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Southwestern Pennsylvania has produced some of the greatest quarterbacks in football history. Who can argue that statement when names like Montana, Marino, Unitas, Kelly and Blanda pop up?
In a like manner, many people from Southwestern Pennsylvania have risen to the top of the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Bod D'Angelo has ties to Greene County and Washington County's Matt Hough holds the second highest position in the Commission. Both have risen quickly, and one shouldn't forget Rege Senko, who is in charge of information in the Northwestern District.
What reminded me of these people was the announced retirement of a Greene County-raised gentlemen, Bob Mitchell, who hails from Carmichaels. You may ask who Bob Mitchell is and that is understandable, for good editors operate unseen in the background.
Mitchell was the editor of Pennsylvania Game News from 1990 until this year. Few, if any, people taking a job had as big a pair of shoes to fill as Mitchell did.
He was taking over this highly successful magazine from a very popular editor, Bob Bell. He had to feel like Mickey Mantle replacing the ever-popular Joe DiMaggio in center field for the Yankees. Like Mick, he did his job and did it well.
One of the biggest hurdles faced by Mitchell had to be the big move to computers and the ease with which someone can obtain information and self-publish. I was privileged to work with both Bell and Mitchell, and both were truly a blessing for an uneducated writer. Bell gave me a start and for that I'll always be grateful. But Bell once told me a secret. Mitchell was in the background and a strong supporter of old GHB. Thanks Mitch.
• If the fishing season ever arrives and your equipment is not ready, all I can say is shame on you. You certainly have had time. With winter dragging on, there is little else to do than clean and check fishing equipment.
Rods should be cleaned and possibly waxed for longer and smoother casts. Reels need oil, as do all mechanisms with moving parts.
I believe the biggest blunder is not replacing old line. Line is not expensive and an unfilled reel makes casting difficult. Old line can mean a lost trophy. As one fishes, the line is subject to nicks as it strikes rocks or other junk found in a stream or lake. Not only that, if the rod and reel were stored in certain areas, the mono-filament line can be weakened by sunlight.
It is also time to check lures and other terminal tackle. For instance, I just bought a supply of jigs so I would be prepared for the hopefully upcoming crappie season. When the weather improves, I want to be ready.
While I complain daily about the weather, I also realize my complaints may be age related. I remember fishing with my wife, Eileen, when the ice formed on the surface of the lake as we watched our line. We were fishing in Canonsburg in mid-March, and most of the water along the shoreline was open. Out about 50 feet or so there was ice. Keeping our Power Bait near shore, we were catching trout. But as we sat there and the sky darkened, that water in front of us was forming ice. I guess this year is not the first cold March.
Another time I went to Dutch Fork and cast a baited hook out to what I thought was open water. The split shot and hook bounced and slid across the ice. I have heard of hard water. The cold didn't seem as bad 20 years ago.
• The gun debate just won't go away, but the Constitution of Pennsylvania is seldom mentioned.
Article I in the Declaration of Rights is very specific and to the point. I'll quote it directly.
Section 21 reads, "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned."
Those who think the Second Amendment of the Country's Constitution means anything but self protection by the individual should spend more time in the history class and read the writings of the founding fathers, particularly James Madison. Someone once said, "He who gives up freedom for security deserves neither."
George H. Block writes a Sunday Outdoors column for the Observer-Reporter.
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Hoops For Cure has local flavor
The 18th annual Hoops For A Cure will be held April 27 at the Chartiers Valley High School gymnasium.
Proceeds from the charity all-star basketball game are donated to the Nathan S. Arenson fund for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The event has raised more than $1.2 million.
There will be two all-star games featuring some of the top male and female talent in the area.
The girls tip off at 4 p.m. while their male counterparts compete at 6.
Upper St. Clair's head coach Danny Holzer, along with New Castle's Ralph Blundo, manage the WPIAL Quad-A all-stars.
Jordan Grabowski from Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park's Wyatt Hagerty and Tyler Roth of Mt. Lebanon spearhead the Quad-A roster.
Other players on that team include: Shawn Anderson, Brandon Domenick, Easton Bazzoli, Christian Koroly, Antonia Rudolph, Matt Stewart and David Urso.
Local standouts on the rival WPIAL roster are: South Fayette's Evan Bonnaure, Michael Boulos and Spencer Casson from Chartiers Valley as well as Cory Sevacko of Keystone Oaks.
Joe Carroll, Drew Cook, Jason Pilarski, Ryan Smider, Josh Wise and Tony Dinardo complete the unit, which is coached by Doug Biega of Beaver Falls and Brentwood's Dave Mislan.
Bishop Canevin and Seton-La Salle showcase the girls' contest, which is a clash between the small and big schools.
On the A-AA roster are Erin Waskowiak, Carly Forse and Celina DiPietro, who led the Lady Crusaders to its first WPIAL as well as PIAA title.
Natalie Piagessi, Angela Heintz and Katherine Hart hail from SLS, which won the district and state titles in 2012.
In addition to South Fayette's Cait McLuckie, Ciara Gregory, Ariana Kelly, Courtnee McMaster and Shelby Brown complete the roster.
On the big school unit are: Upper St. Clair's Jordan Serio, Bethel Park's Mariah Penascino and Char Valley's Kassidy O'Keefe along with Mt. Lebanon's Alex Ventrone and Jordan Holmes.
Chelsea Richardson, Aria Taylor, Nicole Johnson, Madi Rowan, Kate Fischer and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough round out the squad.
SLS's John Ashaolu coaches the small school team while Gateway's Cornelious Nesbit directs the big school grouping.


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Sears Service Center demoed
The Sears Service Center building on Washington Road in Peters Township is no more. The service center closed more than a year ago and since, the building has remained vacant.
