Many local organizations and groups are taking donations and money for those affected by the earthquake in Haiti. Wegmans is taking donations which benefit the American Red Cross relief efforts. Students at Gannon are collecting funds on campus until next week.
Other organizations worth supporting: World Food Program, Mercy Corps, UNICEF and many more. Please post comments with links to more organizations serving that area and we’ll make sure to include them in this and future blogs.
In case you missed our post yesterday, the new indoor football team in Erie will be called the Erie Storm. You can read more about the team and see their new logo at this post.
It’s almost election time, believe it or not. One of the races that is going to garner national attention is the Senate race here in PA. On the Democratic side, Senator Arlen Specter and Rep. Joe Sestak are duking it out in the primary. The two camps have agreed to one debate in May, and the Sestak camp wants there to be debates in six media markets across the state, including Erie. The race in the fall is looking to be Specter versus Pat Toomey (R).
Speaking of politics, new County Executive Barry Grossman wants to create a new position for David Mitchell so “solve problems.” No word if County Council will go for it. After all, many positions were cut.
The jury is now deliberating the Joel Atkin murder trial. We’ll blog when they have a verdict.
Shawn Conrad was been appointed to the Millcreek Township School Board. He was formerly a hockey coach at McDowell High School.
The Erie office of The Berry Company will be closing. The company is restructuring to “launch an innovative new business model developed to help its small business clients generate local leads from multiple sources and platforms.”
From the must be nice department, executives at the now sold Penn Traffic company made over $1 million in bonuses for their part in selling off the chain’s wholesale grocery business. Late last year the company went bankrupt and was eventually sold to the Tops chain. At least jobs will be spared. More here.
The U.S. Small Business Administration reminds homeowners, renters, businesses and non-profit organizations of the deadline to submit disaster loan applications for damage caused by the Millcreek Township fire that occurred on December 6, 2009 in Erie County, Pennsylvania.
Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri, will be the guest speaker at the Manufacturer & Business Association’s January Eggs ’n’ Issues briefing starting at 8 a.m. Thursday, January 21 at the Association’s Conference Center, 2171 West 38th Street at Pittsburgh Avenue.
Sports
The Gannon women’s water polo team is ranked 10th in the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) preseason poll released Thursday morning.
Events
The next Sigma Xi Science Café is Wednesday, January 20 at 6:30 PM at the BrewErie at Union Station. The topic will be the possibility of life on Mars and other recent discoveries from the Mars expeditions. Here’s more info.
A renowned speaker who has authored four of the top 10 Catholic bestsellers will be at Gannon University on Saturday, Jan. 30 for a guest lecture. The speaker, Matthew Kelly, is the author of the top Catholic bestseller, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness. His lecture, “A Call to Joy,” is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Yehl Room of Gannon University’s Waldron Campus Center, 124 West 7th St.
Auditions for the 2010 ERIEsistables Dance Team will be held on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at Erie Bayfront Dance at 312 Chestnut Street in Erie. Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. with tryouts starting at 1 p.m. Everybody, from former high school cheerleaders to professional dancers, who are 18 years or older, are invited to tryout to be a part of the ERIEsistables, the dance team that will support the new professional arena football team. The new ownership group announced in December that a new team name will replace the RiverRats to best reflect Erie and its hometown pride.
