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here it is. There it has been. It enters Punxsutawney from the east and meanders westerly through the town, on a course through Jefferson, Indiana and Armstrong Counties to the Allegheny River above Kittanning. Through the years, it has shared in Punxsutawney area history. The Native Americans used it. Fording it to travel the trails along hills and valleys while they hunted, and traveling it in canoes and rafts to trade and barter their goods. They called the stream of water “Mohulbucteetan,” a ”place where the canoes are abandoned.” Or another word, ”Mahonink, meaning “where the deer lick.” Many Delaware Indian words have endings as “ink” meaning “place, town or location” and can be seen in their words “Ponksutenink” for Punxsutawney and “Mahonink.” Today the waterway is known as Mahoning Creek. Many early settlers entered the area and established residences, farms and villages along the creek in the area. Sawmills were operated with waterpower created by diverting water from the creek to milldams or ponds. The channel in which the water flowed to the mill wheel was called a Mill Race. Many villages that had sawmills or gristmills in the past also named nearby streets as Race Street. Punxsutawney’s Indiana Street had at one time been named Race Street in the area of South Gilpin Street, where Myers dam and sawmill were located off Mahoning Creek. Other dams and mills in Punxsutawney were the James St. Clair mill located further east along Mahoning Creek from Meyer’s. There was the mill of Dr. John Jenks along Elk Run, a tributary leading to Mahoning Creek. Jacob Hoover had an early saw mill in what is now West End Punxsutawney, along the stream leading to the Mahoning Creek that is now called Saw Mill Run. And there was also the Gillespie mill and the Mundorff mill in that area.
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Following its path through Punxsutawney, Mahoning Creek has a history of life and activity on and about its waters. Before the Flood Control project of 1949, the creek had a winding zig-zag movement as it entered and exited Punxsutawney.
As is recognized, mills and dams were generally named for the people that owned them. Familiar area names of Bells Mills, McGees Mill, Rochester Mills and Sprankle’s Mills ring in our ears about the history of these villages. The history of the Punxsutawney area in the mid-19th century would reveal that nearly everybody rafted, so it would seem. Pioneer men, who settled the hills and cleared the land of its trees, were farmers in the summer and lumbermen during the “off-season.” It could be said, “they dealt in lumber and owned a farm.” Business in
terests that kept Punxsutawney growing were those related to lumbering and farming. After the arrival of snow in the winter, timber would be dragged to the creek bank for “rafting in” in the spring, or guided downstream to a sawmill. The flow of the - Continued on page 4
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By Coral Ellshoff for Hometown magazine f April showers bring May flowers, what does April’s National Library Week bring? For southern Jefferson County, it brings the beginning of a renovation that promises to help improve library services. The Punxsutawney Memorial Library, which serves all of the Punxsutawney Area School District (in other words, YOU), has long received requests for a large meeting space, as well as classes and programs that would need a dedicated classroom space. With the help of a Keystone grant through the state’s Office of Commonwealth Libraries, your library will begin renovating the front third of the library building. Currently, there is about 1,000 square feet of staff offices and storage space that the public never sees. In brainstorming sessions with the staff, board of trustees, and Friends of the Library, we decided that that space
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could be better used to create a large meeting room, and a small multi-use quiet area. In addition, we’ll be replacing doors, lights and the heating system in that renovation area. The front desk will also be replaced to better serve children and wheelchairbound patrons. Use of the large meeting room will be free to non-profits, and will be an important service to the area. The library is unique in that there is parking (except, of course, for Groundhog Day and Festival week!) and wheelchair accessibility. Sure, the library is not perfect. But we do our best to provide what the community needs, and this has been a demonstrated need for some time. But I am getting off the subject of National Library Week, April 14-20. To celebrate donors, the renovation and its promise of better library service, we will hold a “Hard Hat Party” on the afternoon of April 20. This blow-out will have something for
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In the 1800s, early settlers, some farmers and lumbermen, cleared the forests and used the water of the Mahoning Creek for business and industry of gristmills, sawmills and rafting. The 1878 drawing is from the farm of James Bell, for whom Bell’s Mills was named.
