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Tuesday
September 29, 2015
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St. Marys, Pennsylvania
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Senate advances
stopgap
spending bill to
avoid shutdown
By Andrew Taylor
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP)
— The Senate on Monday
delivered a strong vote of
confidence to a bipartisan
spending bill that’s needed to head off a government shutdown at midnight Wednesday.
The 77-19 vote powers
the measure past a filibuster by some of the chamber’s most ardent conservatives, who were angered
that Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
stripped a provision that
would cancel federal funding of Planned Parenthood
in exchange for keeping
the government open.
McConnell is under
fire from tea partyers
who demand that he fight
harder against Planned
Parenthood — even at the
risk of a partial government shutdown — but McConnell is more concerned
with protecting his 2016
re-election class from political damage if Republicans are blamed for a
shutdown.
Last week, Democrats led a filibuster of a
Senate stopgap measure
that would have defunded Planned Parenthood.
Eight Republicans did
not support that measure,
leaving it short of a simple
majority, much less the
60 votes required to overcome the filibuster.
The current bill is “the
only viable way forward
in the short term,” McConnell said. “It doesn’t
represent my first, second,
third or 23rd choice when
it comes to funding the
government, but it will
keep the government open
through the fall.”
The Senate is expected to approve the bill
Tuesday and send it to the
House.
The White House endorsed the measure since
it would allow “critical
government functions to
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Talks yield no breakthroughs on budget
By Peter Jackson
Associated Press
HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov.
Tom Wolf and legislative leaders
met on and off throughout the
day Monday in an effort to craft
a compromise to end the Pennsylvania state budget impasse, but
no breakthroughs surfaced.
Negotiators from both parties described the discussions as
promising, but remained vague
about the status of the many
thorny issues that separate them.
They met for about an hour in
early afternoon and about 90
minutes in late afternoon, but ultimately scrapped tentative plans
for an evening session.
“At least we’re having a conversation,” said Senate Minority
Leader Jay Costa, D-Allegheny.
“The numbers haven’t changed
much.”
House Majority Leader Dave
Reed, R-Indiana, said he hoped
the talks would yield “common
ground” that could lead to a bipartisan budget deal.
“We all want a budget,” Wolf
told reporters at an impromptu
news conference. “I understand
the need for compromise and
we’re both going to have to move
if we’re going to get to common
ground.”
The Democratic governor is
proposing a multibillion-dollar
tax increase that would provide
a significant funding increase for
public schools and eliminate a
budget deficit. Republicans want
to privatize the sale of wine and
liquor and revamp the state’s
public pensions to reduce future
costs.
Wolf reaffirmed that he plans
to veto a stopgap budget approved
earlier this month by GOP majorities in the House and Senate
See Budget, Page 3
Proposals
reviewed for
dirt and gravel
road program
By Richie Lecker
Staff Writer
Photo by Amy Cherry
Denny McGeehan of Kersey is shown reviewing his newest pictorial history book “St. Marys Through Time.” It is available
for purchase at the St. Marys and Benzinger Township Historical Society on Erie Avenue where McGeehan is the current
director.
New pictorial book spans
history of St. Marys
By Amy Cherry
Staff Writer
The new local history book
“St. Marys Through Time”
takes readers through a pictorial journey of the city spanning from its founding in 1842
until the present.
“St. Marys Through Time”
marks the 10th photo book
published by Denny McGeehan of Kersey, however this is
his first time working with a
new publisher, Font Hill Media of the United Kingdom,
which specializes in historic
topics. The company also has
a Charleston, S.C. office.
McGeehan’s new book is
part of the publisher’s series “America Through Time”
which documents the past
compared to the present. He
added Font Hill approached
him about compiling a new
book for the company.
One of the reasons Mc-
Chief justice: No view about
AG Kathleen Kane quitting
By Mark Scolforo
Associated Press
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest ranking jurist
said Monday he has “absolutely
no view” on whether the state’s
attorney general should resign
from office, one week after the
state Supreme Court temporarily
suspended the top prosecutor’s
law license.
Chief Justice Thomas Saylor
told the Pennsylvania Press Club
that the court has no ability to
remove Kane or any other highranking government official from
their posts.
“That’s not what we do,” Saylor said, noting those powers are
held by the Legislature and governor.
The 5-0 decision to suspend
the first-term Democrat does not
prevent her from continuing to
serve as attorney general, Saylor said, and he emphatically declined to offer an opinion about
whether she should step down.
“I have absolutely no view on
that,” said Saylor, a Republican.
“I think that’s purely a personal
matter for her.”
Kane awaits trial on criminal
charges she leaked secret grand
jury information to a newspaper
and then lied to cover it up. She
said last week that if her license
remains suspended, that would
probably be a barrier to her plans
to seek re-election in 2016.
“An attorney who’s attorney
general and is suspended is still a
member of the bar of the Supreme
Court,” as required under the constitution, Saylor said. “The fact of
the interim suspension is in no
way constitutionally disabling.”
Asked about the fairness of
suspending Kane while she faces criminal allegations, Saylor
said the justices had a detailed
petition from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to consider, and
Kane’s attorneys filed an extensive reply.
Kane also has the ability to
request a full hearing before the
Disciplinary Board, Saylor said,
but she apparently has not done
so.
See Kane, Page 2
Geehan cited for writing the
book is due to the significant
changes which have occurred
in St. Marys over the last two
decades.
Among those changes,
McGeehan referenced the redevelopment of Depot Street
noting the new housing in
the former municipal parking
lot, the construction of a new
See Book, Page 3
Four Elk County projects
were among matters discussed at
Monday’s Elk County Conservation District meeting as the district looks to select dirt and gravel road projects within the county
to fund.
This is the second time that
the district has accepted applications for funding from its dirt and
gravel road program.
The district initially voted
to financially support projects
in Horton Township and Jones
Township, but with funds still remaining in the programs, the district opened up a second round of
funding.
On the table for discussion on
Monday were two projects in Jay
Township, one project in Benezette Township and one project in
Johnsonburg Borough.
The two projects in Jay
Township were for repairs along
Spring Run Road.
Jay Township requested
$2,800 and $6,700 respectively
for the repairs.
In Benezette Township, a
funding application was submitted for assistance along grant
road.
The Benezette Township
project comes with a total project
cost of $63,000.
These three projects were
recommended for approval by
the district’s quality assurance
board, however, since the district
didn’t have a quorum at Monday’s meeting, the board could
See Program, Page 3
Pumpkin picking
Photo by Amy Cherry
With the arrival of fall comes the tradition of picking out pumpkins whether to
use as fall decor, to carve up for Halloween or to bake the seeds. A pumpkin,
which is 90 percent water, is really a squash and contains potassium and
Vitamin A. The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Parents alarmed over plummeting math scores in Pennsylvania
By Michael Rubinkam
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA
(AP) — Two years ago,
Christy Manetta’s sixthgrader scored “advanced”
on her state standardized
math exam.
This month, when
Manetta got the results
of her daughter’s spring
PSSA math test, she was
surprised and dismayed
to see the score was 40
percentage points lower
— or barely “proficient,”
according to the state.
“I don’t buy it,” said
Manetta, whose children
attend schools in the wellregarded Philadelphia-area Central Bucks School
District, the state’s thirdlargest school system.
“You can’t tell me my kid,
in a span of 12 months,
drops that low. Something’s not right there.”
It’s a scene playing out in homes around
Pennsylvania this month
as parents see their kids’
test scores.
While final statewide
results come out Tuesday,
preliminary data show a
35-point drop in the Pennsylvania System of School
Assessment math test and
a 9-point drop in English.
State education officials and school districts
have been seeking to reassure parents the dramatically lower math scores do
not mean their kids are
learning less, but they
reflect an overhauled and
more difficult exam. The
PSSAs are administered
each year in grades three
through eight.
“What is important
to keep in mind is that
your child did not change,
the quality of instruction
did not change ... The
only thing that changed
was the PSSA,” Nadine
Garvin, principal of the
school attended by Manetta’s daughter, said in a
note to parents.
The most recent PSSAs were the first to test
students on their mastery
of skills based on Pennsylvania’s version of the
Common Core, a set of
English and math standards adopted by dozens
of states that spell out
what students should
know and when.
With the new math
standards widely considered to be more rigorous,
the Department of Education said it considers
the spring PSSA results a
baseline.
“It’s a transition, so
it takes a while,” said
spokeswoman
Jessica
Hickernell. “We believe
that as time moves on and
teachers get more comfortable with this and students get more comfortable with this, the scores
will improve.”
Aware that parents
and students might be
alarmed by the plummeting scores, many districts
are sending home a letter
from state Education Secretary Pedro Rivera that
attributes the lower scores
to the tests’ complexity
and cautions against comparing this year’s results
with last year’s.
Some parents reject
the state’s explanation
and, instead, blame Common Core-inspired curricula and teaching methods, which de-emphasize
rote memorization of
math facts in favor of
helping students understand how numbers relate to each other. Parents
accustomed to standard
arithmetic have long complained the approach is
unnecessarily convoluted
and complicated.
“No one seems to
entertain the possibility that this test is showing the new approach to
math is not working,” said
Cara McClintock-Walsh,
a college English professor with children in the
Bethlehem Area School
District.
“I think what I’m seeing as a parent is that
there is so much pressure
to teach to the test, and to
the new curriculum and
new standards, that kids
are not getting basic math
sense at all,” she said.
Manetta said her
daughter was “completely stunned” by Common
Core math as a fifth-grader last year, and didn’t
want to ask her parents
for help because “she
didn’t think she would be
able to explain it to us, so
how could we explain it
to her? She didn’t know
where to start, so why
even ask.”
Common Core supporters insist the standards are driven by research and will help
better prepare students
for college or work.
Barbara Parkins, superintendent of the United School District about
50 miles east of Pittsburgh, suspects her district’s poor performance
has to do with the PSSA
math test itself.
She said nearly all of
the eighth graders who
took another state standardized test last year
— the Keystone Exam in
algebra, a requirement of
high school graduation —
passed it. Yet only 12 percent of United students
who took the PSSA math
exam scored either proficient or advanced.
“There must be something that’s not quite right
about the PSSA,” Parkins
said.
Life on Mars? NASA says planet Legal actions filed against central
appears to have flowing water
Pa. home improvement contractors
By Marcia Dunn
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) — Mars appears
to have flowing rivulets of
water, at least in the summer, scientists reported
Monday in a finding that
boosts the odds of life on
the red planet.
“Mars is not the
dry, arid planet that we
thought of in the past,”
said Jim Green, director
of planetary science for
NASA.
Scientists in 2008
confirmed the existence
of frozen water on Mars.
Now instruments aboard
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have yielded what researchers said
is the strongest evidence
yet that water in liquid
form trickles down certain Martian slopes.
And because liquid
water is essential to life,
the finding could have
major implications for the
possibility of microscopic life forms on Earth’s
next-door neighbor.
“It suggests that it
would be possible for
there to be life today
on Mars,” NASA’s science mission chief, John
Grunsfeld, said at a
Washington news conference.
The rivulets — if
that’s what they are,
since the evidence for
their existence is indirect
— are about 12 to 15 feet
wide and 300 feet or more
long, scientists said. They
apparently consist of wet
soil, not standing water.
