Take Sunday stroll at McKeever Center
SANDY LAKE — An afternoon stroll is set for 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, starting at the information shelter of McKeever Environmental Learning Center, 55 McKeever Lane, near Sandy Lake.
Participants can bring a snack and drinking water and should wear weather appropriate clothing. Info: www.mckeever.org
Conneaut Cellars Winery harvest picnic is Sunday
CONNEAUT LAKE -- The Conneaut Cellars annual harvest picnic starts at noon Sunday.
Info: 814-382-3999 or 877-229-9463; www.ccw-wine.com
Mexican War Streets tour is this weekend
PITTSBURGH -- The Mexican War Streets House & Garden Tour is the oldest and finest house tour in Pittsburgh. During the 40th annual event, held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, visitors will see 13 homes, including that of former Pittsburgh Steeler, Franco Harris. There will be a midway of vendors, along with a restaurant tasting. Food tickets will be available for $5 each.
Tour tickets are available for $18 today or for $20 a person at the booth Sunday on the corner of Monterey Street and West North Avenue. After 10 p.m. today, house tour tickets will only be available at the ticket booth on Sunday.
In early 1964, James D. Van Trump and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr. sought to create a preservation group that would provide means of saving and restoring historic homes and public buildings that were slated for the wrecking ball. The Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation was incorporated on Sept. 30, 1964, and in 1966, received a $100,000 grant from the Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation and committed the resources to the deteriorating Central North Side area with the intention of creating what turned out to be the first racially integrated, mixed income historic district in the nation. The PH&LF; promoted the area, and helped to establish an independent neighborhood organization -- the Mexican War Streets Society. For more info: 412-323-9030 or www.mexicanwarstreets.org/tour and www.phlf.org.
Waterfowl, Outdoor Expo slated in Linesville
LINESVILLE, Pa. — The 28th annual Ducks Unlimited Pymatuning Waterfowl & Outdoor Expo will be next Saturday and Sunday in Linesville.
The event will begin with a “Waterfowl Hunters Party” Friday evening in St. Phillips Social Hall. Purchase tickets by Wednesday.The expo parade is 10 a.m. Saturday9/19 at Linesville High School. The expo opens at that time in the school. Judging of the decoy carving coontest starts at 12:30 p.m.; and Pennsylvania Duck Stamp competition starts at 1 p.m. Ducks Unlimited auction is set for 5 p.m. in St. Phillips Social Hall.
The expo opens at 10 a.m. Sunday9/20. Waterfowl callers will compete that day in the Expo Duck & Goose Calling competition. Outdoor related vendors, artwork and seminars will round out the event.
Info: Lew Walker, 814-382-8551; or e-mail, lwalker@ducks.org
SRHS participatesin national program
SHARON — Women who give birth to their baby in The Women’s Center of Sharon Regional Health System now have an opportunity to participate in a national public banking cord blood program through the Dan Berger Cord Blood Program. The blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta after the birth of a child, called “cord blood,” is a rich source of stem cells for blood and marrow transplants. About 70 percent of BMT patients don’t find matching donors within their families and must receive transplants from donor registries.
SRHS encourages women preparing for the birth of their babies to consider donating the baby’s cord blood. Women who choose to donate their baby’s cord blood are assured that the focus of their labor and delivery remains on them and their baby, and the birth will not be affected by the collection of cord blood.
The cord blood is collected after the baby is born. There is no charge for participating in the cord blood program.
Patients receive instruction in their physician’s office, complete an enrollment form and receive a kit that is brought to SRHS at the time of birth. Women expecting twins or who are under 18 years of age are not eligible to participate.
Cord blood is needed from people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds in order to match the diverse tissue types of patients as closely as possible.
After identification, the cord blood type is listed on the registry of the National Marrow Donor Program.
This program operates the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse program donor registry available worldwide. The cord blood is stored in a public cord blood bank until needed.
Info: Mary Weigel at 412-209-7479 or e-mail mweigel@itxm.org
Munnell Run Farm Day packed with activities
MERCER — Munnell Run Farm Day will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 on the farm, on Route 58 West, a mile north of Mercer.
Tractor-pulled and horse-drawn wagon rides, farm and trout nursery tours, a local farmers’ market, children’s activities, face painting, a Chinese auction, food by Youth Conservation Camp, Shenango River Watchers, Mercer Historical Society and Woodland Place Auxiliary are planned.
Non-perishable food items will be collected to benefit Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County in Farrell.
Info: 724-662-2242; or at www.munnellrunfarm.org
Jennings Center to mark National Public Lands
SLIPPERY ROCK — The 16th annual National Public Lands Day will be celebrated from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 26 at Jennings Environmental Education Center, near Slippery Rock.
