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Erie PA News and Events for Monday November 28, 2005
Posted by Dennis on November 28, 2005
Almost 1,000,000 hunters will be in the woods of Pennsylvania today for the first day of deer season. We’ve had a couple of warm days so hunters won’t be able to track deer in the snow. Temps will be in the mid 60’s today. Most schools and many businesses are closed today for the un-official holiday.
There were two small fires yesterday. One was a garage fire that was called in around 3 pm. Shortly after that firefighters responded to a car fire. Being a slow news day, the TV stations were there. The firefighters spent more time whinning about the layoffs of some firefighters than they did putting out the fires.
Bill Hillhouse of Erie has started a blog on his House of Pitching site. Hillhouse is one of the best fastpitch softball pitchers in the World.
Clay Kilgore was recently named director of the David Bradford House. Kilgore is a history graduate of Penn State Behrend and also attended a number of preservation and conservation classes at Mercyhurst College.
Donald Huffman, co-inventor of the first process to mass produce the famous molecule known as buckminsterfullerene, will speak on “The Race to Catch a Buckyball” at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College today, Monday, Nov 28. His lecture will be held at 4 pm in Otto Behrend Science Building, room 114. The lecture is free and the public is invited.
The legacy of the Rev Martin Luther King Jr will be the subject of a Nov. 30 guest lecture at Gannon University. The lecture, to be given by attorney Cornell L Moore, is titled “Dr King’s Legacy: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow… Maybe.” Moore, a partner with the Minneapolis, Minn, law firm of Dorsey and Whitney, also will discuss the Civil Rights movement and how it impacted him personally. Moore participated in the 1963 March on Washington. Moore’s lecture is free and open to the public and will begin at 7:30 pm in the Yehl Room of Gannon’s Waldron Center, 124 West Seventh Street.
Gannon University’s Erie Chamber Orchestra annual Christmas sing along concert with the St Paul Episcopal Children’s Choir will be held Friday December 2 at St Patrick’s Church, 130 East 4th Street, at 7:30 pm. The concert is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Tyler Haskins scored three times and added an assist to lead the Toronto St Michael’s Majors to a 6-3 win over the Erie Otters. Justin Hodgman, Derrick Bagshaw and Mike Blunden scored for the Otters. The Otters lost for the eighth straight time.
General McLane will play Franklin Regional at Slippery Rock at 7 pm on Friday for the PIAA Class AAA Western Final.
Posted by Dennis at November 28, 2005 6:52 AM
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