Republicans
have
targeted Planned Parenthood for years, but the release of secretly recorded
videos that raised questions about its handling
of fetal tissue provided to
scientific researchers has
outraged
anti-abortion
Republicans.
The group says it is
doing nothing wrong and
isn’t violating a federal
law against profiting from
such practices.
In the House, two key
committees have released
a draft of filibuster-proof
budget legislation that
would defund Planned
Parenthood and keep a
promise made during this
spring’s budget debate to
repeal key elements of
Obama’s signature health
care law. Panel votes are
expected Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The proposal would
permit Republicans to deliver to Obama a measure
to take away about $350
million in taxpayer funding Planned Parenthood
now receives through the
Medicaid program to provide health services to
low-income women.
Most of the money
would be redirected to
community health centers. It would also, after
dozens of attempts, send
a partial repeal of the
Affordable Care Act to
Obama’s desk for the first
time, under fast-track
rules for budget legislation known as reconciliation.
The measure would
repeal requirements for
most individuals to buy
health insurance, as well
as a mandate that employers of more than 50 people
offer their workers coverage. New taxes on medical devices and generously subsidized “Cadillac”
health insurance plans
would be repealed, too.
But popular provisions
such as allowing parents
to keep their children on
their health insurance
plans until they turn 26
and subsidies for lower income people to buy health
insurance through federal
and state markets would
be retained.
Obama has threatened to veto the measure.
is a good moral lesson for
people to keep in mind.
You enjoy friendships, you
keep relationships, but
judges have their job to do,
prosecutors have their job
to do.”
He did not express an
opinion about whether
Pennsylvania should move
away from its system of
electing judges but said
appointing them would
bring its own consequences.
Appointments would
not remove politics from
the process of selecting
judges, he said: “You’re
just removing the focus on
politics.”
Saylor said the Supreme Court gets about
7,000 cases a year and
agrees to review 100 or
fewer of them. He said the
high court’s goal is to rule
within five or six months
after oral argument is
made before the justices.
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operate without interruption, providing a shortterm bridge to give the
Congress time to pass a
budget for the remainder
of the fiscal year.”
The Planned Parenthood fight helped topple
House Speaker John
Boehner, who announced
his resignation last week
after informing several
conservatives that he
would not use the mustpass spending measure to
take on the group.
The measure would
keep the government’s
doors open through Dec.
11, but the battle is sure
to be rejoined then — at a
potentially greater risk of
a shutdown.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz
served notice that he will
be part of that fight.
The Texas lawmaker
assailed his GOP leadership, saying it “reflexively
surrenders at the outset,” while complimenting
Democrats for their willingness to “crawl on broken glass with a knife between their teeth” to fight
for their policies.
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Kathleen
G. Kane announced legal
actions filed against two
central Pennsylvania home
improvement contractors accused of failing to complete
services for which they were
paid.
The legal action against
Daniel C. Fry, who did business under the company
name Fry Asphalt, was filed
in the York County Court of
Common Pleas by the Office of Attorney General’s
Bureau of Consumer Protection.
The Bureau of Consumer Protection filed a separate
legal action in the Lancaster
County Court of Common
Pleas against Kelly Waters
Lazrovitch, Peter Thomas
Lazrovitch and William
Lazrovitch, all of whom did
business under the fictitious
name “All County Asphalt &
Seal Coating.”
The legal action involving Fry alleges multiple
violations of the Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act (HICPA) and the
Unfair Trade Practices and
Consumer Protection Law
(Consumer Protection Law),
including performing services in a shoddy and unworkmanlike manner and Fry
working as a home improvement contractor after his
HICPA registration lapsed.
Additionally, Fry was
accused of performing home
improvement services that
differed from a written contract without a valid change
order and of utilizing contracts that failed to include
HICPA-required provisions,
according to the legal action.
The Bureau of Consumer Protection received several consumer complaints
concerning Fry and his business practices. Consumers
reported instances in which
Fry accepted payments for
home improvement work
that was never completed.
In some cases, the consumers reported the work performed by Fry was so shoddy that another contractor
was required to repair their
driveways at additional cost
to the consumer.
In the other case, consumer complaints regarding the Lazrovitch business
practices were the basis of
the legal action. The Commonwealth’s complaint alleges violations of the Consumer Protection Law and
HICPA by:
failing to register their
home improvement business
with the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
misrepresenting
to
Pennsylvania
consumers
that they were “licensed” on
advertisements and on their
contracts.
failing to honor written guarantees.
failing to perform services after accepting deposits from consumers.
failing to perform services in a workmanlike manner.
The complaint also alleges that Kelly Waters
Lazrovitch failed to register
another business, “Lazro &
Sons General Construction,
LLC,” as a home improvement contractor with the
Bureau.
Both legal actions seek
restitution for consumers
and injunctive relief that
would prohibit the defendants from violating HICPA
and the Consumer Protection Law. They also seek
$1,000 for every violation
of the Consumer Protection
Law and $3,000 for every violation involving a consumer
60 years old or older.
The enforcement actions
were filed by Deputy Attorney General Allison Deibert of the Office of Attorney
General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Consumers who believe they have
been harmed by the conduct
of these contractors are encouraged to contact Bureau
of Consumer Protection
Agent Jessica Nelson at the
Harrisburg office at 1-800441-2555.
HICPA requires contractors doing business in Pennsylvania to register with
the Office of the Attorney
General and include certain
provisions in their contracts.
They include clear descriptions of the contract terms,
start and complete dates, a
limited right to rescission,
identification of the contractor’s HICPA registration
numbers and contact information for all known subcontractors at the time of the
agreement.
Consumers or businesses may call the Office
of Attorney General’s Home
Improvement Registration
Hotline, at 1-888-520-6680,
to report unregistered contractors operating in their
communities. Complaints
about unregistered contractors may also be emailed to
the office at [email protected].
Kane
Saylor said the pornographic email scandal in
which employees of the attorney general’s office were
sending and receiving explicit or objectionable content was a “moral lesson”
about the types of relationships judges should have
with others.
Justice Seamus McCaffery quit the Supreme
Court last year after his
role in the emails was
made public.
Judges have to ensure
“that they don’t do it some
fashion that will cause
somebody to question how
close that relationship is,
or the lack of objectivity,”
Saylor said. “I think that
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CLARION – Vernon
Hilyer of Clarion, whose
son, Brandon, was killed
in a drunk driving accident in 2008, will speak
at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 in the
multi-purpose-room of
Gemmell Student Complex, Clarion University. The presentation
is free and open to the
public.
“We planned this
event on this day, just
before ALF weekend, because we are aware that
students will be partying and drinking during
this weekend,” said David Bazile, financial coordinator for University
Activities Board, which
is co-sponsoring the
event with the university chapter of NAACP.
“Our goal is to educate
them on being safe during this weekend.”
“I share a true life
story about my son’s
fight with alcohol and
the effects his choices
had on everyone who
knew and loved him,”
Hilyer says on his website. “My son Brandon
was an outstanding allAmerican kid that was
full of life, but alcohol
impaired his control
and eventually robbed
him of life. Now I serve
a life sentence due to
his drinking and driving. My life sentence is
not one behind bars, but
a life full of sadness and
emptiness.”
Hilyer, also known
as “Brandon’s dad,” will
begin the program at
7 p.m. with a preliminary activity, choosing
random people to wear
“intoxication goggles” to
see firsthand what it’s
like to do things under
the influence. His talk
begins at 7:30 p.m.
Hilyer
started
speaking to audiences
the spring following his
son’s Sept. 10, 2008,
death. He has given presentations at all of the
Clarion County high
schools and to other
schools and groups.
His goal is to relate to
the audience the effect
of Brandon’s decisions
on him and Brandon’s
other family members,
as well as on Brandon’s
friends.
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Budget
and delivered to his office
late in the day Monday.
The $11 billion proposal
would cover costs incurred
between July and September by school districts and
county-run social services.
“Pennsylvanians want
a budget,” he said. “They
don’t want a stopgap.”
On June 30, the last
day of the last fiscal year,
Wolf vetoed a $30.2 billion GOP budget plan that
called for no new taxes,
saying it would shortchange education and human services, deepen the
budget deficit and let the
natural gas industry escape the kind of tax every
other gas-producing state
imposes. Republicans rejected Wolf ’s $31.6 billion plan, saying it would
require the largest tax
increase in the state’s history.
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When: Monday, Oct. 26
Where: Elk County
Courthouse Annex
Time: 4:30 p.m.
creek.
Official decisions on
these projects will have
to wait until the district’s
Oct. 26 meeting.
Also
at
Monday’s
meeting, district officials
announced the resignation of Denise Casilio from
the board of directors.
Casilio served as a
farmer director and the
district will now begin
looking for a farmer to replace her on the board of
directors.
The district also recapped a few events that
have taken place in the
past few months.
The district hosted
the 4th Annual Les Haas
Memorial Trail Challenge
on Saturday, Sept. 19, an
event that saw 60 participants and raised nearly
$1,000 for environmental
education programs in the
county.
The district also recently co-hosted a Clarion
River Cleanup, in which
county officials and 38
county students teamed
up to collect about 7,000
pounds of trash from the
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McGeehan’s previous
books were published
through
U.S.-based
Arcadia
Publishing,
known for its Images of
America series which
chronicles the history of
small towns and downtowns across the country. Among his pictorial
books featured in the
series were those about
St. Marys, Johnsonburg,
Ridgway and Elk County.
He has also worked
closely with The Daily
Press in pushing Then
and Now books about
Johnsonburg, Ridgway
and a postcard book for
St. Marys.
“I love it when people
give me new photographs
and they’re amazing,”
McGeehan said.
“There’s a lot of old
people around that I like
to talk to. They tell me
what things were before
my time.”
One example was
when someone gave him
a photo of Hassleman’s
Bar, otherwise known
as the Wayscales bar,
which he described as a
“very colorful place.”
The bar was located
along the Million Dollar Highway where McDonald’s is currently
situated. It earned its
name from a giant scale
and gas pump located on
site where drivers could
weigh their trucks.
He explained drivers would often have a
beer in the bar while
their trucks were being
weighed and filled with
gas. It closed in the late
1960s, early 1970s.
One of the challenges
McGeehan faced in publishing his latest book
was ensuring the color
quality of the photos
which can be diminished
as they are scanned into
a digital format.
“You have to play
with the color which is
extremely difficult. Then
you give the publisher
your slides and hope the
publisher knows what
they are doing and can
bring out the vivid and
saturated colors,” he explained. “I was extremely surprised by this pub-
lisher. What impresses
my most about the book
is the color. It is excellent. I was shocked.”
McGeehan
noted
that Font Hill’s company
slogan is “bringing color
to history.”
Although he has not
picked a topic yet, McGeehan is working on
four new books specifically centered around local topics.
Pennsylvania history is one of McGeehan’s
specialities as he taught
the subject for 16 years
as an instructor at Penn
State DuBois.
“I love that (Pa. history) because it’s history
my students can go out
and see. Pa. is one of the
most historic states in
the country,” he said.
He honed his love
of history as an architecture guide in Philadelphia where he wrote
a script for a guided
walking tour and the
history of Philadelphia
City Hall. This was part
of his PhD dissertation.
