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Erie PA News and Events for Tuesday October 10, 2006
Posted by Dennis on October 10, 2006
The conversations around Erie centered on Chytoria Graham and what she did to her baby. Graham used her 1 month old baby to strike her boyfriend. The baby is in a Pittsburgh hospital in a drug induced coma with brain damage. There were reports that she confessed to police. What a despicable crime. Tom Vinca, President, CEO and head liberal jerk at Family Services of NW PA, said he could be suffering from post pardum depression and alcoholism; that she needs counseling. Feel free to counsel her just before the state sticks a needle in her arm. Pumping out 5 kids at age 27 and going out drinking, getting into a fight with the father of 2 of your children and harming your own baby deserves a little more than a good talking to.
This story has made international headlines with stories being published from Pravda in Russia, Xinhua in China, Kazinform in Kazakhstan and 350 others that I counted online.
Brian has mentioned that 4 letter word - snow. It could get cold enough to snow around Erie this weekend. Brian seems to be a little to happy to report this. I can only describe it as an evil grin on his face as he’s doing the weather. If it does snow, the first snowball is going in his direction.
The First International Combined Festival of Dressage for Para Equestrian held last weekend in Moorsele, Belgium. Rebecca Hart of Erie, Pennsylvania on Norteassa, a 14 year old Hanoverian, finished in fourth place in the Grade III Freestyle and 7th place in the Grade III Individual.
Sunday Abraham, a candidate for president of the Washington DC Board of Education, earned a degree in biology education from Edinboro University.
Nicole L Phatak has joined the Pittsburgh law firm of Cohen and Grigsby. Phatak earned her BA in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College in 2003.
Bobby Ryan scored on a penalty shot and collected an assist to lead the Owen Sound Attack to a 4-2 win over the Erie Otters in an Ontario Hockey League game played this afternoon in front of 2,394 at the Harry Lumley Bayshore Community Centre. Marek Bartanus, Scott Tregunna and Anton Hedman scored the other Attack goals. Josh Vatri and Josh Kidd scored for the Otters. The Otters dropped their seventh straight and are almost mathematically eliminated from a playoff spot. The next Otters home games take place this Friday (October 13th) and Saturday (October 14th) against the Plymouth Whalers and Toronto St Michael’s Majors respectively.
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The Erie SeaWolves announced a chance for three lucky fans to win tickets to see their parent club, the Detroit Tigers, in the playoffs. The only way to enter is to log on to their site and click on “Win ALCS Tickets.” The winners will receive a pair of tickets to either ALCS Game 4 on Saturday, October 14, ALCS Game 5 (if necessary) on Sunday, October 15, or World Series Game 2 on Sunday, October 22 (should the Tigers advance). Please, only one entry per person. Winners will be notified via email.
Allegheny College’s WARC-90.3 is sponsoring a free concert tonight. “oh my god” plays a free, all ages concert at Allegheny College’s Grounds for Change coffee house at 9:30 pm.
There are some great family films playing on the Big Green Screen on Tuesdays in October at the Tom Ridge Enviromental Center. All films will be shown at 6:15 pm. On today it’s Free Willy, on October 17 it’s ET- The Extra Terrestrial and on October 24 it’s The Wizard of OZ. All tickets are $4.
The Erie Zoo 18th annual Zoo Boo runs October 13-30, 6-9 pm nightly. Admission is $4.50 for adults (ages 12 and up), $3 for kids 2-11 with children under 2 admitted free.
The Erie Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Bruce Morton Wright, and in residency at Gannon University, will present the second concert of its 29th Anniversary Season on October 13, 2006 in the Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel at Gannon University, 512 Peach Street, Erie, PA at 7:30 pm. The featured soloist will be Saxophonist Patrick Jones. The concert will consist of performances of the Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No 6 Le Matin/ Jacques Ibert - Concertino da Camera for Alto Saxophone and the Joseph Haydn Symphony No 83 in g (La Poule) (Paris.) You are cordially invited to attend this performance. The concert is free of charge; however, because of the popularity of these events, seating in Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel is somewhat limited and is on a first come, first served basis.
Arthur’s Halloween will be performed at the Erie Playhouse Oct 13-15, 20-22. Everyone’s favorite aardvark returns in an original musical production by Charles Corritore and Michael Malthaner based on the children’s book sensation by Erie native Marc Brown.
Internationally recognized autism expert Mark L Sundberg, PhD, will be visiting the Dr Gertrude Barber National Institute on Thursday and Friday, October 19 and 20, for a two-day seminar. The topic of his program is “Recent Advances in the use of Verbal Behavior for Language Assessment and Intervention for Children with Autism.” Registration fee for professionals is $275 and $100 for family members and students. The seminar is approved for Continuing Education Credits for Psychologists, Applied Behavior Analysts, Speech Language Pathologists and school personnel. For more information or registration, contact Maggie Sholtis at (814) 480-6830 or MaggieS@BarberInstitute.org.
Jr’s Last Laugh Comedy Club 3rd Annual Laugh Your Sash Off takes place October 19. Tickets are only $10 and Jr’s is generously donating half of the proceeds to Girl Scouts of Penn Lakes Council. Sign up now, only 300 seats are available. The entire club is reserved for Girl Scout parents, adult Girl Scouts, their family and friends. Come early for dinner and drinks, the kitchen opens at 5 pm. The headliner will perform at 7:30 pm.
Celebrate Halloween at the 46th annual Holiday Festival and Spaghetti Dinner sponsored by the Dr Gertrude A Barber National Institute on Sunday, Oct 29 from 11 am - 5 pm. Kids and families will love “Barber Boo,” a celebration of free activities such as games and crafts, hay rides, and trick or treating through the Barber National Institute. Bingo, games of chance, theme basket raffles and Christmas crafts for adults. A spaghetti dinner with all the trimmings; tickets just $6 for adults, $3 for children ages 4-12 and free for youngsters under age three. For information, call 453-7661.
The students of Toni and Guy in Erie, 930 Peach Street, are holding a fund raiser on November 4 from 9 am - 4:30 pm called “Healing Hands for Hunger.” This event is to raise money and donations for the Second Harvest Food Bank. For every five pounds of food you bring in you get a free five minute chair massage, also for every $5 you donate you also will receive a five minute chair massage. ALL proceeds go to the Second Harvest Food Bank. All massages will be done by students that will be supervised by their instructors.
The Goo Goo Dolls will play a concert at the Warner Theatre in Erie Tuesday December 5. Tickets are on sale now.
Posted by Dennis at October 10, 2006 7:05 AM
Comments
As much as I agree that Graham should be sent straight to Hell, the comment you made about postpartum depression was unnecessary. PPD is a real, physical condition that exists and seems to be taken lightly by a large section of our country. It is a dangerous and deadly condition that harms not just the mother but everyone involved, obviously.
Graham and her lifestyle choices are wrong. At 27 to have 5 children by multiple fathers is crazy and stupid. So she is obviously not dealing with a full deck to begin with.
She should be punished and swung like a baseball bat too. No child deserves what happened to that little boy. But to minimize PPD for her is to minimize it for every woman who has dealt with it.
Posted by: Julie at October 10, 2006 9:04 AM
HAHA. Brian will love that you have mentioned him :) As far as him being all too happy about that snow, you are so right! That's his favorite weather condition, lol.
Posted by: Trisha at October 10, 2006 11:03 AM
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