The Franciscan Friars of the Province of the Immaculate Conception celebrated their centenary with an outdoor Mass and picnic on the grounds of St. Bernardine Monastery, Hollidaysburg, on Sunday, May 18. This was the second of three events marking their 100th anniversary. Invited guests were ...

Rita Kalwasinski, owner of Your Hands Or Mine Design With Rita K, paints lava on the sidewalk in front of her arts and crafts store on Main Street in Portage on Wednesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Ann-Marie Brady (right) of Hollidaysburg buys USDA meat from Tammi Grubb of The New Beginnings Farm in Tyrone during the Hollidaysburg Farmers Market on Tuesday afternoon. The market is located on North Montgomery Street, just off the Diamond. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Joe Novak (right) of Juniata unloads his bicycle from a car rack in East Freedom before he and other Blair Bicycle Club members, Todd Shope of Hollidaysburg (left) and Tyke Dodson of East Freedom, embark on a 15-mile ride on Monday evening. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Central Blair Recreation assistant superintendent of parks Jason Johnson nets debris from the filtration system at the Juniata Spray Park on Friday afternoon in preparation for Monday’s opening, weather permitting. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

In his 1644 pamphlet “Aeropagetica,” English polemicist John Milton said, “Though ye take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; ye cannot bereave him of his covetousness.” That quote, which I read in Lee Wood’s introduction to American journalism course ...