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Continued from page 2 water after rains and winter thawing helped develop the lumber industry and the rafting of timber downstream on the Allegheny River and on to markets in Pittsburgh. During those years the streets of Punxsutawney would have presented a livelier scene. The town would have been full of raftsmen and lumbermen. Hotels would have been overcrowded with adventurous men wearing heavy boots and gum overcoats. Men of those years accumulated much wealth from the lumber business. The months of April or May also seemed to be a good time to spend more time outdoors. One popular activity was for young families to plan and prepare their daring launches of houseboats for “cruises” down the Mahoning Creek, or for fishing expeditions. Their lengthy excursions on the water would include cooking, eating and sleeping on the boat, and occasional stops at villages along the way from Punxsutawney to Pittsburgh, and having “a general good time.” Some of the “house boats” for the leisurely trips destined to Pittsburgh, or further down on the Ohio River, were 64-feet long. Cabins for their “homes” or living quarters were about 55 feet in length. The boats were built for as many as fifteen passengers. They were constructed in Punxsutawney, Bell’s Mill, Cloe, Clayville (West End), and Sportsburg for their launch down the Mahoning. During the early years of the 19th century, the Mahoning Creek was a major “highway” for connecting the residents to the outside world beyond the wilderness. From a few paths made into dirt roads for horse, buggy and wagon, the creek was the only other entrance into or exit from the area. In 1863, the Mahoning Navigation Company was organized “to clean and clear the Mahoning Creek and its branches, and to control navigation thereon … to asses toll [not exceeding one and one-fourth cent for each five miles run upon the Mahoning] on all logs, rafts, boats or other craft run on the same.” Spring days on and about Punxsutawney a century and more ago would also mean fishing in the Mahoning Creek. John Bair,
a 70-year old resident at the time, wrote his recollections in 1919, and shared his youthful experience in his early years. “[Fish] were caught with the Hook and Line, Gigging, Sledging and Seining. The gigging was done when the fish were running on the riffles at night with an iron gig in the end of a pole. They made Torches out of pitch pine wood to carry to make light so that they could see the fish. The Sledging was done by hitting the stone on the riffles with a Sledge and stunning the fish that were under them and then turn the stone over and pick up the fish. The Seining was done in the deep holes. The boys generally caught Fish with the Hook & Line.” Mr. Bair also wrote, “There is nothing in the Creek now that has life in it. The sulphur water from the mines has killed every thing.” When the Baptist Church was located on North Jefferson Street (1860-1904), the baptisms by immersion of the adult believers were held in the Mahoning Creek at St. Clair’s saw mill, near where is now the South Penn Street Bridge. Baptisms were also held in the winter. One account of a baptism was described in “Red Silk Pantalettes,” published in 1946 and written by Martha Barnhart Harper. Mrs. Harper recalled stories of her mother, Olie Campbell Barnhart: “Mr. MacKay cautioned them, ‘at the service wear your woolen clothes. Your parents or friends will bring blankets in which to wrap you after the ceremony.’” The ice was ten or twelve inches thick over Mahoning Creek. The day before the Sunday afternoon baptism, the ice had been cut from the shore in a square, twenty feet on each side. As it was told, “There they gathered, members of the congregation, the candidates for baptism, their parents and friends holding blankets and shawls, and others drawn by curiosity ... Then one by one the candidates were led into the water, baptized and taken home immediately...” A Welsh Baptist congregation in Clayville (West End) also conducted immersion baptism in the Mahoning Creek, at a site near the end of Grace Way today. The dependable seasons of favorable waters for rafting, fishing, swimming, pleasure cruises, etc. also included devastating and costly floods. With the greater portion - Continued on page 12
