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Erie PA News and Events for Saturday February 3, 2007
Posted by Dennis on February 3, 2007
A train derailment in Westfield NY, about 30 miles east of Erie, caused train traffic delays from Chicago to NYC. The CSX freight train had only a half dozen of the cars jump the track. There were no injuries. Traffic was diverted to the Norfolk-Southern line.
Erie is experiencing it’s coldest temperatures in nearly 4 decades. Strong winds which reached nearly 40 mph brought in temperatures which reached single digits last night. It was 7 degrees this morning. It isn’t expected to hit 20 degrees until Friday.
Erie Homes for Children and Adults has been awarded a grant by the March of Dimes Pennsylvania Chapter that will address unmet maternal and child health needs. “These grants address significant maternal and child health issues such as smoking cessation, premature birth risk reduction, and prenatal education that are of concern in our community,” said Dr Jay Greenspan, March of Dimes Program Services Chair. These grants are one way the March of Dimes pursues its mission of preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.
Evan Brophey and Tom Sestito each scored three times to lead the Plymouth Whalers to a 10-1 win over the Erie Otters in an Ontario Hockey League game played last night at the Compuware Sports Arena. Dan Collins and James Neal each added a goal and three assists for the winners while single scores went to Ryan McGinnis and Andrew Fournier. Kelly Geoffrey netted the lone Otters goal. Erie dropped to 13-35-1-2. The next Otters home game takes place Saturday, February 10.
Lou Rosselli was named by USA Wrestling as one of the coaches of the World Team Coaches in freestyle that will participate in the World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept 17-23. He is the assistant coach at Big 10 power Ohio State where he is in his first season. He previously served as assistant coach at Edinboro for 11 years.
The BrewErie at Union Station, The Erie Brewing Company, Southern Tier Brewing, Pennsylvania Brewery, Voodoo Brewery, The Flying Bison
Ellicottville Brewing Company, North Country Brewing Company, Hereford and Hops, Sprague Farm and Brew Works, The Buffalo Brew Pub, Magic Hat Brewing and the East End Brewing Company.
“The Piano Lesson” will be performed at the Erie Playhouse February 2-3, 8-11, 14-18. For tickets call (814) 454-2852 ext 0.
The Roadhouse Theatre production of “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers” will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm through February 10. Admission: Regular seating $12, Riser seating $15, VIP table seating $20. Reservations can be made by phone at 814.456.5656. The Roadhouse Theatre 145 West 11th Street, Box Office hours: 2-6 pm Tuesday - Saturday. The Theater accepts cash, checks, Visa, MasterCard and Discover. It has been twenty years since Scott McClelland toured the country in Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues. After 625 performances of that Tony award winning play, Mr. Simon’s timing and comedic style had become part of McClelland’s acting arsenal. Now for the first time since Biloxi Blues the actor returns to a play by the greatest comic writer of the American Stage. The show is being directed by his wife Kim McClelland who acted in this same play on the stage at 1505 State Street several years before the McClelland’s met.
The 20-member Gem City Jazz Ensemble will present their winter concert on Tuesday, February 6, from 7:30 pm - 9 pm at St. John Parish Center, adjacent to St. John Lutheran’s Church, 2216 Peach Street. Under the direction of Tim McKinney, the jazz ensemble will perform many great jazz standards and big band favorites, including My Funny Valentine, Moten Swing, In the Stone, and Girl Talk. Plenty of off-street parking is available. The concert is free and open to the public; free-will offerings will be accepted.
Mercyhurst College piano faculty member Nathan Hess has asked two of his former colleagues at SUNY Fredonia to be his guests in the fourth faculty recital of the year, titled “Nathan Hess and Friends.” The recital is Thursday, Feb 8, at 8 pm in Walker Recital Hall; it’s free and open to the public. Father Sean Duggan, a concert pianist and a monk in the Order of St. Benedict, and cellist Natasha Farny will perform two works by Beethoven for cello and piano: the set of Variations on a Theme from Handel’s Judas Maccabeus and the Sonata in D Major, Op 102, No 2. Farny and Duggan are performing Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano throughout the region, and are excited to share their insights into his music with the Mercyhurst and Erie communities.
First Class, an exhibit featuring exemplary works by Erie Art Museum instructors and students, will open at the Erie Art Museum’s Annex Gallery, 423 State Street, on Friday, Feb 9 and run through Feb 13. A free public reception for this exhibit will be held on Friday, Feb 9 from 7-9 pm. Art is a participatory activity. Through classes at the Museum, ordinary folks try their hand at artmaking, with the help of some of Erie’s most distinguished artists. Included are works in watercolor, jewelry, acrylic, photography and ceramics by Museum instructors Deborah Sementelli-Hoenes, Fran Schanz, Wilda Sundberg, Christine French, Kathy Umlauf, Aaron Young, Jan and Dan Neibauer, Art Becker, Esther Hong and their students. Opening night includes a two-hour delight of demonstrations and hands-on opportunities guaranteed to stimulate the inner-artist. Visitors can throw-clay on a wheel, watch a weaving or watercolor demonstration, see a bellydancer in action and much more. The Erie Art Museum is located a 411 State Street in downtown Erie, Pa. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 am-5 pm and Sunday, 1-5 pm. Admission is free for members, free on Wednesdays, $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students and $2 for children under 12. One year memberships to the Erie Art Museum are $15 for students and senior citizens, $35 for individuals, and $65 for families. Guided group tours for adults or students are available for all major exhibitions.