Demolition began last week to clear the site and other than knowing Bowser Cadillac purchased the property in October, the township has no clue as to how the site will be developed.
According to Ed Zuk, the township's planning director, Bowser obtained a demolition permit. However, no site plan has been submitted to the planning commission. Zuk said he understands a site plan is being prepared and stressed since the property is in an area zoned C-2 commercial, township council will not be required to take any action on the final plans. Car dealerships are permitted in areas zoned C-2.
If the site is developed as a car dealership, and there is no indication it will not be, Bowser Cadillac will be the ninth car dealership in the township along Washington Road between Donaldsons Crossroads and the Upper St. Clair Township and Allegheny County lines.
Zuk said the process will begin when Bowser submits the site plan to the planning commission. Once that is done, property owners within a 600-foot radius of the site will be notified that a plan has been submitted and be informed the plans are available for review in the municipal building.
Property owners will be notified when the planning commission will discuss the plan at its meeting.
Because of the zoning, council will not act on the request and an approval will only be made by the planning commission, Zuk said.
Once the planning commission approval is given, the next step is the issuance of a building permit. Then site development can begin.


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A fairly common, if unnoticed, practice for state politicians is to own a second property in Harrisburg to use for lodging during their frequent trips to the capital.
Normally, the decision to purchase a property would be a sound real estate decision. However, many governmental watchdog groups argue it becomes a more complicated issue when these same politicians continue to earn per diem reimbursements for travel and lodging.
In December 2011, state Rep. Paul Costa, D-Wilkins Township, filed notice with the state regarding the creation of a limited liability company. Vandaleh Real Estate Associates LLC was created with the Harrisburg address of property that was at the time owned by Costa, former Rep. Michael Diven, state Sen. Tim Solobay, D-Canonsburg, and Sen. John Yudichak, D-Luzerne.
In August 2012, the four men transferred the property, located at 1616 Green St., to the LLC for the sum of $1.
Vandaleh Industries was the name of a made-up company character George Costanza invented in an episode of the '90s television sitcom "Seinfeld" in order to qualify for unemployment.
Yudichak, one of the original owners of the house, said he dissolved his interest after leaving the House for the Senate a couple of years ago.
"I made no profit and took no financial gain from the limited time I was in the partnership," Yudichak said of the real estate agreement. He said the LLC was created, at least in part, as a way for him to end his ownership in the property.
"I always looked at it as simply renting," Yudichak said. "I never looked at it as ownership."
Yudichak said he now turns in receipts with his reimbursement paperwork, even though that is not required under state law. Both Solobay and Yudichak said the property was handed down to their group of legislators from politicians who were the previous owners.
Solobay earned nearly $30,000 in per diem reimbursement payments between December 2011 and December 2012. This sum does include travel and lodging expenses, as well as food stipends. At least two conferences, in State College and Philadelphia, required lodging out of the Harrisburg area.
Like Yudichak, Solobay said he considered the arrangement similar to a rental agreement.
"I gotta sleep somewhere," Solobay said. "It's just a living arrangement where we're at."
Solobay said at this point, he and Costa are the only two using the residence and that at no point was anybody in the partnership in it to make money. Diven recently ended his ownership share.
There is nothing illegal in the practice of politicians owning a second property in Harrisburg. While the state has rules against legislators whose main residences are within a 50-mile radius of the capital receiving per diem travel reimbursement, there are no restrictions barring politicians from receiving payments if they own a second house in the area.
But that hasn't kept some governmental watchdog groups from speaking out against the practice.
"Per diems are abused by many legislators and do not require accountability," said Eric Epsein, co-founder of Rock the Capital, a government reform group created in 2005. "The purpose of per diems is to offset expenses, not underwrite investments."
Solobay listed "Vandaly Enterprise" as a source of income on his statement of financial interests starting in 2006, but is unclear whether he made any money from the endeavor.
"I think it's a break-even venture," Solobay said, "based on our filing with federal income tax each year."
He defended the practice of ownership with reimbursement.
"We have to have somewhere to live," Solobay said. "This gives us the flexibility of not having to check in and check out (of a hotel), and we're able to leave our things down there."
Pennsylvania's out-of-session per diem reimbursement, which covers business conducted in the months of June, July and August, is $185 per day, putting it behind only Alaska in the National Conference of State Legislatures' ranking of highest per diem reimbursements. At $158, Pennsylvania's rate for the rest of the year is ranked seventh highest.
Some opponents of the practice said it's not the fact that legislators get reimbursed while owning property they have a problem with, but rather the secrecy of it. Politicians could "rent" rooms from other politicians who owned residences near Harrisburg, just as many do now, but the submission of receipts would give taxpayers an opportunity to know just how much money these transactions generated.
"Nobody expects legislators not to be reimbursed for actual travel costs," said Barry Kauffman, executive director of the nonprofit group Common Cause. "However, we believe it is imperative that the reimbursement be based exclusively on the submission of receipts."
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You know, if Facebook were a Broadway show, they'd be firing the director and rewriting the script. Facebook share price closed this week at $27.72. That's more than a 25 percent drop from its initial public offering price. The social networks debut as a publically traded company last month has been panned, questioned and trouble by a Securities and Exchange Commission probe and shareholder lawsuits.
Joe Nocera, our friend from the business world, joins us now. He's op-ed columnist for, what's it called, The New York Times, Joe? Thanks for being with us.
JOE NOCERA, NEW YORK TIMES: Thanks for having me, Scott.
SIMON: Facebook's still worth a lot of money, but why has it fallen so flat so far?
