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Erie PA News and Events for Saturday August 13, 2005

WSEE is the CBS station shown in the Caribbean on the Primetime24 satellite. The New York Times did a story on the station because WSEE has a separate taped weather forecast for the Caribbean. Satellite viewers don’t see the Erie forecast but they do see our local news. WSEE’s meteorologists do four daily weather reports that are shown on TV and also do call-ins for 11 radio stations. Here is their Caribbean forecast on their web site. This Erie PA blog gets readers from residents and vacationers in Jamaica, Guantanamo Bay naval station in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Costa Rica and Panama because of WSEE.

Kevan J Dugan has been named commanding officer of The Pennsylvania State Police Troop E in Erie.

The Erie band Lareau has been signed by Rust Records. Their CD Changes will be out in September.

Randy Williams has been named as the Dormont, PA assistant borough manager. He was previously director of community and economic development for Farrell, PA. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree from Mercyhurst College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

RailPower Technologies announced that a supply and licence agreement has been executed with Brush Traction, of Loughborough, UK. Brush Traction, which is part of FKI plc will be the exclusive Green Goat Series locomotive manufacturer for the UK and Ireland railway markets. The main engineering office for RailPower Hybrid Technologies is in Erie, Pennsylvania. There are currently four job openings in the Erie office.

I was up at the Millcreek Mall yesterday. Workers have removed the huge K from the Kaufman’s entrance. It will be replaced by a Macy’s sign.

The 100th Anniversary Open House of Rogers Brothers Corporation is today from 10 am to 4 pm at their Albion, PA factory. Rogers Brothers Corporation manufactures a full line of standard and custom-built detachable gooseneck lowbed trailers as well as Fixed Gooseneck and Drawbar (Tag-Along) trailers.

It’s International Clown Day at the Erie Zoo from 10 am until 2 pm.

The St Paul’s Italian Festival continues today at 453 West 16 St. For info call 459-3173.

The Land, Lake and Leisure Festival will be held August 13 at the Liberty Park Pepsi Amphitheater. Bands including Wayne Warner, The Fabulous Gunslingers, Next of Kin, House of Cards and a couple more will perform.

The Thermal-G Eagles Radio Control Club will hold its annual airshow on Saturday August 13 from 10 am-4 pm at the Erie County Technical School, 8500 Oliver Road in Summit Township.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ is being performed by Stage Right Productions Fridays and Saturdays August 12 through August 20. Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for seniors and students.

Bowie beat the Erie SeaWolves 5-4. The SeaWolves have fallen below 500 at 59-60. Byron Gettis hit a home run and David Espinosa went 2-3 with 2 walks.
RHP Mark Johnson was promoted to Toledo from Double-A Erie yesterday. There were 3,545 at the game that was delayed by rain for 52 minutes. The SeaWolves and Baysox will play a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 6 pm.

There is a good feature article in the Madison Capital Times on University of Wisconsin senior cornerback Levonne Rowan. Rowan is a product of Erie Mercyhurst Prep.

Posted by Dennis at August 13, 2005 6:52 AM

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