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June 11, 2009

Things To Do from June 12, 2009

Fundraisers

• The Birdwatchers Store, 630 New Castle Road, Slippery Rock, is having an “Audubon Yard Sale” from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Items include all things birds — houses, feeders, food, binoculars, etc.

Info: 724-794-2473.

• Vincent Methodist Church, Walnut Street, Jackson Center, will host a ham loaf and scalloped potato dinner at noon Sunday.

Menu also includes: coleslaw, vegetable, dessert and beverage.

Cost is $8 for adults and $3.50 for children under 12. This is the last fundraiser dinner for the summer. Church renovations start soon.

Info: 724-662-4968.



Kids stuff

• Sharpsville Wee Wee and Midget cheerleading sign-ups are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 20 at the playground by the baseball field. Wee Wee are second- and third-graders; Midgets are sixth- through eighth-graders.

Contact Chris Pegg, 724-813-2902, for Midgets and April Rosa, 724-977-8573, for Wee Wee.



Support groups

• Mercer County Chapter Parents of Murdered Children Inc., for families and friends of those who have died by violence meets from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at UPMC Horizon, Farrell, 2200 Memorial Blvd.

Info: 724-877-1552 or 724-877-3130.



Special event

• The Jamestown Area Historical Society museum is open from 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays through September.

The 405 N. Summit St. home can be toured by groups and individuals at other times by calling 724-932-3202.



Meetings

• Mysteries And Paranormal Society (M.A.P.S.) Pennsylvania Paranormal/Ghost Hunting group will meet at 7 p.m. Saturday, doors open at 6:30 p.m., at Sharon City Building.

Special guest is local historian Bill Philson. Admission is $5. Door prizes and refreshments to follow meeting. Info: PathLsTakn@aol.com 

• Reynolds High School Classes of 1961 and 1962 will meet for breakfast at 9 p.m.. June 20 at Perkin’s Restaurant, Hadley Road, Hempfield Township.



Reunions

• Grove City High School Class of 1949 is planning its 60th class reunion and trying to locate these classmates: Ann Mae Berringer, Betty Arlene Berrisford, Donald F. Fehrs, Dale Garner, Geraldine Gibson, Norman Hinkle, Ralph Hunter, Jean Gibner Lester, Lois Mong Moore, Fontene Page, Robert A. Samuels, Robert E. Stevenson, Glenn E. Thompson, Frank Tedora, Neva Mae Volbrecht, Robert I. Walter and Charles R. Wellard.

Info: Joy Gallagher, 724-458-5067 or Mae Benson, 724-458-6659.

• Grove City High School Class of 1959 will hold its 50th class reunion Sept. 26.

Addresses are needed for these classmates: Peggy Knapp Bailey, Roberta Wilson Barber, Pauline Nordum Hazlett, Robert Rodgers, David Styers, Frank Sparata, Kay Ladd, Susan Hannon Dompkowski, Gerald Housler, Vonnie King Pagley, Virginia Hildebrand Spatara, and Ronald Worley.

Info: Dotty Atcheson, 724-794-1872 or Judy Cunningham, 724-458-8226.

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