Fundraisers
• The trustees of Wheatland-Farrell United Methodist Church, 75 Mercer Ave., are having a stuffed chicken breast dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Dinner includes beverage and dessert.
Cost is $7 for adults; $3.50 for children ages 4 to 12; and children ages 3 and younger are free.
• Hickory United Methodist Church, 240 N. Hermitage Road, is having a good used clothing sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 2 and 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 3. Bargain day, Oct. 3, will be a $1 per bag. The church is located next to the Shenango Valley Mall, Hermitage.
Info: Pat Lorenzo, 724-962-2626, or Nancy Leo, 724-347-4265.
• A spaghetti dinner is set for 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Brookfield United Methodist church, 6951 Grove St.
Menu includes all-you-can-eat spaghetti, meatballs, salad bar, bread and butter, beverage and homemade dessert.
Cost is $7 for adults and $3 for children ages 6 to 12. Takeouts available beginning at 3:30 p.m.
• East Side Church, 201 Spruce Ave., Sharon, holds a roast beef dinner from 4 to 6:30 p.m. SaturdaySept. 26.
Dinner includes roast beef, potato, vegetable, salad, beverage and dessert.
Takeouts available. Ticket are $8 for adults and $4 for children ages 11 and younger. Tickets, call 724-981-4223.
• Jerusalem Christian Church, 560 Donation Road, Otter Creek Township, holds a chicken barbecue dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. SaturdaySept. 26.
Donations only. Proceeds will be given to local families.
Health
• UPMC Horizon offers these events:
Bereavement Support Group, 7 tonight, hospital in Greenville.
Silver & Fit: Group Exercise Group, 1 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Wellness Center, 26 Conneaut Lake Road, Hempfield Township.
Family and Friends pediatric CPR course, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Womancare Center of UPMC Horizon, 875 N. Hermitage Road, Hermitage. Registration: 724-347-4780.
Meditation class, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Womancare Center. Registration: 724-347-7700.
Pulmonary Hypertension Support Group, 2 p.m. Thursday, hospital in Farrell.
Free prostate screenings, 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Womancare Center. Appointments: 724-347-7700.
Free prostate screenings, 9 a.m. Saturday, Outpatient Center, hospital in Greenville. Appointments: 724-347-7700.
Bus trip
• Friends and Sawhill retirees will take these bus trips:
Gaither Concert at Covelli Center in Youngstown, Nov. 12.
Schwebel’s Bakery/Rulli Brothers Store, Youngstown, Dec. 9.
Atlantic City, N.J., Jan. 11-14.
Details: Anne White, 724-962-1665.
Reunion
ä Farrell High School class of 1939 is seeking classmates and planning for its 70th reunion.
Info: Pat Nicastro, 330-448-6198, or Anne White, 724-962-1665. .
Support groups
• Overeaters Anonymous will meet at these places:
Diagnostic & Imaging Center, Garden Way, Hermitage, 1 p.m. today. Info: Susan, 724-748-3278.
Bethany Presbyterian Church, 100 Venango St., Mercer, 6 p.m. Thursday. Info: Susan, 724-748-3278.
Grove City Medical Center, conference room A, 631 N. Broad St., Pine Township, 6 p.m. Friday. Info: Kathy, 724-794-3764
Community
Things To Do from Sept. 21, 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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