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Yesteryear-Kough’s Mountain Lake Park
People enjoyed swimming and other outdoor activities at Kough’s Mountain Lake Park located on the William Penn Highway between Duncansville and Cresson. The swimming pool built by the Koughs, for a time, would be the world’s largest cement bottom pool. The pool, which measured 57 x 127 ...
St. Jude Triduum mass scheduled
St. Mark’s Catholic Church, 416 Sixth Ave., Altoona, will hold its annual St. Jude Triduum with Mass at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, the first day of the Triduum. The second day of the Triduum will be Monday, Oct. 27, with Mass at 5:30 p.m., and the third day of the Triduum will be Tuesday, Oct. 28, with Mass at 5:30 p.m. Father Nelson Javier, T.O.R., will be celebrant and homilist at the masses. Triduum prayers will be prayed at each Mass followed by Veneration of the Relic of St. Jude. St. Jude is the Patron of Hopeless Cases. Trunk or treat events offered — St. John the ...
In the news on this date: October 23
Local history 50 years ago: Oct. 23, 1975 The Altoona Area High School team, Linda Rickens and Shelley Stoltenburg co-captains and Kerry Jo Ruffner advisor, won the 10th annual Jaffa Shrine Cheerleading Contest. Roosevelt, Cheryl Cassidy, Renee Schiefer and Leisha Hawk co-captains, won the junior high division. 25 years ago: Oct. 23, 2000 The Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants donated 52 tickets to a Curve baseball game to Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Blair County. About 100 members of both groups attended together for a ...
Cresson Lions to hold pancake breakfast
The Cresson Area Lions Club will hold a pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Cresson American Legion on Ashcroft Avenue. Tickets for all-you-can-eat pancakes are $8 per person. Dine-in and take-outs are available. A basket raffle to benefit the Cresson Public Library also will be held during the event.
Advice spurs peanut allergy drop
A decade after a landmark study proved that feeding peanut products to young babies could prevent development of life-threatening allergies, new research finds the change has made a big difference in the real world. Peanut allergies began to decline in the U.S. after guidance first issued in ...