TIMES: Ah. Well, there's a reality-based reason and there's the psychological reason. The reality-based reason is that it has shown signs of slower growth and it acknowledged that a little bit before the IPO. And a lot of questions are being raised about what its ultimate business model will be. You know, how it will generate the kind of earnings that it needs to have the kind of super-charged stock that everybody wants it to be.
The psychological reason, though, is that, you know, this was the most anticipated IPO, I think, since Google, I mean, a really long time. And everybody wanted in and everybody thought the stock was going to go up and everybody thought they were going to make a killing. And then, they didn't. And so people are shying away from the stock just because the IPO, which is ultimately a meaningless event really in the long term, because the IPO did so poorly.
SIMON: And Facebook has, I gather, what amounts to two classes of shares that allow the founders of the company to keep more control. How typical is that?
TIMES: Well, in Silicon Valley, it actually is quite typical. Google has the same thing and a number of other Silicon Valley companies have the same thing. And they do it for the obvious reason. You know, Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook wants to keep running this company without really having to answer to the shareholders who are buying into the company.
You know, it's hard not to have some sympathy for him. He did found the company, after all. But it's also another reason why investors have to be a little bit wary of Facebook because, ultimately, you know, Mark Zuckerberg does not really have to listen to anything they have to say.
SIMON: Yeah. Of course, you buy stock knowing that he's going to have a prominent role.
TIMES: That's right. And, you know, he's 28 years old, but his track record is really quite remarkable. I mean, Facebook has almost a billion users and it has been a roaring success. And he has proven himself to be, I think, a first rate CEO so far. The larger issue, Scott, is what kind of business model are they going to have?
And it's a very tricky proposition, whether you're 28 or whether you're 50, because if they ratchet up advertising too much, they lose their coolness factor, which is very, very important to them. And yet, if they try to make money off all that personal data that they have, that raises privacy concerns and it gets government involved and that creates its own set of problems. So they're walking a fine line. And the real question is, can they walk that fine line and make a ton of money?
SIMON: How, if we might call it Facebook's troubles, what they're going through now, might that change the psychology of Silicon Valley and other venture capitalists who are contemplating sinking tons of money into the next big thing?
TIMES: Well, one of the things that you have to remember about Facebook is that it's not a brand new company. As these things go, it's actually fairly mature when it came to the public market, and so the Silicon Valley folks, they've already moved on. You know, they're looking at mobile. They're looking at apps. They're looking for all kinds of things. Social media is kind of - is old. And so, you know, I would argue that the psychology is actually already changed.
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Sister act: The gift of a kidney
The gift of a kidney from one sibling to another
Growing up, the four Lewis sisters were always close, but it wasn't until the youngest, Geri Whalen, now 33, of Venetia, developed kidney disease, did the four woman form a bond so tight that included one sister, Dana Christner, seven years older than Whalen, donating one of her kidneys to Whalen.
Whalen has battled diabetes since she was 9 years old, and following the birth of her third child in 2007, she developed kidney disease.
"When her kidneys began to fail, I told her, whenever you're ready, let me know. I believe God gave us two kidneys and we only need one and the other is to share with somebody," Christner said.
Oldest sister Sondra Hathaway, 41, of McMurray, said she was unable to donate a kidney and called Christner's match a "Christmas miracle."
"We just found out a few days before Christmas that Dana was a match," Hathaway said.
Christner, of Salisbury, N. Ca., arrived in Pittsburgh two days before the scheduled transplant surgery Jan. 16. The dual surgery was scheduled at UPMC-Presbyterian in Pittsburgh. Whalen needs a pancreas as well as a kidney, but as a living donor, Christner is only able to donate one of her kidneys. Once Whalen heals from the kidney transplant, she will be placed on the active wait list for a pancreas. The kidney disease is destroying her organs, but she was not on dialysis before the transplant.
Her husband, Adam Whalen, is anxiously waiting for his wife to return to normal health. During recovery, their three children, Eve, 9, Elle, 7, and Ian, 5, will be cared for by Hathaway and their paternal grandmother, Laurie Whalen. Before her health began to deteriorate, Whalen worked as a waitress at Pasta Too in Bethel Park.
In North Carolina, Christner said her in-laws, Jim and Pam Christner from Mt. Lebanon, will look after her three children. Her husband, Matt Christner, will be in Pittsburgh for the transplant.
Since Christner's surgery as the donor will be a laparoscopic procedure, she hopes to return home Jan. 26, and return to work as the manager of a real estate office a few days later.
Whalen's recovery will take more time, from four to six weeks.
"By Easter, I should be in good shape and by summer, I hope to have a new pancreas," Whalen said.
Both will spend the initial days at Family House in Oakland, where Hathaway and the sisters' mother, Susan Rump, will help with the recuperation.
Each of the siblings who are not directly involved in the transplant are keeping busy. Hathaway is preparing and planning meals for when Whalen and Christner return home. Sister Jennifer LaBella, 37, is organizing and planning a fundraiser at Del's Bar near Bloomfield, where she works as a bartender, and oldest sibling and the only brother, Rob Lewis, 43, is a pastor in New Jersey and is in charge of prayers.
Christner said many people feel her donation is a selfless act. She believes the opposite is true.
"I've always been blessed with good health and it's more hurtful to watch her hurt. I couldn't believe I could lose her," Christner said. "I'm actually taking the easy way out. I know I will hurt, but only temporarily, and I'll have Geri the rest of my life. If I lost her, it would be a permanent pain, so this is not just for me, but her kids, and I love them like I love my own."
Christner has three daughters and she hopes the act of one sister giving a kidney to an other sister is something her daughter will always remember.
"I won't always be around, but I can be an example on how to care for each other," Christner said. "Give to each other and take care of each other and this is the way we do. Yes, Geri would have done the same for me."
Follow The Almanac online for updates on Whalen's and Christner's surgeries.