McGeehan earned a degree in history from the
University of Delaware.
McGeehan has been
capturing historical photos for 50 years, since his
days as a student at Elk
County Christian High
School where he graduated from in 1966.
“I got interested in
St. Marys history in high
school,” he said.
While in grade school
McGeehan began researching local history.
From there he learned
to develop film which he
continued to do until 10
years ago following the
introduction of digital
photography.
The only problem he
encounters with digital
photography is the vast
amount of photos he
takes that he must then
edit.
According to McGeehan, he has about
100,000 color slides he
created from photos he
has captured from his
world travels. Among his
favorite places that he
visited were Cape Town,
South Africa; Venice, Italy and Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
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the projects.
The fourth project,
and the only project not
to be recommended by the
quality assurance board,
was a funding request
from Johnsonburg Borough for assistance with
road material near the
Johnson Run Bridge.
Earlier in the year,
with some assistance from
the county by the way of
Act 13 funds, the Johnsonburg Borough replaced
the Johnson Run Bridge
after it had been damaged
in the May 21 flood.
Now that the bridge
had been replaced, the
borough was looking for
assistance in repairing
the gravel roadway that
lies adjacent to the bridge.
Kate Yetzer, resource
conservation technician
with the Elk County Conservation District, said
that the project was denied due to the quality
assurance board wanting
more things done at the
bridge before it would
fund road materials.
She pointed to the culvert pipe that still runs
under the newly installed
bridge, saying that it restricts the stream, which
isn’t good for the environment.
The culvert pipe is
no longer needed as the
borough placed a prefabricated bridge over the
in it other than the car
is a single farm house
and an empty cornfield
compared to today’s busy
shopping plaza lined
with businesses.
The same scenario
can be seen in a photo of
Decker’s Chapel and the
surrounding area.
“I had some help as
I know people who have
posed for me when I find
an old picture and I can
compare it to somebody
doing that same thing
today,” McGeehan described.
“I think one of the
strongest pictures of
St. Marys is the famous
photo of a farmer leading a pair of oxen.”
In recreating the
photo, McGeehan sought
out the assistance of
Andy Sorg at Sugar
Hill Farms in St. Marys
where they raise organic
beef cattle. Sorg and the
subject of the older photo are both wearing old
farm clothes with beatup
old hats standing next to
two gigantic animals.
Another photo is of
an elderly woman driving the first car in St.
Marys, which he described as “strange looking, looking more like
a soap box derby car”
as there was no steering wheel, but instead
a stick to control the
wheels.
McGeehan contrasted the old car with a new
vehicle. He captured an
updated photo of a woman posed next to a car at
a local auto dealership.
“Part of what this
book is saying is that
there are a lot of people
that are still doing the
exact same thing, but
looks completely different,” McGeehan said.
He often finds himself replicating scenes of
old photos.
“I know someday
there will be a use for
it,” he added.
Although he only
needed 90 photos, McGeehan gathered about
200 photos.
“I’m kind of obsessive, so knowing when to
quit was a challenge for
me. Cutting photos from
the book was like getting
rid of my children,” McGeehan quipped.
A majority of the remaining
unpublished
photos are submitted
to The Daily Press for
publication in the newspaper’s weekly Photographic Memory, a project McGeehan has been
partnering
with
the
newspaper on for nine
tailed tearing down an
entire city block, and the
relocation of Industrial
Steel and Pipe to make
room for a new parking
garage and hotel. He also
noted the long awaited
refurbishing of the Million Dollar Highway.
“Every day things
disappear. You don’t
know it’s gone until you
see the rubble,” McGeehan said, noting how
he recently only noticed
the demolition of the old
Grange building on N.
Michael Street.
The softcover book
includes 90 pairs of photos accompanied by extensive captions.
It is available for purchase at the St. Marys
and Benzinger Township Historical Society
on Erie Avenue where
McGeehan is the current
director. The facility is
open Tuesdays 10 a.m.-4
p.m. and Thursdays 1-4
p.m. and 6-8 p.m.
The format of his
new book typically consists of two photos per
page, one from the past
and the other from the
present. This format allowed McGeehan flexibility to show photos
from any era he chose.
In addition, he was also
permitted to increase
the page contents to four
photos when he felt it
was necessary.
The captions allow
McGeehan to tell the
history of St. Marys.
“They were very liberal in allowing my creativity,” he said.
Following the book’s
introduction McGeehan
began the pictorial journey through St. Marys
starting at the Diamond,
circling
around
the
downtown streets, then
picking up the major
commercial avenues.
“St. Marys Through
Time” took one year to
complete.
During that time,
McGeehan
gathered
photos from the local
historical society and
paired them with current photos of the same
locations which he photographed within the
last two years.
Additional
photos
used in the book were
obtained from a large
number of contacts who
furnish McGeehan with
historical material.
As an example, someone supplied him a photo of a car fire on Ford
Road in the 1940s. The
interesting aspect of the
photo is the only subject
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O PINION
Letters &
Guest Commentary
Rethinking Syria
The horrifying images
from central Europe of
tens of thousands of Syrian and other refugees
seeking new homes in the
West underscore several
conclusions about the human interest these days.
One is the extent of the
refugee crisis and the failure of the global community to respond to it over
recent decades. That crisis
long precedes today’s focus
on Europe. As I’ve noted
before, we’re talking about
45 million people who are
on the run, crossing international borders or fleeing to a safer part of their
home country in search of
a better life and freedom
from violence.
A second conclusion,
which applies universally,
is that mass immigration
spawns the ugliest sort
of racism. Potential host
countries for refugees and
migrants will say that they
simply cannot accommodate so many new arrivals. But we know better:
White-run governments
often don’t want darkskinned,
non-Christian
others. That’s the message that has been openly
sent by Donald Trump and
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s
president. Trump would
simply deport people, no
questions asked. Orban
wrote for a German newspaper: “Those arriving
have been raised in another religion and represent a radically different
culture. Most of them are
not Christians, but Muslims. This is an important
question because Europe
and European identity is
rooted in Christianity.” Is
there any doubt that many
other national leaders privately believe the same?
Third is the imperative
of a negotiated settlement
of the Syrian civil war.
There is, after all, a limit
to how many new arrivals from the Middle East
can be accommodated by
European Union countries. The EU and others,
including Russia and the
U.S., must focus on Syria,
from which an estimated
49 percent of the current
mass exodus originates.
As one authority has put
it, “The migrant crisis in
Europe is essentially selfinflicted.” Lina Khatib, a
research associate at the
University of London and
until recently the head of
the Carnegie Middle East
Center in Beirut states,
“Had European countries
sought serious solutions
to political conflicts like
the one in Syria and dedicated enough time and resources to humanitarian
assistance abroad, Europe
would not be in this position today.”
The
nuclear
agreement with Iran may help
in that regard by initiating a movement toward
an international deal on
Syria that would refocus
the conflict there on ISIS.
Discussions that reportedly include Russia, Iran,
Saudi Arabia, and the
U.S. are considering how
to consolidate the antiAssad opposition and create a transitional government in order to present a
unified front against ISIS,
which already controls
substantial territory in
Syria and Iraq.
Sadly, the roadblocks to
a cooperative approach to
the Syrian civil war are
many and formidable, including the future political
role (if any) of Bashar alAssad, the state of U.S.–
Iran and U.S.–Russia relations, Russian aims in
Syria (amidst reports of increased Russian military
aid to the Assad regime),
the extent and purposes of
each party’s military operations in Syria, and the
fractured and ineffective
opposition to Assad. How
these roadblocks can be
overcome in order to cobble together a legitimate
new Syrian government
is anyone’s guess, but the
very fact of discussions
about Syria’s future is one
of the few hopeful signs in
the Middle East.
Russia and Iran have
been Assad’s principal
backers and if any parties are going to convince
Assad that he must loosen
his iron grip on power it
is they. The alternative is
seeing ISIS and its terrorist companion, the Nusra
Front, continue to gain
ground to the point where
Syria shrinks to nothing
more than greater Damascus.
Iran has made a proposal on Syria that I think
is worth considering. The
plan calls for a cease-fire,
formation of a national
unity government, a constitutional
amendment
guaranteeing the rights
of all ethnic and religious
groups, and elections under international supervision. How a cease-fire and
eventual elections can be
arranged are, of course,
enormous
challenges;
but again, the fact that
the Saudis and the Iranians, deadly adversaries
on just about every other
Middle East issue, are
giving thought to a common position is striking.
Saudi Arabia and Russia
are also in conversation,
which adds substance to
the possibility of cooperation against ISIS.
There was a time not
long ago when the Syrian
situation was all about
getting rid of Assad by
supporting the armed resistance. That possibility
is dead. The resistance is
divided and largely ineffective, despite U.S. arms
and training of so-called
moderates.
Meantime,
ISIS grows stronger. The
only practical alternative to the U.S. eventually putting boots on the
ground—an option no one
other than Donald Trump
dares mention—is a deal
that would define Syria’s
immediate political future
and put the focus on stopping the advance of ISIS.
This does not amount to
engaging Assad, but it
would have to mean accepting a place for him in
an initial period of political transition. The current
U.S. policy of simultaneously seeking to overthrow
Assad and push back ISIS
is simply unworkable.
–Mel Gurtov, syndicated
by PeaceVoice, is Professor Emeritus of Political
Science at Portland State
University, Editor-in-Chief
of Asian Perspective, and
blogs at In the Human Interest.
Tiny Guam, huge US Marine expansions
On Saturday morning
August 29, 2015, the United States Navy signed the
Record of Decision (ROD),
the final document needed
for the implementation of
one of the largest “peacetime” military build-ups in
American history. This will
cost between $8 and 9 billion, with only $174 million
for civilian infrastructure,
which Congress has not released yet. As a central aspect of American’s foreign
policy ‘Pivot to the Pacific’,
the build-up will relocate
thousands of Marines and
their dependents from Okinawa, Japan to Guam.
This does not auger well
for the people of Guam. For
decades, the Okinawans
have protested the violence, pollution, military
accidents, and sexual assaults committed by American Marines on the local
population. Moving those
Marines to tiny Guam
frightens many.
Military-colonial
destruction is not new to the
people of Guam. The indigenous Chamorro people
were nearly exterminated
by invasion and colonization by Spain, then the
US, then Japan during
WWII, and then back into
US possession. Located in
the Western Pacific Ocean
more than 8,000 miles from
Washington D.C., Guam
remains an unincorporated
territory and possession of
the United States. While
residents are American citizens, carry U.S. passports
and pay federal taxes, they
have no representation in
the Senate, have a non-voting delegate in Congress
and cannot vote in Presidential elections.
Currently,
one-third
of the island of Guam
(210 square miles) is US
Department of Defense
(DOD) property and inaccessible to non-military
residents. Many people are
still waiting for war reparations from World War II
and compensation for their
land taken by the military.
In addition, people from
the Guam serve and die in
the United States Armed
Forces at higher rates than
any other state in America.
The build-up will
add further strain on already fragile infrastructure and limited resources:
A thousand acres of
limestone forest will be
destroyed for housing the
Marines and their dependents and the military will
control the largest water
source for the island.
Guam will become the
biggest storage facility for
fuel and ammunitions in
the Pacific.