the Pool guys POOLS • SPAS ACCESSORIES & MORE Parallel banks of coke ovens line the Cascade Coal and Coke Company in Sykesville in 1921. Two banks of coke ovens were added after the 1911 mine explosion. The first 200 were built in 1912 by J. R. Bennett of Fairmont W.V., and the second 200 were rectangular ovens of the pusher type designed for the Sykesville Coke Company, a subsidiary of the Cascade Coal & Coke Company, in 1913 by The W.G. Wilkins Company, consulting engineers, Pittsburgh. (Photograph from the collection of Dr. George Sabarich)
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By PRIDE for Hometown magazine rive north on State Route 119 from Punxsutawney to Sykesville and you will pass artifacts, relics and remnants left in the area from the Coal Boom Era. One of the most visible remnants that has stood along the road for the past 70-plus years, is that of the Cascade Coal and Coke Company, which greets you as you enter the west end of the borough of Sykesville. It is the classic image of an industry, which was abandoned because it was no longer profitable for the investors. The shells of old steam engines and decaying brick structures — with weeds and brush growing trough them — have stories to tell. Sykesville had its beginnings in the 1860’s as a commercial center when the Sykes family built a sawmill and a fuelling mill to serve their rural community. The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad established a station at Sykesville, when their road was constructed to their new coal mine at Walston near Punxsutawney in 1883. The Goodyear Coal Syndicate of Buffalo, New York, which operated the Powhatan Coal & Coke Company at Tyler, deemed the
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six-foot thick coal seam, which lay under the lands along Stump Creek, a profitable investment. In mid- January in 1903, they began to sink a shaft on the Shaffer lands west of Sykesville, near the junction of Stump Creek and Beech Run. The shaft, which would be used to bring the coal to the surface, was sixteen-feet square and it would reach 150 feet below the creek level. The opening of the Goodyear’s mine would make Sykesville the industrial and economic center for the Stump Creek Valley. On Tuesday, January 20, 1903, thirty-five of the leading capitalists in North America, representing banking and railroad interests from New York City, Buffalo, Boston, Toronto, Chicago and Philadelphia, began a four-day tour of the bituminous coal lands and mines in the area from Sinnemahoning to Punxsutawney. They came to the area in a special train consisting of four Pullman cars of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad. They were hosted by C.W. and F.H. Goodyear, owners of the railroad and the Powhattan Coal & Coke Company, and were accompanied by Major McCreight of DuBois. The purpose of the visit was to give - Continued on page 6
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the capitalists a first hand opportunity to see the investment potential in area. They visited the mines and related industries along the route of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, and surveyed the proposed extension of the road from Little Sinnemahoning Creek in Clinton County to Sykesville. They were on hand to witness the men opening the Cascade Shaft, and, they visited the active mines and the new Iron Works at Punxsutawney. The visit was a success. Work on the shaft progressed rapidly, as the Sykesville correspondent to the Reynoldsville Sar reported in the February 28, 1903 issue: “A large number of men are employed at the new shaft which is being put down by the Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal Company a short distance below town. At this writing they are down about forty feet.” At Sykesville, plans were to build five hundred ovens to convert coal to coke, which would be shipped to the Buffalo & Susquehanna Iron Company in Buffalo. The construction of the ovens and the work in opening the mine provided employment for a large number of men. By 1904, Sykesville’s population had grown to more than 1,000 residents and by 1905 it had more than doubled to over 2,500 residents. The Cascade Coal and Coke Company, as it was then known, helped to accommodate the population increase by constructing 72 double houses, providing 144 homes for mine workers and their families. The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad had their crews working night and day in order to complete the changes needed to their road and to have their new station completed by the fall of 1904.
The Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad was rapidly being extended by the Goodyears. The Reynoldsville Star reported on July 27, 1904 that “A number of colored men, horses, wagons and carts, with grading tools and implements, passed through town Monday evening on their way from the Summerville & Clarion railroad grade to work on the B. & S. railroad grade near Tyler.” This road would transport coal and coke from the new mine to markets. Both railroads brought jobs and more people to Sykesville. With the economic growth, the community needed a bank. An application for a charter for the bank was made by A.W. Sykes, J.B. Sykes, John Weakland, G.E. Null, Levi Shugarts and J.H. Murray. The charter for the First National Bank of Sykesville was received in 1904 with the capital stock set at $25,000, and it was quickly subscribed. A three-story brick building was built on Main Street to house the bank. Sykesville built a new school house to accommodate the burgeoning number of children in the community. The school was constructed of brick with a slate roof and had eight rooms. M. Katzen, who had operated the Corner Store at Soldier, sold out and moved his mercantile to Sykesville where he saw greater opportunity. By 1905, Sykesville had its own newspaper, The Post Dispatch, which was published weekly. The Jefferson Traction Company opened their Reynoldsville-Sykesville line in October 1904, and the DuBois based United Traction Company extended its line from Sykesville to Big Run in October 1908. The availability of transportation enabled people from the surrounding areas to work and shop in Sykesville. Within four years, Sykesville had morphed - Continued on page 19
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Tea Get-Together to Honor Celtic Miners
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Wales. Seatings are scheduled at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. with each seating limited to 30 guests. Tickets are required and may be purchased from Nancy Miller, 814-9389059, or Teresa Perry, 712-397-2442. A special feature at each seating will be music by harpist, Jessica Bell of Indiana, Pennsylvania. •••
Shop Owner sponsors trip:
“Home to Ireland!” T
histle & Pine in Marion Center is hosting a chance for a lucky winner and his or her guest to travel to the Emerald Isle and experience the wonders of Ireland. Stay in superior first class hotels, enjoy a medieval banquet in a fifteenth century castle, a jaunting car ride, traditional Irish entertainment and historical visits and presentations – all part of the fabulous grand prize, “Home to Ireland” giveaway. “Ireland has so much to offer its visitors, whether they are Irish or not, including the welcoming nature of the Irish people, breathtaking landscape, the music and the charm,” commented shop owner Teresa Perry. “Ireland is a warm and magical place, and that’s why I jumped at the chance to help co-sponsor this lovely trip.” Best of all, the lucky winners will see the splendor of Ireland without having to worry about driving on the “wrong” side of the road!” As guests of CIE Tours International, they will enjoy a seven-day luxury coach tour, which will take them to Dublin, Waterford, Clare and Killarney, stopping
along the way to experience the rich history and awesome beauty of Ireland. As well as an opportunity to acquire the “gift of the gab” by kissing the famed Blarney Stone, the tour also includes a visit to the Cliffs of Moher, the Ring of Kerry and Cobh Heritage Centre, which traces the history of emigrations from Ireland to North America. “A coach tour is a marvelous way to visit Ireland,” said Teresa, “especially for the first-time visitor. The door-to-door service ensures a superb vacation that I know my customers would love.” Thistle & Pine is an authorized seller of travel to Ireland with CIE Tours International and customers can pick up a complimentary copy of CIE’s 100-page brochure at the store. In partnership with CIE Tours International, Thistle & Pine wants to give one lucky winner and his or her guest a chance to travel to Ireland, and enjoy a once in a lifetime Irish experience. No purchase is necessary (some restrictions apply) – just stop by the shop and enter to win! •••
Run or Walk for Someone Special set for Sunday, April 7
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he Coal Memorial Sub-Committee of PRIDE is sponsoring a Celtic Tea in honor of the coal miners from the Celtic areas of Britton, who came to work in the Punxsutawney Area. The tea, which will be held at the Hamilton House, 300 West Mahoning Street on Saturday, April 27, will feature Scottish tea and menu items from Ireland and
reak out your running shoes. It is time for the Run or Walk for Someone Special to be held Sunday April 7 at the Sykesville Town Hall. Registration will begin at 1:30 p.m. and the Run/Walk will begin at 3 p.m. It will be a great day for all ages! We have food, prizes, and more. There is a two-mile fun run or walk, and a five-mile race. Strollers are welcome in the event for young children! Prizes are awarded in a variety of age groups and to top money collectors. All proceeds from this event go to The ARC
of Jefferson and Clearfield Counties and Camp Friendship, serving our local community members with intellectual and developmental disabilities. For more information contact Erin at 814-952-0490 or run_walk@yahoo.com; Pat 591-0949; Stacy 591-6622 or stacy@jcarc.org, or Frank at 590-4274. Forms can be printed from www.jcarc.org and registration and donation can be done online at www.firstgiving.com/thearcofjeffersoncounty. •••
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WINeRY
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The good times of pleasure and fun on and about the Mahoning Creek included fishing, swimming, and long leisurely cruises in house boats. The boats held as many as 15 passengers on months-long trips to Pittsburgh or further down the Ohio River.