To help with expenses not covered by insurance, there will be a fundraiser beginning at 5 p.m. Jan. 24 at Del's Bar and Ristorante, 4428 Liberty Ave. For a $10 cover charge, there will be wings and pizza appetizers, and a pasta bar. There will also be a silent auction and drinks served by LaBella.
For more information on the fundraiser, contact LaBella at 412-860-8805.
To make a donation in Whalen's honor, visit www.transplants.org and select Find an NFT Patient. Contributions may also be sent to NFT Pennsylvania Transplant Fund, 5350 Poplar Ave., Suite 430, Memphis, TN 38119 and write "in honor of Geri Whalen" in the subject line.


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A week of magic and mayhem has ended as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) presented WrestleMania 33 – professional wrestling's annual promo-filled Super Bowl inside Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. And, Counselor was on the scene to see all of the promotions that sponsors and hosts were running.
An all-time Orlando Citrus Bowl attendance record of 75,245 fans from 50 states and 62 countries made the pilgrimage to witness their favorite athletes clash at the nearly seven-hour event. WrestleMania 33 gained a record 18 million social media fan engagements, up 66% from last year. Digital and social media video views reached 133 million, skyrocketing 105% from 2016. For the first time, WrestleMania was made available in China on a pay-per-view basis via PPTV's digital platform.
"WrestleMania made a triumphant return to Orlando and again broke multiple records," said WWE Executive Vice President of Special Events John Saboor in a press release. "This success would not have been possible without the tireless support of Mayor Dyer, the Local Organizing Committee and all of the public and private sector partners throughout Central Florida."
WrestleMania 33 grossed $14.5 million in revenue, down from the company's record $17.3 million for last year's event. It also generated an estimated $125 million in economic impact for the Central Florida area. That's why each year cities bid on hosting the pop culture extravaganza – New Orleans has been chosen over Philadelphia and Minneapolis to hold WrestleMania 34 next year as part of the city's tricentennial celebration.
"WrestleMania Week was a tremendous success for the city of Orlando and it was an honor to host WWE and their fans back in our community," said Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer. "This is a testament to the investments we've made in our community venues that continue to attract these showcase events and solidify Orlando as the nation's leading sports and entertainment destination." Orlando is home to many WWE operations including its developmental brand NXT and its training facility the WWE Performance Center.
As soon as fans arrived at Orlando International Airport, they were greeted by WrestleMania signs at baggage claim and rental car stations. The streets of downtown Orlando were plastered in WrestleMania banners showcasing top stars such as Brock Lesnar and Goldberg. There was even a 30-foot-wide, 12-foot-high championship belt replica on display at Lake Eola.
Throughout the week, fans mobbed the Orange County Convention Centerin Orlando for WrestleMania Axxess, an annual fan fest with autograph signings, exhibits and merchandise. Attendees scooped up hats, shirts, wrist bands, posters, foam hands, and inflatable Bailey buddies, all emblazoned with the WrestleMania and WWE logos. Snickers sponsored the event for the second straight year, giving out free candy bars and sharing clips through social media and YouTube. During the WrestleMania broadcast, an ad featured WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair and WWE Superstars Charlotte and James Ellsworth as part of the "You're Not You When You're Hungry" campaign.
Los Angeles Tribune TV station's KTLA 5 will be celebrating a milestone anniversary with an iconic item that appeals to a wide target audience.
The "Anchor Desk" drinkware, which is placed prominently on the studio desk during broadcasts, is a 15-oz. coffee mug. When the station worked with its distributor partner to develop a giveaway program celebrating 70 years of broadcasting, a special anniversary edition of this mug was the logical item. The mugs have been a coveted giveaway among viewers over the years.
Beginning on KTLA's 70th anniversary date, the "Watch and Win" promotion gives viewers in the Los Angeles area the opportunity to text the station with a specific code word during its daily broadcast. KTLA then chooses winning viewers to receive a special-edition anniversary branded mug that matches the official Anchor Desk drinkware. The station was provided with 2,500 of the double-sided mugs. The promotion will run all year, and if the anchor mugs' popularity is any indicator, they'll continue to drive many viewers to enter the contest.
Luxury swimwear brand Basta Surf's identity is built on a line of conscientiously-produced beach apparel aimed at discriminating customers. Shoring up that brand identity means that even the hang tags on Basta's products must reflect values of quality, subtlety and an environmentally conscious worldview.
So, when Basta approached its distributor partner with an idea for a seeded hangtag, the rep knew just the right product. She suggested the seeded paper hang tag, an idea that became a resounding success. "They wanted to elevate their brand," the rep says. "They thought that this would be effective in showing their earth consciousness and organic materials."
Basta donates a part of its profits to causes that promote clean water. The company promoted this eco-conscious initiative on the back of the letter-pressed tags. Beyond complementing Basta's environmental efforts, the wildflower-seeded tags promote a free-and-fruitful attitude that is in keeping with Basta's worldview. The rep adds: "It allows the business to show the customer they are thinking of them in other ways than just selling swimwear."


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Tombstone Photos of Van Zandt County
Tombstone Photos of the Van Zandt County Cemeteries is a new project and will be ongoing. We hope this will help Van Zandt County researchers who are unable to visit the county of their ancestors and relatives and cemeteries of the area. We would very much like to thank society volunteer Lyndal Herrin for photographing and submitting all the tombstone photos for Wesley Chapel Cemetery.
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90-year-old man completes 5K
Two years ago, at the age of 88, Roger Murray began walking a mile a day through his Peters Township neighborhood.
On the Fourth of July, Murray, now 90, completed his first 5K race, the Whiskey Rebellion race in Canonsburg.
