Mitchell wins Governor's Achievement Award for welfare-to-work success
Nelek Mitchell 24 of the Sout Side earned the Governor's Achievement Award after a Welfare-to-Work program with Lawrence County Housing Authority. He now works 55 hours weekly as an auto detailer at Butler Auto Auction in Cranberry, earning $9 an hour with overtime. The award honors former welfare recipients and employers who helped them transition to work. Ridge signed welfare reform in 1996.
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Lawrence County
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Lawrence County Housing Authority
Lawrence County Social Services Inc
Butler Auto Auction
Cranberry
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Partners
U.S. Department of Labor
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Public Welfare
Education
Feather O. Houstoun
John Vogel
Department of Labor and Industry
Tom Ridge
Birthdate: David April 25 1978
The note records a birthdate for David on April 25, 1978. It presents no other context or details about the person or event.
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David
Westminster candidate bio sketch voices community driver
A portrait of a Westminster hopeful from East Aurora New York focusing on family roots. The candidate emphasizes determination compassion and political activism while planning a career as a Boston lawyer and nonprofit advocate.
Scout recalls friend through organ donation project
Judy Hruska reports on Mary Beth Scialabba, a Quigley Catholic High School junior, as she honors her late friend Kameke Lane through a organ donation effort. Scialabba, a bone marrow recipient, promotes donor awareness across Beaver and Lawrence counties, stressing organ and marrow gifts save lives.
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Scout
Kameke Lane
Mary Beth Scialabba
New Castle
Beaver Castle Girl Scouts
Scialabba
Lane
Scouting Orgaization
Kameke
Beaver
Lawrence
Father leaves kids in woods. man charged after ATV rescue
In Johnstown, police say 43 year old Michael Sakmar abandoned his four children after an argument, leaving them in a wooded hill area. A 9 year old loaded siblings into an ATV trailer and attempted to drive home. officers found them crying and afraid. Sakmar faces four counts of child endangerment and one count of allowing a child under 10 to operate an ATV. Preliminary hearing set for early June. he was released and will receive charges by mail.
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Johnstown
Michael Sakmar
Alfred Coleman
Yoder Township
Sakmar
Richard Rok
Sakm
Births and police reports from Ellwood City and New Castle
Birth announcements include a daughter for Nicholas and Christine Amabile of 919 Temple Ave in Ellwood City on May 12, 2000 and a daughter for Joseph and Charlene Ferguson Balczon of New Wilmington on May 13, 2000. Police in New Castle report multiple traffic accidents on Harrison Street, East Washington Street, Columbus Innerbelt, Rural Avenue and East Cherry Street along with a domestic disturbance at 723 Cunningham Ave, continued on page 15.
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Nicholas and
Christine Amabile
Temple Ave
Jameson Hospital
Joseph and
Charlene Ferguson Balczon
New Wilmington
New Castle
Harrison Street
Richard Fowler Jr
East Washington Street
Marshall Avenue
Jewel Russo
Rose Stop Road
Donald Dicks
S. Ray St
Russo
Rural Avenue
Margaret Young
East Cherry Street
Industrial Street
George Moore
West Pittsburg
Krista Pecore
Cunningham Ave
Ne Ca Hi 40 grads to reunite in New Castle
The New Castle High School Class of 1940 will hold its 60 year reunion on September 8. Reunion chairman Frank Banfield and contact Beryl Morgan Tebay invite classmates or relatives to supply missing names or information for the list of graduates.
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New Castle
Frank Banfield
Beryl Morgan Tebay
Telitha Jackson Repress
Lela Thomas Thomas
Leona Dilks Sallinan
Earl Cornelius
Donald McKee
John Clark
James Cleaver
Charles Evans
Marilyn Harshman Dawson
Robert Richards
Edward Sowinski
Treveor Richards
Vivian Stevens
Wayne Township seeks new emergency management coordinator
Wayne Township seeks an emergency management coordinator after Leo Sicard resigns after eight years. Officers call for township residents to contact the office. The board also announced the Kids Trout Derby for May 28 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Second Bridge on Slippery Rock Creek, open to ages 12 and under, with noon registration, prizes, and refreshments. The event is sponsored by Kids Trout Derby Inc. Also named: M Jane Waltz as alternate sewage enforcement officer Maurice Waltz Consultants serves as the sewage enforcement officer.
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Wayne Township
Leo Sicard
Everett Bleakney
Terry Majors
Second Bridge
Wurtemburg
Slippery Rock Creek
Kids Trout Derby Inc
Rich McCronich
M. Jane Waltz
Maurice Waltz
Union High School reunion for classes 1926 to 1960 set for June 17
Union High School alumni from 1926 through 1960 gather for a reunion at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on June 17. Social hour starts at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. The price is 17.50 per person. Contact Nancy Rudzik at 964 8626 or RD 1 Box 1114 Pulaski 16143 for missing addresses of 1958 graduates Donald Fleming Robert Cutter Roberta Hammond Hendricks William Gray David Fitz Emma Jean Wingard Davis George McBride.
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Union High School
Donald Fleming
Robert Cutter
Roberta Hammond Hendricks
William Gray
David Fitz
Emma Jean Wingard Davis
George McBride
Nancy Rudzik
Pulaski
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