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Mahoning Creek
would suffer repeated damages. Generations would survive the floods and remember the damage and the misery. It Continued from page 4 might have been the flood of 1861, or 1889 of the Punxsutawney business district, and (the year of the Johnstown Flood, too). some residential areas on low, flat land, Other major floods in history were in 1904, floods were a common occurrence that had 1911 and in March 1936, the most devasto be dealt with. The people who settled tating and costly for many flood-prone here for their work and pleasure could excommunities in eastern United States. pect they would be visited by a flood many The disaster of 1936 led to the constructimes, some small and some great. tion of the Mahoning Dam and the flood dikes to hold back the water flowing through Punx’y. The project’s major changes, a deeper channel of the creek, the high concrete walls and banks, left townsfolk think they were adequately protected. The flood walls were tested successfully for many years by heavy rains and melting snow. But it was heavy rains in July 1996 when the Mahoning overflowed its banks and flooded the town. With all that history on and about the Mahoning Creek, what remains to be told will be the result of a news story in August 1909 in the weekly Punxsutawney Spirit, a lengthy report from Pennsylvania’s Commissioner of Health that directed attento PunxBefore the flood retaining walls were built in 1946 through 1949, some areas tion of Punxsutawney were low, flat lands along the Mahoning Creek where floods sutawney’s sewer were a common occurrence. The flood of March 17, 1936 led to the federal system. One stateproject to control the water. ment began “MahonBefore the Flood Control project was ing Creek is polluted by mine drainage and completed in 1949, the flat lands were only sewage both in and above Punxsutawney.” 10 feet or more above the normal water At that time there were 20 or more mines level of the creek. The numerous deep on the watershed above Punxsutawney. The ravines and rushing streams in the surmine drainage was sent to the Mahoning rounding hills above the town flowed into through Elk Run and Saw Mill Run. There the Mahoning Creek. was also “domestic sewage,” from the minIn Punxsutawney’s early years of settleing towns and Punx’y neighborhoods, disment, when Dr. Jenks and Rev. Barclay archarged into the creek. Included among rived with a few friends, the Mahoning domestic sewage would be drainage from Creek’s zigzag path, entering it and passkitchen sinks, water closets (toilets) wastes ing by, was outside the town on its outer from butcher shops, pigpens, and overeastern and southern edges. As population flowing privies. increased and the boundaries of the origiThere is a story to be told about that polnal eight squares were extended, this lution of Mahoning Creek and its effect on stream would divide the town territorially, fishing, sanitation, and drinking water. The but the business section and most of the dirty job of telling it will follow in another residences north of the creek on the “flats” writing. •••
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R.D. Brown Memorials 314 N. Findley Street • Punxsutawney • 938-2100
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Library employees (l. to r.) Coral Ellshoff, Jane Parente, Paul Gileot, Robert Leyo. (Photo by Tracey Young.)
Library
counts that provide stable revenue for library operations in a time of very unstable state funding — an endowment of sorts for literacy in the Punxsutawney area. If you aren’t sure what the library does or can do for you, take another look at library offerings: • Downloadable e-books and audio books from www.punxsutawneylibrary.org; • Computer classes for total beginners; • Book discussions for grown-ups; • Traditional story-time activities three times a week for pre-kindergarten ages; • Weekly activities for school age children focused on developing literacy from ages 5 – 16; and • Everyone’s favorite, summer reading. This year, we have reading incentives I can’t wait to share. The theme is “Dig into Reading.” Picture rocks, fossils, worms and all manner of underground delights! Of course, we have a flourishing selection of timely bestsellers and award winning novels (and you tell us when we’re slacking on the job!). You bring in requests all the time, and if we don’t have it and can’t buy it, we will gladly borrow it from another library. And don’t forget, join us for the Hard Hat Party on Saturday, April 20. •••
Continued from page 3
everyone, including building activities for children and entertainment for the grownups. Our construction grant begins on April 15, so National Library Week literally marks a period of growth for the library. Come and celebrate what we do for you! To me, one of the most important activities at this celebration will be formal recognition of generous contributions to the library that have made library service and this renovation possible in the Punxsutawney area. Most recently, our 2012 annual appeal for donations blew our fundraising goal through the roof. Our renovation budget is $120,000, half of which is coming from the aforementioned grant. The other half came from you, overwhelmingly. When I say YOU make the library possible, this is exactly what I mean. In addition to generous individual donations, the library received a bequest from the estate of Rita M. Cook. Part of her bequest will go towards the 2013 renovations. Her bequest, along with a previous bequest from Syd Mechling, are in interest bearing ac-
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Best of Luck to all our Local Athletes! Be the best you can be. Good Luck AthLetes!