A Live Fire Range
Complex (LFRC) will be
constructed at Northwest
Field on Anderson Air
Force Base and will close
Ritidian National Wildlife Refuge, a sanctuary
to numerous endangered
species and a sacred site
to the indigenous people.
The public will no longer
have access to the National
Wildlife Refuge, including
the pristine beach, ancient
caves, education center
and a newly ‘rediscovered’
4,000-year-old fishing village containing the oldest
archaeological
artefacts
found on Guam. In the
early 1990’s, local families demanded that Ritidian Point, or Litekyan, be
returned to its traditional
owners. However, the federal government instead
created the National Wildlife Refugee, owned by the
United States Fish and
Wildlife Services.
While the Governor of
Guam, the non-voting Congresswoman, the Guam
Chamber of Commerce and
other
military-business
lobbyists welcome the military build-up, many people on Guam consider the
ROD’s release a sad day for
the people, land, wildlife
and culture of Guam. With
an economy 60 percent derived from tourism, a massive expansion of the military on a vulnerable small
island will only degrade
both the environment and
the native Chamorro people.
-Sylvia C. Frain is a
Ph.D. candidate with the
National Centre for Peace
and Conflict Studies at the
University of Otago on the
South Island of Aotearoa
New Zealand and a Research Associate with the
Micronesia Area Research
Center (MARC) at the University of Guam.
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, September 29, the 272nd day of
2015. There are 93 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On September 29, 1965,
President Lyndon Johnson
signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the
Humanities Act of 1965, creating the National Endowment for the Humanities
and the National Endowment for the Arts; during
the signing ceremony, the
president said the measure
would create an American
Film Institute.
On this date:
In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of
several hundred men.
In 1829, London’s reorganized police force, which
became known as Scotland
Yard, went on duty.
In 1907, the foundation
stone was laid for the Washington National Cathedral.
In 1910, the National
Urban League, which had
its beginnings as The Committee on Urban Conditions
Among Negroes, was established in New York.
In 1938, British, French,
German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich
Agreement, which was
aimed at appeasing Adolf
Hitler by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia’s
Sudetenland.
In 1943, General Dwight
D. Eisenhower and Italian
Marshal Pietro Badoglio
signed an armistice aboard
the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.
In 1955, a one-act version
of the Arthur Miller play
“A View From the Bridge”
opened in New York. (Miller
later turned it into a two-act
play.)
In 1962, Canada joined
the space age as it launched
the Alouette 1 satellite from
Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California. The musical
“My Fair Lady” closed on
Broadway after 2,717 performances.
In 1975, baseball manager Casey Stengel died in
Glendale, California, at age
85.
In 1978, Pope John Paul I
was found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a
month after becoming head
of the Roman Catholic
Church.
In 1982, Extra-Strength
Tylenol capsules laced with
deadly cyanide claimed the
first of seven victims in the
Chicago area. (To date, the
case remains unsolved.)
In 1990, the Washington
National Cathedral, begun in 1907, was formally
completed with President
George H.W. Bush overseeing the laying of the final
stone atop the southwest
pinnacle of the cathedral’s
St. Paul Tower.
Ten years ago: John G.
Roberts Jr. was sworn in
as the nation’s 17th chief
justice after winning Senate
confirmation.
New
York Times reporter Judith
Miller was released from
85 days of federal detention
after agreeing to testify in a
criminal probe into the leak
of a covert CIA officer’s identity. Three suicide car bombs
exploded nearly simultaneously in Balad, a mostly Shiite town north of Baghdad,
killing some 60 people.
Five years ago: Antiausterity protests erupted
across Europe; Greek doctors and railway employees
walked off the job, Spanish
workers shut down trains
and buses, and one man
rammed a cement truck into
the Irish parliament to protest the country’s enormous
bank bailouts. Actor Tony
Curtis, 85, died in Henderson, Nevada.
One year ago: In a blistering speech to the United
Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
warned that Hamas and the
Islamic State group were
“branches of the same poisonous tree,” both bent on
world domination through
terror, just as the Nazis
had done. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (ahsh-RAHF’ gahNEE’ ah-mahd-ZEYE’) was
sworn in as Afghanistan’s
new president, replacing
Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the 2001
U.S.-led invasion toppled
the Taliban.
Today’s Birthdays: Conductor Richard Bonynge is
85. Writer-director Robert
Benton is 83. Singer Jerry
Lee Lewis is 80. Sen. Bill
Nelson, D-Fla., is 73. Actor
Ian McShane is 73. Jazz musician Jean-Luc Ponty is 73.
Nobel Peace laureate Lech
Walesa (lehk vah-WEN’sah), the former president
of Poland, is 72. Televisionfilm composer Mike Post is
71. Actress Patricia Hodge
is 69. TV personality Bryant
Gumbel is 67. Rock singermusician Mark Farner is
67. Rock singer-musician
Mike Pinera is 67. Country
singer Alvin Crow is 65. Actor Drake Hogestyn is 62.
Broadcast journalist Gwen
Ifill is 60. Olympic gold medal runner Sebastian Coe is
59. Singer Suzzy Roche (The
Roches) is 59. Comedianactor Andrew “Dice” Clay is
58. Rock singer John Payne
(Asia) is 57. Actor Roger
Bart is 53. Singer-musician
Les Claypool is 52. Actress
Jill Whelan is 49. Actor Luke
Goss is 47. Rock musician
Brad Smith (Blind Melon)
is 47. Actress Erika Eleniak
is 46. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Devante Swing (Jodeci) is 46. Country singer
Brad Cotter (TV: “Nashville
Star”) is 45. Actress Emily
Lloyd is 45. Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner is 45.
Actress Rachel Cronin is 44.
Country musician Danick
Dupelle (Emerson Drive)
is 42. Actor Alexis Cruz is
41. Actor Zachary Levi is
35. Country singer Katie
McNeill (3 of Hearts) is 33.
Rock musician Josh Farro is
28. Actor Doug Brochu is 25.
Singer Phillip Phillips is 25.
Actress Clara Mamet is 21.
Thought for Today: “Nobody knows enough, but
many know too much.” —
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach,
Austrian
author
(1830-1916).
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Pennsylvania State Senator
Honorable Joe Scarnati
Harrisburg Office:
Phone: 717–787–7084
Fax: 717–772–2755
Senate Box 203025
292 Main Capitol
Harrisburg, Pa. 17120
Kane Office:
21A Field St.
Kane, Pa. 16735
Phone: 814-837-1026
Brockway Office:
410 Main St.
Brockway, Pa. 15824
e–mail: [email protected]
Pennsylvania
General Assembly
(Elk County) Matt Gabler
St. Marys Office: 814–781–6301
Fax: 814–781–7213
DuBois Office: 814–375–4688
(Clearfield County)
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Linda Jones
Linda Jones, 70, of
Elco Glen, died Monday,
Sept. 28, 2015 at Penn
Highlands Elk.
Funeral
arrangements are under the direction of the Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home.
Scam affecting the local area
RIDGWAY – The
Pennsylvania State Police have been made
aware of telephone scams
involving callers purporting to be technicians with
Microsoft, Inc., Microsoft
Support, or Technical
Support for Windows, Inc.
These callers inform potential victims that their
home computer is sending out “error messages,”
or that the computer is
infected with viruses or
malware. The caller will
attempt to obtain personal information, passwords, or will request the
victim to go to a website
and download a “fix” for
nonexistent
problems.
The “fix,” however, is a
program designed to enable the scammer to easily access your computer’s
files via an internet connection.
Microsoft does not
make unsolicited telephone calls to assist people with their computer.
If you receive a phone call
like this, do not follow any
instructions provided by
the caller and hang up.
If you think you might
be a victim of fraud, report
the incident(s) to your local police department.
The primary prevention tip to remember to
avoid becoming a victim of any scam is, “If
it sounds too good to be
true, it probably is.”
Local 5-Day Forecast
Tue
starting Wednesday and
Thursday this week. The
contractor will be doing
full width paving. Residents on the street should
expect delays and are advised to use an alternate
route if at all possible during this time. The City of
St. Marys appreciates the
cooperation of the public
during this project.
Elk County Republicans
to hold banquet
The annual fall banquet for the GOP of Elk
County has been slated
for Oct. 15 at The Highlands in St. Marys. Attendees will have a choice
of stuffed pork chop,
stuffed chicken breast, or
if someone has a dietary
need they can be accommodated with a dinner for
them. U.S. Congressman
Glenn Thompson, Pa.
State Senator Joe Scarnati, and Pa. State Rep.
Matt Gabler are among
the speakers for the event.
The deadline for reservations is Oct. 6. For details
contact Pat at 834-3443,
Peg at 834-2784, or Grace
at 834-2508. Ticket raffle
and many door prizes will
be part of the event.
Sign language class
starting Oct. 1 in St. Marys
A new sign language
class will begin on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. at the
First Baptist Church on
West Creek Road in St.
Marys. This free class will
be held for 10 weeks, each
Thursday evening from
6-8 p.m. Jody Damerst
is the instructor. Classes
are open for people of all
ages, but young children
must be accompanied by
an adult. For information
or to register call Jody at
834-9455.
Note of Interest
Queen of the World’s
Rosary Altar Society’s
meeting will be held on
Wed
9/29
Thu
9/30
70/55
Fri
10/1
61/43
Sat
10/2
59/44
10/3
55/42
57/41
Showers
and thunderstorms
likely. High
near 70F.
Winds SSW
at 5 to 10
mph.
Chance of
showers.
Highs in the
low 60s and
lows in the
low 40s.
Showers.
Highs in the
upper 50s
and lows in
the mid 40s.
Showers
possible in
the afternoon.
Showers
possible.
Highs in the
upper 50s
and lows in
the low 40s.
Sunrise:
7:09 AM
Sunset:
7:00 PM
Sunrise:
7:10 AM
Sunset:
6:58 PM
Sunrise:
7:11 AM
Sunset:
6:56 PM
Sunrise:
7:12 AM
Sunset:
6:55 PM
Sunrise:
7:13 AM
Sunset:
6:53 PM
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Erie
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Saint Marys
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Altoona
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Bloomsburg
Bradford
Chambersburg
Du Bois
Erie
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Johnstown
Lancaster
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Lehighton
Lewistown
Hi
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73
79
71
76
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78
74
75
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75
76
78
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Houston
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Miami
Hi
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78
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87
89
Scranton
78/62
Allentown
80/65
Pittsburgh
75/60
Work to begin on city roads
The St. Marys City
Street Department would
like to inform residents
that beginning Wednesday, Sept. 30 the New
Enterprise Stone & Lime
paving contractors will
be in town to begin work
paving various city roads,
weather permitting. Paving will begin on East
Condot, Armory, Reserve,
Terrace, and Eben Roads
Police Reports
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Sep 28
New
Oct 4
First
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9/29
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Altar Society met Sept. 10
The St. Mary’s Church Carol Beimel, and Cookie
Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. The Rosa- Altar Society meeting Baumgratz was served to
ry will be prayed followed was held Sept. 10 in the the 27 members that atby the meeting.
tended cards following
church social hall.
Carol
Foster
led the meeting.
