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Erie PA News and Events for Thursday July 20, 2006
Posted by Dennis on July 20, 2006
The young girl that abandoned her baby on Tuesday evening has turned herself in. It’s up to the DA to decide if any charges will be filed. The Erie County Office of Children and Youth has custody of the baby for now. With their track record that’s a scary thought. The baby is still at Hamot Medical Center.
More than 250 people are scheduled to attend Penn State Behrend’s first Spend a Summer Evening event today which invites high school students to attend an informative, informal session with the college’s faculty and other representatives. The second Spend a Summer Evening session is on Thursday, August 3 and Spend a Summer Day will be held on Friday, August 4, beginning at 2 pm.
The Penn State Behrend Alumni Society has scheduled three opportunities for Erieites to savor the legendary Penn State’s University Creamery ice cream. The ice cream will be availabile July 21-22 at Key West Phest in Liberty Park and August 18-20 at Celebrate Erie. Also, they are taking orders for half-gallons a with August 7 order deadline. with a August 26 pick-up date. Phone orders with a credit card can be placed by calling 814-898-6159.
A $200,000 EDA/RLF loan closed for Frontier Pharmacy of Erie. The loan was used to purchase a building. Two additional jobs will be created within the next three years.
Custom Cars USA is a car club located in Erie. They are doing a Model Serch for local girls. The details aare on their site.
The Clarks are playing at Celebrate Erie on Sat Aug 19.
The Erie SeaWolves took game four against the Bowie Baysox 4-1 behind a strong pitching performance by starter Nate Bumstead to gain a series split. The SeaWolves take on the New Britain Rock Cats tonight at 7:05 pm. The first 2,000 fans will receive a scratch-off card for a chance to win $5,000 and a Curtis Granderson Lithograph drawn by local sports artist Kevin-John Jobczynski.
The Wichita Thunder announced today that defenseman Darren McMillan has re-signed with the team for a second season. McMillan played three seasons (1998-2001) with the Erie Otters and then attended St Francis Xavier University.
Former Mercyhurst College starting pitcher Brandon Mendola signed a contract with the Kalamazoo Kings of the independent Frontier League.
Bring your family to celebrate July and National Hot Dog Month with food, fun, and entertainment provided by the Sunset Café and the Big Green Screen Theatre at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC). Join in Thursdays in July from 4pm-7pm, for a Picnic on the Patio and a “Top Dog and a Movie” package, for only $6.95 per person, including a Gourmet Footlong Smith’s Hot Dog, Coke and a ticket to one of the featured large format films in July, The Living Sea or Lewis and Clark, showing on the Big Green Screen. Today, John Sedelmyer will be playing with Rob Gibson on the patio from 4:30pm-7pm. The whole family can participate in games and contests including Hot Dog Trivia, “What’s on that Dog?” condiment tasting contest, and Pin the Hot Dog on the Bun. Prizes will include Big Green Screen passes and coupons, prizes from the Erie Sea Wolves, T-shirts and other great prizes from the Nature Shop at TREC.
The Erie County Historical Society has a Horse Drawn Carriage Tour with Wine Tasting every Thursday at 7 pm through September 21. This downtown carriage tour focuses on the architecture of Erie’s State Street mercantile and financial district, as well as Perry Square Park and the city’s West Sixth Street Historic District. Mansions, churches, other notable structures, and the Erie Extension Canal are included in this tour of the west side of Erie. After your tour, please join us at the Watson-Curtze Mansion for wine tasting and other refreshments that have been provided by our local wineries. Each guest receives a complimentary wine glass. Seating is limited. Reservations required. Please call 814-454-1813 Ext. 0 to make a reservation.
Ishcabaha (celtic music) plays a free concert tonight, Thursday July 20th at 7 pm at the Patricia McCain Amphitheater at the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park (LEAF). Join LEAF in their 5th season of this Arts at the Arboretum free music series.