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2013
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Sykesville Continued from page 6 from a small mill town into a booming metropolis and was petitioning for incorporation as a borough, which was granted. On Saturday July 15, 1911 the Cascade Mine was visited by the worst catastrophe Jefferson County had ever experienced. Twenty-one men were killed when a large pocket of gas ignited, creating an explosion. The company immediately began rescue efforts. A temporary morgue was set up in the Sykesville Hardware building. The men who lost their lives in the explosion were: Concetta Cichello, 18; Dominic Cichello, 19; Grover Conrad, 23; Nick Gasper, 21; Rock Gasper, 42; Sorello Gillis, 18; L.Grassi, 18; George Hook, 22; John Hook, 28; Mike Hovokico, 24; Andy Krajnak, 25; Raphiello Marianne, 24; John Masisak, 29; John Mizio, 35; Frank Patiavich, 38; Andy Pavlich, 45; Nick Pavlich, 18; Pleuo Sandi, 30; George Sheesley, 33; Mike Sloff, 23 and William Spencer, 26. Families came to claim their dead. By nightfall that Saturday, thirteen bodies had been claimed by their loved ones. Eight remained, unclaimed. Father Utrich of Sykesville said mass for the unclaimed at the temporary morgue. Sykesville slowly recovered. Rogers and Brown Iron Company, the successor to the
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Flu spreads more readily by breathing than sneezing by Lee Bowman, SHNS for Hometown magazine ou never want to sit next to that guy during flu season. You know, the sniveling, sneezing, hacking sort who occupies the next cubicle or the neighboring seat on the plane. It’s just a matter of time before he — or she — infects you with whatever crud’s going around. Except, a new study suggests, it’s not the tissue-groping, say-it-don’t-spray-it types that are most likely to get you. All a sickly
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The team — led by Dr. Donald Milton, director of the Maryland Institute of Applied Environmental Health — used a machine dubbed “The Gesundheit II” to collect samples from each volunteer for 30 minutes. Some people sitting at the machine released undetectable levels of virus; others put out over 100,000 viruses during the test. The researchers also tested some of the patients while they wore paper surgical masks, recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a way to prevent someone with the flu from spreading the virus. In the study, the masks
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greater than the amounts found in a room with greater humidity.in a dry room. Their report appeared in the journal PLOS One. An hour after virus particles were released in a room with a relative humidity of 23 percent or less (typical in many spaces during a winter heating season) up to 77 percent were still infectious. But when the humidity was increased to 43 percent, only about 14 percent of the virus particles were capable of infecting. Most of the inactivation occurred within 15 minutes of the virus being released in the more
son and that this increases transmission, even with higher humidity. But so far, there is little actual data to show this happens, said Cecile Viboud, who headed the study. (Contact Scripps health and science writer Lee Bowman at BowmanL@shsn.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.) •••
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damage nerves and muscle, requiring amputation. “Now, the pendulum has swung back with awareness that surgeons can now fix most vascular damage that might occur,” Koyle said. The new emergency tourniquets more resemble nylon belts with a built-in winding device simple enough to be applied one-handed. The military tracked what happened after tourniquets were used on more than 450 wounds in Iraq. It found that 87 percent of the soldiers who got them lived, and none lost a limb from their use. Now, there’s even a clamp-like tourniquet approved for use on groin wounds. “They showed they were not losing limbs left and right, and now tourniquets are showing up on ambulances here in the States,’’ said Dr. David Tan, head of the EMS section in the division of emergency medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Howard Mell, EMS director for the Lake Health system of hospitals outside Cleveland and chairman of the EMS Section of the American College of Emergency Physicians, sees the contributions
to civilian care from the latest conflicts firsthand. He noted that improvements in trauma dressings, tourniquets and methods to keep a patient breathing “are actually helping civilians, particularly in mass trauma events. Some were used at the scene of the shootings involving Rep. (Gabrielle) Giffords in Arizona, for instance.” Koyle said the lessons of the wars largely “comes down to polytrauma care — people who get shot, blown up, suffer multiple injuries. “When I flew MedEvac missions, if we did our job well, it made the surgeons’ jobs that much harder. Soldiers who would once have died on the battlefield are being kept alive. But many of them can only recover to some extent and are being thrust back into society and have to make their way as best they can.” (Reach Scripps health and science writer Lee Bowman at bowmanl@shns.com.) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com) ••• Make the right choice ... Hometown magazine is delivered to 100% of Punx’y and area homes!