Winners in cinch were
the rosary. The meeting was brought to or- Kate Nekuza and Theresa
der by president Patty Geitner. Rabbit winners
Stebick. Various items were Mary Jean Stauffer
pesticide at the condominiwere discussed. The deli- and Father Daniel. Those
um where they stayed last
cious lunch provided by made happy were Nancy
spring.
The Inquirer reports Nancy Goodreau, Donna Goodreau, Patty Stebick,
sons Sean and Ryan Esmond Simbeck, Carol Lanzel, and Carol Foster.
spent weeks in medically
induced comas. The boys
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one who helped make the Cpl. Adam M. Wolfel Memorial Scholwhere their father served as
arship Fundraiser a success. We are overwhelmed by the positive
head of the middle school.
response of donations and warm sentiments, not only from our
wonderful family and friends in the community, but also from
kind-hearted strangers across the country wishing to make a difference. With your charitable contributions, we are humbled and
honored now to have the opportunity to offer a scholarship to a
deserving high school student in Adam’s name for years to come.
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Family sickened by banned
pesticide blessed by Pope
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
— Pope Francis used some
of his final moments in the
United States to bless a
Delaware family injured by
exposure to a banned pesticide during a Caribbean vacation.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the pontiff
blessed Stephen Esmond,
Theresa Devine and their
teenage sons in a meeting at
Philadelphia International
Airport.
A lawyer for the family
says they've been recovering
from neurological damage
since being exposed to methyl bromide at a U.S. Virgin
Islands resort.
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Thank you to all who helped spread the word on social media
and by hanging flyers in the area, creating a buzz that springboarded us into the day’s event. Thanks also to Stacy Assalone
for spending countless hours organizing the beautiful and bountiful raffle gift baskets filled with items from so many of our community’s generous businesses; to Ryan Van Zanten for donating
the remembrance bracelets in our loved one’s name; and to Jared
Luce for crossing state lines to support our cause and showing
us what a true hero looks like. A big thank you goes out to Meti
and Jenny at Gunner’s for so graciously hosting this fundraiser,
offering a feast of a “light lunch” and creating a welcoming atmosphere for the day.
This event would not have been possible without the energy,
creativity, and crowd-rising ability of Motivational Speaker Todd
M. Parisi, Sergeant Major/USMC Retired. Thank you, Todd, for
organizing this entire event and motivating all who attended the
Fundraiser’s headlining Leadership Based Seminar. Boom!
Thank you all!
City of St. Marys
Police Department
Charges filed
The City of St. Marys
Police Department reports
filing charges against David Lee Watkavitch, 63,
of St. Marys. According to
police, the charges are a
result of an incident that
took place on Saturday,
Sept. 26 at approximately 10:50 p.m. at 304 E.
Arch St. Watkavitch was
charged with criminal attempt - arson, recklessly
endangering another person, aggravated assault,
simple assault, and harassment. Watkavitch was
arraigned by on-call Senior District Judge Tony
King and placed in the Elk
County Prison on $15,000
cash bail.
State police
at Ridgway
Public drunkenness/
underage
RIDGWAY TWP. – The
Ridgway-based State Police report responding to
and investigating a report
of an intoxicated person
at 437 Evergreen Drive,
Ridgway Township, at 4:16
a.m. on Sept. 27. According
to police, it was determined
that a known 20-year-old
male from Johnsonburg
was/appeared in public
manifestly under the influence of alcohol align
with being under 21 years
of age. The defendant was
charged for public drunkenness and underage and
two non-traffic citations
will be filed with District
Court 59-3-02.
Harassment
The City of St. Marys
Police Department reports
filing harassment charges
on Anthony N. Dilullo of
Penfield following an ongoing investigation. Police report that on Sept.
21 harassment charges
were filed against Dilullo
after he sent numerous
text messages to a female
after being told by police
that she wanted no further
contact with him. On Sept.
29 police filed a second
set of harassment charges
because he continued to
attempt to contact the victim.
Criminal mischief
RIDGWAY TWP. - The
Ridgway-based Pa. State
Police reported an act of
criminal mischief which
occurred between 6 p.m.
on Sept. 23 and 6 p.m. on
Sept. 24, 2015 at a residence along Montmorenci
Road in Ridgway Township, Elk County. Police
report unknown actor(s)
punctured a tire on a 1998
Ford F-150 owned by Richard Alan Ross, Jr. of Ridgway, with an unknown
object. The damage was reported to be $180. Anyone
with information concerning the incident is asked to
contact the state police in
Ridgway.
First Fork Festival at
Sinnemahoning State Park
SINNEMAHONING
– Celebrate all that is special about the history and
culture of the First Fork
Sinnemahoning
Valley
at the third annual First
Fork Festival at Sinnemahoning State Park on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 12-5
p.m.
Hosted by Sinnemahoning State Park and the
Cameron County Chamber of Commerce, the
festival features local authors, artists and artisans
showcasing their talents
amidst a backdrop of full
autumn color in the Pennsylvania Wilds.
Members of the PA
Wilds Artisan Trail and
other local artists and
craftsmen will be displaying local hand-made products, ranging from glass,
fiber, wood and stone, to
paintings, jewelry, photography, and specialty foods.
Festival-goers can watch
the artists at work while
shopping for gifts or just
admiring the local talent.
Additional artisan products and Sinnemahoning
State Park merchandise
will also be available in
the Wildlife Center Gift
Shop.
The First Fork Festival will also include live
music by local bands, book
signings by local authors,
local history exhibits and
demonstrations, as well as
food and beverages offered
by local vendors and non-
profit organizations.
This
communityfocused
admission-free
event takes place at the
Sinnemahoning
State
Park Office and Wildlife Center, just off Route
872 in Grove Township,
on Saturday, October 10,
from noon to 5 p.m.
For a schedule of festival events or for more information about programs
at Sinnemahoning State
Park, contact the park
office at 814-647-8401 or
by email at [email protected]. An online
calendar of events with
information on upcoming programs can also be
found at www.visitPAparks.com.
If you need an accommodation to participate
in park activities due to
a disability, please contact the park you plan to
visit. With at least three
days’ notice, interpreters
for people who are deaf or
hard of hearing are available for educational programs.
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ECC’s Jonah Meyer advances to second round of D9 golf tourney
By Jim Mulcahy
Staff Writer
Elk County Catholic’s Jonah Meyer will join 15 other
District 9 Class AA golfers on
Saturday at Pinecrest Country
Club in Brookville to determine
the District 9-AA individual golf
championship.
The first round was held on
Monday at Pinecrest.
Meyer finished with an 83
which was good for 11th place.
“I am very happy that Jonah played well today under
difficult weather conditions and
advanced to Saturday’s second
round. Jonah is right in the
hunt for one of the eight spots
that District IX has to advance
golfers to the Regional Tournament that will be played at
Tom’s Run Country Club in
Blairsville on Monday, October
Photo by Becky Polaski
ECC’s Jonah Meyer.
19,” said ECCHS coach Aaron
Straub.
“Jonah has worked very
hard and is an excellent golfer.
He was a swing or two away
from shooting 78 or 79 today. Jonah has an excellent approach
to the game and the Pinecrest
course fits his game very well,”
commented Straub.
The Ridgway Elkers captured the District 9-AA team
title with a 339 total. Venango
Catholic was second with a 365
followed by Brookville 368 and
Brockway 378. The Bradford
Owls won the District 9-AAA
title as they were the only team
to enter. The Owls finished with
a 320 total.
Joining Meyer on Saturday
will be Jared Bish of Clarion
who finished with a 76. Next
was Braden Martini of Brock-
Crusaders defeat Punxsy,
Brookville squads in soccer
By Becky Polaski
Staff Writer
The Elk County Catholic Crusader soccer team
added two more victories
to their season total with
a win over Punxsutawney
on Saturday and a win
over Brookville on Monday night.
In Saturday’s match,
ECC won 1-0 on the road
in Punxsutawney.
“The kids played very
hard after a tough week,”
said ECC head coach TJ
Weaver regarding Saturday’s match against
Punxsutawney. “The goal
for the week was met and
I am extremely pleased
how the kids played and
kept their composure during this hard stretch of
games. Punxsutawney is a
strong and physical team.
They are going to give a
lot of teams trouble. We
were able to capitalize on
one opportunity today and
that made the difference.
I can’t say how proud I
am of the effort this group
is putting forth. In every
situation in life you have
to overcome adversity and
this was no different.”
The Crusaders and
the Chucks went into halftime tied 0-0 and Weaver
noted that his squad was
on their heels a lot during
the opening half.
In the second half, the
Crusaders were eventually able to get on the board
with the lone goal of the
match, which came as the
team put the ball past
Punxsy’s keeper off of the
foot of Erick Mader.
On Monday night,
ECC recorded another
victory as the Crusaders
edged Brookville 3-2 in a
match played on the road
in Brookville.
“Tonight was a tale
of two halves,” Weaver
said of Monday’s match.
“In the first, we came out
with little drive and purpose and found ourselves
down a goal.”
The Crusaders performed better in the second half, Weaver noted,
and they ended up winning 3-2. Charlie Bobby
scored on a pair of penalty
kicks to account for two of
ECC’s goals, while Frank
Singer scored the game
winner.
“I am very pleased
with our second half play
and the way they showed
they can come back,”
Weaver said. “This is another tough week and to
start out with a win is always good.”
The Crusaders are
scheduled to return to action on Wednesday when
they travel to Coudersport
to take on the Falcons in a
4 p.m. match.
Scholastic Schedule
Schedule subject to change without notice.
TUESDAY
Girls tennis
St. Marys at ECCHS, 3:30 p.m.
Cross country
Brockway at St. Marys, 4:30 p.m.
ECCHS at Bradford, 4:30 p.m.
Girls soccer
ECCHS at Brookville, 7 p.m.
Volleyball
St. Marys at DuBois Area, junior
varsity 6 p.m., varsity to follow.
ECCHS at Johnsonburg, junior varsity 6 p.m., varsity to follow.
Jr. high cross country
ECC at Bradford, 4:30 p.m.
Jr. high girls basketball
St. Marys at Ridgway, 4 p.m.
Jr. high cross country
Brockway at St. Marys, 4:15 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Golf
Coudersport at St. Marys, 3:30 p.m.
Girls soccer
St. Marys at Punxsutawney, 7 p.m.
Boys soccer
ECCHS at Coudersport, 4 p.m.
Girls tennis
St. Marys at Brockway, 3:30 p.m.
Jr. high soccer
Redbank Valley at ECC, 4 p.m.
St. Marys at Bradford, 5 p.m.
Jr. high football
St. Marys at Brockway, 7th-8th
grade, 6 p.m.
Jr. high girls basketball
Brookville at ECC, 4 p.m.
ELK COUNTY
CATHOLIC
High School
208 Depot St., St. Marys
389-1874
was very solid today,” added
Straub.
Representing St. Marys
Area were Jeffrey Wehler with
a 96 and Nick Wendel with a
106.
From Saturday’s round, the
top eight AA and the top two
AAA District 9 golfers will qualify for the Western Regional
scheduled for Monday, Oct. 19
at Tom’s Run Country Club in
Blairsville.
