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Erie PA News and Events for Friday February 17, 2006
Posted by Dennis on February 17, 2006
This could be the first tax I have ever agreed with. State Representative John Pallone (D-New Kensington) introduced House Bill 2454 which will levy a $100 fee on every resident in communities with 9,000 or more people that require state police because they are too cheap to have their own police force. My state taxes are going to people that don’t want to pay for their own police force. For way too long people have been leaving the cities for the suburbs and their lower taxes. They want the same services, they just don’t want to pay for them. This could affect residents living in Harborcreek, Fairview and Summit.
Sue Weber of Millcreek wants the Millcreek Water Authority want to merge with the Erie Water Authority. We’ll get on that as soon as Millcreek Township merges with the City of Erie. Generations of City of Erie taxpayers have paid for the infrastructure. Millcreek taxpayers just want to pay less for their water than they do now.
Stan Shumway of Erie Management Group was recently in the United States territory of American Samoa. He and two other businessmen from Safelite Autoglass inquired about setting up a call center there. “Erie Management Group is a private, strategic investor whose mission encompasses two equally weighted purposes: generating economic expansion and high quality, skilled employment in and around Erie, Pennsylvania and realizing economic returns commensurate with investment risk.” Don’t think one counts being in and around Erie.
Accuride Corporation came out with their earnings today. One of the expenses was “$0.3 million related to exiting the tire-mold business at our facility in Erie, PA.” The company has a couple of plants around Erie. Hope they aren’t moving something out of town.
Woodcraft Industries, a hardwood parts manufacturer, is opening a plant in Pymatuning Township, Mercer County and will employ up to 185 people within three years. Woodcraft will be settling in a 88,000 square foot facility on nine acres in the Greenville-Reynolds Industrial Park. This is a different company than the Woodcraft Industries in State College PA.
It hit a record high of 62 degrees in Erie PA. Tonights expected low - 18 degrees.
It was announced that Saint Andrew School will close. No surprise there. There were fewer than 100 students at the school. If there is no big endowment and students, parents and alumni don’t support a school, it closes. This was the school that former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge went to. Wonder if they ever asked him to raise funds for the school.
Why advertise when you can just put out a well written press release and make it seem like news. Erie therapist Curtis Bannister and his wife Stephanie own two properties on an island in the Bahamas. They want people to rent them out so they put out a press release. Hurricane Katrina crushed the area last year and Hurricane Frances caused very heavy damage in 2004. The island was named after a pirate. Maybe the legacy continues.
Greater Erie Board of REALTORS(r), of which I am a member of, welcomed the following new members; Tiffany M Leech, Mary Beth Nupp, Clark Peters, Karen Wesmiller, Nancy Snyder, Valerie J Lord, Marcey Buckeye, Ronald Church, Hope A Hess, Abigayle Busse, Nicholas Marinelli, Robert J McGee and Anthony H Zientek.
Erie PA native Amy Casey will be one of the featured painters at the upcoming exhibition “3 Artists,” opening March 3, at the E Gordon Gallery in Cleveland. There is a nice feature on her in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Highmark Quad Games Cross County Ski and Snowshoe Race is now scheduled for Sunday Feb 26 at 1 pm at Peek’n Peak. The event was originally scheduled for Jan 8, then pushed back to Jan 15, then Jan 22, then Jan 29, and then Feb 5, etc.
The musical Grand Hotel is being performed at the Erie Playhouse Feb today through Feb 19. For tickets and info call (814) 454-2852.
The great comedy troupe In All Seriousness will be performing “Who’s Line” at The Station Dinner Theater tonight. These guys are flat out incredible. Go if you can. Tickets are $24 w/dinner or $12 w/o. Call 864-2002 for show and ticket info.
Pink Martini will be performing tonight Friday, February 17, 2006, at 8 pm in the Mercyhurst College Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. Tickets cost between $10-25. To order tickets, call the box office at (814) 824-3000.
The Gannon University Erie Chamber Orchestra “Guess the Composer Concert” will feature the orchestra ensemble as soloist. The performance is free and open to the public and will be held Friday, February 17 at 7:30 pm in Gannon’s Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel, 512 Peach Street. The concert is free and open to the public.
The theater group All An Act Productions is performing the comedy “The Middle Ages” by AR Gurney. The show opens on Friday February 17th and will run Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 3 pm, February 17th through March 5th at East High School, located at 1001 Atkins Street, Erie, Pa 16503. General Admission is $5.
The Gannon University Schuster Theatre will host performances of “Cats” Friday-Sunday, Feb 17-19. Thursday-Saturday performances will begin at 8 pm, Sunday performances at 3 pm. Tickets are $5 for reserved seating. The Feb 19 performance will be the Alex Clemente Theatre Fundraising Event, tickets for this show only are $15. Proceeds will benefit the Alex Clemente Fund for Performing and Related Arts. Schuster Theatre is located at 620 Sassafras Street in Erie PA. For more information, contact the box office at 814-871-7494, or call 814-871-5467.
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.
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 Experience Erie Children’s Museum is hold an Olympics Day on Saturday, Feb 18th from 11am-3pm. Children will learn about the Olympics and their origin. There will be hands-on crafts and activities relating to the Olympics. Make your own torch. This event is free with Museum admission of $4 per person, free to members.
The Allegheny College Music Department will host pianist Jon Gonder, associate professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh in Johnstown, on Saturday, Feb 18 at 2 pm as he gives a solo recital in the Ford Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public. For more information on the recital, contact the Music Department at 814-332-4338.
Demondi Johnson and Bobby Bossman back-to-back three-pointers at the end of the overtime session erased a four-point deficit in the final 22 seconds and proved to be the difference in the thrilling Gannon men’s basketball team 77-76 victory over Ashland.
The Mercyhurst College men’s basketball team (19-6, 9-6 GLIAC South) got 21 points from Avi Fogel, but Findlay (21-3, 13-2 GLIAC South) captured a 60-47 decision at the MAC.
The Gannon Lady Knights landed four players in double digits and defeated Ashland 91-89.
The Mercyhurst College women’s basketball team rallied from a 6-point deficit in the last 64 seconds to turn back Findlay 60-55 at the Athletic Center Thursday night.
Mike Machuga of Erie is in 5th place at the PBA US Open after the 3rd round of qualifying. Bob Learn Jr, winner of the 1999 US Open, is in 46th. Ron Palombi Jr of Erie won the title in 1990.
The Erie Otters play tonight in Guelph. The Otters return home for games Saturday and Sunday at the Tullio Arena against the Owen Sound Attack.
It must be Spring because college baseball has started. Canisius College plays their first game today. Jim Travers (Erie Cathedral Prep) and Mark Tupek (Erie Mercyhurst Prep/Mercyhurst NE) are members of the team.
WR David ‘Tuffy’ Brooks of Clarion-Limestone has signed a letter of intent to play football at Mercyhurst College.
Posted by Dennis at February 17, 2006 7:01 AM
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