The weeks downtown Erie block party takes place tonight at 7 pm on North Park Row in front of Park Place and Bertrand’s Bistro. ‘New Wave Nation’ performs. The event is FREE. Food and beverages will be available for sale.
Gannon’s Schuster Theatre 3rd annual Shakespeare Summer Nights will be held July 21-30, 2006 with free performances held in AJ’s Way south of the Gannon Arch on West 7th Street in Erie. The Mainstage Company performs “The Merry Wives of Windsor” July 21-22, 28 at 7 pm and “Romeo and Juliet” July 23, 29-30 at 7 pm. The Young Company performs “The Taming of the Shrew” July 22, 29 at noon and 1 pm. For more details call Fr Shawn Clerkin at 814-871-7493.
Gannon’s Schuster Theatre 3rd annual Shakespeare Summer Nights will be held July 21-30, 2006 with free performances held in AJ’s Way south of the Gannon Arch on West 7th Street in Erie. The Mainstage Company performs “The Merry Wives of Windsor” July 21-22, 28 at 7 pm and “Romeo and Juliet” July 23, 29-30 at 7 pm. The Young Company performs “The Taming of the Shrew” July 22, 29 at noon and 1 pm. For more details call Fr Shawn Clerkin at 814-871-7493.
Waterford Heritage Days takes place July 21, 22 and 23 In Waterford PA.
The 3rd annual Key West Fest will be held July 21-22 at Liberty Park. The great Jimmy Buffet tribute band Key West Express and Peter Mayer Group will perform.
Allegheny College will hold a soccer camp, July 23-27 in Meadville Pa for kids ages 10-18. Overnight $330, commuter $250. Team and sibling discounts are available. Call 814-332-4782 or 814-332-5208 or download an application.
Gannon University will co-host a summer camp for youth who enjoy nature and outdoor activities.The Junior Naturalist Outdoor Adventure Camp (JNOAC) also will be hosted by Presque Isle State Park and Family First Sports Park. The adventure camp is designed for children ages 8-12 and will run Monday-Friday, July 24-28. The camp will be held at Presque Isle State Park and will allow participants to explore the outdoors, learn team building skills, and challenge themselves by engaging in fun adventures and activities. The camp is presented by the Gannon University Continuing Education and Computer Training Center. Registration is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and is encouraged by Friday, July 14. A $30 per child grant is available; contact doug@americanadventuresports.com. The grants are provided by the Pioneer Project. For more information, call 814-871-5885.
The summer sky will be the topic of the next Summer Open House Night in Astronomy at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Roger Knacke, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the college’s School of Science, will present “Summer Stars and the Milky Way” at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 26, in 101 Otto Behrend Science Building. This Summer Open House Night in Astronomy is free and open to the public. It is a non-technical presentation for ages 6 and older. For more information, call the School of Science at 814-898-6105.
Here’s some info on a great new Erie area event. The Guelcher Film Series at the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park, aka Movies in the Park - The Biggest Stars Under The Stars. Movies will begin at 9 pm. Here is a tentative list of films.
July 28, 2006 The Black Stallion (1979)
August 4, 2006 Stormy Weather (1943)
August 11, 2006 Waking Ned Devine (1998)
August 18, 2006 CelebrateErie Week, That Thing You Do (1996)
August 25, 2006 Triplets of Belleville (2003)
September 1, 2006 Half Way to Saint Patrick’s Day,
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
Scooters is hosting the 1st annual Motorcycles 4 Meals poker run to benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of NW PA on August 12, 2006. Registration starts at 9 am at the Food Bank, 1703 Ash Street with the first bike leaving at Noon. There will be FREE food, FREE music, Chinese auction and a 50/50 raffle at Scooters (last stop). First place winner gets $200, 2nd place $100 and 3rd place $50. For more information visit the link above or call Michele King at 459-3663.