The Dutchmen return to action Thursday when they play
host to the Ridgway Elkers at
3:30 p.m. at Bavarian Hills Golf
Course. The Crusaders will return to action on Oct. 6 when
they host the Bradford Owls at
the Leaning Pines Golf Course
at 3:30 p.m.
Lady Dutch soccer
hands Ridgway 2-1 loss
By Greg Reedy
Sports Editor
RIDGWAY — After
two wins over St. Marys
earlier in the season,
Ridgway girls soccer could
not make it a third as the
Lady Dutch picked up
a 2-1 win over the Lady
Elkers Monday afternoon
at Francis S. Grandinetti
Elementary School.
“I always said it’s
hard to beat a team three
times in the same season
and that’s what didn’t
happen as St. Marys beat
us,” Ridgway coach Greg
Maddalena said.
St. Marys took a 1-0
lead near the 20-minute mark of the opening
half. Kaitlyn Barackman
crossed a ball to an open
teammate for the Lady
Dutch’s opening goal.
The Lady Dutch added a second goal to take a
2-0 lead into halftime.
Ridgway was held
scoreless throughout until the final minute of play
when Caitlin Viglione was
able to cut the margin to
2-1.
Ridgway (10-1) is
scheduled to host Kane at
4 p.m. this afternoon.
St. Marys (5-3-1) is
scheduled to play at Punxsutawney Wednesday evening for a 7 p.m. game.
Roethlisberger out indefinitely
with sprained left knee
PITTSBURGH (AP)
— Ben Roethlisberger
gingerly made his way out
of the Pittsburgh Steelers facility on Monday, his
left leg immobilized under
a brace and his attitude
upbeat.
The leader of one of
the NFL’s most dynamic
offenses is expected back
at some point in 2015 after spraining the medial
collateral ligament in
his left knee in the third
quarter of Sunday’s 12-6
win over St Louis.
What the rest of the
season looks like whenever Roethlisberger returns
will rely heavily on how
much is left in Michael
Vick’s 35-year-old arm
(and legs).
Coach Mike Tomlin
thinks Vick has plenty
left.
Vick will start for the
Steelers (2-1) on Thursday night when they host
Baltimore (0-3), a job
Vick will hold indefinitely
while Roethlisberger is
out. Tomlin declined to
put a timetable on when
Roethlisberger will take
the field next other than
to say it will be “a number
of weeks.”
Roethlisberger
fell
awkwardly while getting
tackled by St. Louis safety Mark Barron, the quarterback’s left leg twisting
gruesomely as he fell to
the turf. An MRI revealed
no major structural damage though Roethlisberger
will miss multiple starts
due to injury for only the
second time in his 12-year
career.
Enter Vick, a fourtime Pro Bowler signed
in August who quickly
earned the backup job. He
completed 5 of 6 passes
for 38 yards after Roethlisberger’s exit, hardly
the gamebreaking stuff
of Vick’s prime. Then
again, he wasn’t asked to
do much other than avoid
mistakes while the defense preserved a secondhalf lead.
The challenge will
change considerably at
home against a winless
rival, though Tomlin is
athletes
hardly worried about
Vick’s ability to get prepared in the 100 hours in
between games.
“This isn’t his first rodeo,” Tomlin said.
Maybe, but it will
mark just Vick’s fourth
start in the last two years.
His only victory in that
span? A 20-13 upset of
the Steelers last November while playing for the
New York Jets. Vick will
have considerably more
weapons at his disposal
in Pittsburgh with running back Le’Veon Bell
and wide receiver Antonio
Brown.
Just don’t expect Vick
to be given as much latitude as Roethlisberger,
who has spent the last
three-plus seasons working with offensive coordinator Todd Haley. Vick, by
contrast, has been in town
less than five weeks.
“We’re going to work
in his comfort zone and
bring the game to him and
put us in position to win
football games,” Tomlin
said.
of the Week
NATE DACANAL
MADDIE SORG
Nate DaCanal has been selected as the Elk
County Catholic High School Male Athlete of
the Week for the week of September 21. DaCanal, a junior, rushed 52 yards for the opening
score in Friday night’s game against Sheffield
and also had over 100 yards passing, including
a 50-yard pass play to Brad Dippold for another
touchdown.
Maddie Sorg has been selected as the Elk
County Catholic High School Female Athlete
of the Week for the week of September 21.
Sorg, a sophomore, scored four goals in the
Lady Crusaders’ 6-1 win over the Brockway
Lady Rovers on Thursday. She had a pair of
goals in each half of the match.
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Cardinals inch closer to NL Central title, top Pirates 3-0
PITTSBURGH
(AP)
— Matt Carpenter raced
home to break a scoreless
tie in the ninth inning
when two Pittsburgh Pirates outfielders mishandled Jon Jay’s single, and
Mark Reynolds followed
with a two-run homer to
lift the banged-up St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 win on
Monday night.
The Cardinals reduced
their magic number to
clinch a third straight NL
Central title to two after
getting to Pittsburgh closer Mark Melancon (3-2).
St. Louis can wrap up the
division with a victory at
Pittsburgh Tuesday night.
In the bottom of the
seventh, Cardinals outfielder Stephen Piscotty
was carted off the field
following a violent collision with teammate Peter
Bourjos. The team said
Piscotty has a head contusion and was taken to a
hospital for observation.
Carpenter singled with
one out and scored all the
way from first when Pittsburgh right fielder Gregory
Polanco overran Jay’s hit
and center fielder Andrew
McCutchen couldn’t pick
the ball up cleanly.
Reynolds then drilled
his 12th homer of the year
to give closer Trevor Rosenthal some cushion for his
48th save. Jonathan Broxton (4-5) earned the win.
Pittsburgh, already assured of a wild-card berth,
left 16 runners on base
while falling four games
behind the Cardinals with
five to go.
Pittsburgh has been
relentlessly chasing frontrunning St. Louis for five
months. Heading into the
final week of the regular
season, the Pirates finally
Boston rookie E-Rod halts
Yanks’ playoff push for 10th win
NEW YORK (AP) —
Eduardo Rodriguez became the first Red Sox
rookie left-hander to win
10 games in 43 years, and
Boston slowed the New
York Yankees’ march toward a postseason berth
with a 5-1 victory Monday
night.
The Yankees had a
chance to clinch their
first playoff appearance
since 2012 with a win —
what would’ve been their
10,000th franchise victory
— and losses by Minnesota, Texas and the Angels.
But scoreboard watching was rendered unnecessary when Travis
Shaw and Jackie Bradley
Lady Dutch jr. high downs
DuBois Area squads
The St. Marys Area
Lady Dutch junior high
basketball teams defeated
the DuBois Area squads
Monday.
The eighth grade Lady
Dutch defeated the Lady
Beavers 24-20.
St. Marys took a 13-6
first quarter lead. In the
second quarter the Lady
Dutch outscored the Lady
Beavers 8-4 to take a 2110 halftime lead.
DuBois outscored St.
Marys 6-2 in the third period and 4-1 in the fourth
quarter making the final
score 24-20 in favor of the
Lady Dutch.
“It was a good defensive effort in the first half
that kept us in the game,”
said St. Marys coach Dan
Hoohuli.
“The second half we
could not make a basket
but our defense held up to
win,” said Hoohuli.
Megan Q., Britney
S., Petey S., Lauren E.,
Courteney P. and Saige H.
did a nice job offensively.
Doing well on the boards
for the Lady Dutch were
Saige H., Petey S. and
Courteney P.
“Petey S. and Lauren
E. did a great job with assists tonight,” said Hoohuli.
SMA scoring: Summer
H. 1, Megan Q. 9, Lauren
E. 2, Britney S. 4, Petey S.
4, Courteney P. 2, Saige H.
2.
DuBois scoring: Cate
Gregory 6, Cayla Donahue 6, Hannah Ray 4,
Lissy Mohney 2, Alana
Burden 2.
The seventh grade
Lady Dutch picked up
their fifth victory of the
season with a hard fought
21-12 win over DuBois
Area.
Each team scored six
first period points. They
both scored two second
quarter points making the
score 8-all at the half.
The Lady Dutch outscored DuBois 10-2 in the
third period and 3-2 in the
fourth quarter to win the
game 21-12.
“It was a solid defensive effort in the third
quarter that spearheaded
the win,” said St. Marys
coach Bob Swanson.
“Sam Hayes had six
third quarter steals and
Maria Chiappelli had four
steals. Sam Hayes, Lindsey Quagliani and Maria
Kunes played outstanding
defense,” said Swanson.
Lindsey
Quagliani,
Sam Hayes, Sam Vavala,
Maria Kunes, Lilia Lion,
Jade Lindemuth and
Camryn Bauer worked
hard on the boards.
“I thought it was
great team effort, the girls
wanted to be successful
and came out in the second half and worked for
it,” said Swanson.
SMA scoring: Lindsey
Quagliani 3, Maria Chiappelli 6, Maria Kunes 2,
Sam Vavala 2, Sam Hayes
8.
DuBois scoring: Taylor Smith 2, Morgan Felix
4, Saige Weible 4, Olivia
Johnson 2.
Jr. each hit two-run homers off Ivan Nova (6-10).
New York managed little
offense after Alex Rodriguez’s sacrifice fly in the
first ended Boston pitchers’ 29-inning scoreless
stretch. New York dropped
five games behind Toronto
in the AL East with six to
play.
The Yankees’ fourth
loss in 10 games came
in front of 39,476 fans,
the smallest crowd for a
matchup in the Bronx between these rivals since
May 27, 1999, according to
STATS.
Eduardo
Rodriguez
(10-6) gave up seven hits,
six singles, in supplanting
John Curtis, who went 11-8
in 1972, as the most recent Boston rookie lefty to
reach 10 wins. Rodriguez
walked one and struck out
five in six innings of what
interim manager Torey
Lovullo said would be the
22-year-old’s final start of
the season. Lovullo said
Rodriguez “deserves a
lot of consideration to be
one of our mainstays next
year.”
New York loaded the
bases in the second on a
single, walk and second
baseman Dustin Pedroia’s
fielding error, then Alex
Rodriguez fell to one knee
as he swung under a high
fastball for strike three to
end the threat.
Nova looked sharp
early in his second start
for Masahiro Tanaka, who
is out with a right hamstring injury, allowing
three hits while taking a
1-0 lead into the sixth.
He faltered after Xander Bogaerts doubled
under the glove of diving third baseman Chase
Headley with two outs in
the sixth. Shaw, who had
three hits, then lined the
first pitch into the short
porch in right field for a 2-1
Boston lead.
Bradley, who made two
leaping, running catches in
left field, connected with
two outs in the seventh and
Blake Swihart aboard.
ST.
MARYS
Area High School
had their chance to catch
the Cardinals if they could
earn a three-game sweep
at home in a matchup of
the teams with the two
best records in the majors.
Instead, St. Louis did
what it has done all year,
relying on its pitching and
just enough hitting to keep
Pittsburgh at bay.
The Cardinals survived on a night they issued 10 walks. Pittsburgh
put runners on base in every inning except the first,
but none could find their
way home on a night the
Pirates went 0 for 12 with
runners in scoring position, including 0 for 3 in
the ninth with the tying
run at the plate.
St. Louis starter Lance
Lynn labored his way
through five scoreless innings, most of them out
of the stretch while the
Pirates kept wasting opportunities to take control.
