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featuring The Great American Banana Split Celebration Iceboxes: The Big Chill How to Avoid Emotional Eating Secrets of A Food Stylist and SO much more!

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Two Scoops of Happiness Then what fun they had!

They ate and they ate and they ate.

And every kitten had Two helpings of ice cream.

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– From "More about the Four Little Kittens"

by Pennsylvania Harry Whittier Frees, 1939.

Two things that bring me instant joy are cats and ice cream.

Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon some old books with pictures of both by the photographer Harry Whittier Frees,(1879-1953). He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1879, after which his family moved to Oaks, Pennsylvania, where he did his famous works in cute-animal photography and built a small studio to produce postcards, calendars, and children's books in 1906. You could say he was the grandfather of LOLcats or cat memes.

The image below, of two kittens dishing out ice cream, brings to mind a smiling sense of sharing and community.

That’s what this month’s Great American Banana Split Fes-

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www.LaurelMountainPost.com “The Voice of Pennsylvania” – BBC News, 2006 From "More about the Four Little Kittens" by Harry Whittier Frees, 1938.

On the dedication page, Frees notes: "These unusual photographs of real kittens were made possible only patient, unfailing kindness on the part of the photographer at all times."

tival is all about – coming together to celebrate our history over a local favorite dish of ice cream, the Banana Split, which was invented at home in Latrobe, Pennsylvania by creative entrepreneur David Strickler. All the information you need to know about the festival is inside!

As you turn through the pages of this issue, I hope you enjoy our collected stories of history, legend and trivia, all about ice cream. We trace its origins back to ancient times, share the official recipe for a Banana Split, and reveal some trade secrets of photographing ice cream from a profesEvery Story Begins At Home.

sional food stylist. Not to over-indulge in this delicious dessert, there’s also information on emotional eating, health benefits of bananas, and “brain freeze” from eating cold foods too quickly.

Did you know that it takes the average person 50 licks to finish a scoop of ice cream? Keep reading for more fun and interesting America’s favorite treat that is found in 87% of our at any given time!

– Cathi Gerhard, Editor ***** More About the Four Little Kittens. Harry Whitter Frees. Rand McNally & Company (1938). Reprinted by Merrimack, 1988.

To see more fun photographs of animals dressed as people, search "Frees, Harry Whittier, 1879-1953" on the Library of Congress website, located at www.loc.gov.

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Table of Contents

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David E. Strickler: More Than A Soda Jerk

Place Ligonier Country Market Ad

by Mary Lou Townsend, Latrobe Historical Society

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A Brief World History of Ice Cream

by Cathi Gerhard

11 All-American Banana Split Recipe

by Valley Dairy Restaurants

11 When Was Chocolate Ice Cream Invented?

by Jeri Quizno, Of Sugar and Snow

12 Let’s Go Bananas!

“There Goes the Nieghborhood” by Mike Dudurich

16 Mouth-Watering Photographs Secrets of a Food Stylist by Kim Konecny Kissling

19 When In Doubt, Tell The Truth “That’s What They Say” by Rev. Majorie Rivera

20 What Makes Creative Thinkers the Best Entrepreneurs?

Building your trust in business one vehicle at a time!

“Write Local” by Allison Checkeye

22 Remember the Fruit on Top!

by Hayley Chemski-Horwat

MSN, CRNA

22 What Causes An Ice Cream Headache?

23 A Story for the Kids Corner

by Melany Johnson, grade 10

24 Great American Banana Split Celebration - Official Schedule 26 Local Photographer’s Work Seen at the Louvre in Paris

by Richard S. McWherter

27 How Trees Help Us Feel Good

by Earth Talk

28 How Can I Avoid Emotional Eating “What’s Cooking in Fitness” by Mark Rullo MS, CSCS, MES

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32 Agricultural “Brigadoon” “Down on the Farm” by Cathi Gerhard & Greg Susa

34 Iceboxes: The Big Chill “Home Study” by Brian Mishler

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David E. Strickler: More Than A Soda Jerk

by Mary Lou Townsend, Latrobe Historical Society “David Strickler? Of course – he invented the banana split!”

That would be the reaction of most local citizens at the mention of that name. There are few area residents who have not heard of “Dr. Dave” and his contribution to our town’s rich history.

But if we look beyond the familiar story, we find that David Strickler added to local lore in more ways than one.

University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh).

He commuted by train; and during the two-hour trips he would study. Nights were spent working at Tassel’s Pharmacy on Ligonier Street.

It was here, in 1904, that he came up with the idea of splitting a banana lengthwise and putting three different kinds of ice cream and toppings in the dish. (Later, he designed a special

During the sixteen years he owned the pharmacy, Dave Strickler embarked on another career that became his life’s work. In 1920 he graduated from the Philadelphia School of Optometry.

Back in Latrobe he opened his office on the second floor of his drug store. For the next 50 years he fitted glasses to generations of Latrobe residents. He retired in 1970 after 50 years as an optometrist.

The Young Dave Strickler

A Colorful Personality

David Evans Strickler was born in Unity Township, near Youngstown, on July 12, 1881. He was the son of David Braden Strickler, who was well-known in the area as “the silver-tongued auctioneer.”