"I came in dead last, but I walked with a lady with a bad knee and we had a good time," said Murray.
He walked the 3.1-mile race in about an hour.
The Canon-McMillan cross-country team, which sponsors the race, honored Murray for his accomplishment on July 16 at Big Mac Stadium.
Race director Sally Arrigoni presented Murray with a first-place medal for the newly-created 90-to 100-year-old age category and a Whiskey Rebellion race T-shirt, and Canonsburg Mayor David Rhome presented him with a commendation.
Murray was delighted with the ceremony and especially thrilled with the T-shirt.
He wanted a T-shirt to commemorate his first 5K race, but only the first 300 runners were guaranteed a shirt. Murray, the 510th entrant, missed out.
"The T-shirt proves you did it. You have to have a T-shirt," said Murray, whose daughters, Beverly Steele and Diane Spinelli stood by as their father was honored.
They never doubted their father would complete the race, but they were surprised when he first mentioned he planned to sign up for a 5K.
"I said, 'Yikes, Dad, that's 3.1 miles. That's a lot farther than you normally walk, and you don't usually walk on hills,'" said Spinelli. "But the amazing thing about my dad is his sense of humor and his willingness to try new things. He doesn't say no to anything. We knew he would do it."
Murray, a native of Independence, Mo., moved to Canonsburg as a teenager after both of his parents were killed in separate car accidents within a year of each other. The Williams family of Canonsburg, who knew Murray's father, a delegate to the Iron Workers Union who traveled around the country, took in Murray and his older brother, Monty.
Murray enjoyed walking the race route and remembering the families who used to live in the houses he passed.
He also reminisced about walking to and from school, and walking home for lunch each day, joking that it was great preparation for the 5K.
After he graduated from Canonsburg High School in 1940, Murray traveled to California to live with his brother and attended Los Angeles City College, where he studied civil engineering until he was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. He served for three years in the 312th Engineering Division of the 87th Infantry.
His brother was killed in the war.
Murray returned to Washington County after the war, graduated from Robert Morris, worked as an accountant at H.J. Heinz and Levinson Steel, and married his wife of 65 years, Pauline, who died in 2011. The pair enjoyed dancing and traveling, and it was after Pauline died that he decided to start walking.
Last year, he reconnected with an old friend who served in the 87th infantry with him, and later this year he plans to travel to Seattle, Wash., to visit a distant cousin. His health is good, and he has no plans to slow down. And next year, he has a title to defend at the Whiskey Rebellion race.
His advice to the Canon-Mac cross country runners?
"Keep moving," Murray said. "Don't ever give up."


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Nicolella said Brookman told her the cause could be electrical because its origin appeared to be near the front of the building where a radio was located and electrical cords were run.
Her brother, Tony, had closed the bar about 11 p.m. Saturday, and that was the last time someone had been in the building. Her other brother, Robert, operates the catering business.
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The governor's approval ratings will sink even further as he pursues these initiatives, even though they may be sensible, necessary and in the best interest of all commonwealth citizens. If we want our roads to be passable, our bridges safe and public transportation available, we have to pay the price of maintaining them. If we don't want to slash funding for education, for the poor and disabled, for police and environmental protection, we can't continue to offer state employees the generous pensions that have become unaffordable, simply because the employees who came before them enjoyed those benefits.
We face the same sort of taxpayer denial at the national level. Many folks are offended by attempts to make any changes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, even when there is no doubt that staying the course will lead to economic catastrophe.
The governor would do best to ignore his polling numbers – and his no-new-taxes pledge – and concentrate on what Pennsylvania needs and how to pay for it.
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I was in the process of cooking breakfast this morning and was trying to open a pound of bacon when I realized that all of the scissors had disappeared again. I found myself alone at the stove with a hot griddle and only a pair of scrapbooker's pinking shears to cut open my pork.
I made the mistake of asking where the kitchen scissors had gone, and my son pointed out a pair of his red-handled safety scissors and told me I could use them. Everyone else remained silent on the subject. Quite a helpful bunch I have, don't you think?
I know that the scissors have not decided to pack up their things and move away. I know they are not on strike. I know that some (small) person in my house has needed them, taken them, used them and forgotten to put them away. But when I ask, all I get are blank looks, like no one understands the question. This seemingly small thing drives me bonkers on a fairly regular basis.
What may be worse is that I am pretty sure this is penance of some kind for a past wrong I committed.
Flash back a decade or so. My husband and I were still dating, and we both were strong-willed and unwilling to bend. I was fresh out of college and had ideas about where life was going to take me, and he was already an established farmer who didn't want life taking him anywhere. When we got along, we were a fantastic team. When we didn't, well, we really didn't.
One of the things we used to bicker about was – you guessed it – scissors. I had a special pair for everything. Cutting paper? Use these scissors. Cutting fabric? Use these scissors. Snipping herbs or flowers in the garden? Only these will do. And never, ever, use the fabric scissors for paper. He always got that one wrong.
His argument was that it didn't matter what you used, if it did the job, it was OK. My argument was that his argument was dumb. I told myself I was trying to keep from having to replace damaged scissors all of the time, but I really was trying to establish control over my surroundings. Not being willing to bend on any issue, particularly a small one like a pair of scissors, was a huge detriment to our relationship.
Here's where karma kicks in. We separated for a year, and when we did, I took every pair of scissors I could find from the house. I took the kitchen scissors, the garden shears, the paper and fabric scissors, and even the tiny little manicure scissors. I wasn't even kind enough to leave him safety scissors or pinking shears. I was kind of a jerk back then.
We worked things out, got back together, and have been mostly happily married for nearly 10 years. But to this day, I have this random happenstance where I am in desperate need of scissors and can't find any. And it drives me crazy. I have to remind myself that while it SEEMS like everyone takes them away from me on purpose, that is not likely the case.
