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Erie PA News and Events for Saturday February 10, 2007
Posted by Dennis on February 10, 2007
Erie County Judge John Bozza heard arguments Friday from attorneys representing two Erie County taverns asking for a preliminary injunction delaying the smoking ban from going into effect February 17 throughout Erie County. The main agrument is that Pennsylvania law supersedes the county ordinance. Bozza will announce his decision next week.
NanoLogix (Pinksheets: NNLX) announced the initial sale of hydrogen powered generator engines, which had been converted from gas engines. The company is currently focused on the production of hydrogen from agricultural feedstock, industrial wastewater and municipal waste streams to create new sources of energy. NanoLogix is presently operating a hydrogen bioreactor at Welch’s Food and has recently signed an agreement with the City of Erie Wastewater Treatment Plant for a prototype bioreactor installation.
Erie PA native Grace Schwab, who now lives in Lewisburg PA, turned 102 on Friday. Schwab taught first through eighth grades at a one room school in Erie County. Later, she worked for a number of years at The Boston Store. She is a graduate of Edinboro back when it was called Edinboro Normal School.
Students in instructor Steve Perkins’ Digital Imagery course are completing an unusual final project. They’re using their skills in Adobe Photoshop to turn images of their classmates into sideshow freaks. The results will be unveiled on Thursday, Feb 15, when FREAKSHOW! opens in the lobby of the Zurn Building on campus. The students first studied the art and typography of posters from the early 20th century and then learned the stories behind the people who worked in the circuses and sideshows of that era. Each student then randomly picked a fellow student’s name and a “freak” inspiration, such as plant, stone, water, cat, dog or gorilla. Using the techniques and skills learned in the class, the student then had to meld the person and the freak into one image. The exhibit of 20x30-inch posters opens with a reception from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The display, which continues through Feb 28, also includes posters designed for the exhibit by the students and sketches and earlier versions to illustrate the stages of image development. Visitors will be invited to vote for their favorite “freak.”
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will host the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science (PJAS) region 10 competition for the first time this year. Some 675 students from more than 35 schools will participate in the February 17 contest. More than 150 volunteers, who are graduate students, college professors and industry scientists, will judge the presentations, including 50 from Penn State Behrend. Region 10 expects to award more than $4,000 in special awards for students in grades 7 through 12 this year.
The Mercyhurst College Bookstore, which opened its doors in 2003, has become everything its proponents had hoped: a popular locale for meeting with friends, sipping cappuccinos and browsing through shelves of books. Only one feature has been missing: book signings by Mercyhurst authors. That is about to change. On Monday, Feb 19, from 4:30 to 6 pm, the college bookstore will host its first book signing, featuring Dr James Adovasio, director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, who will sign copies of his just released book, The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory. Copies of Adovasio’s book, which retail for $26.95 apiece, will be sold for $18 while supplies last at the Mercyhurst bookstore
The Greater Erie Board of REALTORS recently welcomed the following new members: Catherine M Hanson, Amy K Gierlak, Kathleen A Jageman, Marlene M Scholtz, Kevin T Hedderman, Stephanie Mae Slomski, Diana L Corner, Gregory J Haraburda, John Downey and Sherry E Bauer.
Stephanie Jones and Angelica Lorsell each scored a pair of goals as the No 1 ranked Mercyhurst women’s hockey team routed Robert Morris 7-0 Friday at the Mercyhurst Ice Center.
Nick Spaling registered a hat trick to lead the Kitchener Rangers to an 8-3 win over the Erie Otters in an Ontario Hockey League game played last night in front of 5,962 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex. The next Otters home game takes place tonight when the Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds visit the Tullio Arena in a 7:30 pm start. Sunday the Otters welcome the London Knights to the Tullio Arena in a special 6 pm start.
The Sacred Heart men’s hockey team scored two power play goals, a shorthanded goal, and an empty net to turn back Mercyhurst 5-2 Saturday night at the Mercyhurst Ice Center.
Duke has hired former Notre Dame assistant Peter Vaas to coach the Blue Devil running backs. Vaas served as an assistant from 1974-79 and head coach at Allegheny College from 1986-89.
“The Piano Lesson” will be performed at the Erie Playhouse February 10-11and 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.
Penn State Behrend will host its sixth annual Spirit Against Cancer dance and cheerleading competition Saturday, February 10 from 10 am to 2 pm in the Junker Center. The event is expected to draw 800 participants from 50 teams from Pennsylvania and New York. Thanks to Spirit Against Cancer, the college has donated $26,500 to the American Cancer Society since the event began in 2001. Spirit Against Cancer was created in memory of Becky Hubler Decker, a former dance coach at Penn State Behrend. She also served as a cheerleading coach at Edinboro University, was captain of the Invaderettes, the dance team for the National Indoor Football League’s former Erie Invaders, and was a member of the Buffalo Bills’ Jills dance team.
The 2006-2007 Centerstage Series at Allegheny College will continue on Saturday, Feb 10 at 7:30 pm in Shafer Auditorium with an evening of comedy. Three comics will combine their talents and humor in a show recommended for adult audiences. Tammy Pescatelli, who emerged from NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” as one of the top five comedians, performs across the country at comedy and improv clubs. She has been featured on television shows such as “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Late Night with Carson Daly” and has even had her own half hour special on Comedy Central. Pescatelli will be joined by humorist and storyteller Phyllis Colpitts, also known as Mama Krank, and rock comedian Mark Eddie, who remakes popular songs in an act that Robby Kreiger of The Doors has called “a rock concert with non-stop laughter.” For more information or to purchase tickets, call Conference and Event Services at (814) 332-3101.
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.
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 and 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.
Roger Knacke, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the School of Science at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will discuss “Astronomy of the Maya” at the college’s next Open House Night in Astronomy. Knacke will speak at 7:30 pm on Thursday, February 22, in 101 Otto Behrend Science Building. Admission to the open house is free and his non-technical lecture is suitable for ages 8 and older.
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.
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.
Posted by Dennis at February 10, 2007 8:15 AM
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