Carolyn Dumm of Altoona and Francis Horne of Ebensburg are engaged to be married. Miss Dumm is the daughter of Patrick J. and Virginia M. Dumm of Altoona and the granddaughter of Robert M. and Martha V. (Peters) Jones of Altoona and Clair J. and Mary D. (McDermott) Dumm of Ebensburg. She ...
NEW YORK — Allison Hill, CEO of the American Booksellers Association, is used to strangers expressing sympathy when they learn what she does for a living. “It’s all so funny,” she says. “When I tell them I run the trade association for independent stores, they’ll say, ‘It’s just so sad that they’re disappearing.’ I don’t think they’re really keeping track, or they just know about a store that closed or heard about one closing.” The decline of physical bookstores remains so embedded in popular culture that the man dating Anne Hathaway’s character in “ The ...
The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Blair County has scheduled the following educational courses: Mindful Moments –– A four-session course starting June 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at 711 Ninth Ave., Altoona. This course will explore the mindfulness practices of awareness and acceptance and how noticing might help change familiar patterns of stress reactivity. Participants will also examine how to cultivate mindful pathways to access more peace in body, mind and emotion. For more information, visit namiblaircountypa.org and click on “local events.” NAMI Basics ...
Roaring Spring Community Library has announced its upcoming activities. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, 8 a,.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The library is closed on Fridays. For more information, email info@roaringspringlibrary.org or call 814-224-2994. Join the library at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 3, for the official kick-off to Summer Reading with stories, games, crafts and more. 10 a.m. Saturday, June 6 –– Snuggles & Paws for Reading - Children read to therapy dogs 5 p.m. Mondays, June 8 and 22 –– ...
Eldorado Civics plan spaghetti dinner A take-out spaghetti dinner will be held from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at the Eldorado Civic Association, 5939 California Ave., Altoona. Tickets are $10 (take-out only), which includes spaghetti, meatball, salad and roll. Order by June 3 by calling 814-935-9336. This is a fundraiser for the Eldorado Civic Association, sponsor of the Altoona Area Teener Baseball League and the Miracle League of Blair County. Little Rock schedules free classes Little Rock Natural Remedies, 16821 Dunnings Highway, Duncansville, has scheduled free ...
JoAnn Johnston prepares to pull some artificial flowers from an urn in the front yard of her Poplar Avenue home in Hollidaysburg on Wednesday afternoon. Johnston has had trouble with deer eating her live flowers. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
