Daily Herald, The (Newspaper) - December 27, 2005, Tyrone, Pennsylvania The Best In Local News Sports 140 87 Your source for local news BUFFET DINNER Weather the War riors Mark United Methodist Church will host a buffet dinner on January 6 from 4 to 6 The dinner will feature chicken parmesan and Children ages and under eat for The Warriors Mark UMC is handicapped Anyone with questions can call the church office at SUGAR RUN BLUEGRASS JAM The Sugar Run Bluegrass Jam will be held January 7 from 1 to 4 at Calvary Bap tist 810 Ruskin Drive This is an open acoustic jam featuring Bluegrass and Gospel Bluegrass music and instru It is open to the public with no admission For more call 940 TYRONE ELKS ANNUAL HOOP SHOOT The Tyrone Elks has sched uled its annual Hoop Shoot con This foul shooting compe tition is open to all area youth between the ages of eight and as of April Qualifying contests will be held on 28 at 6 at the Tyrone High 7 at the Bellwood Middle School at noon and at the Building II gym Altoona on Sun 8 at 2 Registration starts a prior to the contest there is no fee to Top finishers will move on to the finals in Tyrone on For more contact Steve Lucas at 6841218 or email at Hoopshoots@aol.com LIBRARY CONCERT FUNDRAISER Tickets for the March 25 annual library concert fund rais An evening with the are now on sale at the following ticket locations in downtown Tyrone Bresslers Food Mart and Kopp Drug and the Public All seats are Joining the Drifters will be five addi tional For additional con cert or to receive tickets through the call 6847929 Monday through Fri day from 8 to All monies raised go toward the mortgage payment on the new More information on the concert and the individual performers will be forthcoming in issues of The Daily CARTRIDGE COLLECTION Wesley United Methodist 1200 Logan Avenue in is now collecting empty cartridges for Cartridges can be brought to the church during office hours weekdays 9 to 11 and deposited in the collection Simply place the old cartridge in a plastic sandwich bag and deposit it in the collection No large laser cartridges are accepted with this program and will not fit through the holes on the collection Questions about the program can be directed to the church office at The Daily Herald Serving Warriors Bald Eagle and all of Northern Blair County since 1866 Young boy stabbed to death in Tyrone Tl A M m t Nathan Shaw By SAM ZEMA Staff Writer A boy was killed Monday night as a result of a stab bing at a residence at 1550 vania Avenue in The Tyrone Borough Police released a statement this morning to The Daily Herald that said they responded to a weapons call shortly before 10 Police found a homi cide scene when they Chief Joseph Beachem con firmed the child was stabbed to He said the child was the only murder victim but others were assaulted at the same He offered no details about how many people had been assaulted or their Beachem said his department has developed a person of interest in the Authorities are looking for Nathan The press release described Shaw as a white five 10 inches with blue Shaw may be driving a red 1993 Nissan Beachem said Shaw should not be Beachem said they are not ready Continued on page 2 Media gathers Media crews gather outside of the Blair Townhouses on Pennsylvania and last The Daily Werner Start off the new year on a positive area blood drives scheduled for January By AMANDA GOLDEN Staff Writer Winter weather is always a cause for concern when it comes to the blood supply reserves during the holiday Snow and ice storms can deal a major blow to the local American Red Cross Blood Services effort to build blood supply reserves around the Christmas and New Year according to officials of the Greater Alleghenies Two blood drives are scheduled in Tyrone in upcoming weeks and sev eral others in the surrounding On January a blood drive will be held at the Tyrone Hospital from 11 to 5 on January an O Donor Day blood drive will be held at First Presbyterian 102 13th Street from 1 to 7 For those individuals who will be visiting the Logan Valley drives are scheduled for January 4 and January 18 from noon to 6 in the Community Penn State Altoona students will have the opportunity to donate blood at the Slep Student Center on January 19 from noon to 6 Giving blood takes very little Although about 60 percent of the people in America are eligible to donate only five percent Anyone at least weighing 105 pounds or more and feel ing in good health may be eligible to donate Individuals with donor eligibility questions should call the nursing col lections office at the loss of several blood late starts and the early closing of several others caused a negative affect on the weekly blood collection Continued on page 2 Number Five for 2005 Tyrone once again focus of drug busts during past year I c finta Tit a Dsi 1 J i i i Editors note The Daily Herald continues its Top Ten countdown of the most important local news stories of The series will continue each day the per is published until the Number One as chosen by the Herald By SAM ZEMA Staff Writer brought these words to the front page of The Daily Herald 40 people were collared in the areas latest drug bust including street level dealers from the Tyrone area and other parts of Blair Stories of other busts would appear in The Herald later in the year along with the details about the court