Archive - Mar 23, 2012
The East Side Ballers, a sixth-grade boys' tournament team that competed in the Punxsy tournament, in addition to the Penns Manor sixth-grade tournament, has completed its season. The highlight of the tournament team's season was a thrilling, come-from-behind 36-35 victory over a tough Derry team in the Penns Manor tourney. Members of the team included (front, from left) Chase Lorelli, Willie Hoover, Ethan Blose; (back) coach Ryan Sloniger, Brandon Matthews, Isaac Stouffer, Zach Pape and Lucas Deet.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Rain may be in the forecast for the immediate future, but organizers of the annual Run/Walk for Someone Special hope that Mother Nature will pour the rain this weekend, not next weekend.
“I think last year, we had a cloud looming over us, and it started to rain as the last runner crossed the line,” said Stacy Hanzely, executive director of the Arc of Jefferson-Clearfield Counties. “We’ve just been so fortunate with the weather.”
The Run/Walk for Someone Special, now in its 33rd year, will be held Sunday, April 1, starting at Town Hall in Sykesville (see box for details).
PUNXSUTAWNEY — A proposed cut in Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget appears to affect funding of recreational activities in the area. But on closer inspection, many of those funds were used for special projects and not for operations of the program or the project itself.
The Keystone Parks, Recreation and Conservation Fund was approved by Pennsylvania voters to help pay for parks, trails and open space in 1993, when it passed a referendum by a ratio of 65 percent to 35 percent, said state House Speaker Sam Smith (R-66) of Punxsy.
Agness Maxine Schaper moved on from this life Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at the age of 90.Â
She was a resident of Hilmar, Calif., when she passed away, but had lived in many places in California after being discharged from the U.S. Navy at the end of World War II.Â
She was born in February 1922 and raised in Punxsutawney by her parents, Zelda Rae and Thomas Otto Enterline.
Maxine, as she was affectionately known to all, spent her life as a nurse; first as a Navy nurse, then working in different doctors' offices and later specializing in obstetrics.
