Meetings
• Farrell High School class of 1949 will meet for breakfast at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Denny’s restaurant, East State Street at North Buhl Farm Drive, Hermitage.
• Mercer County Pomona Grange 25 will meet at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 7, with Pleasant Valley Grange 1643 hosting, at London Grange 1492.
Take a nonperishable food item or monetary donation for this year’s community service project, which will end with this meeting.
• Farrell High School class of 1950 meets at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Denny’s restaurant, East State Street at North Buhl Farm Drive, Hermitage.
Special event
• The Gallery Stitchers Embroidery Club’s First Show will be held from 10 to 5 p.m. Nov. 6 and 7 at The Gallery, 116 N. Pitt St., Mercer.
On display will be an embroidery quilt exhibit, pillows, wall hangings, dimensional pieces plus an antique embroidery section.
Fundraiser
• Masury United Methodist Church will hold a “Soup”er Dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 14 in the church’s fellowship hall, 1382 Broadway Ave.
Menu includes: homemade soups, sandwiches, salad bar, dessert and beverage. Donation is $6 for adults and $4 for children 10 and younger. Takeouts are available.
There will also be a craft and bake sale. Donations support the help fund.
Info: www.masuryunitedmethodist.com
Kids stuff
• Have your children fingerprinted for free and ensure their safety from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 7 at the Community Library of the Shenango Valley, 11 N. Sharpsville Ave., Sharon.
A parent or guardian must be present. The event is sponsored by Western & Southern Financial Group.
To make sure enough fingerprinting supplies are availalbe, please call Melanie Preston at 724-347-5565, ext. 115.
Community
Things To Do from October 30, 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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