Erie is under a lake effect snow watch until Friday at noon. In other words be prepared for anything the next few days.
Congrats to this year’s GenerationE winners. The award recognizes young professionals who are paving the way for the future of Erie and is presented by the Young Erie Professionals (yep!).This year’s winners include:
Alyson Amendola, Director of Communications and Public Relations, Office of Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio
Tony Bruno, Corporate Sales Manager, Scott Enterprises
Rob Celeski, Welder and Chairman of Employees Community Service Fund of GE, GE Transportation
Matthew Cummings, Director of Marketing Communications, Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership
Jodie Gloekler, Educational Program Coordinator, Gannon University SBDC
Kevin John-Jobczynski, Celebrity Sports Artist
John C Lyons, Co-owner/Filmmaker, Lyons Den Productions; Information Technology Generalist, Edinboro University
Brad Moore, Marketing Manager, Center for eBusiness and Advanced IT
Christine Pennsy, Director of Communications, VisitErie
Joseph Sinnott, Esq, Mayor, City of Erie
Shelly Walker, Dance Artist (self-employed)
Beth Zimmer, Director of Talent Acquisition, Senior Consultant, JL Nick and Associates
The winners will be officially announced at a press conference on Tuesday, Feb 24, at 10 am, at the Intermodal Transportation Center Rotunda, 208 East Bayfront Parkway, Erie. Award recipients, Generation-E committee members, and yep! steering committee members will be on-hand for media interviews.
David Kwait, former director of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, has been hired by the law firm Ruben & Aronson and will work out of the firm’s Bethesda, Md. office. R&A currently represents MTR Gaming which owns Presque Isle Downs and Casion, as well as Mountaineer Casiono in West Virginia. A representative from the firm has stated Kwait will not have work on any matter involving a Pennsylvania gaming licensee. Kwait will help develop the firm’s presence in Maryland which just recently legalized slots.
WSEE wasn’t the only station to drop its analog signal last night. The AP has an extensive list of numerous other stations across the U.S. and U.S. territories that either completely dropped or have a limited analog broadcast schedule.
Erie County District Attorney Bradley Foulk was voted in as president of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association this week.
First Assistant District Attorney Bob Sambroak has announced his intention to run for the Erie County Judge position. Sambroak is the 37th candidate to throw his hat in the ring.
The Erie Redevelopment Authority has purchased the top two floors of Jr’s Last Laugh Comedy Club for $140,000. The Authority will develop the floors into 16 apartments. The building will be named for Steve McGarvey and the authority hopes to pay for the development with economic stimulus monies.
Four students from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, have the honor of dancing at THON 2009—Penn State’s 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping dance marathon to fight pediatric cancer. This year’s dancers are sophomores Alyssa Beck from Wattsburg, Pa., who is studying marketing and management, Allison Shearer from New Castle, Pa., who is studying public relations, and Pittsburgh natives Julie Colvin, a communication major, and Jamie Mayer, a nutrition major. Beck and Shearer comprise dancer team no. 230 while Colvin and Mayer are dancer team no. 231.
Residents of Titusville finally had a good reason to get excited. A suspicious looking package was left outside of the Wal-Mart store located near Titusville which lead to the evacuation of the building and State Police to be called in. Needless to say it wasn’t a bomb but was part of a treasure-hunting game called geocaching.
Tom Noyes, assistant professor of creative writing at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has received a $5,000 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) 2009 Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in the literature-fiction category. Noyes’ second story collection, Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories (Dufour Editions, 2008), was a finalist for the Richard Sullivan Prize and the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.
Sports
The Erie Otters are away for the rest of the week playing the Windsor Spitfires on Thursday, the Saginaw Spirit on Friday, and the Plymouth Whalers on Saturday.
The Erie BayHawks are off until Saturday, February 21 when they play an away game against the Sioux Falls SkyForce. The ‘Hawks play another away game on Monday, February 23 against the Iowa Energy before returning to Erie on Thursday, February 26 to play the Dakota Wizards. Get your tickets here.
The Gannon men’s basketball team dropped four spots and is ranked eighth in the latest National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC)/Division II Top 25 poll released Tuesday afternoon, extending the streak of consecutive polls in the top 10 to a school-record 12.
Events
On Wednesday, Feb. 18, Gannon University will host the third of four financial aid workshops.The workshop is designed to help high school students and their parents better navigate the sometimes complex financial aid process. It is free and open to the public and will begin at 6:30 p.m. in room 1200 of the University’s Palumbo Academic Center, 824 Peach St. For more information, contact Gannon’s Financial Aid Office at 814-871-7337 or 1-800-GANNON-U, or visit the website.
Erie Gay Business Alliance will meet on February 18 at Matthew’s Trattoria, 153 E 13th St at 7 PM. Local activist Doris Cipolla will be speaking about marriage equality and other issues relevant to the GLBT community to the Erie Gay Business Alliance, which is for GLBT professionals and business people and their supporters. Phone: (814) 456-9833. Email: egba-owner@eriegaynews.com.
Upcoming Erie Concerts and Shows:
Feb. 19: Jerry Seinfeld, Warner Theatre (tickets)
Feb. 22: Rain (Beatles Cover Band), Warner Theatre (tickets)
March 7: Motley Crue w/ Hinder, Last Vegas, Theory of a Deadman, Tullio Arena (tickets)
March 22: New Kids on the Block, Tullio Arena (tickets on sale 1/24)
March 29: Comedian Lewis Black, Warner Theatre (tickets)
View this past Sunday’s comprehensive Erie events list to see what’s coming up for the week and months ahead. If you would like your event posted here, please contact us via our online form.