Starling Marte was nailed
at the plate to end the second while trying to score
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two outs and two on in the
sixth. Morse walked to
load the bases, but St. Louis reliever Seth Maness got
Polanco to hit a routine fly
to right to end the threat.
FRIGHTENING
MOMENT
In a frightening scene
during the seventh, Piscotty lay motionless on the
grass in left-center field
for several minutes after
his collision with Bourjos.
Piscotty, playing left, and
Bourjos, playing center,
were tracking Josh Harrison’s drive to the gap when
Bourjos’ knee slammed
into the head of the diving
Piscotty. Bourjos made the
catch while Piscotty crumpled to the turf.
Piscotty was strapped
to a backboard and carted
off the field. The rookie did
manage a wave with his
left hand before disappearing into a tunnel underneath the stadium, eliciting a big cheer from the
Pittsburgh crowd.
St. Marys Area Bowling Leagues
NOTICE - Bowling
league results appear in
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deadline is 11 a.m. the
day before, 11 a.m.
Monday and 11 a.m.
Thursday. Holidays may
alter the day the standings appear.
CYMA Continental League
W
L
St. Marys Stone
12
4
DePrator’s Bev.
10
6
Lecker Ins.
8
8
Straub
2 14
Top scores - Keith Manning 203-201591, Mike Herzing Sr. 210-513, Josh
O’Dell 504, Jim DeCarli 501.
CYMA Boosters League
W
L
Sarginger Trucking
8
0
Tyler Landscape
6
2
Dest. Unlimited Travel
5
3
DePrator’s Bev.
3
5
S.B.C.
2
6
High Average - Katie Sarginger 161.
Top scores - Katie Sarginger 156202-484, Debbie Manning 224-469,
Becky Gabler 168-145-439, Michelle
Salvaggio 187, Dana Mertz 173, Mary
Kay Garner 165, Linda Friedl 159,
Amanda Herzing 158, Kathy Lecker
153, Renee Caruso (sub) 143.
Mutual League
W
L
Rudick’s Rollers
20
4
Allegheny Coatings
19
5
Joe Muccio Transportation14 10
The Old Brickyard
9 15
Olympic Lanes
8 16
Ghost
2 22
High Average - Eloise Naglik 167
Top scores - Eloise Naglik 198-173165-536, LuAnn Beimel 169-168-167504, Karen Dinsmore (sub) 192-475,
Paula Meyer 167, Missy Schatz 166,
Gloria Molella 159-158, Rosa Aiello
158, Barb Auman 158, Elaine Vogt
156, Michele Singer 154, Arlene
DeCarli 151.
Mini League
W
L
Abbott Furnace
22
2
Allegheny Coatings
18
6
W&W & Sons Contracting 10 14
Roman Excavators
10 14
Domtar Paper Co. LLC
8 16
Ghost
4 20
High Average - Eloise Naglik 161.
Top scores - Kim Frey 172-171-477,
Gloria Molella 177, Donna Lenze 160,
Karen Dinsmore 159-157-155, Ronnie
Morelli 158, Jean Farley 157, Rita
Gerber 155-152, Kelley Mohney 154,
Ann Marie Pfoutz 153, Millie Morelli
152, Eloise Naglik 150.
Tavern League
Central League
American
W
L
B.T.I.
18
6
Swingrite Batting
18
6
Outsiders
16
8
MIcale Services
14 10
Pizza Beverage
14 10
Clyde’s Quality Meats
10 14
M.J.’s Mini Mart
8 16
Jireh Lanes
6 18
Himes Gallery
2 22
Top 12 scores - Rick Beimel 203-300263-756, Scott Burgeson 230-207-236673, Tony Micale 203-247-648, John
Beimel 228-609, Chris Morelli 204222-603, Jim Byrd 215-214-587,
Bucky Pollick 206-587, Robby Micale
201-231-586, Jacob Himes 572, Wayne
Padalski 233-570, Mike Vasbinder
561, Roger Beimel 204-552.
Olympic Tuesday Night League
W
L
Olympic Lanes
20 12
Silver Dot Rollers
18 14
Ball Busters
16 16
State Farm
16 16
Pin Busters
14 18
St. Marys Carbon
12 20
High Average - Steve Bagley 191;
Chelsea Frey 200.
Top 12 scores - Greg Stauffer 209577, Gary Auman 203-559, Travis
Wolff 213-553, Steve Bagley 214-529,
George Lavella 527, James Lilja 226508, Kevin O’Leary 456, Tony Azzato
444, Yvette Chmelar 443, Kevin Lanzel 429, Jessie Saline 414, Christie
Wittman 413.
300 game and
700 series
W
L
A.R.E. Team
18
6
Elk County Tool & Die
14 10
Pfoutz Beverage
12 12
Save-A-Lot
6 18
National
North Star
22
2
PFL
16
8
Wrecking Crew
8 16
St. Marys Beverage
0 24
High Average - John Vogt 212.
Top 12 scores - Ken Saler 257-658,
Brandon Smith 248-658, Dustin
Michuck 233-634, John Vogt 237-633,
Paul Vogt 234-629, Dave Molella 235624, Bryan Valentine 224-615, Bill
Groll 255-599, Mike Lenze 231-569,
Bucky Pollick 565, Ed Herbstritt 205559, Denny Price 552.
Elk’s Men’s League
W
L
DePrator’s
14
2
Russ Hanes Tires
8
8
Elks
6 10
Pure
4 12
Top scores - John Hnath 187-523,
Jerry Goetz 182-510, Lefty Schneider
200, Tony Gerg 195, Bruce Brennen
184.
Anything Goes Thursday League
W
L
3-Peats
18
6
Pizza’s Beverage I
18
6
Beimel Transportation
14 10
DePrator’s Beverage
14 10
Team 6
8 16
Lewis Trucking
8 16
Pizza’s Beverage II
6 18
Bye
0
0
High Average - Kevin Gaffey 204.
Top scores - Dillon Kline 210-234184-628, Kevin Gaffey 234-184-199617, Brenda Gaffey 210-199-203-612,
Lisa Kline 202-213-174-589, Tina
Herbstritt 184-202-191-577, Chris
Smith 186-165-192-563, Casey Wolfe
159-186-190-535, Adrienne Beimel
195-161-151-507, Val Schauer 142182-177-501.
athletes
Rick Beimel bowled a
300 game and a 700 series
in the Tavern League at
the Jireh Lanes.
Beimel bowled games
of 203, 300 and 253 for a
756 total.
Gutsy Ladies League
W
L
The Rooters
25
7
Groll’s Disposal
21
11
Chat-N-Curl
17 15
Bingo Babes
15 17
P. & J. & P.
13 19
Friendly Ghosts
5 27
High Average - Peg Wrzesniewski
and Rita Gerber 159.
Top 12 scores - Amy Dorsey 176-484,
Krys Straub 170-466, Wendie Straub
179-463, Millie Huff 166-462, Rita
Gerber 168-459, Peg Wrzesniewski
158-448, Anna Mae Short 158-432,
Amy Decker 184, Barb Auman 135,
Jody Reed 135, Helen Lovenduski 134,
Betsy Johnson 119.
VIP League
W
L
Burke’s Home Center
20 12
The Detail Shop
18 14
Dave’s Pro Shop
16 16
Million $ Machining
10 22
High Average - Sharon Streich 151.
Top scores - LInda Johnson 162-461,
Lorrie Levenduski 153-450, Sharon
Streich 167-447, Pam Lanzel 156-440,
Donna Wendel 157-436, Nancy Arnold
166, Claire McGonigal-Potter 159,
Patty Becquet 145, Connie Vollmer
139, Lisa Dezanet 137, Angie Wegemer 134.
of the Week
NICK TAYLOR
RACHEL BAUER
Nick Taylor has been selected as the St.
Marys High School Male Athlete of the
Week for the week of September 21. Taylor,
a senior, put four of his six punts inside the
20 yard line in Friday’s game at Keystone.
He also recovered a fumble and pressured
the Panthers quarterback.
Rachel Bauer has been selected as the St.
Marys High School Female Athlete of the
Week for the week of September 21. Bauer,
a senior, had four saves in the Lady Dutch
soccer 6-0 win over Smethport and had 13
saves in the match against Port Allegany
which ended in a 1-1 Ɵe.
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on a shallow fly to center
by Jordy Mercer as Jason
Heyward’s throw beat the
speedy Marte by three
steps.
Marte then struck out
with the bases loaded to
end the third. Polanco led
off the fifth with a double
only to run into an out at
third on a chopper to shortstop by Josh Harrison.
Lynn needed 96 pitches to
retire 15 batters, walking
four with six strikeouts.
Pittsburgh
starter
J.A. Happ, a revelation
since being acquired at the
non-waiver trade deadline
from Seattle, was decidedly more efficient. The
lefthander allowed only
Kolten Wong’s single leading off the third.
Otherwise, he was
dominant, striking out
four and needing only 56
pitches to get through six
shutout innings to lower his ERA to 2.04 in 10
starts with the Pirates.
Happ was lifted for pinchhitter Michael Morse with
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HARRISBURG
– The Pennsylvania
Department of Environmental
Protection
(DEP) is reminding
Pennsylvanians about
the importance of onlot
septic system maintenance.
This annual initiative, led by DEP and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), encourages residents to learn about
and properly maintain
their septic systems
during
SepticSmart
Week from Sept. 21-25.
“More than 29 percent of Pennsylvanians
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rely on a septic system,” said DEP Secretary John Quigley. “It’s
so important that these
systems are maintained
properly to prevent
failure and to protect
the public health and
environment.”
Lacking or improper maintenance of an
onlot septic system can
contaminate groundwater supplies with E. coli
and other pollutants.
This is very important
as many of the homeowners who rely on septic systems also have
private wells that provide potable drinking
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water. Discharges from
failed systems can also
contaminate
surface
waters like lakes, rivers, and ponds, contributing excess nutrients
that can cause toxic
algal blooms and other
water quality problems.
Homeowners
are
responsible for making
sure that these systems
work properly. The lifespan of a septic system
is generally 25 years,
but septic systems are
vulnerable
to
early
failure if they are not
regularly inspected and
pumped, and properly
maintained.
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Retail Beer Store
Sales Associates
Seeking fun and outgoing beer enthusiasts for both full
and part-time positions at the Brewery’s Retail Beer Store
in St. Marys. Compensation will be based on the skills and
experience of the successful candidates.
Responsibilities include direct retail sales, customer engagement Beer Store inventory, and providing exceptional
customer service in a positive and memorable experience
for visitors. Lifting requirements. Candidate must be 21
years of age, highly motivated and dependable, and must
be available to work Monday through Saturdays.
Interested candidates should stop at the Office for an
application or with questions contact:
Cathy Lenze
Director of Sales and Marketing
at 814.834.2875 ext. 111
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Program Workers
Must have high school diploma or equivalent
& PA Driver’s License. Includes great benefits.
Applications available at:
Oak Manor, Inc.
4 Erie Ave., Ste. 102, St. Marys, PA
or call 834-3963
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Depot St., St. Marys, PA
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The Department of
Environmental Protection (DEP) recommends
property owners take
the following precautions to maintain their
system:
Inspect and Pump
Frequently: The average household septic
system should be inspected at least every
three years by a septic
service
professional.
