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Erie PA News and Events for Tuesday August 23, 2005

It only hit 72 degrees in Erie. Lake Erie at 78 degrees caused grey clouds to form with some breaks of blue sky. It looked like September and not Summer. You could almost hear Grantland Rice typing out a Notre Dame football story - “Outlined against a blue, gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.”

Get a pizza and a haircut. This is the final week for the “Back to School” Promotion at the Community Blood Bank. This week all donors can enter to win a “Back to School” haircut generously donated by Ambridge Rose Spa and Salon and a $50 gift certificate to the Red Door Uniform store. The blood supply in the region remains critically low as the Community Blood Bank begins its final push to make it through the end of summer without a serious incident. The CBB is encouraging everyone who can to please come and donate blood. Today from 3:30 to 7:30 the first 40 donors who come to the Community Blood Bank will receive a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. All donors are strongly encouraged to donate at the Erie Community Blood Bank, 2646 Peach Street. The Community Blood Bank is open from 9-6 Monday through Friday and until 7:30 pm Tuesday night and Saturday 9 am-12:30 pm. Photo ID required.

Don’t like the fact that your school district now has a dress code? Tough. In 2001, a federal judge ruled that the Mount Carmel Area School District dress code did not violate free speech rights. The US Supreme Court declined to hear the case in 2003. Mount Carmel is located in Northumberland County, PA.

Kristin Macha, daughter of Oakland Athletics manager Ken Macha, is attending Penn State Erie, the Behrend College where she is a mechanical engineering technology major. Ken and his wife, Carolyn are both from the Pittsburgh area so it’s not much of a stretch that their daughter is going to school in Erie.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge of Erie told public safety officials at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) convention that interoperable communications networks and cooperation among agencies were essential to combating terrorism. Much too often police departments can’t communicate with each other.

The Gannon University Freshman class photo and pep rally is scheduled for 1:30 pm today at Gannon University Field. Following the photo, a rally will be held to introduce the fall sports teams and coaches.

There is a special Tuesday night of car races at Lake Erie Speedway tonight at 7:30. Admission is $1 for Grandstand seating.

The Polish festival Zabawa will be held August 26-28 at Holy Trinity Church, East 23rd and Reed Street in Erie, PA. The festival will feature polka music, dancing, games, raffles, Polish food courts and a bakery, and a children’s area. Admission to the festival is free. For more information call 814-456-0671 because there is no web site for the event.

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will welcome 850 freshman students to the college’s 2005 Orientation Program on Friday, August 26. Of the freshmen class expected, 285 are from Erie County and another 75 are from Warren, Crawford, and Venango counties. While some of those students will be living on campus, many of them will commute to classes, so on Saturday, August 27, there will be a special orientation check-in for new students who will be living off campus. For more information about this year’s orientation, please visit the Fall 2005 Student Orientation Web page.

The Erie Rugby Club is holding a 5K Fun Run of Saturday August 27, 2005 at 9 am at Frontier Park, West 8th St and The Bayfront Parkway. Registration will be held at 8am, the fee is $15 which includes a T-Shirt. Proceeds benefit the Erie Shriners Hospital for Children. There will be an exhibition rugby game following the race.

The Erie SeaWolves finally won a game beating Akron 6-5 in front of 6,712. They had lost 12 out their last 13 before Monday.

Jovan Johnson of the Iowa Hawkeyes is closing in on the oldest school record held by Nile Kinnick. The Erie PA native needs five interceptions this season to surpass Kinnick’s career interception mark of 18 which was matched by Devon Mitchell in 1985. Iowa is ranked 10th by USA Today and 11th by AP and ESPN.

Mercyhurst College grad Eric Kostic is the new football coach at Saltsburg High School. He is also the principal at the school.

Posted by Dennis at August 23, 2005 5:27 AM

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