But even if it is, I probably deserve it.
Laura Zoeller can be reached at email@example.com.
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Compilation on Mac OS X
This document attempts to describe how to build Stellarium from sources on MacOSX. This process ought to improve over time. The set of instructions was written for the 0.10.4 release and using an Intel machine with Leopard (10.5). The process has to be validated for other versions.
Prepare Mac OS X to build Stellarium
You need a machine with MacOS X 10.4 (latest version 10.4.11) or later
- Install the latest version of Apple's Developer Tools: http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html
- Install the latest version of cmake: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
- Install the latest version of Qt from the dmg, 4.6.2 at the time this instructions was written. http://qt.nokia.com/downloads
- Install macports: http://www.macports.org/install.php
- Install subversion making use of macports:
$ sudo port install subversion
For MacOSX there are two different versions of Qt:
- Carbon Version: Default download and recommended option. It works for MacOS X 10.5/4/3, and both Intel and PPC architectures. Install this one if you want to create universal binaries
- Cocoa version: exclusively for MacOSX 10.6 and Intel. You can use this if you aren't going to create universal binaries.
Compiling dependencies to build an universal binary
We have to compile the dependencies with special flags to be able to generate an universal binary. If you don't intend to create an universal package you can skip this section.
In case you are compiling in a Leopard or Snow Leopard machine you have to recompile stellarium dependencies making use of the oldest system libraries (in our case those in 10.4 aka Tiger). We need the following compilation flags:
a. We want to generate a single binary for both intel and ppc architectures so:
-arch i386 -arch ppc
b. We want to link with the old framework and system libraries:
-mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/ (Not sure if this is really for the dependencies)
Compiling dependencies
- Libiconv: It's important to compile libiconv in the first place because gettext depends on it.
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/' $ make $ make install
- Gettext: Get the latest release from here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ . Uncompress the file in your favorite directory and configure and compile like this:
$ ./configure CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch ppc -mmacosx-version-min=10.4 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/' $ make $ make install
At the moment of writing these steps 4.6.2 is the latest version of Qt. Trolltech provides support from MacOS 10.4 to 10.6 so our binaries will be constrained by this. I went through these instructions in a Leopard machine. To compile in Snow Leopard it's necessary to consider the following notes copied from the Qt 4.6.0 changelog:
- Gcc 4.2 is used by default. Configure with -platform macx-g++40 to select 4.0.
- Using the 10.4u SDK requires gcc 4.0.
- Configuring for the Cocoa port (-cocoa) produces 64-bit binaries by default. Use the -arch flags to override.
- Building for ppc64 is no longer supported by the gcc tool chain.
- Building for ppc is still supported.
I haven't tried to generate universal binaries on a Snow Leopard machine. We have to validate these steps.
Building stellarium itself
Create a build directory with your favorite shell (the following directory is just an example, you can pick any name and path you want)
$ mkdir ~/Development $ cd ~/Development
And in that directory checkout the sources with the svn command
$ svn co https://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stellarium/trunk/stellarium stellarium
Time to compile stellarium
We setup the build directory
$ cd stellarium $ mkdir -p builds/macosx $ cd builds/macosx
We run cmake and compile
$ cmake ../.. $ make
$ make install $ make macosx_bundle
The macosx_bundle target includes a perl script that makes use of otool and install_name_tool to:
- read the link dependencies of Stellarium.app/Contents/MacOS/stellarium
- copy those dependencies into the app (.frameworks and .dylibs)
- recurse on those copied-in dependencies, stopping at a point where system libraries are called for
This seems to work for making a relocatable Stellarium.app. Making a universal build from here is a matter of taking an intel and a ppc and merging them appropriately.
I've found that making a universal app directly via cmake to not work, even the better mac-supporting 2.6. Any insights appreciated!
To get CMake to do all the packaging and linking above (to take better advantage of cmake 2.6), we need to re-arrange the CMAke properties a bit across all the ports, and this is a somewhat larger undertaking.
Updating source code
You can check to see if the source code has been updated on the server at any time by going in a terminal window to
And entering the command
svn -u status
Any file that it mentions is either changed locally, or changed on the server (svn help status for details of the output of this command). Unless you are working on the source code yourself, anything mentioned is an update. You can update from this directory also with
svn update
IMPORTANT: you should delete or move aside the old /Users/Shared/stellarium/Stellarium.app before each new build.
Why Not Xcode?
Cmake has an Xcode generator (as opposed to "Unix Makefiles"), now in 2010, this seems to be working better. One wants to choose the macosx_bundle target, and build it. This author prefers the unix makefiles, but now happily it's just a matter of preference.
Getting a universal build out of Xcode depends entirely on having universal libraries for all the dependencies.
Cmake generally has made this whole compilation process on the mac both more repeatable, and more like the other platforms (or, at least, more like the unix and such...). This is a Good Thing.
All kinds of things might go wrong!
- if the cmake or the build complains about a missing library, it might need installation. Start with fink.
- if the compilation breaks on some code, it may be that the developers are in the middle of something, and come back in a svn revision or so.
- anything else I haven't remembered or encountered!
Loadable Module Support
I was able to get loadable module support working, and have submitted patches for the CMakeLists.txt files in StellaGui and HelloStelModule. These build straightforwardly:
- edit the top-level CMakeLists.txt file to point to where your real stellarium source and build directories are.
- make builds/macosx and cd to it
- run cmake and make:
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../.. make make install
and you should have StellaGui or HelloStelModule as a directory in builds/macosx, which you can copy to ~/Library/Preferences/Stellarium/modules/ (you may have to make that directory).