Household septic tanks
are typically pumped
every three to five
years.
Conserve
Water: All of the water a
household sends down
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its pipes ends up in
its septic system. The
more water a household
conserves,
the
less water enters the
septic system. Consider installing lowflow plumbing fixtures,
faucet aerators, and
high-efficiency toilets,
washing machines, and
dishwashers to save on
water use.
Proper Waste Disposal: Do not flush anything that isn’t human
waste or toilet paper.
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the
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on the drainfield. Avoid
planting trees or other
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plants near the drainfield to prevent root infiltration.
Throughout
the
week,
professionals
from DEP will be on
hand from 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. in the Capitol’s
East Wing Rotunda to
answer questions and
provide helpful information about septic
system maintenance.
DEP will also share
tips and information
throughout the week
on its Facebook page
( w w w. f a c e b o o k / P e n n sylvaniaDEP)
and
Twitter
(@PennsylvaniaDEP).
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Pharmacy Technician
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training provided. Benefits include; health care
coverage, 401k, other.
Duties/ requirements:
s Responsible for supporting the daily activities of the pharmacy. Enter patient data, prep
medications, utilize established pharmacy
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s Previous job experience, or PTCB
certification a plus
s Good communication and interpersonal
skills
s Computer proficiency required
s H.S. Diploma, or equivalent
Send resume and application
(avail at www.smprx.com/careers/html):
Patrick Straub, COO/ HR Manager
St. Marys Pharmacy, Inc.
4 Railroad St.,St. Marys, PA 15857
[email protected]
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Dear Annie: I am a 20-year-old
male who currently lives with my
parents. I just started my first year
of college.
Both of my parents have prescriptions to Xanax. When I was 15,
I took a few from my dad’s bottle.
My parents labeled me a thief and
an addict. I knew it was wrong and
haven’t done it since. I thought we
had moved on from that incident,
but my mother called me at work
and asked whether I had taken 60
of her Xanax. I had no idea what
she was talking about and said I
hadn’t touched her pills. She insisted that I stole them and sold them,
and wouldn’t hear anything other
than an admission of guilt.
I honestly have no idea what
happened to her pills, but I feel terrible that my mother believes I stole
from her. No matter how many
times I proclaim my innocence,
they assume I’m guilty. What else
can I say? -- Guilty by Accusation
Dear Guilty: Nothing, really.
You said you didn’t do it, and unless evidence surfaces that someone
else took the pills (or they were misplaced), your parents will think you
are the guilty party. We suggest you
sincerely apologize for giving them
cause to mistrust you because of
your past behavior. But understand
that it may not convince them of
your innocence. Once trust is broken, it is difficult to regain. It will
take a great deal of time for your
parents to see you as a responsible,
trustworthy person. Consider this a
goal for the long haul. It’s worth it.
Dear Annie: Many years ago,
you published my piece, “Hold Fast
the Summer,” that I wrote when
my son went off to college. Now a
third grandchild is going off to col-
lege. Could you print it again for all
the parents who are sending kids to
places of higher learning? -- Mary
W. Abel
Dear Mary Abel: With pleasure. Here it is:
“Hold Fast the Summer” by
Mary W. Abel
Hold fast the summer. It is
the beauty of the day and all it contains.
The laughter and work and
finally the sleep. The quiet.
Oh September, do not put your
weight upon my mind.
For I know he will be going.
This son of mine who is now a
man -- he must go.
Time will lace my thoughts
with joyous years.
The walls will echo his “Hello.”
His caring will be around each corner.
His tears will be tucked into
our memory book.
Life calls him beyond our
reach -- to different walls.
New faces, shiny halls, shy
smiles, many places.
Greater learning -- he must go.
But wait, before he leaves, be
sure he knows you love him.
Hide the lump in your throat
as you hug him.
He will soon be home again -but he will be different.
The little boy will have disappeared.
How I wished I could take September and shake it, for it came too
soon.
I must look to the beauty of
each new day, and silently give
thanks.
Annie’s Mailbox is written by
Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar,
longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@creators.
com, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o
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ARIES
(March 21 to April 19)
Conversations with partners and
close friends will be dynamic and memorable today. This is because you seem to
attract strong people to you right now.
TAURUS
(April 20 to May 20)
This is the right time to take a
stand on issues that are important to you
at work. Everyone will listen, because
you’re putting a lot of yourself into what
you have to say.
GEMINI
(May 21 to June 20)
This is a creative, playful day! It’s
also a great day to discuss the care and
education of children and future moves
with sports events.
CANCER
(June 21 to July 22)
Family conversations will be direct
and to the point today, especially with a
parent or a strong family member. This is
a good day to discuss how to make repairs.
LEO
(July 23 to Aug. 22)
Short trips and conversations with
others, especially siblings, will keep you
on the go today. You feel dynamic, energetic and pumped about something.
VIRGO
(Aug. 23 to Sept. 22)
Trust your moneymaking ideas
today, because they probably are good.
With lucky Jupiter in your sign this year,
you are blessed. Believe in yourself.
LIBRA
(Sept. 23 to Oct. 22)
Today the Sun and Mercury are
lined up in your sign, which means you
are convincing and articulate. Today is the
day to make your pitch.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
This is a great day for research
or looking for answers to tough problems.
You won’t rest until you find what you’re
looking for.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
Your relations with others, especially in groups, will be enthusiastic and
dynamic today. Everyone wants to be
on your team, because you sound like
you’ve got a plan.
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22 to Jan. 19)
This is the day to make your pitch
to bosses and authority figures if you want
to get something done or you want approval. They will listen to you, because
you believe in yourself.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20 to Feb. 18)
You have strong opinions today!
Don’t forget to allow others to get their two
cents in as well, especially in discussions
about politics, religion and racial issues.
PISCES
(Feb. 19 to March 20)
If you need to convince someone
about a loan, mortgage or how to deal
with shared property in the way that you
would like, this is the day to strike. You are
charismatic, and you have strong powers
of persuasion.
YOU BORN TODAY You know
how to charm people. In part, you do this
because you are genuinely interested in
all kinds of people; this is why you like to
ferret out the truth about them. This year
your success lies with others. People will
benefit you. Therefore, make friends and
join clubs and organizations. Help others,
because you also will be helping yourself.
Birthdate of: Cecelia Ahern, author; Tony Hale, actor; Eric Stoltz, actor/
director.
(c) 2015 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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September Birthday Bash
Photos submitted
Members of the Bennetts Valley Senior Center held their
monthly Birthday Bash on
Monday, Sept. 28, with
approximately 20 in attendance. The afternoon was
spent visiting and playing
Scrabble, Uno and Scat. The
September honorees received
many well wishes and a Happy Birthday tribute sung by
their many friends. Cake and
ice cream was served and
enjoyed by all members present. The occasion was hosted
by Diane Caliari,Tanya Witherson and Ruth Coppolo. Shown
on the left are those celebrating a September birthday, Ben
Coppolo, Diane Caliari, and
Carl Bartuch.
Shown below in the first photo from left to right are UNO players Edith Giazzoni, Elda Bengini,
Bob Poinelli, Ruth Coppolo, and Laura Seduski. In the middle photo playing Scrabble are Carl
Bartuch, Ben Coppolo, Irene Poinelli, and Toni Klaiber. In the last photo playing Scat are
John Franzoni, Alta Smith, Ray Kostecki, Denny Scull, Gen Anderson, and Josephine (Foo)
Moyer.
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success based on the score."
He blasted news reporters for their stories about
extensive security, saying
they may have deterred
people from attending.
"You all scared the
s--- out of people," he said.
He later apologized for his
"intemperate remark" and
said he expected a terse
admonishment from his
mother.
Nutter also blamed a
lack of communication between Philadelphia and
its neighbors. Last month,
New Jersey officials put out
a map showing walks to
papal events taking up to
seven hours.
The mayor said dribs of
information that came out
over the summer — like a
suggestion that Interstate
95, a major route through
the city, would close —
didn't help, either.
But Nutter called the
pope's visit a tremendous
success and spoke emotionally about how much he was
moved by the opportunity to
present his Catholic mother
and aunt with front-row
tickets to the papal Mass.
"Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims walked
through our city and enjoyed a wonderful, joyous
and spiritual experience,"
Nutter said.
He said long lines at
security checkpoints and
complaints from businesses
that security restrictions
kept away customers would
be addressed in a report.
Some restaurants reported a steadier flow of
diners on Sunday before
they headed to the parkway
Mass.
"I feel like it's getting
back to normal," said Victoria Simon, a bartender
at Molly Malloy's in the
Reading Terminal Market.
"Thank God."
Heightened security for
the pope's visit turned much
of downtown into a fortified
pedestrian mall, with concrete barriers, steel fencing
and rows of portable toilets
lining the streets.
Around the city, crews
started loading the barriers
onto flatbed 18-wheelers
overnight and stacked the
fencing in the streets. Piles
of bicycle rack barricades
were left for pickup outside
the city's main train station. Heavier metal fencing
was stacked outside office
buildings.
Roads and highways
reopened, and regional rail
and subway trains resumed
making their regular stops.
Schools and courts remained closed until Tuesday.
Philadelphia mayor says pope's
visit a tremendous success
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
— City and Catholic leaders on Monday heralded
Pope Francis' weekend visit
as a success while acknowledging complaints from pilgrims who got stuck in long
security lines and businesses that saw underwhelming
demand.
The pope's trip for
the
Vatican-sponsored
World Meeting of Families
spurred intense traffic and
security restrictions. Concrete and steel barricades
lined downtown streets,
and some people reported
waiting in lines at metal
detectors for more than five
hours.
Organizers said they
expected at least a million
people for Sunday's Mass
on the Benjamin Franklin
Parkway. Neither they nor
the city provided a final
count Monday.
About 1,300 of the
11,200 downtown hotel
rooms went unfilled, train
ridership was lower than
expected and some areas
of the parkway had ample
room.
Mayor Michael Nutter downplayed the meaningfulness of a crowd total,
saying at a press conference, "It's not like a football
game. This is not a situation where you evaluate
High school quarterback died
from internal bleeding
WASHINGTON, N.J.
(AP) — A high school star
quarterback who collapsed
after taking a hit on the
playing field died from
massive internal bleeding caused by a lacerated
spleen, according to autopsy reports made public
Monday.
The Morris County
medical examiner’s office
found that the spleen of
17-year-old Evan Murray
was “abnormally enlarged,”
making it more susceptible
to injury.
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There was no evidence
of head trauma or heart disease, officials said, and the
death has been ruled an accident.
The Warren Hills Regional High School player
had walked off the field with
the help of some teammates
Friday night after taking a
hit in the backfield. A short
time later, the three-sport
athlete collapsed on the
sidelines and died at a hospital.
Witnesses said Murray felt “woozy” after the
tackle but tried reassuring
his teammates he would be
fine as he was lifted onto a
gurney.
Gary Bowen, the school
district’s interim superintendent, said he did not
know if Murray complained
of any pain or difficulty or
what protective equipment
he would have been wearing. He said the school has
a team physician and a certified trainer at its games,
and two emergency medical
services crews are on call at
the stadium.