The senior Strickler also dealt in real estate. He owned several pieces of property in Latrobe and in the Cooperstown section of Derry Township— now part of Latrobe’s Fifth Ward. It was here that “Dr. Dave” grew up.

He attended the one-room No. 1 School in Cooperstown, which offered only an elementary education. Since Derry Township did not have a high school then, Strickler’s father paid tuition for his son to attend the “city school” in Latrobe to continue his education.

In a 1963 interview published in the Latrobe Bulletin, Strickler recalled that his father paid $2.50 a month to send him to Latrobe High School, when the high school still offered only a college preparatory course. He graduated in 1901, one of only two graduates that year.

Long-time residents who actually knew Dave Strickler have written about a man who added more “flavor” to our community than just the three flavors of ice cream in his famous frozen treat.

Following Dr. Strickler’s death in 1970, the editor of the Latrobe Bulletin observed that one of Strickler’s trademarks was “his nearly always smiling personality. There were few times that he couldn’t find a bit of humor or wit in most things.”

He certainly wasn’t shy about publicity. According to another article in the Bulletin, he “had advertisements painted on every rock of any size in or along the Loyalhanna Creek.”

Long after the paint had washed away his name could still be seen standing out in relief on some rocks near Longbridge when the paint preserved the rock while other parts washed away.

In 1959 he wrote a letter to television’s I’ve Got a Secret in the hope that his ice cream invention could get him on the show. (It didn’t.)

College and Career Following his graduation from high school, Strickler enrolled in the Department of Pharmacy at the Western Every Story Begins At Home.

David Evans Strickler as a young man.

banana split dish, which was manufactured by the Westmoreland Glass Company near Jeannette.)

Following his graduation from pharmacy school in 1906, Strickler became affiliated with Daniel Livengood, who had purchased the drug store from Miss Tassel. Strickler became the sole owner in 1913.

He operated the store until 1929, when he sold the business to Charles T. Poorman and Oscar Johnson.

Though the pharmacy at 805 Ligonier Street had several owners over the next seven decades, those owners retained the name “Strickler’s Drug Store” until it closed in 2000.

“Big Barrel Links” Few in Latrobe know that one of Dr. Strickler’s initiatives was responsible for what still stands today as a landcontinued on page 6

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Strickler’s Drug Store on Ligonier Street in Latrobe, circa 19xx.

mark along Route 30 near Chester, West Virginia. What is now heralded as “The World’s Largest Teapot” began as a large root beer barrel in Strickler’s front yard.

In 1930 Strickler constructed a miniature golf course in the front yard of his home on the comer of Ligonier Street and Avenue B. Much of the landscaping was torn out to be replaced by the 18 hole links.

Various hazards were installed to challenge the players, and clubs for both right-handed and left-handed players were provided.

On the comer of the links a large barrel-shaped building was set up. In the barrel were score pads and pencils, as well as the golf clubs and balls. In addition, it housed a refreshment stand where players could purchase such things as hot dogs, candy, cigars, and root beer.

For several weeks the course was a huge success as people were drawn to this new fad that was emerging across the country. But the 1930s was the decade of the Depression, which limited the time and money residents could spend on such frivolous pursuits. Fewer and fewer people played, and the golf course eventually closed.

For a few years, though, the “Big Barrel” still sold refreshments, particularly the root beer that Dr. Strickler was famous for.

Finally, in 1938, the “Big Barrel” was sold to a china company from East Liverpool, Ohio. A handle and spout were added and the structure was covered with tin to create a tea pot as a symbol of the potteries that flourished in East Liverpool and across the Ohio River in Chester and nearby Newell, West Virginia.

By 1990 the teapot had seen better days and was in danger of being scrapped. That year, through the combined efforts of a number of private, commercial, and government agencies, it was restored and moved to its

Strickler’s Drug Store, circa ___. (Harry Frye/Latrobe Art Center)

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Official Marker: Ligonier Sreet in Latrobe, PA

present location. (See sidebar on next page for more information) Today, local residents driving Route 30 through West Virginia to Ohio can take secret pride in knowing that this architectural attraction had its beginning in Latrobe.

An Outstanding Citizen A businessman and a professional, “Dr. Dave” spent much of his life giving back to his community. He was a member of the Chestnut Ridge Chapter of the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army Advisory Board. He was also a former president of the Latrobe Chamber of Commerce. He joined the Rotary Club of Latrobe in 1924, just three years after the service club was chartered. In May of 1971 the local Rotarians honored him for his 47 years of membership, marked by 45 years of perfect attendance: that means he did not miss a single weekly meeting for more than 2250 weeks! When he was on vacation or out of town on business, he would “make up” at another club to keep his record intact.

Recalling his youth in Latrobe, Strickler said in 1963, “... it was just as nice a town then as it is now. I have been around the world, but there is no place like Latrobe.”

Through his dedication and pride in his community, David Strickler helped to make Latrobe a special place. ***** Reprinted with permission from The Latrobe Historical Gazette, Winter 2011-2012 edition.

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A Brief World History of Ice Cream

by Cathi Gerhard There are lots of stories that say ice cream was brought back to Europe by Marco Polo on one of his trips from the Far East. Others claim Catherine de Medici introduced it first to France upon her marriage to the duc d’Orléans, the future King Henri II of France in 1533. However, written texts indicate that its origins date back much farther ... to BC times, in fact. Despite the fact that refrigeration is a modern invention, man had been enjoying frozen treats for over 4,000 years.