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ELLSWORTH – A Fredericktown man accused of dragging a state trooper who had stopped him when he ignored her directions at the scene of a crash last month was ordered to stand trial Tuesday on charges including aggravated assault.
Arnold Joseph Frankie, 62, of Barney's Run Road, is accused of dragging Trooper Heather Gonglik, who was assisting Southwest Regional police April 3 at the scene of a two-vehicle crash in the 600 block of Main Street in Bentleyville.
Gonglik, who is assigned to the Belle Vernon station of Troop B, said she had put her hand up to stop southbound traffic in order to allow northbound traffic to flow when Frankie, who was going south, continued coming into the northbound lanes. Gonglik said he stopped briefly but then continued.
"I motioned with my hands again for him to stop," Gonglik said. "I then went out to the middle of the road with both palms up."
Gonglik went over to Frankie to talk with him in his truck.
"I explained to him that it was now a traffic stop because he failed to follow my commands," Gonglik said. "He was getting agitated and I told him that he was not free to go."
Gonglik said she tried to reach into the truck and turn off the ignition as the vehicle continued moving. She said Frankie used his left hand to shove her hands away. She had her hands on the driver's door window, which was down, when he started to speed up.
The trooper fell back after she was dragged about 20 feet, hitting her head on the pavement. A witness, Stephanie Jo Adamson, as well as the trooper said Frankie then sped off.
Gonglik went back to her cruiser to pursue Frankie.
"I was going over 90 mph to catch up with him," Gonglik said.
Frankie made a left on Beallsville Road and pulled over.
Gonglik told First Assistant District Attorney Michael Lucas that she continues to receive therapy for injuries to her neck, back and hip.
Trooper Matthew Gavrish, who filed the charges against Frankie, said the man told him that he had a bad day and must have had a "brain fart." Frankie also told Gavrish that he was sorry for what happened.
After Thompson ordered Frankie held for court on the charges including aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, fleeing or attempting to elude police, resisting arrest, obedience to authorized persons directing traffic, he denied a request by defense attorney Noah Geary to reduce his $150,000 bond.
Lucas argued the amount was appropriate since he had put the trooper in harm's way.
Thompson denied the request, noting that Frankie had been able to post the bond at the set amount.
"I see no reason to lower it since he is out of jail," Thompson said.
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A South Strabane Township grandmother is accused of leaving her two grandchildren home alone Monday morning while she went to work an eight-hour shift at her job in Bridgeville.
Not only is Catherine McClelland, 60, of 364 Clearfield Ave., accused of leaving the 5-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy alone in a house that township police said was in deplorable condition, but a loaded revolver was within their reach, police said.
Township police Officer John Bruner believes the children were alone for about an hour before the girl decided to call 911. Apparently before she left for the day, McClelland told the 5-year-old girl to call 911 in the event of an emergency.
"The little girl apparently became very scared so she called 911," Bruner said. "She kept calling 911 and hanging up. The two dispatchers did a great job determining that she was home alone with her little brother and that was why she was frightened."
When Bruner and Officer Clay Graham arrived at the home about 8:20 a.m., they found the two children. Inside the house were two dogs and two cats. Wires were also exposed.
Police described the house as being a "total wreck." Hallways were impassable, food debris was found in the kitchen, and dog and cat feces were on the floor. There also were knives within reach of the children. Police called Washington County Children and Youth Services.
Bruner said while they were waiting for CYS, the 3-year-old asked him and Graham if they wanted to see "MiMi's gun." The boy took them to a bedroom and pointed out a revolver. The boy reportedly told the officers "Shoot it, it's not loaded." Bruner secured the gun and found it to be a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber Special revolver loaded with four live rounds.
The children were taken into custody by CYS workers, who took them to a safe location.
McClelland told police she left them at home alone because she needed to go to work to pay for their care.
Police charged her with endangering the welfare of children. The charge will be sent by summons from the office of District Judge Jay Weller.
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By attaching her computer mouse to an oscillating fan, one cyberschool student was able to pretend she was working on her computer throughout the school day.
That admission, to the cyberschool coordinator for Washington School District, is just one reason why the district is questioning the effectiveness and accountability of charter and cyberschools in Pennsylvania.
In the past five years, the district has spent $1.9 million in tuition so that 60 to 65 students could enroll in cyberschools.
At the same time, there is little to show that those students were receiving a good education. In fact, attempts by administrators to get attendance and progress reports, as well as notification when a student dropped out of a cyberschool, were met with a "cease and desist" letter from an attorney for the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Beaver.
Washington School District Superintendent Dr. Roberta DiLorenzo gave a report at the school board meeting Monday night on issues with cyberschools' accountability.
Among the instances she cited were:
• One student from Washington enrolled in a state cyberschool earned seven credits in four years, at a cost to the district of $36,000. The student, according to the cyberschool, had perfect attendance all four years.
• The cost of a special education student enrolled in cyberschool is more than double the amount for a student in a regular classroom. The district is charged $9,202 for a regular education student and $19,802 for a special education student, per year.
• A student receiving speech services at Washington for one 30-minute session per week costs $569 while, for the same time in a cyberschool, the cost is $8,461.
• A number of parents admitted to enrolling their children in cyberschool to avoid the truancy fines because cyberschools don't report students to a district judge.
• Parents of homeschooled children are held accountable by having to submit an application each year to the district and having a certified evaluator analyze each student's portfolio, while no such requirement is made of a parent with a child in a cyberschool.
• Under data from the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, students in Washington School District outscored the cyberschools in almost all of 14 tests. And the cyberschools scored below the state average in nearly all of its tests.
Furthermore, while school districts in the state are held accountable for those test scores, cyberschools are not. Nor are cyberschools accountable for student attendance.
