Fundraisers
• Unity Presbyterian Church, 1857 Mercer-West Middlesex Road, Mercer, is sponsoring a soup supper from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 14. Cost is $5 for adults; $2.50 for children ages 6 to 12; and free for children younger than 5. Take your own soup mug or bowl and a spoon. Proceeds benefit the camp scholarship fund.
• A pasta dinner will be served from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 14 at Jackson Center Presbyterian Church.
Menu includes cavatini, garlic bread, tossed salad, beverage and dessert. Cost is $6 for thoses ages 12 to adults; $3 for children age 6 to 11 and free for ages 5 and younger.
This is a Youth Mission Trip fundraiser.
Info: 724-662-2211 or 724-662-3984.
• A Victorian tea and fashion show is set for Feb. 21 in Stoneboro firehall. Little Miss Manners, presented by Becki Williams will be 12:30 to 1 p.m. Special guest Gloria Clover, area author, and a display by Lake’s Area Artisan Guild will be 1 to 3 p.m. Bring or wear your favorite hat. There will be a Chinese auction. Cost is $10 for adults and $7.50 for those ages 10 and younger. All tickets are pre-sale. To purchase tickets call Lakeview Area Public Library, 724-376-4217 or 724-376-4116.
All proceeds benefit the library.
Program
• Carolyn Hartle of Lewis and Ristvey will discuss “Can Children be held Financially Responsible for their Parent’s Nursing Home Bill?” at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Shenango Valley Senior Center, 220 N. Buhl Farm Drive, Hermitage.
Call early to sign up for lunch. Two-day advance notice needed for lunch reservations.
Community
Things to do from Feb. 7, 2009
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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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