« Erie PA News and Events for Thursday October 27, 2005 | Main | 1912 Erie Panoramic »
Erie PA News and Events for Friday October 28, 2005
Posted by Dennis on October 28, 2005
Mercyhurst College picked their new president yesterday. They will announce their selection today at 10:30 am. The big news from the school ysterday was that they paid off former president and alleged child molester Dr William Garvey. Garvey still had a couple of years left on his contract.
City of Erie Deputy Police Chief Jackie Nwokeji will retire on Monday. Erie Police Chief Charles ‘Chuck’ Bowers has selected a new deputy chief, his brother Randy Bowers. Randy Bowers was a captain in the traffic division.
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.
Today thru Saturday is the book sale at the Erie County Library Blasco Memorial branch at 160 East Front Street. The hours are 9-5 Friday and 9-3 on Saturday.
The Gannon University Schuster Theatre kicks off its 2005-06 mainstage season with “Other Worlds Than These,” 12 one-act plays performed in repertoire. Today, Friday, Oct 28, audiences will see Drexler’s “Room 17 C,” Nigro’s “The Sin Eater,” “How Many Children Had Lady MacBeth?” and Bradbury’s “The Foghorn.” Saturday, Oct 29 will bring Drexler’s “Lobby,” Bradbury’s “The Veldt,” Nigro’s “Woodman and the Goblins,” and “The Lost Girl” to the Schuster stage. All tickets are $5.
Kicking off the Mercyhurst College Dance Series at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center will be “Burn the Floor,” an Evening of Classical Spanish Dance, Saturday, Oct 29, at 2 pm and 7 pm and Sunday, Oct 30, at 2 pm. Ticket prices range from $5 to $12.50 and are available through the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center at 824-3000.
If you find yourself chased by speedy goblins on Presque Isle on Saturday, October 29, don’t race away – these ghouls are running for a good cause. The Emergency Medicine Club of Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will sponsor a 5K run/walk to benefit the Erie Shriners Hospital for Children. The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians is cosponsoring the event with help from the Erie Runners Club. The race starts a 8 am at Presque Isle Beach One and the club is encouraging runners to wear costumes. The Shrine Clowns will be entertaining and organizers are providing children’s activities and refreshments. The Emergency Medicine Club is asking each runner to collect $100 in pledges for the entry fee. Registration/pledge forms are available online on the clubs site or the day of the race.
Erie area Trick-or-treat hours:
October 31 from 6-7 pm - Conneautville.
October 31 from 6-7:30 pm - Cochranton, Conneaut Lake, Cambridge Springs, Linesville, Meadville, Saegertown, Titusville, and Townville.
October 31 from 6:30 to 8 pm - Lawrence Park and Union City.
October 31 from 6 to 8 pm - Corry, Cranesville, Edinboro, Erie, Fairview, Girard, Girard, Harborcreek, Lake City, McKean, Millcreek, Mill Village, North East, North East, Wattsburg and Waterford.
Mercyhurst College grad David Wrigley is playing with the Muskegon Fury of the UHL. He signed with the Fury immediately after the Mercyhurst season ended for their playoff run. He drove back and forth from Erie to Muskegon to finish his classes. In his first 4-games with the Fury was (1-1-2) with 10-SOG and a solid +2 rating. In the playoff games he was (0-1-1) with 13-SOG and a +1 rating. His four-year career totals at Mercyhurst read: 62-74-136 with 214 PIM in 1414 games.
Posted by Dennis at October 28, 2005 7:01 AM
Comments
Happened to click on one of the "What's New on the Erie Blogs" with some disturbing results!
Check this link out:
http://presqueisle.blogspot.com/2005/10/in-earlier-post-i-made-some-remarks.html
Notice the as it loads? I didn't let it load all the way as I am *at work* but you might want to remove presqueisle.blogspot.com from the links!
TGIF!
Nick
Posted by: Nick at October 28, 2005 8:45 AM
It's not surprising at all that Nicole Leasure left Erie. I thought she was one of the more talented ones in local media. That's what always seems to happen in Erie. The good ones leave, and we are left with all the crappy people who couldn't make it anyplace else.
Is this Erika Howland the one WJET hired who "looks" somewhat like Nicole Leasure? Because I think I've seen this one, and noted the resemblance between the two.
What often happens in the Erie market is that many of the "newbies" hired by stations seem to resemble people who are either currently at the station or who left for greener pastures.
For example, Julie Fine resembled Kelly Gaughan, and then there is WJET's Rob Macko (the poor man's Tim Miller).
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 10:38 AM
Whoops - I saw that today in my feed reader. I'll remove that post haste.
