HEALTH
• UPMC Horizon hosts these events:
- Advanced cardiac life support recertification, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, UPMC Horizon Wellness Center, 26 Conneaut Lake Road, Hempfield Township. Registration: 724-589-6113.
- Silver & Fit: Group Exercise class, 1 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, Wellness Center. Registration: 724-588-3001.
- Free bariatric surgery information session with Dr. Etwar McBean, 8 a.m. Wednesday, hospital in Greenville. Registration: 724-589-6827 or 724-588-6660.
- Meditation class, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Womancare Center, 876 N. Hermitage Road, Hermitage. Registration: 724-347-7700.
- New Health Care Provider course, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 29, hospital in Greenville. Registration: 724-589-6113.
- Free bariatric surgery information session with Dr. Christopher Myers, 5:30 p.m. Oct. 29, hospital in Greenville. Registration: 724-589-6827 or 724-588-6660.
- Boo Ball, 7 p.m. Oct. 30 at The Corinthian, Sharon. Details: 724-981-8875. All proceeds benefit the hospital’s Community Health Foundation.
SPECIAL EVENT
• Brookfield High School Marching Band is having a preview of its Lights Out Show from 7 to 8 tonight at the football stadium. The concession stand will be open. Donations are asked to help fund the uniform account.
FUNDRAISERS
• Christ Lutheran Church, 396 Buhl Blvd., Sharon, will hold an indoor yard/rummage sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 31 in honor of Martin Luther on reformation day. All proceeds will benefit world hunger and Sankofa House.
• Damon Zipay Memorial Fundraiser and Chinese auction are set for 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Hickory United Methodist Church, North Hermitage Road, next to Shenango Valley Mall in Hermitage.
• Sheakleyville Community Volunteer Fire Department holds its annual chicken pie supper from 4:30 p.m. until sold out Nov. 14 at Commodore Perry High School. Tickets go on sale at 3:30 p.m. Cost is $6 for adults and $3.50 for children younger than age 12.
• Falling Leaves Festival at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 103 Clinton St., Greenville, is set for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 31. There will be a Chinese auction, country store, door prizes and lunch available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is free.
• Harrisville Volunteer Fire Department is having a Christmas bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 7 at Harrisville firehall.
There will also be a Chinese auction and refreshments will be available. Admission and parking are free. The firehall is located on state Route 58 east of Route 8 in Harrisville. Details: 724-735-4646.
• West Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department holds bingo beginning at 4 p.m. Nov. 8 at West Middlesex Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6233, 3747 New Castle Road.Tickets available at the door for $20. Info: 724-854-2765.
Community
Things to Do - Oct. 22, 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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