It is known that “Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar; Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavored with fruits and juices.1” The ancient Chinese ate a frozen dessert which may have been more of a syrup than a frozen cream. According to Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat in her History of Food2, “They poured a mixture of snow and saltpeter over

the exteriors of containers filled with syrup, for, in the same way as salt raises the boiling-point of water, it lowers the freezing-point to below zero.”

An alternative recipe called for milk, overcooked rice, and spices which were hardened in packed snow.

They also developed fruit ices by adding honey and other spices.

These treats were introduced to the Persian Empire (countries now known as Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey and portions of western China and northern Iraq) through trade routes over 2,500 years ago. The website Nibble.com details their adaptations: • The Persians drank syrups cooled with snow called (“fruit ice” in Arabic, thus the derivation of sherbet, sorbet and sorbetto); the Greek Alexander the Great, who battled the Persians for 10 years before finally toppling the Persian Empire in 330 B.C.E., enjoyed fruit “ices” sweetened with honey and chilled with snow. Three centuries later, Emperor Nero’s famous banquets always included fruit juices mixed

with honey and snow.

• In addition, around 400 B.C., the Persians invented a dessert made of rosewater and vermicelli that was a cross between a sorbet and a rice pudding called faludeh. The ice was mixed with saffron, fruits and other flavors. Today, rosewater, lemons and angel hair-thin wheat noodles are still made into a sorbet, which is a favorite dessert and party food.

• Sorbetti and pasta arrived in Italy with the Arab invasions of Sicily in the 8th century (the Marco Polo story is a myth—see the history of pasta). Italian granita was born, flavored with fresh citrus, a wide range of fruits and coffee.

Gelato, the forefather of modern ice cream, was invented by Bernado Buontalenti, a Florence architect, in the 1500’s. From there, its popularity spread throughout the rest of Europe among Italian Duchess Catherine de Medici and other wealthy royals.

Charles I served “cream ice” regularly during th 17th century. continued on page 8

The World’s Largest Teapot In 1938 The Chester Teapot was constructed

by William "Babe" Devon. The Teapot started its life as a gigantic wooden hogshead barrel for a Hire's Root Beer advertising campaign.

Devon purchased the barrel in Pennsylvania and had it shipped to Chester where it was set up on Carolina Avenue, which is also State Route 2. A spout and handle were added at this time and the wooden barrel was covered with tin to form the teapot's shape. A large glass ball was placed on top to make the knob of the "lid". The Teapot stood in front of Devon's pottery outlet store. Local teenagers were hired to run a concession and souvenir stand which was set up inside the Teapot.

Address: Carolina Ave., Chester, WV Directions: From North (OH, PA): Take Ohio St.Rt.7/11 south to East Liverpool. Follow signs to US Rt. 30 East. Cross over the Ohio River into West Virginia and take first exit (St. Rt. 2 South) towards Chester. Teapot is on right. From the South(WV): Take West Virginia Rt. 2 North to Chester. Pass the ball field on left and the Teapot is on your right.

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are made at the pewterers."

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Ice cream was not made available to the general (but wealthy) public until 1660, when Sicilian Procopio introduced a recipe blending milk, cream, butter and eggs at Café Procope, the first café in Paris.

“Like most new foods—tea, coffee, sugar, chocolate—ice cream was for the first one or two hundred years a pleasure of the wealthy,” The Nibble .com explains. “Only they could afford to purchase ice that was cut in the winter and stored underground to make ice cream in the warmer months. Only the wealthy had chefs who knew the secrets of making ice cream and staff to undertake the labor. Refined sugar also was very expensive.”

It took the better part of a day to make a batch of ice cream, which had to be served immediately due to the lack of refrigeration.

Ice Cream Comes to America William Black, a Scottish colonist, first wrote about ice cream in a 1744 letter after visiting the home of Maryland Governor Willam Bladen. He was served a “rarity” of strawberry ice cream for dessert.

The first advertisement for ice cream in America was printed in the

Catherine de Médicis (1519 - 1589). Épouse d'Henri II, reine de France by Anonymous (France). Formerly attributed to school of François Clouet, circa 1580 (1550-1599). Oil on oak panel, located in the Louvre Museum, Paris. (Creative Commons Attribution) 8 - August 2015

– The Art of Cookery Made Plain & Easy, Hannah Glasse, facsimile of the first edition, 1747 [Prospect Books: Devon] 1995 (p. 168)

First Ice Cream Advertisement (New York Historical Society) In this first public announcement, Lenzi had not yet established a place of business. Three years later, he moved his shop from Dock Street to Hanover Square while British troops occupied the city. A 1777 Gazette ad assured prospective customers that he would continue to sell his goods, and concluded the plug with, “May be had almost every day, ice cream.”

(MentalFloss.com)

New York Gazette on May 12, 1777 by confectioner Philip Lenzi, who announced that ice cream was available “almost every day.” Records from a Chatham Street merchant in New York verify that George Washington himself purchased around $200 (valued today at $5,340)3 worth ice cream during the summer of 1790. An inventory of his home at Mount Vernon show that he also owned two pewter ice cream pots.