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ones in the hands of the state police to get here from across the county after the latest round of big city violence, all because our elected officials (refuse) to pay for real police service and (fail) to cooperate with neighboring towns. In summary, I grew up being told that, if it hits the fan, you’re better off handling the problem yourself, so here’s a gun and here’s how you use it. Chances are, most of you were taught much the same thing, so it’s only logical that the leaders that won’t handle our protection properly, finally get around to letting us do it ourselves. But then I look at some of my friends and neighbors and, in much the same way that I’m sure that they look at me, I think to myself, “Giving them a gun is a bad idea, and making it law for them to have one is probably even worse.” Logistical nightmares aside (like how can you require a felon to have a gun in his home, legally or morally), the Maine town that proposed this idea, even if it passes, will see it fall apart immediately. The state’s government, perhaps foreseeing this possibility in decades previously, established that no town or local government could pass legislation pertaining to firearms. To my recollection, I believe Pennsylvania has a similar restriction on the books, but I’d be curious to know how many officials, if any, are seriously considering similar measures in this local election year. (Editor’s Note: Justin Eger is the editor of the Cresson Mainliner and staff writer of Mainline Newspapers, Ebensburg.) •••
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ecently, a handful of communities not all that unlike our own hometowns received a great deal of attention due to efforts to personally enforce the safety of their citizens by making it a law that every household have a firearm and ammunition available in defense of the occupants. One town in Maine was the central focus of the discussion, as the town leaders (selectmen, as opposed to our borough councilors and township supervisors) planned to put the ordinance to a vote at the next town meeting, giving everybody who attends a chance to have a say. It’s an interesting form of government, and if you’re curious about how it works, I recommend reruns of “Gilmore Girls,” since that’s how the town of Stars Hollow handled things, but the point (I swear, there is one) is the idea of requiring a firearm in every home. I can’t say as to whether I’m for or against such a rule. Living where we do, it’s not uncommon for there to be a number of firearms, let alone just one, in the house. We’re a tribe of mountain hunters, here in west-central Pennsylvania, so it only makes sense that we carry the most efficient means of bringing down game, along with, of course, all the other means of bringing down a deer. Chances are you’ve seen more than a few gun cabinets in your house or that of your neighbors, and chances are they were filled to bursting. But those are guns we (myself included) own for the sake of owning guns. We learned at the heels of our fathers, like they did with their fathers before them, and on down the line. Some are keepsakes, some are personal favorites, and yes, there are some we own just because they look cool. But nobody is forcing us to do it. Now, I can see the appeal in passing such a law, especially living where we do. After all, chances are most homes already have some type of firearm in the house, even if it’s an old flintlock pistol like the one I inherited from my grandfather. Granted, I don’t have any ammo for it, as the law might require, but in a pinch, it’ll work. And with our limited police services in the region, it’s a far more appealing prospect to have access to a gun of your own, rather than waiting for the
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Continued from previous page Not only have we tragically witnessed another deranged young man entering a school and murdering innocent youth, but we now must witness again politicians offering the same non-solution to allegedly deal with the problem: wider background checks. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, who is pushing legislation for universal background checks, was one of the original sponsors of the law that Bush signed five years ago. It is even worse now. Adam Lanza, the deranged young Sandy Hook murderer, used a rifle from his mother’s collection in their home. No background check could deal with something like this. Schumer will not solve the problem, yet he will make things worse by making it harder for law-abiding citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights to bear arms and protect themselves. And exactly how might expanded checks impinge on both our privacy and our rights? Those who have ever seen a psychologist may be at risk. Those who have any kind of infraction on their record may be at risk. Some states require doctors to counsel women who are considering an abortion that the procedure can result in various emotional problems. Might women receiving abortions in these states have difficulty purchasing a gun? Let’s stop playing games. The problem is people, not guns. Our society suffers from a deficiency of personal responsibility — not from an excess of personal freedom. (Star Parker is an author and president of CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Reach her at www.urbancure.org Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com) •••
