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Erie PA News and Events for Friday October 21, 2005
Posted by Dennis on October 21, 2005
Michael McQuillen, interim president of Mercyhurst College, said he will not change the name of Garvey Park. The faculty senate recommended changing the name because former president, Dr William Garvey, has been accused of inappropriate sexual contact with children whe Garvey was a basketall coach. McQuillen and Garvey are buddies and wrote a book together.
A group of 17 Erie Insurance employees will split $853,492 that they won playing Powerball. The total for each person is around $50,000.
Dale McBrier and Mark DiVecchio, candidates for Erie County Executive will appear at a town hall meeting at 7 pm tonight at Sacred Heart School, 803 West 25th Street.
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.
Tonight Friday, Oct 21, and then again on Friday, Oct 28, Gannon University Schuster Theatre audiences will see Rosalyn Drexler’s “Room 17 C,” Don Nigro’s “The Sin Eater,” “How Many Children Had Lady MacBeth?” and Ray Bradbury’s “The Foghorn” as part of “Other Worlds Than These,” 12 one-act plays performed in repertoire. All tickets are $5. “Other Worlds Than These” contains adult language and themes. For reservations contact the box office at 814-871-7494. The Theatre is located at 620 Sassafras Street.
Twelve outdoor sculptures by internationally known artist David Hayes will punctuate Erie’s downtown and Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park in a yearlong exhibition of his colorful, playful abstract works beginning Saturday, Oct 22 at 4 pm. This outdoor exhibition is the most recent public art endeavor by Erie Art Museum to bring art out of the museum and into the city streets in ways that engage, excite and surprise. The sculptures will be on display at the following locations: Hamot Medical Center, Erie Art Museum, Erie Insurance, West Perry Square, Erie City Hall, Boston Store Greenspace at 8th and State, Avalon Hotel, Greek to Me Restaurant, Parking Lot at 13th and State, plus 3 sculptures at Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park. Installation of the artwork begins on Friday, Oct 21 along State Street and will continue the morning of Saturday, Oct 22. The official unveiling begins Saturday at 4 pm at each public art location. The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Erie Art Museum at 459-5477.
From Sunday, Oct 23, to Saturday, Oct 29, the Mercyhurst College Campus Ministry will collect non-perishable food items from the surrounding communities. Last year, the drive collected a record 5,825 pounds. The food is donated to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwestern Pennsylvania, and then is distributed to 275 agencies that directly serve families facing hard times.
Lake Erie Speedway management will be moving to the Plastek Corporation located in Erie, PA for the winter months beginning November 1st through March 1st.
Pro bowler Bob Learn Jr, who has rolled a Guinness Book of Records 96 percent games in his career, will be in Charleston, WV today to provide training and lessons for area bowlers.
Posted by Dennis at October 21, 2005 6:54 AM
Comments
The idea that Dr. Michael McQuillen was made interim President of Mercyhurst because McQuillen was some kind of "face of integrity" that would guide Mercyhurst thru a difficult time has always been an absolute joke.
McQuillen is and was a very close associate of William Garvey. Of course McQuillen wouldn't support changing the name of the park! McQuillen is part of the problem at Mercyhurst, and it's obvious that he's protecting Garvey's status and interests.
If McQuillen wasn't some easily-controlled stooge of the Executive Committee of the Mercyhurst board, he wouldn't have been chosen in the first place to be Interim President.
Posted by: Matt at October 21, 2005 4:38 PM
I still say that if Garvey park is to reflect on the man at all, than it should be renamed "Pedophile Park"
Because that's what William Garvey is, a dangerous pedophile and sexual predator. This man destroyed the lives of many young men.
Yet, Dr. Michael McQuillen still feels a beautiful area of the college should continue to bear Garvey's name. How disgusting, and just another indication of how much of a degenerate institution Mercyhurst college is.
Posted by: Matt at October 21, 2005 4:43 PM
Erie resident Jack Hughes has a blog where he talks about his own experiences as a victim of William Garvey, and where he invites other Garvey victims to come forward.
Posted by: Matt at October 21, 2005 4:48 PM
Hey Doug, check out this crap below. It looks like that lying cover-up artist Marlene Mosco is actually going to be honored as one of the "Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania" by Governor Ed Rendell and his wife. Can you believe this? She's the 6th name down.
http://www.state.pa.us/papower/cwp/view.asp?A=11&Q=446491
Posted by: Matt at October 21, 2005 7:28 PM
Another forum on the Mercyhurst College scandal.
Posted by: Matt at October 21, 2005 8:08 PM
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