"To make ice cream. Take two pewter basons, one larger than the other; the inward one must have a close cover, into which you are to put your cream, and mix it with raspberries, or whatver you like best, to give it a flavour and a colour. Sweeten it to your palate; then cover it close, and set it into the larger bason. Fill it with ice, and a handful of salt: let it stand in this ice three quarters of an hour, then uncover it, and stir the cream well together: cover it close again, and let is stand half an hour longer, after that turn it into your plate. These things

Contemporary Thomas Jefferson was known for a keen interest in the culinary arts, bringing back several recipes from France. The Library of Congress has a recipe for vanilla ice cream written by Jefferson (page 9); a recipe for savory cookies, to be served with it, appears on the reverse of the paper. Ice cream continued to be a dessert of the elite, being served at such functions as the inaguration banquet of President James Madison in 1813, where his wife, Dolly Madison, served strawberry. A survey of period cookbooks indicates that fruit creams were the most popular, providing for a wide variety of flavors.

“To make Ice Cream. Pare, stone, and scald twelve ripe apricots, beat them in a fine marble mortar. Put to them six ounces of double-refined sugar, a pint of scalding cream, work it through a hair sieve. Put it into a tin that has a close cover, when you see your cream grow thick round the edges of your tin, stir it, and set it again till all grows quite thick. When your cream is to be turned out of, then put on the lid. Have ready another tub with ice and salt in as before, put your mould in the middle and lay your ice under and over it, let it stand four or five hours. Dip your tin in warm water when you turn it out. If it be summer you must not turn it out til the moment you want it. You may use any sort of fruit if you have not apricots, only observe to work it fine.”

–The Experienced English Housekeeper, Elizabeth Raffald, facsimile 1769 edition with an introduction by Roy Shipperbottom [Southover Press:East Sussex] 1997 (p. 126) [NOTE: Mrs. Raffald's other fruit cream (nonice) recipes employ lemon, raspberry, and orange. She also offers recipes for pistachio and chocolate cream.]

By the early 1800s, the invention of the insulated ice house and the affordability of sugar brought ice cream closer to the other classes. In 1843, Nancy M. Johnson of New York invented and patented the handcranked ice cream maker, replacing the pot freezer method which took several hours. Her churn decreased the LAUREL MOUNTAIN POST

German scientist and engineeer Carl von Linde, 1925 – inventor of modern industrial refrigeration.

preparation time to 45 minutes, producing a smoother ice cream.

The ice cream manufacturing industry was born in 1851 when Jacob Fussell, a Baltimore milk dealer, built the first factory in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania. York County dairy farmers produced a surplus of milk and cream due to an unstable demand, and the nearby Northern Central Railroad provided easy access to the Baltimore market. He soon opened more factories after moving operations to Baltimore, and the mass production of ice cream made it more affordable to the masses. Fussell also opened ice cream parlors as far west as Texas.

The next “Big Thing” to hit the ice cream industry was the invention of industrial refrigeration by Carl von Linde of Germany in the 1870’s. His

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research there on heat theory as a faculty member at the Polytechnic in Munich led to his invention of the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator. Through the new company he formed, refrigeration rapidly displaced ice in food handling and transformd many industrial processes. In 1894 Linde installed refrigeration at the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1902, he was the first person to extract oxygen from the air and contain it in mass quantities. This commodity was sold and used in hospitals, for rocket fuel, and to invent the oxyacetylene torch (France in 1904), “which revolutionized metal cutting and welding in the construction of ships, skyscrapers, and other iron and steel structures” (chemheritage.org).

Out of the many patents and companies formed by Linde, several combined with Linde Air Products Co. to become Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation.

Other advances of the ongoing industrial age such as steam power, homogenization, electricity and motorized vehicles led to even more ice cream “revolutions.” The American soda fountain was born in 1874, along with the Ice Cream Soda – invented in Philadelphia by Robert McCay Green, operator of a soda fountain at the Franklin Institute’s semicentennial celebration. Some say he simply ran out of ice for sodas and used ice cream instead. Green reported (as published in Soda Fountain magazine in 1910) that he wanted to attract customers from a fancier soda fountain up the

“A passionate gourmet, Jefferson acquired a stock of standard French recipes for sauces, fruit tarts, French-fried potatoes, blood sausages, pigs' feet, rabbit, pigeons, and various other dishes. Among the most popular of these recipes at Monticello was this one for vanilla ice cream–written by Jefferson, with his own recipe for Savoy cookies to accompany the dessert on the back.”

American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1780s.

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street by offering a combination of vanilla ice cream and soda water and a choice of 16 different flavored syrups.

However, there are at least three other claimants for the invention of ice cream float: Fred Sanders, Philip Mohr, and George Guy, one of Robert Green's own employees4.

In 1888, celebrated English culinary entrepreneur Agnes Marshall published Miss Marshall’s Cookery Book in which she included a recipe for "cornets with cream," the first Ice Cream Cone. Dubbed the “Queen of Ices” during the Victorian period for her work with frozen desserts, she also patented and manufactured an ice cream maker, and was the first person to suggest using liquefied gases to freeze ice cream after seeing a demonstration at the Royal Institution of Great Britain5. The popularity of ice cream cones spread following the St Louis World’s Fair in 1904. According to legend, an ice cream vendor ran out of paper cups and joined forces with the waffle vendor next to him. They rolled the thin waffles into cones and filled them with ice cream, creating a worldwide sensation.

