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Erie PA News and Events for Saturday October 29, 2005
Posted by Dennis on October 29, 2005
SSG Matthew “Matt” Dzuricky of Erie, Pa is serving in Iraq with Echo Company, Task Force 4-64 of the 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division. He commands a Buffalo, a South African APC (armored personnel carrier) designed to withstand land mines. He and his crew patrol the streets of Bagdad searching for mines and improvised explosive devices.
Students attending Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities would see their tuition increase by $152 or 3.1 percent next Fall if the state raises its funding by 6 percent. The current tuition at Edinboro and the other state schools is $4,906. Enrollment at the 14 state schools the year reached a record 107,251 students.
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The Penn State Behrend School of Humanities and Social Sciences will host “Confronting Horror: A Workshop on Horror Films and Fiction” today, Saturday, Oct 29. The workshop begins at 11 am and continues until 6 pm; all events will be held in Room 117 of the Reed Student Union Building and are free and open to the public.
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.
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 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.
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.
Today is the book sale at the Erie County Library Blasco Memorial branch at 160 East Front Street. The hours 9-3.
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, 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.
Sean O’Connor and Ryan O’Marra each scored in a shootout to lift the Erie Otters to a 5-4 win over the Owen Sound Attack in an Ontario Hockey League game played Friday at the J.D. McAurther Arena. Josh Disher turned aside two of the three shooter he faced. Mike Blunden paced the Otters (8-6) with two goals and an assist in the game. The veteran forward now has eight goals and six assists in his last four games. Derrick Bagshaw and Vince Scott netted the other Otters goals while O’Marra collected three assists. The Otters and Attack get back at it again Saturday night in Owen Sound.
Michael Machuga of Erie, Pa earned at the PBA Tulsa Open on the Pro Bowlers Tour.
Posted by Dennis at October 29, 2005 7:10 AM
Comments
Quote, "Sean O'Connor and Ryan O'Marra each scored in a shootout..."
I could have sworn you were going to give a tally on a drinking contest at Sullivans or Brannigans then the Otters were mentioned. Does that make me prejudicial?
Posted by: RichardZ.com at October 29, 2005 11:58 AM
Well, against Canadian teenagers, maybe.
Posted by: Dennis at October 29, 2005 7:00 PM
Marlene Mosco is a disgrace to the city of Erie, and she shouldn't have even been involved at all in the selection process for the new President. The woman who leads the cover-up gets to be involved in choosing the New President?? Mosco is pure scum, and she couldn't have cared less that Garvey molested those boys. But when the most important thing in your life is having "status" in a small town (as Mosco has done her whole life), your personal ethics go out the window real quick.
It was never any surprise to anyone who has followed the story (and who knows Mercyhurst and Erie), that the Mercyhurst board would chose an 'insider' for their new President. The whole thing was a sham from the beginning.
They place an insider (McQuillen) in as Interim President, then assure us that they are doing a "nationwide search" for the best person, and then they install an even 'bigger' insider and close Garvey associate?
Mercyhurst also completely waisted the time of many very good candidates who they had no intention of hiring.
I just hope that the Times News does a little better job of informing the people of Erie at just how close an associate of William Garvey this Thomas Gamble is.
The article made it seem like Gamble was just another administrator up there with lots of degrees. The facts are, Gamble was part of the board that tried to cover up for Garvey last fall and protect Garvey's "legend" at Mercyhurst. Gamble and Garvey were also the lone Mercyhurst officials on C-Cubed. They've worked very closely together for many years. These things need to be pointed out more by the Times.
Of course, when you have Ed Mead (the Times publisher) saying in his column last week that "we agree" with the decision not to rename Garvey park, it's easy not to get optimistic that the Times will take any further tough stands.
Posted by: Matt at October 29, 2005 10:38 PM
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