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Erie PA News and Events for Sunday January 29, 2006
Posted by Dennis on January 29, 2006
Soon the City of Erie will begin negotiations with Erie Cablevision for the fee in exchange for the ability to run cable in the city rights of way. The way the city negotiates, we could end up paying Time Warner and paying for their health benefits. The city receives no fees for Internet or digital phone services that Erie Cablevision sells. Currently, Time Warner Cable returns 4 percent of its gross revenues to the City of Erie general fund and 1 percent of its gross revenues to Erie Community Access Television. Can the City of Erie afford to subsidize a cable TV channel when they have laid-off 60 police officers and firemen? It will be interesting to see how this is covered locally. The company that publishes the local newspaper was, and mostly likely still is, part owner of Erie Cablevision.
When you mix a great cause with drinking and golf, you come up with the MECA United Cerebral Palsy Barstool Open. It’s time for the 8th Annual Barstool Open. This year’s event is set to take place on Saturday, February 18, 2006. Download your 2006 Barstool Open Registration Form today. If you haven’t heard about the event before, here is a quick run down. Teams of 4 people walk bar to bar, playing a miniature golf hole at each bar. The bars get pretty creative on the designs. It’s gets a bit difficult after you’ve had 6 beers at 6 bars.
The registration fee is $25 per person, $100 per team. You must bring a putter and a couple of golf balls. Almost 1,000 people participated in last years event making the Erie event the largest in the country.
The Highmark Quad Games Cross County Ski and Snowshoe Race has been postponed again due to lack of snow. The event was originally scheduled for Jan 8th, then pushed back to Jan 15, then Jan 22 and then Jan 29, now has been rescheduled for Feb 5. If there is still no snow by Feb 5 they will then try each successive Sunday. The final attempt will be Feb 26.
eBizITPA, in partnership with the Gannon University SBDC, is offering educational programs on Internet sales and marketing strategies. The first in a series of 3 courses is Getting Started with an Online Store. It will be offered Feb 2 at eBizITPA at Knowledge Park, 5340 Fryling Road, Erie PA, from 9 am - 3:30 pm. Cost is $65.
Daniel Ryder and Greg Stewart both scored twice and added an assist to lead the Peterborough Petes to a 9-5 win over the Erie Otters in an Ontario Hockey League game played last night in front of a season-high crowd of 5,566 at the Tullio Arena. Ryan O’Marra paced the Otters with two goals and an assist. Josh Vatri, Chris Greene and Mike Blunden scored the other Erie goals. Andrew Hotham collected two assists. The Otters lost for the 10th consecutive time to establish a new franchise record.
The Mercyhurst men’s basketball team (15-5, 5-5 GLIAC) held Gannon (9-11, 3-7 GLIAC) to just four points over the first 12 minutes of the second half to propel the Lakers to 48-45 win at the MAC in front of a packed house of 1,923. Mercyhurst picked up just its 12th win in 51 tries against the Golden Knights.
Kevin Buczynski led all scorers with 21 points as the Penn State-Behrend men’s basketball team (14-3) defeated Frostburg State 66-55.
The Sacred Heart Pioneers scored twice within a two-minute span midway in the first period to erase a 1-0 deficit and defeat the Mercyhurst College men’s hockey team 2-1 Saturday night at the Milford Ice Pavilion.
The Gannon University women’s basketball team broke open a tight game with a 12-0 run over a five-and-a-half minute span in the second half and went on from there to defeat Mercyhurst 83-74 in a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) game at the Athletic Center.
Jessica Serafin scored 15 and Rachel Slomski added 13 as the Penn State-Behrend women’s basketball team (10-6) beat the Frostburg State Bobcats 69-56.
The 6th ranked Mercyhurst College women’s hockey team scored four times in 14 shots in the first period and went on to defeat Number 11 Boston College 5-2 at Kelley Rink Saturday night. The Lakers, who bowed in the last minute to 2nd ranked New Hampshire Friday, improved to 17-7-2 overall.
Cody Collins has signed a letter of intent to play Division I hockey at Mercyhurst College. This season Collins has 24 goals and 35 assists for 59 points in 48 games for the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League.
Freshman Erin Kerner (Erie Mercyhurst Prep) scored a career-high 20 points, including nine straight at one point for the Bobcats, as the Quinnipiac University women’s basketball team captured a 61-54 win over St. Francis (NY) on Saturday afternoon at the Aquilone Court in Brooklyn, NY.
Erie PA native Justin Mercier scored a goal to help the Miami RedHawks (19-4-4) to a 5-0 win over the Ferris State Bulldogs.
University of North Carolina Senior Sheena Gordon (McDowell) won the women’s triple jump with a leap of 43-0 1/4 (13.11m) Saturday afternoon at the UNC Fast Times meet. The Erie, Pa, native was also second in the high jump with a top mark of 5-10 (1.78m).
Doug Bauman (Erie Cathedral Prep) made his final home appearance in the Rolfs Aquatic Center on Saturday evening as 19th ranked Notre Dame men’s swimming and diving team ended the 2005-06 dual meet season on a high note by taking the Shamrock Invitational.
Posted by Dennis at January 29, 2006 7:19 AM
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Here's the link to the Gannon SBDC website:
http://www.sbdcgannon.org
Posted by: Mary Bula at January 29, 2006 12:19 PM
A huge thank you. It only took 5 years. It wasn't the fault of Gannon. The University of Pennsylvania was in charge of it.
Posted by: Dennis at January 29, 2006 3:00 PM
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