There have been several assertions as to the birthplace of the first Ice Cream Sundae in the late 1890’s.

“As for the specfic birthplace of the dish, two possibilities emerge as the most likely among many contenders.

Neither place can offer conclusive dates, so one can pick between, "Heavenston" (favored by the National Dairy Council, among others) and Two Rivers (championed by such diverse sources as the old Ice Cream Review and H.L. Mencken in his American Language). The first claim goes back to the 1890s in Evanston, Illinois (then widely known as "Chicago's Heaven" or "Heavenston"), where civic piety had reached such a state that it became the first American community to recognize and legislate against the "Sunday Soda Menace." This prompted confectioners to create Sundays so that they could do business on the Sabbath. Ironically the soda was later given a strong boost from this community when the Evanston-based Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) championed it as a pleasant alternative to alcoholic drinks. The Two Rivers, Wisconsin, claim goes back to the same era...was created when a youth named George Hallauer went to Ed Berner's soda fountain for a dish of ice cream. As the ice cream was being scooped, the daring Hallauer spied a bottle of chocolate syrup normally used in sodas and asked Berner to pour some of it over his ice cream. Berner sampled the concoction and liked it enough to begin featuring "ice cream with syrup" in his shop for the same price as a dish of ice cream. The name sundae was give to the dish when George Giffy, an ice cream continued on page 19

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All-American Banana Split Recipe as Published by Valley Dairy Restaurants

“In 1904, the first banana split was made here in Latrobe, Pennsylvania by David Strickler, an apprentice pharmacist at a local drug store,” says Melissa Blystone of Valley Dairy. “We still use his original formula when we make splits in our restaurants.”

Ingredients 1 medium banana, peeled and split lengthwise 1 scoop each vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream 2 tablespoons sliced fresh strawberries or 1 tablespoon strawberry ice cream topping 2 tablespoons pineapple chunks or 1 tablespoon pineapple ice cream topping 2 tablespoons whipped cream 1 tablespoon chopped peanuts 1 tablespoon chocolate syrup 2 maraschino cherries with stems Directions 1. Place banana in a dessert dish; place scoops of ice cream between banana. Top with remaining ingredients. Serve immediately. Yield: 1 serving.

Photo of an All-American Banana Split at Valley Dairy Restaurants

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When Was Chocolate Ice Cream Invented?

"Chocolate, coffee, and tea were the three important new beverages in seventeenthcentury Europe, and they were all used to make unfrozen creams. Menon made creams with all three . . . But these creams were all creams, not ice creams. It took some time before all three of the new beverages were transformed into frozen creams and ices. Emy made chocolate and coffee ice creams and mousses and chocolate ices . . . He introduced his recipe 'Glace de Creme au Cacao' by explaining that cacao was the nut with which one makes chocolate. He described four types, with different shapes and degrees of bitterness and fattiness, and said all could be used to make ice cream. and it was necessary to understand how to distinguish among them, and that it was important to choose large heavy ones with no green or raw taste or mold. One bought cacao at a spice shop or from chocolate makers, either roasted or not, according to Emy. Naturally, he included detailed instructions for roasting it. His recipe 'Glace de Creme au Cacao' was more complex than his usual cremes glaces. It was also unusual in its use of egg whites rather than yolks. He started by making a glace royale, which is an icing sugar made with stiffly beaten egg whites and sugar...Emy mixed cream into it and cooked it slowly, stirring it carefully until it thickened. Then he added two more ounces of roasted cacao and cooked the mixture in a bain marie, or warm water bath, until the flavor of the chocolate permeated the cream. After an hour and a half to two hours, he strained the mixture, then chilled it and froze it. He suggested adding a little ambergris, cinnamon, or vanilla, and he said he didn't think it was possible to make a better ice cream of its type. Emy also made what he called a glace de creme au chocolate blanc, but it was not made with white chocolate. He said it was made the same way as his glace de creme au cacao, except that, before putting the cream on the fire, he added half grain of ambergis, half a vanilla bean, and two grains of cinnamon. He said it would be 'delicious' (his italics). His recipe for chocolate ice, 'Glace de Chocolate L'Eau,' was less complicated. He simply melted some bon chocolate de sante, or 'good chocolate of health,' mixed it with sugar syrup cooked to the petit lisse stage, strained it, and froze it. He said if one wished, one could use chocolate a vanille and add vanilla, clove, and lemon."

– Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making, Jeri Quizno [University of California Press:Berkeley] 2009 (p. 41-42) [NOTE: Emy's book was titled The Art of Ice Cream. It was published in Paris, 1768.]

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THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

by Mike Dudurich

Let’s Go Bananas!

The celebration of the birthplace of the banana split is about to hit the big time. After two years of being put on by the Latrobe Community Revitalization Program, the event will be hosted and produced by the Greater LatrobeLaurel Valley Chamber of Commerce in 2015.

The event, which will be held Aug. 28-30, will have a new name as well.

It will now be known as the Valley Dairy Great American Banana Split Celebration presented by Excela Health. And, just as importantly, the event will be filled with a variety of activities and events for everybody.

“Valley Dairy Restaurants has been part of the Latrobe community for almost 77 years and we are proud to sponsor an event that brings recognition to our town and to the banana split that was created here,” said Virginia Greubel, Valley Dairy Restaurants’ Director of Marketing.

