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Erie PA News and Events Tuesday August 7, 2007

In Erie County last year there was just under 650 foreclosures. The latest figure I heard for Erie County and Northwest PA in 2007 is over 1,400 foreclosures. Yipes. Get help before it happens. Call your lender. Refinance through another lender. Take action. Do something. The National Association of REALTORS has a brochure in pfd called Learn How to Avoid Foreclosure and Keep Your Home. Give it a read.

The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania is moving from their location at 1703 Ash St to a larger building near the Veshecco Industrial Park (West 12th and Greengarden).

Russell V Combs Sr has been named executive director of the Gannon University Erie Technology Incubator. The incubator will open in Spring of 2008 in the former Boys and Girls Club, 130 West 8th St.

According to the 2008 Pennsylvania Manufacturers Register, an industrial guide published annually by Manufacturers’ News, Erie is home to 394 manufacturing plants employing 23,346.

Erie Indemnity (Erie Insurance) (NASDAQ: ERIE) on Monday revealed that it has purchased a total of 1,903,201 shares of the company’s Class A nonvoting common stock from the estate of Frank William Hirt and the 2004 Revocable Trust for a total purchase price of $99.04 million or $52.04 per share. Frank William Hirt, the former Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors, died on July 13, 2007. The company purchased 1.86 million shares of its Class A nonvoting common stock and 20 shares of the company’s Class B voting common stock, that were converted to 48,000 Class A shares prior to the sale to the Company. The company has stated that its Board authorized this purchase separate from the company’s current stock repurchase program, which at July 31, 2007, had $83.5 million of remaining repurchase authorization.

Football Season will be starting soon. What will you be watching it on? The Preseason Reason to Give Blood promotion will reward one lucky donor in Erie County with a 40” LCD High Definition Television from the Peach Street Wal-Mart just in time for football season. The winner also receives a football party with pizza and wings for 20 people donated by On Deck Bar and Grill. This contest runs through August 30th and is intended to help the blood bank maintain a safe blood supply during the month of August, which is usually the single worst month of the year for the blood supply. There is a still a critical blood shortage in our region and across much of the United States. New and lapsed donors are encouraged to come and save lives of local patients. Heavy weekend usage keeps supply dangerously low. All donors are strongly encouraged to donate at the Community Blood Bank, 2646 Peach Street. Community Blood Bank is open from 9-6 Monday through Friday and until 7:30 pm Tuesday and Saturday 9 am-12:30 pm. Photo ID is required to give blood.

Beaumont Technologies Inc now offers Version 2.0 of their 5 Step Process advanced mold balance analysis software designed to answer an injection molder’s greatest challenge…sorting through all the “noise” and identifying the root cause of any filling variation. By understanding the nature of polymer flow, the 5 Step Process separates the mold into flow groups to help separate and quantify the various sources of mold imbalances. Beaumont Technologies Inc, headquartered in Erie, PA, offers a unique mix of products designed to optimize the efficiencies of the mold, parts, and the injection molding process.

Penn State President Graham Spanier has appointed Warren native Daniel S Mead, president of Verizon Services Operations, to the Council of Fellows at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Mead was named president of Verizon Services Operations (VSO) at the unit’s creation in October 2005. VSO employs 15,000 people and processes $144 billion in transactions annually. Mead holds two Penn State degrees, an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in quantitative business analysis and finance.

Starting the day after Labor Day, Tuesday September 4th, WFXP-TV FOX 66 will debut its own hour-long morning newscast, 8am-9am, Monday through Friday. News anchor Trina Orlando and Meteorologist Tom DiVecchio, the morning television news team on WJET-TVs Good Morning Erie from 5:30am- 7am, will now also anchor FOX 66 News in the Morning, from 8am-9am. Trina and Tom will be joined daily by FOX 66 reporters David Belmondo, Sarah Arbogast and others, to bring you live, local and breaking news of the hour, weather, special segments, and a look ahead at what s happening in the area.

The Erie Art Museum opens Speculation on Nature: works by Lawrence Baker now through Monday, October 15 in the Erie Art Museum Frame Shop Gallery, 423 State Street. A public open reception on Gallery Night Friday, August 24 from 7-10 pm. The Erie Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 1 to 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.

The Erie SeaWolves were off on Monday and play host to the New Britain Rock Cats beginning Tuesday night at Jerry Uht Park at 7:05 pm. It’s buck night and the first 2,500 fans receive a water bottle courtesy of the Highmark Caring Place.

Pro boxer Paul ‘The Pittsburgh Kid’ Spadafora will be released this week from the State Correctional Institute at Albion. Spadafora has been in prison since May 30 when he was arrested on a parole violation the day he and his former girlfriend filed PFA’s against each other.

The Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League announced that tickets for the team’s pre-season game against the Niagara IceDogs being held Saturday, September 1 at 7 pm at the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena are now on sale. Advance general admission tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under and are available at the Otters Office located at 809 French Street. Office hours are Monday-Friday 9 am - 5 pm and Saturday from 9 am - 1 pm. Tickets can also be purchased at the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena. The exhibition game against the IceDogs will be the culmination of the Otters fourth straight Training Camp hosted by the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena. The 2007 Camp will run from August 27th to September 2nd.

