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Erie PA News and Events for Sunday February 26, 2006
Posted by Dennis on February 26, 2006
Looks like we due for a last blast of Winter. Erie is expecting 3-6 inches of snow by late Monday. It any of it sticks it won’t last long. We’re due for temps in the 40’s by mid week.
Gannon University announced a new bachelor’s degree program in sport management and marketing. The program will become part of the university’s curriculum beginning in the fall 2006 semester. Providing specialized education in management and marketing, with a focus on the industry of sport, is the main objective of the program, said Jason P Willow, PhD, an assistant professor of sport and exercise science who will serve as coordinator of the new program.
Nine Mercyhurst College education majors and 25 students from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine will take a six-week course on personal economics into Erie area Catholic schools during March and April. The program is sponsored by Junior Achievement. Each of the Mercyhurst and LECOM students will teach one lesson a week for six weeks to the same fifth to eighth-grade class. As part of the personal economics curriculum, the middle school-age students will be encouraged to assess their personal skills and interests, explore career options, learn job-seeking skills, and discover the value of an education. They also learn about budgets, personal and family financial management and the use of credit.
Paul Schuler, a financial adviser with Waddell and Reed Inc since 2000, has moved to the Topeka, KS office from Raleigh, NC Schuler has a bachelor’s from Gannon University in Erie, Pa.
Arlene Kline is exhibiting her oil and acrylic works during the month of March at the Brunswick-Glynn County (Ga) Library. Kline received her education in art from Edinboro University.
This weekend two sporting events took most of the hotel rooms in Erie County. Edinboro University hosted the Eastern Wrestling League Tournament with team coming in from West Virginia, Bloomsburg, Cleveland State, Lock Haven and Pitt. And the Erie Youth Hockey Association Joe McCallion House Select Tourney took place with 30 teams visiting the area.
The Allegheny College Playshop Theatre will present “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by David Jortner, visiting assistant professor of communication arts and theatre. The play will be performed today at 2:30 pm in Arter Hall on the Allegheny College campus.
The theater group All An Act Productions is performing the comedy “The Middle Ages” by AR Gurney. The show will run Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 3 pm through March 5th at East High School, located at 1001 Atkins Street, Erie, Pa 16503. General Admission is $5.
Brian Regan will be at the Warner Theatre tonight. Some tickets are still available.
The Erie Freeze open their season at Reading tonight at 7 pm. Rumor has it that last year the Freeze was the only team in the league that made money, about $50,000, but I doubt that. $50 maybe, $50K, no way. The other teams lost as much as $100,000.
Sheena Gordon (McDowell) led the No 9 North Carolina women’s track and field team to a runner-up finish Saturday at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships at Rector Field House on the campus of Virginia Tech. Gordon, who finished second in the high jump both indoors and outdoors in 2005, claimed her first ACC title with her best effort of the season. The Erie, Pa, native cleared 6-2, making her just the fifth woman in ACC indoor meet history to do so. Gordon also picked up three points in the triple jump with a sixth-place effort of 42-8 1/4.
Mercyhurst College had 7 wrestlers qualify for the NCAA Championships. Will Tedder (157) and Zack Schafer (165) won individual championships. JJ Zanetta finished second at 141. Payne Lint finished third at 141 as did Don Cummings at 149. Hudson Harrison (174) and Leonard Calhoun (133) each placed fourth. The Gannon University wrestling team had three individual wrestlers advance to nationals, including 149-pound champion RJ Paterniti (Erie Cathedral Prep), AJ Sayles who finished second at 165 and Brandon Monin who notched his second straight trip to nationals with a third-place finish at 157.
Brett Liscomb sparked a third period comeback with a pair of goals to carry the Ottawa 67’s to a 3-2 win over the Erie Otters in an Ontario Hockey League game played tonight in front of 5,080 at the Tullio Arena. Adam Berti paced the Otters (21-32-3-3) with a goal and an assist. Mike Blunden scored the other Otters goal while Ryan O’Marra assisted on both. The loss was the Otters fourth straight and dropped them seven points behind the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds for the eighth and final playoff spot.
The Gannon women’s lacrosse team, ranked seventh in the IWLCA preseason poll, opened a 15-1 halftime lead and easily cruised past Presbyterian (SC) 21-3 Saturday afternoon in the 2006 season opener in Clinton, South Carolina.
The Mercyhurst College women’s lacrosee team lost its season opener to 9th ranked Queens (NC) by a score of 19-8.
Jennifer Swoyer (Erie, Pa/McDowell) scored three first-half goals as the Bucknell women’s water polo team sped out to an 8-0 halftime lead and cruised to a 12-3 victory over Siena.
Allegheny College will complete a major modernization and renovation of its Robertson Athletic Complex to include a new eight-lane competition track, a FieldTurf playing surface, scoreboard and lights. The renovated field will be named in honor of Frank Fuhrer, a 1948 graduate of the college and former trustee, whose lead gift of $1 million, along with donations by numerous other alumni and friends, made the renovations possible.
Posted by Dennis at February 26, 2006 7:06 AM
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