Archive - Aug 6, 2012 - News Article
ROSSITER — This is the time of year that there are a lot of camps being held by different church groups and other organizations; however, something new is coming to our area: Blind Camp.
Blind Camp will be hosted by Laurel Lake Retreat & Conference Center Tuesday, Aug. 21 through Friday, Aug. 24.
Laurel Lake Lodge is owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church and is located at 76 Lodge Rd., Rossiter, just south of the west entrance to Hemlock Lake on SDA Camp Road.
"Hot Dog Days" at Fezell's County Market will continue from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today through Friday to benefit the Punxsutawney Memorial Library. The sponsor of the fundraiser is the Punxsutawney Memorial Library Board of Trustees, which has a goal of raising $6,000. A hot dog, chips and a drink can be purchased for $2 all week long, and today is a special day, as the community volunteers will also be selling ice cream, and the used book sale will also take place.
PUNXSUTAWNEY — That special week that everyone who loves hot dogs looks forward to for the whole year has finally arrived. Hot Dog Days, which benefits the Punxsutawney Memorial Library, will start today at Fezell’s County Market.
This is the library’s largest fundraiser of the year, with a goal of $6,000 for the event, which is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
today through Friday in front of County Market, said Kathy Smith, secretary for the Punxsutawney Memorial Library Board of Trustees, which sponsors the event.
The winner of the 2012 Chevrolet Equinox or $18,000 in cash Sunday night at the annual SS.C.D. Lawn Festival was Tara Covert of Big Run, (second from left).
Shown is Festival Committee Chairman Frank Hetrick (far left) and Covert’s husband, Patrick Covert (right).
The Coverts decided they would rather have the cash than the car.
(The Spirit is pleased to share with our readers vignettes of life in the 19th century as originally reported in past issues of the newspapers. These reproduced stories include their original headlines and spelling.)
Local Intelligence
(August 19, 1896)
ASSAULTED WITH A COKE FORK
Yesterday evening Andrew Nichol, coal and iron police at Adrian, was called to a Hungarian boarding house to suppress a row.