Continued from page 26 soil. As much as I enjoy everything to do with preparing the site and planting beds, the real fun begins in a couple weeks as I finally build the vegetable garden I’ve dreamed about for years. I have a large plot of land that basks in the light of full sun all day. It is just asking to have a big garden on this spot, and I shall oblige. It will be a glorious garden, full of deep and wide raised beds. If ever there were a “made for TV garden,” this is it, since that is actually one of the main reasons for having such a garden here— that and the fact that I love a big, beautiful vegetable garden. No matter what you’re growing, I think one of the best parts of spring comes when you put those new plants into the garden for the first time. Truth be told, I likely won’t wait to plant my new beds until after the last risk of frost has passed (do as I say, not as I do). The seedlings I’ve started indoors are abundant and plentiful. Should my early crop of planted seedlings prove to be premature, my backup supply will come in handy. Seeds are cheap and it’s always nice to have more than you need just in case or, even better, to share with others. As you can see, I have plenty to do before the real gardening begins. Sharing future plans as well as past experiences between gardeners is part of the fun, and it’s one more way we can all become better gardeners. I’ll keep you posted on my progress this spring and beyond. (Joe Lamp’l, host and executive producer of “Growing a Greener World” on PBS, is an author and a paid spokesman for the Mulch and Soil Council. Contact him at email@joegardener.com. For more information, visit www.joegardener.com. For more stories, visit shns.com.) •••
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One-of-a-Kind, unique Clothing and Accessories unique shops in downtown Punxsutawney.” Girl Friends is the first women’s apparel and accessories shop in downtown Punxirl Friends, at 123 East Mahoning sutawney in many years. Street, is a place where fashion In naming the meets style. shop Girl Friends, As one of the intent was to the newest places to create a place to shop in downtown shop with friends Punxsutawney, it and a place to tell features women’s friends about. Girl clothing, accesFriends intends to sories and gifts. keep their invenThey offer quality tory fresh with new at merchandise arrivals daily. down to earth Spring fashions are prices. Girl Friends’ arriving, and there specialty is one-ofwill be a good sea-kind, unique lection of items inclothing and accescluding summer sories. dresses, tunics in Open the hot pink bright colors, and door, step into the matching leggings. shop, and you will Behind the hot pink door, at The variety and be greeted by warm 123 East Mahoning Street in selection make it smiles and a polite Jewelry, scarves, purses, and more are at- Punxsutawney, is a unique boutique featuring clothing, Balloons create a festive wel- fun to shop and “May I help you,” tractively displayed in repurposed furnishings jewelry, accessories and come for customers at Girl painted to match in the pink, black and white find the perfect gift from the fun, signature colors of Girl Friends. much more. Friends. for a girl friend. knowledgeable staff In keeping with at Girl Friends. The P u n x s u t a w n e y ’s interior of the shop tradition, Girl has been decorated Friends has comin Girl Friends’ missioned unique trademark colors of groundhog items pink and black. including shirts and Whether you are pins. These have looking for careerbeen designed in oriented business their trademark colwear, or a profesors of pink and sional outfit for an Girl Friends, in black, and make important event, the true spirit of feaunique gifts all year you will find it at Punx’y, tures its own long. Girl Friends. Their custom deunique styles and signed ground- Comfortable dressing rooms ensure cus- Cozy seeting areas are provided for cus- Girl Friends invites you to visit selections are per- hog on hoodies tomers will take home perfectly fitted gar- tomers and their guests. and tee’s. ments. them from 10 a.m. fect for any occato 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Look sion. Jewelry and accessories are always from Brookville, Clarion, Clearfield, for the hot pink door at 123 East Mahonavailable to complement any outfit. DuBois and Indiana, as well as the Punxing Street, downtown Punxsutawney. “Opening the shop was a step of faith sutawney area. When people come to our ••• coupled with a lot of serendipity added,” shop, we encourage them to visit the other
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