Trail construction and rehabilitation will be the day’s focus. Those 12 and older can register by Sept. 18 to take part. Lunch will be provided and each participant will receive a T-shirt.
Registration and info: 724-794-6011.
McKeever Center hosting pair of programs
SANDY LAKE — McKeever Environmental Learning Center, 55 McKeever Lane, near Sandy Lake, will host these events:
• Bird feeding — 10 a.m. Oct. 4.
• “Migration Morning” — 7:30 a.m. Oct. 17.
Info: 724-376-1000.
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BRIEFS - Sept. 12, 2009
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Extension offers ‘Dining with Diabetes’
Back by popular demand, Penn State Cooperative Extension is offering a low-cost series of classes, “Dining with Diabetes: A Program for Adults with Diabetes and their Families,” to teach those with type 2 diabetes how to manage their disease.
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Sisters pretty accomplished
The most nerve-wracking moment in a pageant is when it comes down to the last two girls on stage, and 17-year-old Caroline Collins has stood in that spot three times in her life.
After two first-runner-up places in the National American Miss Pennsylvania Pageant, the pressure was really on for the Shenango Township girl the third time — her younger sister, Lexi, had taken the pre-teen crown in Harrisburg the day before in her first pageant run.
But Caroline wasn’t disappointed this year. In August, the Collins family celebrated the crowning of two daughters when the older sister was named Miss Pennsylvania Teen, and they all couldn’t be happier.
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‘Rat Packer’ pays homage to friend
When Jerry Chiodo was in the hospital, shortly before he died, Sirjio the Entertainer, his friend for 40 years, stole into his room one night after Chiodo’s family had left, and sang “New York, New York,” to him.
“I promised him right then, ‘I won’t let people forget you,’ ” Sirjio said.
Sirjio, of Farrell, has made good on his promise by creating the Jerry Chiodo Memorial Scholarship, a non-profit charity that plans to present music scholarships to high school students interested in careers in music.
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Pet project
There are two new faces at Strayhaven Animal Shelter in Hempfield Township, but they don’t belong to any cats or dogs.
Greenville-area residents Kristen Weaver and Todd Dunlap have been working as the shelter’s new managers since May, and they’ve already completed some upgrades to the property at 94 Donation Road.
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Car club hosting national antique car event here
Antique and classic cars are no strangers to local roads this time of year as old car enthusiasts cruise on sunny days.
Next week, expect to see not one or two cars as you drive around town, but dozens.
The folks who put on the Father’s Day Car Show will be hosting a national classic car tour Wednesday through Aug. 27 that will be based in the Shenango Valley.
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Flying fortress
“I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it,” 88-year-old John Grosbeck said in a weak voice that was filled with emotion.
It was the first time Grosbeck had been on a bomber since 1944, he said. The local stop was part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s “Salute to Veterans Tour,” and on Tuesday and Wednesday people had the chance to buy a seat on a flight aboard the “Aluminum Overcast” B-17G.
The Aluminum Overcast is at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa., through today and will be at the Akron-Canton Regional Airport Sept. 14 and 15. Ground tours are offered for a small fee but are free to all veterans. -
Teen wins two World Open baton twirling titles
Brianna Colbert, daughter of Steven and Melissa Colbert, Hermitage, won World Open Three Baton Twirling and World Open Flag Twirling titles at the National Baton Twirling Association’s America’s Youth on Parade at Notre Dame University, July 20-23.
This National and World Open baton competition held in South Bend, Ind., had thousands of twirlers from all over the United States, Canada and representatives from other countries as well. While there,Simone Esters of Hermitage and Marissa Pierce of West Middlesex, members of the Shining Star Competition Team, represented Pennsylvania in the Miss Majorette of America Pageant, founded in 1945.
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Blues will fill air
The Sharon Arts and Music Initiative’s inaugural Sharon City Blues Fest, like its headliner, is “The Real Deal.”
Grammy Award nominee John Primer will take the stage along with local and regional blues musicians on Sept. 11 in downtown Sharon.
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Teaching with technology
Technology in the classroom is always changing and one Greenville teacher has spent the last three summers learning new skills through a program limited to a select few.
Jan Abernethy, a fifth-grade teacher at East Elementary School, was one of 75 teachers nationwide chosen to attend the Discovery Educator Network Summer Institute, which is held at a different location each year.
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Actors visit Camelot
The magic and mysticism that abounds in the King Arthur legend has been just as prevalent in the life of a woman who has written a three-part play chronicling the history of Camelot’s famed ruler.
Youngstown native Carol Weakland said she’s been working for 12 years on the play that premiered last weekend: “The Arthurian Trilogy Part One, Arthur and Merlin: The Making of a King.” She was never able to assemble a cast to play the demanding roles or “whittle down” the lengthy script into a compact but complete show. But this year, everything came together.
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