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Erie PA News and Events for Tuesday November 29, 2005

If you’re not from the Erie area it’s hard to imagine how common it is this time of the year to see a dead deer along the side of the road. The Oil City Derrick reported in a story, Body mistaken for deer found along Route 157, that a man was hit and killed by a car. He spent several days along the side of a road because people thought he was a deer. The unidentified man was wearing tan clothing.

The high temperature yesterday in Erie PA on November 28 was 67 degrees. The record for the date is 70 which occurred in 1990.

Area residents receiving their new Talking Phone Book can recycle their old books to help the Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania. For the 11th consecutive year, the Food Bank is asking the community to donate outdated directories to be recycled and made into new insulation by Erie Energy Products. The Erie Food Bank, in turn, will receive the going price per ton for the books from Erie Energy Products. Outdated books may be taken to the following drop-off locations from now until January 31: Food Bank – 1703 Ash Street , Monday-Friday, 8 am to 4 pm. Erie Energy Products –1400 Irwin Dr, Monday - Friday, 9 am to 2 pm. Those taking books to Erie Energy are requested to mention that the books are being donated for the Second Harvest Food Bank so that the Food Bank will benefit from the donation.

McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company, announced today that the McDougal Littell Middle School Math program reduces the achievement gap for minority students and improves their attitudes toward math, according to an independent study comparing the effectiveness of middle school math textbooks. The authors include Dr Ron Larson, professor of mathematics at Penn State University at Erie, The Behrend College.

Jim Durovchic, a senior systems analyst at GE Transportation in Erie, created a Web-based eServices application that allows technicians in any of GE’s 40 North American service centers to immediately access schematics, diagrams, manuals, images, step-by-step repair instructions, and other end-user documents for any GE Transportation product. The project has been named a Top 100 IT Project of 2005 by InfoWorld Magazine. Durovchic earned a bachelor’s degree in management information systems at Penn State Behrend in 2003. While pursuing his degree he interned and later apprenticed at the Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA) in Knowledge Park, Penn State Behrend’s emerging technology business park located adjacent to campus.

The Allegheny College Choirs will present their annual Christmas concert on Sunday, Dec 4 at 4 pm in Shafer Auditorium. The concert celebrates the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Allegheny Singers under Morten J Luvaas. The event is free and open to the public.

A Richard Norton, a world-renowned speaker on Muslim policy in the Middle East, will visit Mercyhurst College Dec 6-9, to speak at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center, and to meet during the week with students and faculty. His lecture at the Performing Arts Center is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec 6, at 8:15 pm. His topic that night will be “Between Fascination and Fanaticism: America in the Minds of Muslims.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Handel’s venerated masterpiece, “Messiah,” will be presented with the contemporary “A Ceremony of Carols” by Benjamin Britten when Mercyhurst College choirs perform the annual holiday concert on Sunday, Dec 11, at 7:30 pm in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. The choirs will perform again Wednesday, Dec 14, at St Maryu’s Chapel at Mercyhurst North East. The concerts are free and open to the public, although donations toward the choir’s Poland Tour 2006 would be appreciated.

Gannon University’s Aurimas Truskauskas (Kalnelis Village, Lithuania) has been named Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for his performance during three games last week. Truskauskas averaged a double-double last week with 20 points and 15 rebounds per game.

Posted by Dennis at November 29, 2005 7:05 AM

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