Daily Herald, The (Newspaper) - July 20, 2004, Tyrone, Pennsylvania The Best in Local News Sports TYRONE The Daily Herald Serving Warriors Bald Eagle and all of Northern Blair County since 1866 s Tests find different strain of salmonella than made people ill PITTSBURGH AP Toma toes from a West Virginia produce supplier have tested positive for sal but not the strain responsi ble for sickening dozens of people who ate at a convenience store Pennsylvania health officials said I think what it means for the state Health Department is that we have to keep spokesman Richard McGarvey Pennsylvania officials had believed that tainted Roma tomatoes or or were to because those who got sick ate those items and because they ingested a strain of salmonella usually found on The tomatoes testing positive for the salmonella strain thats different from the strain responsible for the illnesses came from a Sheetz store in about 60 miles southwest of Harris near the Maryland officials The supplier of those Coronet said that tests turned up no contamination at its processing plant but it still would suspend pur chasing and processing Roma toma which represents 1 percent of its At this theres been no conclusive information as to the cause of the said Alicia Coronets director of food The Food and Drug Administra tion said at least 57 people in Penn Maryland and West Vir ginia who ate at Sheetz convenience stores were sickened as of last As of the number of people sickened in Pennsylvania had climbed to McGarvey Those sickened in Pennsylvania got sandwiches from at least 16 Sheetz stores in the Pittsburgh area and along the Pennsylvania Turn company officials have an infection caused by salmonella bacteria that can contaminate food or gen causes fever and cramps for up to three It is not often The bacteria are spread through the feces of infected ani mals and Sheetz chairman Stephen Sheetz said the tests were good news for the which pulled all tomatoes and lettuce in its stores in six states North Virginia and West The stores sanitized their deli switched suppliers and brought in new Company officials had not tallied how much its efforts to stem the bacteria cost or business the compa ny has Sheetz People have been buying less food from Sheetz especially in western Penn sylvania where the outbreak was first he We never looked at the That is something we will tally at the end of the Our job is to make sure the employees and cus tomers are safe and to do the right Sheetz There is no evidence that Sheetz employees spread the health officials Continued on page 2 Driver loses control on 199 after passing another vehicle By CHRISTINA SEINER Editor Hollidaysburg state police reported that Christopher John of was involved in a traffic accident yesterday at He was not wearing a seat belt and sustained moderate Robison was driving a 1999 Volkswagen Jetta northbound on Interstate Approximately miles south of the Tyrone he lost control of the vehicle after passing another Police reported the Jetta went from the lefthand northbound lane across the righthand northbound lane and then left the The vehicle then struck an embankment with its The vehicle then traveled along the embankment for a short distance before it rolled The vehicle then rolled at least one time before coming to rest on its While it was Robison was thrown from the He came to rest on the west berm of Interstate approximately 133 feet from the Those who assisted on the scene were Tyrone and Tipton Volunteer Fire Departments and Bellwood The vehicle sustained severe and Robison was flown to Altoona Hospital by a medical Tyrone property owners appeal Blair judges ruling Tyrone code enforcement officer Tom Lang confirmed the property own ers decided to appeal after Judge Elizabeth Doyle upheld fines regarding property code violations for a vacant building located at 1401 Pennsylvania By SAM ZEMA Staff Writer Tyrone property and William have decided to appeal in fines after see ing their request to be relieved of the fines denied by a Blair County Judge in Tyrone code enforcement officer Tom Lang confirmed the Loners decided to appeal after Judge Eliza beth Doyle upheld fines regarding property code violations for a vacant building located at 1401 Pennsylvania After the Lang said the Loners would have 36 months to take care of the the Loners are looking once again to the states Superior The Loners had previously peti the Superior Court of Penn sylvania to hear appeal regard ing fines for violations at the prop the Superior Court decided not to hear the appeal and sent the matter back to the Blair County Court of Common It was previously reported in The Daily Herald that last another Blair County Judge ruled the Loners needed to repair the building or have it The original decision com pelling the owners to make repairs or demolish the building was imposed by former Judge Daniel Milliron on It was that decision which led to the Loners filing their original appeal in Superior The state court then referred the matter back to Blair which led to the May The structure remained in pair and the borough was allowed to continue to fine the property own Lang explained an additional set of violations were noted on The owners were fined er after a hearing in early Earlier this year in Lang noted numerous problems still existed at the building including falling a missing part of the porch roof had collapsed and parts of a structure had stones The Loners hired contractor Eric Dasher to make the needed repairs with a permit being issued in Janu ary for the work according to He verified last week the problems had been Lang said the violations had been brought up to code sometime prior to the hearing before Judge Doyle in early A previous Herald article indi most of the repair work had been done during a peri od prior to During the most recent Judge Doyle also ruled on the addi tional in Lang explained the fines would be forgiv en contingent on there being no additional violations during an 18 months probation Lang had previously said he had attempted to have the problems cor at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue since the spring of campaign released financial reports By GEORGE GERMANN Daily News Staff Writer Incumbent Congressman Sinister spent nearly million to defeat his GOP challenger at the April 27 financial reports Last the Federal Elec tion Commission released post election reports candidates are required to The campaign committee report for of showed he spent in the election His opponent in the Michael DelGrosso of spent in his nearly suc effort to take the nomina tion away from Shuster got the nomination 51 percent to 49 percent and will face Democrat Paul Politis of tle at the fall general Shuster Michael DelGrosso To pay for his Shus ter raised in the cycle just over compared to just under Of interest is the fact that Shus ters contributions from political action committees PACs amount ed to over half of his expenditures DelGrosso only received a total of from Shusters report shows he has just over in his campaign war chest available for the fall elec Other election report informa tion released by the federal govern ment shows that Senator Arlen Specter has so far spent more than million to defend the Senate seat that he nearly lost in the closest Republican primary challenge of his Specter now has million in his campaign bank to do battle with Continued on page 2 Fresh Air Fund in search of host families for summer By AMANDA GOLDEN Staff Writer On August children will be arriving from New York City to spend two weeks with volunteer host families in the Altoona area through the Fresh Air Funds Friendly Town There is still a need for area families to open their homes to these boys and ages 10 to This is a great opportunity to help make summer special for an innercity The mission of the Fresh Air Fund is to allow children living in disad communities to get away from noisy city streets and enjoy free summer vacations in the It is an agency that has provided free summer vacations for more than million New York City children from The fund got its start in 1877 when Reverend Willard a minis ter from asked his congregation to provide country vacations as volunteer host families for New York Citys neediest Within the next few the fund rapidly grew and today nearly New York City children enjoy free Fresh Air programs The children in the immediate area will be staying through the Funds Friendly Town Through this children stay with host families in rural and suburban communities across the There are 300 Friendly Towns in 13 northeastern states and Canada participating in Continued on page 2 its fourth annual street basketball tournament on Tenth Street in several divisions of competition for the tournament grade guys arid recreational and senior There was also a slam Director of Joshua Jim said the tournament is great community Last it was estimated pore than 500 ppti was expected that just p many would visit Pictured Daniel Grazier and JT posing for a photo before playoff will follow in The Daily Tit Patty Sports Local Forecast partly cloudy after a chance of evening showers and Lows in the lower Northwest winds 5 to 10 light and Chance of rain 30 Highs in the mid Light and variable south 5 to 10 Wednesday cloudy with a 50 percent chance of show ers and Lows in the upper In Sports Expos stop Pirates home win See Page 4