“Valley Dairy Restaurants serves a banana split that closely resembles the original one created by Dr. Strickler.

As Ice Cream Joe says, “It’s a very ‘appealing’ dessert!

Eat ’n Park Great American Pie Eating Contest One of the fun activities of the Valley Dairy Great American Banana Split Celebration presented by Excela Health, which is hosted and produced by the Greater Latrobe-Laurel Valley Community Chamber of Commerce, will be the Eat’n Park Great American Pie Eating Contest on Saturday, Aug. 29. The person who consumes an entire banana cream pie in the shortest amount of time will not only win the admiration of family and friends but also get the opportunity to hold a championship belt above their head,

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just like WWE and TNA champions do.

That belt will be created and produced by a Latrobe native, Andrew Lazarchik, the owner of Wildcat Championship Belts. “This is a great opportunity for me and the Banana Split Festival is something I really wanted to get involved with,” Lazarchik said.

Andrew Lazarchik, owner of Wildcat Championship Belts and Allen Martello, GLLV Chamber Director of Marketing & Events with a WWE championship belt at the Neighborhood Visitor & Information Center.

His company has made belts for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action (TNA), but there is another reason for Lazarchik wanting to be involved.

The festival is celebrating 111 years of the banana split and the delectable dessert has its origin in Strickler’s Drug Store. Tom Lazarchik, Andrew’s dad, owned that establishment for 35 years and Andrew worked there for over ten years.

For as long as he can remember, he was always interested in wrestling and used to create championship belts out of dot matrix paper, rubber roofing material and scrap metal. All of that took place when he was around 10 years old. As he grew up his interest intensified as he went to LaRoche College and earned a graphic arts degree.

He was confident enough in his work to pursue a goal of making the title belts for major wrestling organizations. It took him a while, but he finally got an audience in front of the right people at the WWE. After starting Wildcat Championship Belts in 2005, he signed a deal with the WWE in 2007.

“I didn’t do all of their belts, but I do all of TNA’s,” he said. “But I’m branching out now and 70 percent of what I do are specialty awards. It’s still what I grew up with as a kid and now I’m bringing it into the corporate world.”

The winner of the Eat’n Park Great American Pie Eating Contest will get possession of the belt for the day and will be officially presented with it at The Clarks concert that night. The winner will be required to return the belt the next day and will receive a trophy to keep.

“We’re really excited to be part of this event benefiting the Latrobe Community,” said Pat Kehew, Field Marketing Representative of Eat’n Park. “Eat’n Park is famous for our fresh-made pies, and we can’t wait to see who can eat one the fastest!”

Pie-eaters must be 18 years of age or older and will be timed on how long it will take them to devour an entire pie, including the crust. The contestant will be the 2015 champion and their name will be engraved on the belt. The

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belt will be on display at the Neighborhood Visitor & Information Center.

A Weekend at the Races Before the pie-eating contest on Aug. 29, the 5K Banana Run will take place.

The race will begin at 9:30 a.m., with registration at 8:30, and will be run on the Turkey Trot course, starting at Memorial Stadium. The race will be timed by Gingerbread Man Running Company, which will chip runners’ shoes for accurate timing. Awards will be given to the top three male and female finishers overall and the top three male and female finishers in each age bracket. All participants will receive a t-shirt, and winners will receive banana split-themed medals and prizes.

An increasingly popular event in race circles will also be part of the festival. The YPG Color Dash presented

by Saint Vincent College, a familyfriendly 5K run, will be held Sunday with participants being able to pick up race packets at 10:30 a.m. and the race starting at 12:30 p.m. A white shirt is

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provided for each entrant with color added to those shirts by the competitors. This is an event for those interested no matter age, size or fitness level.

Festival of Entertainment The headliner of the 2015 Valley Dairy Great American Banana Split Celebration presented by Excela Health will, of course, be that wonderful tasty frozen desert, but if you’re looking for entertainment, you won’t have to look far when the event takes place Aug. 2830 in Latrobe.

In something of a throwback to years past, there will be three separate shows over the weekend with entertainment for all ages. Michael Mykita will lead the three-person Miracle Elixir Show, which will put on performances both Saturday and Sunday at Roger’s Memorial Park. Rich Bubin and his Ice Creations, a worldrenowned ice carver, will create spectacular things from blocks of ice with a chain saw both days as well at Legion-Keener Park. And if you like

juggling, you won’t want to miss Bob Nickerson, the Jock-ular Juggler.

He’ll entertain you with his juggling prowess and will have you laughing continuously with his sense of humor.

Nickerson will perform Friday and Saturday around Latrobe.

Nickerson lives in Cresson, PA but has entertained crowds throughout the United States and Canada. He’s been featured in Sports Illustrated, performed at the White House, and has made rounds on the network television shows like Good Morning America, CBS This Morning and NBC Evening News.

“Over the years, it’s become an obsession with me, but it’s a fun obsession,” Nickerson said. “I still enjoy doing shows.” You might see him juggling hatchets or baseball bats or bouncing five basketballs at the same time.

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of playing to those emotions. Michael Mykita lives just outside of Mars, PA and is the leader of this three-person troupe and plays the role of Styles.

