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Erie PA News and Events for Wednesday October 19, 2005
Posted by Dennis on October 19, 2005
Erie County Executive candidate Dale McBrier held a press conference at the site of the future Presque Isle Downs saying that MTR Gaming shouldn’t be getting a taxpayer subsidy. Former used car salesman and point man for MTR, Greg Rubino, showed up and said the opening of the race track and slot’s casino could be delayed by a year without the subsidy. Yeah, right. They’d have the slot machines in a tent and operating today if they were allowed. Rubino is scum. The Summit Towship Industrial and Economic Development Authority will vote today on whether or not to give nearly $30 million to MTR to help with costruction costs.
The Millcreek Township School District was scammed in an illegal pyramid scheme. The district is among 13 in the state that have been taken by the National School Fitness Foundation. The Millcreek School District was to be paid off by later participants and school districts were required to pay the entire cost of the contracts up front. The fitness foundation pledged to reimburse the entire expense through voluntary contributions back to the district. In June 2004, the foundation filed for bankruptcy. The PA auditor general’s office will be conducting an audit to see how much Millcreek spent.
David J Zimmer, President of Erie Bank, announced today the Bank plans to open its doors for business during the third quarter of 2006. The Erie Bank will market specialized financial services to businesses of all sizes from small to large corporations. Traditional consumer banking services will also be available for the people in the community that operate and support these businesses. During the months ahead, Mr Zimmer will be operating a loan production office located in the Renaissance Centre at 1001 State Street in Erie. Four offices of Erie Bank are planned within two years which will employ at least 30 new staff members. Erie Bank is an affiliate of County National Bank, a subsidiary of CNB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: CCNE) which operates in Central Pennsylvania.
Former County Prison Warden Gary Lucht has been named as the Director of the Erie County Office of Children and Youth. The office will also be changing it’s name to the Erie County Child Protective Services.
Railpower Technologies (TSX: P) announced that Philip Garcia, Executive Vice President and CFO of Erie Insurance Group, has joined the Board of Directors and will serve on the hybrid locomotive company’s Audit Committee. Railpower has their main engineering office in Erie.
The Erie Ad Club will host a special event this Thursday night on the campus of Edinboro University. The event is called Beautification: A Design Collaboration featuring the work of nationaly renouned graphic designers this Thursday, October 20, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Members are free, guests $15. Space is limited. Register online or call the Erie Ad Club at 814-451-8677.
Ben Stein appears as part of the Behrend annual Speaker Series. His lecture begins at 7:30 pm in the McGarvey Commons of the Reed Student Union Building. It is free and open to the public.
Here are a few Erie area Halloween events and things to do:
* Finneys Pumpkinville is located at 24999 Hwy 99, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403. They’re open every day. The place is HUGE. Corn maze, etc. Their old web site at finneyspumpkinville.com is down but see this site to get an idea.
* The haunted house in Fairview is Boo-recky’s Haunted House at Borecky’s Fruit Farm, which is on Kell Road, just off of Route 98, just east of Fairview High School. It runs Thursday-Saturday each week from 6 pm to Midnight. No pre-teens, it is actually scarry.
* Pumpkin Town USA at Mason Farms, 839 Peninsula Drive.
* The very popular Zoo Boo at the Erie Zoo.
* Halloween Hullabaloo, Halloween without the Boo at the Experience Erie Childrens Museum runs Oct 25-30.
Brittney Pamula, get well soon. Sixteen year old Brittney underwent back surgery yesterday. She plays hockey on the Erie Lady Lions U-16 team.
The Gannon Uiversity men’s water polo team broke a 3-3 tie with five unanswered goals in the second quarter and rolled to a 17-10 victory at local rival Mercyhurst College Tuesday evening in Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) action.
Posted by Dennis at October 19, 2005 7:09 AM
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The MTSD used to be the biggest part of my beat when I was a reporter and I'm not the least bit surprised they were taken in by this. If memory serves, they were scammed by their food services director as well. Anyway, they're always looking for a way to make a quick buck ;)
Posted by: eden at October 19, 2005 2:18 PM
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