Fundraisers
• Friends of the Community Library of the Shenango Valley are holding a book sale from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
• Holy Cross Orthodox Church, 950 Maple Drive, Hermitage, will be baking fresh pumpkin rolls every Wednesday. Orders are to be picked up between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. and 5 and 6 p.m.
To place an order, call 724-346-9937 on Wednesday mornings. Cost is $10 each.
• Jefferson Township Volunteer Fire Department holds a braised steak dinner beginning at 4 p.m. Nov. 7 at the township building, 7407 Lamor Road.
Dinner includes vegetable, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, beverage and dessert.
Cost is $8 for adults; $4 for children age 6 to 12 and children younger than age 6 are free.
Arts & crafts
• The 27th Annual Homespun Holiday Fine Arts & Craft Show, sponsored by West Middlesex High School Baseball Team, is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 7 in the high school gymnasium, Route 18.
There will be homemade ethnic foods and pastries.
Admission is $2.
Meetings
• Sharon Steel Retirees meet at noon Nov. 5 at the American Legion, State Street, Sharon.
There will be lunch, bingo and fellowship.
All hourly Sharon Steel retirees are welcome.
• Sharon High School class of 1960 meet for breakfast at Denny’s Restaurant, Hermitage, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
All classmates are welcome.
Community
Things To Do from October 28, 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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