers and top three teams will receive prizes and recognition. Each participant gets a T-shirt and breakfast.

Brochures are available in Dr. Hassan’s Hermitage and Greenville offices; Sharon Regional Health System Diagnostic & Imaging Center, Hermitage; or the Record Argus, Greenville.

Registration or info: Janie Lippincott, 866-292-1472; Linda S. Bauer, 814-382-0230; or Donna Lawrason, 814-763-3011.

Pymatuning State Park plans programs



JAMESTOWN – Pymatuning State Park, Jamestown, will hold these events Sept. 20:

• Fall clean up – 8:30 to 10 a.m. in Shelter 4. Call the park to participate.

• Leaf print T-shirts – 1 p.m. in Jamestown Marina’s educational classroom. Participants should bring a light-colored T-shirt that has been washed without fabric softener. They also may bring favorite leaves from their trees.

Registration or info: 724-932-3142.

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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

  • hillview garden 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.

    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