Bus trips
• Retirees of Penn Power, Clark, and First Energy are planning several bus trips for 2010.
A trip is set for Feb. 22-24 to Atlantic City, N.J., for a three-day, two-night getaway to Trump Taj Mahal hotel. A deposit and/or trip insurance are needed. Take identification or casino card with you.
Call Diane Maselli at 724-981-9457 for fliers and information on the trips.
• A Christmas extravaganza bus trip to support the George Junior Republic Scholarship Fund departs at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 16. Tickets, which include lunch at LaMont Restaurant on Mount Washington, Pittsburgh, and a 3 p.m. concert by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra are $95 a person. Seating is limited. Partial costs have been underwritten by Anna and Ed Dunlap of LeMont Restaurant.
For reservations and information, call 724-458-9330, ext. 2170, or e-mail lryland@georgejuniorrepublic.org by Nov. 12.
• Hermitage Parks & Recreation sponsors a bus trip to Rivers Casino or shopping and Hartwood Acres Festival of Lights on Nov. 22. Depart from Hermitage City Building, 800 N. Hermitage Road, at 8:15 a.m.
For those who do not wish to go to the Casino, the motor coach will make a second stop at the Pittsburgh Mills Mall for free time for shopping. Dinner at Bob Evans is included. There will be a guided tour of Hartwood Acres Festival of Lights.
Cost is $50 a person and includes a $10 coin and $5 food coupon for the casino
Details: 724-981-0800.
Fundraisers
• A dinner, Chinese auction and raffle to benefit Joshua’s Haven City Mission, runs 4 to 7 p.m. SaturdayNov. 14 at Billy’s Black & Gold, Sharon.
Dinner cost is $7 for adults; $5 for children ages 6 to 12; and free for children ages 5 and younger.
There will be a raffle to win two tickets to the Steelers/Browns game in Cleveland on Dec. 10.
Tickets: Bill Novosel, 724-981-2030, or Sherry Swetz, 724-983-0304.
• Mercer Free Methodist Church, 519 Grant St., holds a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to noon Dec. 5. Cost is $5.
• A marketplace and a soup, salad and dessert dinner at the Presbyterian Church of West Middlesex will be 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday in the church gym.
A wide variety of unique craft and food items prepared by the congregation will be available for sale.
At the same time the dinner will be available in the all-purpose room. The dinner includes soups, salads and desserts. The cost of the dinner is $5 for adults; $3 for children and free for children younger than 2.
This event is sponsored by the Mission Team as part of the Multiply the Gifts Campaign to raise funds for local mission work and the Volunteers in Mission Work Team.
• Hermitage Kiwanis Club is holding these December fundraisers: dining cards for area restaurants (many “free” meals) are $25, large fruit baskets and 2 pounds of deluxe mixed nut tins for $20 each.
To order, call any member or 724-981-9292.
• The Hubbard Pool Boosters will host an autumn winery tour on Nov. 21 with departure at 11:30 a.m. from Hubbard. Fab Limousine is providing the transportation. The wineries are Mastropietro Winery in Berlin Center, Luva Bella in Lowellville, Candlelight of Garrettsville, Laleure Vineyards of Parkman and Cortland Wine Cellar.
The cost is $35 and lunch is not included.
There will be a 50/50 raffle and games during the trip and tickets will be sold for basket raffles.
To reserve a seat or information, call Steve at 330-980-8527 or Bonnie, 330-534-5358.
• St. John’s Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church holds a Chinese auction Nov. 22 at St. John’s Educational Center, Cedar Avenue and Morrison Street in Sharon. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and drawings begin at 3 p.m.
Admission is $3. Ticket reservations, call 724-346-4457.
• The Kaine Kulka benefit will be 1 to 7 p.m. Nov. 22 at the Reynolds Veterans of Foreign Wars, 115 Edgewood Drive. A dinner buffet of roast chicken cooked on spits, side dishes and beverages is from 2 to 6 p.m.; the giant Chinese auction is from 2 to 6; and the 50/50 raffle is at 6. Participants will have a chance to win an autographed custom shop guitar, compliments of Tonetronix in Hubbard.
The Hern Brothers Band will provide entertainment from 3 to 6 p.m.
Cost is $12 for adults; $6 for children ages 4 to 12; and free for children younger than age 4. Tickets, call 330-507-0381.
• Church of the Beloved Disciple, 1310 S. Center St. Ext., Pine Township, holds a soup fest from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17.
Cost is $6 a person or $5 if you bring your own spoon and bowl. Cost includes a beverage and dessert.
All surplus soup will be sold for a donation beginning at 6:30 p.m. Take your own containers.
There will also be a basket raffle.
• St. George Serbian Orthodox Church, 65 S. Keel Ridge Road, Hermitage, is taking orders for: pogacha, $3.50; nut rolls, $10; apple strudel, $7; sugar doughnuts, $7 a dozen or $3.50 for a half dozen.
Orders are to be picked up at noon Nov. 22 at the church.
To order, call Francine, 724-346-0108, or Angie, 724-946-3311.
Meetings
• Mercer County Christian Coalition meets at 7 tonight11/10/09 at the Shenango Valley Senior Center, North Buhl Farm Drive, Hermitage.
Speaker is Dave Dayton, director of the fair tax movement for northwestern Pennsylvania. He will present the pros and cons of a different tax system.
• Lynda Moss McDougall will speak at the Wilmington Township Mercer County Civic League meeting at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at the township building, 35 Auction Road.
Ms. Moss-McDougall is the founder and executive director of the Sankofa House in Sharon, which provides counseling and support services to women released from prison. The goal of the program is to provide a safe and structured environment where women can get the support and resources to assist them in becoming self sufficient and contributing members of society.
Cancellation
• The Sharon Westinghouse Retirees Association meeting scheduled for Wednesday has been canceled for Veterans Day.
The meeting has been rescheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 18 in the Buhl Farm Activity Center. Speaker will be the president of the Brookfield Historical Society.
Support groups
• Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia Self-Help Group meets from 5:30 to 6:45 Thursdays in the Founders room of Notre Dame Church, 2325 Highland Road, Hermitage.
Info: Renee Zamary, 724-981-5435.
• Grove City Area Caregiver Support Group meets at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 18 at Orchard Manor Inc., 20 Orchard Drive, Grove City.
The group will continue to view and discuss a video series on coping skills for the caregiver.
Info: Mary Jo Palmer, 724-458-4456.
Health
• Minority Health Center holds an important meeting about The Witness Project and The Mammogram Voucher Program at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Cedar Avenue Church of God, 1045 Cedar Ave., Sharon.
Early detection is the single most important element in surviving cancer.
Info: Minority Health, 724-981-3856.
Reunion
• Farrell High School class of 1974 holds its 35th class reunion beginning at 6 p.m. Nov. 28 at Farrell American Legion, 613 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Invitations have been mailed.
Info: Jana Guerino, 724-981-7389, or e-mail jguerino@roadrunner.com
Community
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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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