activity usually associated with such The April crackdown was the culmination of a five month Tyrone Police Chief Joseph Beachem said the bust was significant in making headway against the drug problem in At the same he also recognized the enormity of the problem and talked about his depart ments resolve in dealing with this entire this entire state has a drug said We want people to understand we are targeting people from the bottom He said the Blair County Drug Task Force is a great tool for the Beachem also cited the efforts made by county and local authorities and the efforts of his own Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom along with local law enforcement officials made the announcement about the busts in Tyrone and other parts of Blair County at a press conference in In May of this Tyrone Police along with the Blair County Drug Task Force concluded a investigation into drug dealing at a residence on Colum bia Avenue by serving a search warrant at the In the authorities discovered an fugi After several hours of investigative the man was identified as a fugitive wanted by the state of Col on a parole warrant as a sexually violent July brought another major bust with Attorney Gen eral Corbett returning to the area to announce the The bust ended up netting dozens of suspects from Tyrone and the Altoona Corbett appeared in Altoona with Blair County Dis Attorney Dave Gorman and several other law enforcement officials including Chief Beachem to announce the drug At the Corbett offered a message to drug deal ers in Blair He We are not going and to the law abiding citizens of Blair we want you to know that state and local law enforcement agen cies are committed to ensuring that you have a safe place to work and raise your Corbett said the investigation targeted alleged street level drug dealing in Blair specifically in the Altoona and Tyrone These individuals that we caught are distributing their poison on these said He said the large city drug dealers are coming to smaller communities and targeting those He said the dealers think the smaller communities wont have the enforcement effort to deal with the problem as com pared to larger He added authorities had demon that assumption would be absolutely Additional busts occurred in Tyrone and other parts of Blair County in late September as part of a month long That bust resulted in several arrests including two people from Tyrone and others from Sny der The task force investigated a major heroin distribu tion ring that was operating in Snyder Township and Greenfield Authorities seized grams of brick in drug paraphernalia including a coffee grinder and 500 empty heroin packets from a Washing ton Avenue At the agent James Walstrom of the nia Attorney Generals office said what was significant about the evidence seized was the amount of drugs and that it was in an unpackaged rock He said the evi dence indicates this particular ring was further up the chain than what authorities are used to seeing in Blair Additional arrests were made and and other items seized at the locations Chief Beachem also noted the significance of the drug He indicated authorities are used to seeing cases more involved with the distribution of the in this the large quantity of drugs and the raw form showed those arrested were more involved at the manufacturing In authorities conducted what was described as one of the biggest bust in recent AG Corbett was in Altoona on 21 to announce the The November drug bust led to the arrests of several dozen individuals including more than 15 from the Tyrone The arrests were conducted throughout the day as a result of a investigation into alleged mid Continued on page 2 Coloring contest winners Sarah age at and Brittany age are the winners of The Daily Heralds holiday coloring They each received a prize from The Daily The Daily Daniels Shape Up Blair County kickoff breakfast scheduled From staff reports Blair County Health and Welfare Council cordially invites everyone to the Shape Up Blair County kickoff breakfast to be held Jan uary 11 from 8 to at HealthSouth Rehab Hospital of Shape Up Blair County is a wellness program designed to encourage healthy eating habits and increase physical are encouraged to form up to 10 to work and motivate each other over a time span to promote healthier Team competition will recognize achievement in two categories due to an appropriate diet and accumulate activity in the form of Through the months of February through team captains will receive weekly emails containing physical motivation and nutri tional and should share this information with their ans age 18 and under can participate in the accumulate activity category of the silver and bronze medals as well as certificates will be awarded to the teams reaching top levels of For more visit or contact Lisa Hann at 6933023 or Please RS VP for the kickoff breakfast by January 4 to Lisa Hann at 693 3023 or Santa Clans makes his rounds In an annual Santa Claus made his rounds in a parade to promote safe ty on Christmas The Daily Werner Obituaries Community Sports Horoscopes Comics Local Forecast Lows around Southwest winds around 5 Highs in the mid South winds around 5 Wednesday cloudy with a 50 percent chance of Lows in the mid South east winds around 5 Highs in the mid Southeast winds around 5 In Sports Final ABC Monday Night See Page 4