“We’ve combined an old circus sideshow with a medicine show and a snake oil salesman,” said Mykita, who is joined by friends who play the roles of Lavinia Warren and Zephyr Wilcox III. “We think we have a wide range of audiences and we try to shift our show to suit the ages of our audience.”

Bubin is an ice carver, and a very good one at that. He captained the 2002 United States Ice Carving team at the Salt Lake City Olympics, and is the Guinness World Record-holder for the fastest ice carver for 61, 300-pound blocks carved into 61 different sculptures in four hours, 22 minutes and 55 seconds in 2002.

“The previous record was 10 hours, 50 minutes and 22 seconds,” Bubin said. “We didn’t have any templates, and the carvers didn’t have any idea what was the next thing we’d have to carve.”

The Miracle Elixer Sideshow

The group was honored as Best of the Burg by Pittsburgh Magazine, has played recently at a Pittsburgh Cultural Trust event, and performed at a birthday celebration for famous composer Stephen Foster.

Their show is one with variety, ranging from lying on a bed of nails, eating fire and consuming broken glass. “But we’re a pain-free show,” Mykita said. “We’ve been doing shows for three years and we were so glad to get a call from the folks at the chamber of commerce. We’re excited to be coming to Latrobe.”

Rich Bubin is no stranger to Latrobe, having been part of DiSalvo’s Taste the Good Life for nearly 20 years.

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Ice Creations is located in Churchill and has been in existence for 28 years.

Bubin has performed at Kennywood Park for 23 years, Light Up Night and First Night in Pittsburgh. “I always try to get the kids involved in my shows,” he said. “I’ll make souvenirs for them.

It’s a lot of fun.” Bubin lists American Eagles and Harley Davidson motorcycles among the popular things he’s created over the years.

The Clarks to Headline Latrobe Memorial Stadium Nothing goes better with an old-fashioned banana split than a big concert and that’s exactly what will happen during the Valley Dairy Great Ameri-

can Banana Split Celebration presented by Excela Health.

Headlining the concert at Latrobe’s Memorial Stadium on Aug. 29 will be The Clarks, the rock-and-roll band founded at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1986 that has thrilled audiences around Western Pennsylvania and beyond ever since.

“The Clarks have played the Latrobe area on a number of occasions, though none recently. We played at the Rolling Rock Town Fair … which was an amazing experience,” said Greg Joseph, bass player for The Clarks.

The band is made up of locals to Western Pennsylvania: Scott Blasey, Connellsville native, who lives in Peters Twp; Rob James, a North Allegheny native, who currently lives in Beaver, PA; Greg Joseph, a North Allegeny native, who lives in Hampton Twp, PA; and Dave Minarik of Mercer, PA, former resident of Natrona Heights.

All were IUP students and honored as IUP Distinguished Alumni Local singer/songwriter Jessica Saenz will open the show before a performance from Lovebettie, a nationally known touring band from Latrobe recently named a “band to watch” by Rolling Stone magazine.

Tickets for the concert will be $15, with student tickets available at $10 with student ID. There will also be standing floor tickets next to the stage for $20.

The Clarks’ biggest moment came on Aug. 31, 2004 when they appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. On June 23, 2006, they played on ESPN’s Cold Pizza. The band has toured along the East Coast, the Southwest and Pacific states.

They average 150 live shows a year and sell in the neighborhood of 250,000 album sales locally.

“What better way is there to showcase all that our communities have to offer than bring in a national headlining show?” asked Allen Martello, GLLV Director of Marketing and Events. “Pair that with two extremely popular local sensations, and The Clarks LIVE at Memorial Stadium becomes the pinnacle of a weekend full of fun events!”

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The 2015 Valley Dairy Great American Banana Split Celebration presented

by Excela Health will be giving attendees even more bang over the weekend with the addition of the Verizon Wireless Zone Great American Fireworks Show, which will bring a spectacular finish to an outstanding night on August 29. The show will be put on by Pyrotecnico of New Castle. The fireworks will follow the big concert: Latrobe Shop ‘n Save pre-sents The Clarks Live at Memorial Stadium, driven by Sendell Motors of Greensburg at 7 p.m.

“We’re a small family-owned business in Latrobe, and even though we’ve been here eight years, a lot of people don’t know we’re here,” said Verizon Wireless Zone owner Bob Musser. “We’re back here in the area behind Sharky’s, not far from Aldi’s.

We got involved with this event because we want to support the chamber, but also we want to let people know we’re here. We pride ourselves in our customer service and believe that we can give better service than the bigger

stores can.” The addition of the fireworks show only enhances what will be a jam-packed three days celebrating the birthplace of the banana split, the first of which was made 111 years ago. “Latrobe has so many unique things about it, things that distinguish it from other places,” Musser said. “The Banana Split is one of those, and we’re looking forward to it. We like to be there, supporting the chamber.”

Dan Altman, the owner of Latrobe Shop ‘n Save, had similar thoughts about getting involved with the Celebration. Altman had been looking for some way to get more involved in the community, but he was looking for the right thing.

“You can sponsor a baseball team, but there are 40 other teams playing, and they wonder why you didn’t sponsor them,” Altman said. “We had to find something that was right.” Sponsoring The Clarks concert was that thing. “I’ve felt like there was something we could do, something that had an impact,” Altman said. “It’s a great

event for the town, and I felt like it was a good thing for community involvement and exposure of our name.”

