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Erie PA News and Events for Saturday October 22, 2005

City of Erie Police expect to file charges next week against a long time employee of the traffic court department. Your average lemonade stand has better cash controls than anything at city hall. If you received a parking ticket in the city in the past few years and you included cash in the return envelope, there is a strong likelihood your money ended up in the suspected employees pocket.

Haysite Reinforced Plastics is holding a job fair today from 9 am to 2 pm to hire permanent workers to replace the striking union members. Maybe it’s just my perception and not fact, but it seems like the Haysite union members are always on strike. I’d bet in the past 10 years they’ve spent more time at the plant gate with picket signs than on the plant floor.

The Broken Arrow Animal Sanctuary is holding a fundraiser by collecting old newspapers and phonebooks. Email them at brokenarrowanimalsanctuary@yahoo.com for collection points, to make a donation or to adopt a pet.

The Asian beetle that kills ash trees could be entering Erie County in the next few years. Not good. The beetle is concentrated in Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, and southern Ontario. Nearly 10 percent of Pennsylvania forests are ash trees. Researchers and scientists say there’s currently no way to stop the beetle.

You are entitled to three free credit reports a year. I attended a seminar and it was recommended that you request a free report from each agency at a different time. For example: one in April, one in August and one in December. You will then have a rolling view of your credit. Here is a list of the agencies and their numbers: Equifax 800-685-1111, Experian 800-397-3742 and TransUnion 800-916-8800.

Tonight Saturday, Oct 22, and then again on Saturday, Oct 29 Gannon University Schuster Theatre audiences will see Rosalyn Drexler’s “Lobby,” Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt,” Don Nigro’s “Woodman and the Goblins,” and “The Lost Girl.” “Lobby” shows what would happen if Oscar Wilde met Blanche Dubois. “Woodman and the Goblins” tells the tale of a man who finds more than he bargains for in the woods. “The Lost Girl” is a story of dislocation and language told in a very humorous way. 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.

* The Belle Valley Volunteer Fire Department Haunted House, The Valley of the Ghouls, opens Saturday October 8 from 7:30 pm to 11 pm and runs each weekend thru the end of the month. Price $4. Not intended for kids under 8 years old.
* 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 scary.
* 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.

Jake Fischer made 28 saves for his first Ontario Hockey League victory to lead the Windsor Spitfires to a 4-1 win over the Erie Otters in front of 4,102 at the Tullio Arena Friday tonight. The Otters return to action Saturday when the travel to Sarnia to face the Sting in the first of two road games. The next Otters home game takes place Wednesday at 7:30 pm when the Mississauga IceDogs visit the Tullio Arena.

Gannon University senior David Patronik has qualified for the 2006 Porter Cup, one of the top amateur tournaments in the world. After the tournament that takes place next July, he’ll then consider turning pro. Patronik is a two time Buffalo District Golf Association champion and recently won the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship by nine strokes.

Posted by Dennis at October 22, 2005 7:00 AM

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