"There are kids who thrive in cyberschools just as there are kids who thrive in homeschooling," Dr. DiLorenzo said. "All I'm saying is hold them as accountable as you are holding the public schools."
The district's cyberschool tuition bill had been running between $500,000 and $700,000 per year. But in January, the district partnered with Trinity Area and Western Beaver school districts to start their own cyberschool. Washington has about 35 students enrolled in the Collaborative Online Academy and among the benefits are that a cybercoordinator ensures that students are logging on to their computers. The coordinator also regularly connects with their parents. If the student chooses to come back to school they are already aligned with the district's curriculum.
DiLorenzo's remarks also will be delivered during an April 11 meeting with state legislators and area school administrators to be held at Canon-McMillan.
State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, plans to attend. He admitted cyberschools are a growing problem and pointed to attempts to amend bills for cyber and charter schools that would require the same standards as those for teachers in a traditional classroom.
State Sen. Judy Schwank, D-Berks County, has introduced a bill that would require students to enroll in programs run by their home districts.
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GREENSBURG – When Marquel Matusic converted a three-point play with 5:55 left in the fourth quarter of Wednesday's WPIAL Class AA first-round game at Hempfield, the Washington High School boys basketball team had all the momentum.
Had a six point lead, too.
The WPIAL quarterfinals were within sight.
Then, well … a whole heap of trouble.
Wash High went quiet over the next four-and-a-half minutes, as Burrell put together an 18-0 run to hand the Prexies a 61-50 loss and crush any hopes this senior-dominated roster had of making a playoff run.
"Look up at the clock, we're up six with 5:55 left," Josh Wise said. "I look up again, and we're down 12. In the blink of an eye, it was gone."
Five different players scored during the stretch for No. 7 seed Burrell, which advanced to play Greensburg Central Catholic in the quarterfinals.
With starting point guard Darius Spinks "unavailable," according to Prexies coach Mark Gaither, Wash High struggled to initiate its offense.
The Prexies committed five turnovers in the first three quarters, seven in the fourth.
"We didn't run our offense," Wise said. "We didn't play as good of defense as we should have. We didn't play with intensity."
Pete Spagnolo had two steals during the run and five overall. More important, he finished with 18 points. Matt Hess contributed 15 points and six rebounds for Burrell (17-6), Cole Bush nine points and 11 rebounds.
Wise led Wash High (17-7) with 19 points, though eight of those came in the first quarter.
"He's a heck of a ballplayer," said Burrell coach Rob Niederberger. "We knew he was going to shoot the ball a lot. We knew he was going to make a lot. I told them (at halftime), 'He could come out and be unconscious like he was in the first quarter.' You just have to weather the storm. He's not Michael Jordan. Eventually, he's going to start missing some shots."
Jordan Drew had a strong game inside, contributing 12 points and seven rebounds, and Jaylin Kelly added eight points.
Washington trailed, 40-36, with 1:49 to go in the third quarter after Jake Prefling drilled a three, but the Prexies responded with 6-0 run that stretched into the fourth, capped by a thunderous, two-handed dunk from Wise.
Drew scored on a floater and Matusic converted his three-point play before Burrell answered with the decisive run.
"We talked about rebounding the ball and attacking the hoop," Prexies coach Mark Gaither said. "When we made the first run and came back and took that lead, we were limiting them to one shot, we were securing the rebound, and we were running, using our speed and getting to the hoop. Then we got a little stagnant, took some forced jumpers, some forced shots."
Wise made a pair of pretty three-pointers early, as Wash High jumped out to an early 8-4 lead. The Prexies continued the strong start, getting eight points from Wise in the frame, and led 18-14 after one.
After Wise made a baseline jumper at 5:49 of the second quarter to put the Prexies ahead, 20-19, Burrell ripped off a 7-0 run, punctuated by a three-pointer from James Liput – which featured Liput winding an imaginary video camera as he jogged back on defense.
That 26-20 lead became 30-26 at halftime after Liput scored on a floater with 1:12 left in the quarter. And after a ho-hum third, things heated up considerably in the fourth.
Of course, as Wash High found out, they cooled rather quickly, too.
"We put ourselves in a position to win," Gaither said. "Then we kind of self-destructed."
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South Fayette School District receives sizable grant
At a July 23 meeting of the South Fayette School Board, Superintendent Dr. Bille Rondinelli announced the district was awarded a $103,000 grant from the Grable Foundation. She said Director of Technology Aileen Owens did the legwork for the grant, which will be used by the district to help teach students computational thinking.
"This is one of the largest grants awarded by the Grable Foundation to a single school district," Rondinelli said, adding that Pittsburgh Public Schools is the only other district to receive a grant of that size from the Grable Foundation.
Rondinelli said the district "strived very hard to achieve this goal."
The Pittsburgh-based Grabel Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of children.
Owens said the $103,000 grant will be used to fund computational thinking in grades K-12 at South Fayette.
"It creates an innovative and creative opportunity for students," Owens said of computational thinking, which falls under the school's STEAM initiative (science, technology, engineering, arts and math). Owens said the grant will help the district reach out to other under-served school districts in the Pittsburgh area.
"It's building a scaffolding of learning," Owens said, adding that because concepts are being built at such an early age that it's easy to grasp the next step in learning.
In addition to the Grable Grant, the district was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Sprout Fund, which Owens said will be used in the district's environmental science curriculum in grades K-3.
Owens said funds from that grant will help with the building of sustainable gardens at the school. She added the district will be working with Braddock Farms and Grow Pittsburgh, as well as representatives from Wheeling Jesuit University on the sustainable gardens. South Fayette students will be designing raised garden plots and a variety of plants will be grown year-round. Owens said the school cafeteria will also be able to use some of the foods grown in the gardens.


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