Members of a student-run business at Tyrone’s Saint Matthew School chose to collect food for the Golden Eagle Backpack Program. “We wanted to help people who were hungry and when we found out it was kids just like us, we picked that as our first service project,” said Kennedy Shaffer, ...
Scout Troop 30 will be collecting new, unwrapped toys for the Marine Toys for Tots program during the Hollidaysburg Winterfest parade on Sunday, Nov. 23. Scouts and Marines will be walking alongside the Toy Story float with a Toys for Tots banner near the end of the parade and those with donations can hand the gifts to them.
Across the area Hollidaysburg Class of 1959 to meet Members of the Hollidaysburg High School Class of 1959 will meet for lunch at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the reserved room at The Dream, 1500 Allegheny St., Hollidaysburg. If you have any questions or concerns or need a ride, call Joyce at 814-693-9341 or Jean at 814-695-6764. If you are a classmate and have moved or changed your telephone number, give Joyce or Jean a call so that records can be updated. AAHS ’76 reunion committee to meet The Altoona Area High School Class of 1976 will hold a 50th anniversary reunion ...
“History Speaks,” the lecture series of the Blair County Historical Society, will present its final event of the year, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the Altoona Railroaders Memorial Museum. “Altoona’s German Heritage and History” will be presented by Harald Dertinger, historian and himself a German native. The illustrated talk will highlight Altoona’s German clubs and culture since the 1860s, the Altoona Symphony Orchestra approaching its centennial after Russell Gerhard founded a string quartet in 1928, and a German heritage exhibit of items now displayed at the ...
Courtesy photo Recently installed officers for the VFW Post 8685 Auxiliary “Fort Apache” are (from left): front row — Ro Rabenstein, secretary; Carol Brode, president; and Cindy Burket, treasurer; back row — Peggy Thatcher, chaplain; Deb Becker, guard; Stephanie Wilkes, trustee; ...
Teen refurbishes lifeguard station into multi-use facility Matthew Harkins of Altoona recently received his Eagle Scout designation at a Court of Honor conducted at the Duncansville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8724. Friends, family, Boy Scout Troop leaders and fellow scouts attended the ...
