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At the movies — July 4-5

BEDFORD PITT THEATRE Minions & Monsters (PG) and Toy Story 5 (PG) Friday, Saturday and Sunday — 7:30 p.m. SILVER LINING DRIVE-IN National Treasure (PG-13) Saturday — 9:45 p.m. CARROLLTOWN HI-WAY DRIVE-IN Toy Story 5 (PG) Friday, Sunday and Monday — 9:15 p.m. Masters ...

Go+TV planner — July 4-5

Saturday, July 4 The Friends of Peterson Memorial Dragway will sponsor a downtown cruise from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 4, on 11th and 12th Avenues in Altoona. The Blair County Antique Automobile Club and racers from Petersons and other tracks will be participating. Come and relive the 1976 ...

Calm in a storm: If a rip current sucks you out to sea, try not to panic

SAN DIEGO — To someone who is getting sucked out to sea by a rip current, “Don’t panic!” may be difficult to heed, even if that’s exactly what you should do. But lifeguards say to not only relax but flip over and float out of the danger. Rip currents are one of the coast’s ...

America the beautiful

An America250-themed panel is seen on the exterior of the Gable’s Building as part of the Downtown Altoona Mural Project. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Blessed to have a happy home

We’ve all heard stories that will be engraved in our memories forever — ones we’ve been told so many times, we can retell them in the deepest of slumbers. I have a lot of those stories, but the one that really hits home for me is how — and why — I was adopted from Seoul, Korea. I was found abandoned on the street, but my birth mother knew enough to take me to a police station with a note asking for me to be placed with a family who could provide for me. I never knew my birth mother — and still don’t have any way of contacting her — but my parents of 40-plus years ...