Kids as Curators, an exhibit celebrating the stuff of youth will open at the Erie Art Museum Annex Gallery, 423 State Street, on Friday, Feb 9 and run through March 24. A free public reception for this exhibit will be held on Friday, Feb 9 from 7-9 pm. Musical instruments constructed of found objects, a sunset collaged with collected paraphernalia, brain maps and related silhouettes - these are the divergent paths taken by local middle school students from Wayne, St Boniface and Walnut Creek Middle Schools, while curating and designing a showcase featuring their personal predilections. “Since September, these students have worked with art, social studies, science and language art teachers learning how to apply the museum process to the basic concepts of their curriculum,” said Erie Art Museum Education and Folk Art Director Kelly Armor. “Their distinctive youthful playfulness spills out in their selection, evaluation, interpretation, and presentation of their objects of interest.”
Mezzo soprano Savanity Davis, a senior music education major at Mercyhurst College, will bring the sweet sounds of diversity to Black History Month with a concert of her own making on Friday, Feb 9, at 8 pm, in Walker Recital Hall. Since her freshman year, Savanity has embraced a personal mission: to learn as much as possible about the contributions of African Americans to the world of classical and operatic music. Now, just three months away from graduating, she hopes to share her discoveries with fellow students. Most of the songs Savanity will perform are either by black composers or are based on poems by black authors; for example, “Song to a Dark Virgin,” based on a Langston Hughes poem. Other concert highlights include poetry readings by friends and family, a slide show presentation, and commentary by Savanity’s grandmother, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine, Fla, in 1960. Mercyhurst assistant professor of music Louisa Jonason is advising Savanity on producing her event and will assist her in making commemorative CDs. Proceeds from the sale of the CDs will benefit Mercyhurst’s Diversity 101 organization.
Works by seven talented young choreographers will be featured when The Mercyhurst College Dance Department presents “Raw Edges IX” on Saturday, Feb 10, at 2 and 7 pm and Sunday, Feb 11, at 2 pm in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center on the Mercyhurst campus. Tickets are $10 general admission and can be purchased at the door or by calling 824-3000. Each performance will include an intermission chat during which some of the young choreographers will speak about their new works and answer questions from the audience.
The Family Fun Movies in February at the Big Green Screen Theater in the Tom Ridge Environmental Center are Finding Nemo on Sunday Feb 11 and Monsters Inc on Sunday Feb 18. Showtimes are at 1:30 pm. Tickets $4 each.
Twelve years ago as the country of Rwanda descended into a 100-day orgy of human slaughter, one man found the courage to save more than 1,200 people. Paul Rusesabagina, dubbed by some as the “Oskar Schindler of Africa,” quietly sheltered them in the luxury hotel he managed in the central African nation. He will tell his amazing story, the basis of the Oscar-nominated film “Hotel Rwanda,” on Monday, Feb 12, at 8:30 pm in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center (PAC) at Mercyhurst College. Rusesabagina’s visit, sponsored by Mercyhurst Student Government, is free and open to the public. Tickets are now available to the college community, with students afforded one free ticket, and faculty and administrators, two tickets. The general public may pick up tickets - three per person - beginning Tuesday, Feb 6, at the PAC box office. For ticket information, call 824-3000.
90.5 WERG and the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity of Gannon University invite you to Rock and Roll-up Your Sleeve by donating blood to the American Red Cross on February 14, 2007 from 10 am to 4 pm in Room 219 of the Waldron Campus Center. “Put your bleeding heart to good use” this Valentines Day by donating blood. The Waldron Campus Center is located on West 7th street on the campus of Gannon University. For more information contact Deb Carlson at carlson011@gannon.edu .
The Rodger Montgomery Blues Band will be performing Thursday, February 15 from 7-9pm at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center as part of the Hot Winter Blues and Jazz Series. Blues and Jazz music lovers will enjoy great music along with an assortment of light hors ‘d’oeuvres. BYOB - Bring Your Own Bottle of wine or beer to top off the evening.Tickets can be purchased in advance for $10 at the Nature Shop & Gallery or at the door for $12.50 each. Call (814) 833-6050 for more details.
Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s Washington-based economics editor, will speak at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Thursday, February 22. Minton Beddoes’ address, “Fragile Prosperity: The Outlook for the US and World Economy,” is part of the college’s annual Speaker Series. It will be held at 7:30 pm in the Reed Union Building’s McGarvey Commons and is free and open to the public.
On February 24-25, the Tom Ridge Environmental Center will be the location of the 2007 Erie Winter Carnival, a fun-filled event weekend for all ages. Highlights include professional ice carvings, carved by some of the greatest ice carvers in the world! Watch the Speed Carving Competitions or check out delicate ice-art carvings created with chain saws and fine carving tools. Amazing pieces of art right created before your eyes! Take in one of the great featured films that weekend including Everest, Lewis and Clark, or the special weekend featured film, March of the Penguins. All on the BIG Green Screen. Children can also enjoy special activities including face painting, winter craft, storytelling and a magic show. Walk through the local artist Art Show and stop into the Nature Shop and Gallery for unique shopping options and great winter gifts. Check out all the great exhibits highlighting Presque Isle State Park. And remember to grab a bite to eat with specialty carnival-type foods and other great items from the Sunset Cafe.
On Feb 25, the Brewerie at Union Station in Erie hosts the Erie Illusion women’s football team Beer Fest.
The 25th annual Erie Sport and Travel Expo will be held at Family First Sports Park in Erie, Pa March 2-4. The show features fishing and hunting lodges, guides, outfitters, fishing charters and sporting goods vendors and boat and recreational vehicle dealers. General Admission $6 with children under 10 free.
Posted by Dennis at February 3, 2007 8:26 AM
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