Posted by Dennis at July 20, 2006 7:36 AM
Comments
The times on your blog roll aren't correct when you hold the cursor over the entries. Your post also isn't correct. It wasn't up until after 11 AM and it says it was posted at 7:36AM NOT. Anyway, I find feedburner to be so slow in rolling. It is sometimes 45 minutes to an hour before the entries "roll". Bloglines notifer is within minutes of the posted entry before it shows up in the notifiers. Just wondering if you should change feeds. I don't know if Bloglines would work for your application but feedburner entries become "old news" by the time it rolls for breaking stories.
Posted by: Linda at July 20, 2006 11:58 AM
And the Celebrate Erie website STILL hasn't been updated.
Posted by: Emma at July 20, 2006 2:26 PM
I agree the times on the sidebar aren't correct. That's due to the various blog platforms that people use and their time zone settings.
Feedburner itself is very timely at grabbing new feeds. ErieBlogs only polls all the various blog feeds hourly to check for new posts, so that list of What's New on the Erie Blogs isn't up the second.
Posted by: Mike at July 20, 2006 2:34 PM
I will try this again. The blog roll shows the time in GMT which is Greenwhich Mean Time. It is also UTC or Z (Zulu) this is not Military time. For us here in EDT time zone in the summer we are 4 hours behind GMT. So instead of subtracting 12 from the 15:36 (Which I could see how it would be mistaken for military time) which would be 7:36 you would subtract 4 and that leaves you with 11:36
I know this because in the world of weather, meteorologist get their information in GMT or Z(zulu) time. So I have to know this...
Posted by: Brian Neudorff at July 20, 2006 7:33 PM
The Clarks...hence why I'll be home ;)
Posted by: Paige at July 21, 2006 12:54 AM
I spoke with Father Shawn Clerkin yesterday about Gannon's Shakespeare Summer Nights. The schedule for the performances has changed slightly. They will not be doing "Taming of the Shrew." They will be doing "Words Words Words" instead. Some dates and times have changed also. "Words Words Words" will be performed July 22-23 at 6:30 pm and again July 28-29 at 6:30 pm.
Posted by: Deb Carlson at July 21, 2006 6:35 AM
Another thing regarding times posted for each blog entry here on Erieblogs.com, we use MovableType and the time is set to when the entry is first created. Dennis may not post for another hour...two...or even three hours later. Although actually posted at that later time, it has a creation date of an earlier time. The only solution is to manually adjust the time before each post--but why bother. It's inconsequential as well as when entries on the blog role were posted (IMHO).
Posted by: RichardZ.com at July 21, 2006 8:10 AM
Unless, of course, there is road closings that someone may post due to accident etc that the times may mean a lot if you are heading in that direction or if some event is canceled and a blogger posts that news immediately, then the time it was posted is important as well as it posting immediately. The main benefit to a blog is having things posted "real time". I'm just saying in the event of a catastrophe, picture blogs posted immediately would be (and has been in other blog sites) of great importance and interest. Maybe blog rolls can't be made real time, just individual blogs site. Nit picking?, yes, but remember the advantage of blogging news items is being able to post it "live" as it happens. I realize most blogs here are just day-to-day type diaries, where the times posted are meaningless. But at some point, some of us will be there when something that really matters happens (with text and picture modems in cameras and cell phones), it would be nice to be cutting edge instead of old news. I just don't know if that is possible yet on a blog roll. I looked more closely at Bloglines and they state in their facts that they only check once an hour. No advantage there.
Posted by: Linda at July 21, 2006 10:51 AM
Blogs are just not conducive to relaying that kind of information (last minute relay of info). For that kind of service, text messaging to a cellular phone or instant messaging would be better. I would be PISSED OFF if Bloglines or another aggregator pulled our feed more than once an hour because that would be a waste of our bandwidth. We do 'ping' major aggregators and I'm sure other bloggers do as well so the information posted here and on other blogs should be 'fresh,' that is, within the hour.
Posted by: RichardZ.com at July 22, 2006 7:20 PM
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