This evening is National Night Out. National Night Out builds community, generates support for anti-crime programs and strengthens police/ community relations through block parties and other events. Erie County residents will celebrate along with 34 million others across the country. Here are the event locations and times: Bayfront Community Association / Bayfront NATO Neighborhood Watch, 6-8 pm, Martin Luther King Center, 4th and Chestnut
Bayfront East Side Taskforce (BEST), 6-8 pm, Levy Park between Holland and German Streets (spans the block from East 2nd to East 3rd Street in the middle of the block); Borough of Albion, 6-9 pm, Albion Community Park
Borough of Union City (with Union City Family Support Center), 6-9 pm, Caflisch/Devereaux Park, 18 Bridge Street
Borough of Wesleyville, 7:30 - 9:30 pm, North Street parking lot, 1 street north of Buffalo Road, Central City East Neighborhood Watch, 5-7 pm, 22nd and Reed
Elk Creek Leisure and Recreation Board, 6-8 pm, Girard Borough Municipal Building
Greene Township Parks and Recreation Commission, 5-9 pm, Municipal Building, 9333 Tate Road
Hammer Mill Hounds Neighborhood Watch, 6-9 pm, Boys and Girls Club
Housing Authority of City of Erie, 5-8 pm, Erie Heights Picnic Pavilion (Located between W 38th on the north, W Grandview on the south, Schaper Ave on the west and Crestmont Ave on the east)
John F Kennedy Center, 6-9 pm, JFK Center, 2021 E 20th St
Little Italy Neighborhood Watch Association, 6-8 pm, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 643 W 17th St.
Neighborhood Watch 13-SNOOPS Association, 5-8 pm, Friendship Park, 14th and Reed
North East Police Department, 6-9 pm, Heard Park, N. Lake St. in North East
The New Vision Ministry of Abundant Life Ministries, 4:30-6 pm, 806 Parade St
Viper’s Neighborhood Watch 14, 5-7:30 pm, Hispanic American Council
West Side Squires Taskforce, 6-9 pm, Sacred Heart Church lot, 26th and Liberty
Povertyneck Hillbillies and the Davisson Brothers Band play tonight at 8 Great Tuesdays. Eight Great Tuesday’s is the FREE popular concert series on Tuesday nights at the Pepsi Amphitheatre inside Liberty Park. It begins at 6:30 pm.

The Manufacturers’ Association and Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority released a schedule of events, parking and shuttle information, as well as rules and restrictions for the Liberty Park-Pepsi Amphitheater, which will go into effect August 10-12 for the first Roar on the Shore bike rally benefiting the John Kanzius Cancer Research Fund.
The rally kicks off Friday, August 10, with registration for the Bringing in the Roar bike parade at 3 pm at Presque Isle Downs and Casino, located off Interstate 90 Exit 27 in Summit Township. At approximately 5:30 pm, the parade led by grand marshal Peter Fonda will make its way north on Perry Highway (Route 97) and Glenwood Park Avenue (Route 505) to State Street in Erie. The bike parade continues north on State Street, then west on the Bayfront Parkway to Liberty Park. Please note: No one under 18 will be allowed entry to the park unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Representatives of the waterfowl organizations, individual sportsmen and the public are invited to attend a briefing on Friday, Aug 10, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Northwest Pennsylvania Duck Hunters Association, on the status of Atlantic Flyway waterfowl populations and proposed preliminary federal frameworks for the 2007-08 hunting seasons. The briefing will begin at 1 pm, in Room 112 of the Tom Ridge Education Center at Presque Isle State Park in Erie.

The Erie Chamber Orchestra, in residency at Gannon University and under the direction of Bruce Morton Wright, will perform its 24th annual summer concerts entitled “Music in the Air” on the campus of Villa Maria Academy, 2403 West 8th Street Erie, PA. On Friday, August 10 they will perform a Classical Music Night and on Saturday, August 11 they will perform a Pop Music Night. Both concerts will be performed at 8 pm. The concerts are FREE of charge, with seating and are on a first come, first served basis. There will have a number of chairs at the site, but you are encouraged to bring your own chairs or blankets. In the case of rain, these concerts will be performed in the auditorium of Villa Maria Academy.

Titled “Local Government and the Erie Economy,” the 2007 Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE) conference will address topics relevant to Erie and its surrounding communities, including the debate about consolidating the area’s local governments and the smoking ban. The institute’s sixth annual conference will be held on August 14, in McGarvey Commons, located in the Reed Union Building at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The cost to attend this year’s conference is $149 and includes printed materials, breakfast and lunch. A reduced rate of $75 is available for nonprofit, government and economic development officials. For more information or to register for the conference, call (814) 898-7149.

Dennis Weed

Posted by Dennis at August 7, 2007 7:08 AM

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