Posted by: Mike at October 28, 2005 10:45 AM
Holy shit. Talk about scum sucking spammers from hell. We (Dennis) should have held onto that domain or something. Now that asshole is going to reap the benefits of Dennis' work because of the amount of links out there to that site. Crap on a stick. Hopefully people notice this and make sure their links are updated.
I would strongly suggest that when visiting the site mentioned above, that you FLAG it using the option in the upper-right hand corner.
Posted by: RichardZ.com at October 28, 2005 10:52 AM
I've also noticed the recent advertisement run by WJET (and I believe another station) that shows us pictures of the different station pesonalities from when they were children or young adults. Is this supposed to make people want to watch WJET more?
I don't think seeing a picture of a childhood Karla Mullenax after catching her first fish at Presque Isle is going to make anyone a fan of WJET's crappy news, which seems to get worse every month.
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 1:54 PM
The media has just announced that Garvey's replacement will in fact by Dr. Thomas Gamble. Is anyone surprised???? What a disgrace! The entire Presidential search at Mercyhurst was never anything more than a sham.
Dr. Thomas Gamble is well known as one of William Garvey's closest associates at Mercyhurst College. Dr. Gamble was part of the board that protected and tried to cover up for Garvey. Dr. Gamble and Garvey were also the lone Mercyhurst representatives on the C-Cubed organization.
When the Mercyhurst Faculty Senate finally decided to get some guts and speak out about what happened, it was Dr. Thomas Gamble who publically expressed displeasure about it. He also has no plans to change the name of Garvey park, assuring that a pedophile who ruined the lives of at least a dozen young men will continue to be honored at a beautiful section of the campus.
The Mercyhurst Board should be ashamed of themselves. Garvey resigns, so they install an easily controlled stooge named Michael McQuillen (another close Garvey associate), and then they "claim" to be making an honest nationwide search for the next President.
They claimed they were seeking the "best person" for the job, and they interviewed several people whose qualifications dwarfed those of Dr. Thomas Gamble.
So what do they do? While McQuillen keeps the seat warm, Mercyhurst conducts a totally bogus Presidential search and picks Gamble.
The disgrace and dysfunction at Mercyhurst College lives on. The cover up continues, and Garvey's hold on the college lives on. Nothing has changed at Mercyhurst, and the corrupt scum that protected Garvey remain in place there with their new President, one of Garvey's closest associates.
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 3:05 PM
Without widespread changes in the board up at Mercyhurst (the same board that protected Garvey), there was no way that the corrupt group there was going to pick anyone but an insider with loyalties to Garvey, Mosco, Sennett, Daly, Bukowski, etc.
These people were part of the little "kingdom" that Garvey had built and cultivated for over 25 years. There was no way that they were going to pick anyone who would a threat to them or who would challenge Garvey's "status" at the college. Nor were they going to pick any "outsider" who wanted a "clean slate" up there.
Dr. Gamble's public comments during the later stages of the selection process 'should' have been a very troubling sign to the residents of Erie about what was really going on up there. Gamble not only publically expressed disapproval with the idea of renaming Garvey park, but he expressed displeasure with the Faculty Senate vote going public in the first place. Dr. Gamble did not want Erie residents even knowing about any faculty dissent at Mercyhurst. These things 'should' have sounded some warning sirens at Gamble as one of the finalists.
Picking McQuillen as the interim President, while at the same time reassauring the community of the Board's honest desire to do a "nationwide search" for the best possible person is just another chapter in the year-long deceit and lack of honesty coming from Mercyhurst. There was NEVER any honest search for a new President. It was just smoke and mirrors put on for the public. And don't be fooled, Mercyhurst had some serious heavyweights apply for that job. Dr. Thomas Gamble was anything but the "best" candidate for Mercyhurst College.
Mercyhurst picks a close Garvey associate (the Lap Dog McQuillen) for Interim President, then conducts a bogus nationwide search until it installs an ever CLOSER Garvey associate as President.
The dysfunction and deceit continues on....
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 3:08 PM
That was shameless nepotism shown by Police Chief Chuck Bowers in selecting his brother Randy to be Deputy Chief.
It's comforting to know that "business as usual" is still going on at City Hall in spite of the layoffs and all the talk of "changing the way we do things" here in Erie.
There were already more family reunions going on at City Hall each day then up at St. Nick's Grove in the summertime.
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 3:25 PM
There are two forums which discuss the William Garvey scandal.
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 3:31 PM
Anybody thaT PLAYED BASKETBALL AT sT.jOHN'S IN '64, '65 AND '66 KNOWS "Scoop" garvey and what he did. That list will include several names mentioned above.
Posted by: pete at November 30, 2005 11:13 AM
Add a
link and graphic to your site to show that you're from Erie. Meet new peeps, share you thoughts on our fair city, do whatever you like.
