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50 years ago: July 3, 1973
About 20 local groups interested in solid waste production and disposal formed a group called the Blair County Ecology Society. They recommended Blair County form a solid waste authority with member and Altoona teacher Barbara Shepherd as head.
25 years ago: July 3, 1998
A man named Dave Grout walked across a 150-foot bed of burning embers at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown campus, setting a new record in the Guinness Book of World Records. The record was previously 120 feet.
10 years ago: July 3, 2013
UPMC Altoona acquired a device called a biometric palm scanner to identify a patient who was unconscious when admitted by reading the vein pattern in the palm of his hand.
-- Compiled by Tim Doyle