The Lincoln Avenue store will be one of three places selling tickets to the concert, which is expected to pack Memorial Stadium. The other two are at the Neighborhood Visitor & Information Center and online at banana splitfest.com. Shop ‘n Save will also put a flyer with information about the concert into each grocery bag that leaves the store.

“We’re a store that is convenient for a lot of people; a family-owned community store,” Altman said. “I think this is going to be great.”

“Community support for this year’s event and the concert has been phenomenal,” said GLLV Chamber Director of Marketing & Events Allen Martello, who was excited to announce that Sendell Motors of Greensburg would be on board as the signature sponsor of the concert. “It was a tie-in that just made sense,” added continued on page 33

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Mouth-Watering Photographs Secerets of a Food Stylist by Kim Konecny Kissling Getting Started I got into food styling in 1995 by attending Tante Marie’s Cooking school. I had never heard of food styling, and there was a talk one day about different careers in food: when I heard about styling, I knew it’s what I wanted to do. After school I had an externship with a photographer who shot only food, and I was able to meet several different stylists. The only way to get into the business is by assisting other stylists and learning the trade. I broke into the industry by cold-calling photographers and offering to work for free or a lower day rate to get my foot in the door. I assisted for about three years and started out on my own in 1998. It took quite a while, but then I landed my first big assignment.

The Williams-Sonoma book series was a huge cookbook series. It was single subject books, and there were 32 books in the series. It took four years to shoot the entire series. I didn’t work on it full time, but we did about eight books per year, and each book took 10 days. That was my big break into the industry.

other part that’s not great is that I don’t have set hours. My day starts before the client arrives, and it ends when we are done shooting. Mosts days are 10-hour days, and I’ve worked as late as 2 am.

The most challenging foods to work with are meat and ice cream. Sliced meat to be exact. Every meat client has a different thought on how pink or rare meat should be on the inside, and every cut of meat is different. Some meats have really great muscle fiber that looks nice; others can be a mess of different muscles crossing in the wrong place with gristle and fat where you don’t want it – and just when you think you’ve got the shot, the meat oxidizes and turns gray, and you start from scratch. Ice cream, on the other hand, simply melts too quickly. Hence, the reason we use fake ice cream sometimes. Plus while styling real ice cream you have to work in a freezer.

I’ve had frost bite on a few fingers more than once.

About 10 years ago I worked on the redesign of Edy’s ice cream. It took weeks to complete, but there were about 75 different flavors, and each flavor had to be shot individually. We would shoot 2-3 flavors a day. Flavors like vanilla are far easier than flavors with “inclusions” which are the nuts, chips, ribbons, chunks, etc., in the ice cream.

How to Make Ice Cream for the Camera

A Day in the Life I enjoy working on projects that include fresh ingredients such as salad, or colorful meals that have different elements and textures. All of this makes for a beautiful photograph.

My favorite part of my job is that every day is different, and every day there is a new challenge of some sort. I work with different clients sometimes daily. Projects rarely last longer than a few days or a week at most. I also work in different studios with different staff.

My least favorite part is packing up all of my “kit,” which is the equipment that I use for styling, and schlepping it around. The 16 - August 2015

I've worked with fake ice cream for years and years. In order to get the correct texture (which is called feathering) in the ice cream the best recipe I've found uses a combination of Crisco, Karo syrup and powdered sugar. If you use plain Crisco (white) it comes out looking like vanilla; and if you use butter-flavored Crisco, it looks more like French vanilla. If you add just a little ground cloves to the mixture, you have vanilla bean. Then, if you want different flavors, you add things like strawberry jam instead of the syrup or dark Karo syrup and cocoa powder for chocolate.

Using mashed potatoes doesn't work because the concoction that you make dries out rather quickly; whereas the mixture using the Crisco and syrup stays moist.

I've tested this and made a strawberry ice cream cone with fake ice cream, put it on a shelf, and it stayed there for years. Lit-

erally, years! It did dry out, but it stayed together, never molded and looked good the entire time.

(All photographs ©2015 Kim Konecny Kissling)

You can also make fake soft serve ice cream using similar ingredients, but including canned frosting. I pipe it out of a piping bag, and by looking at it, you'd never know it was fake. And it will stay that way for quite a while. But fake soft serve ice cream, because of the frosting, starts to look dry within a day or so.

Real or Fake?

I would say that 98% of the time I use real food. It may not be cooked exactly how I would prepare it to eat, but the only time I use fake food is when I’m doing a project like a banana split. It’s one of the most difficult things to shoot. There are three (if not more) types of ice cream, sauces (and some hot like fudge), nuts, whipped cream, cherries, etc. By the time all of this gets into the dish it’s a mess when using real ice cream. I’ve done it a few times: it’s fun and challenging and can make a beautiful shot, especially if the client likes a little melt. But for those clients that want it to look pristine I would recommend using fake ice cream. With that being said, if you are advertising ice cream you are required by law to use the real product. But if you’re adver continued on page 17

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parlor proprietor in nearby Manito-woc, was forced by customer demand to serve the popular Berner concoction. Giffy was convinced that the nickel dish would put him out of business and at first served it only as a Sunday loss leader. In Manitowoc it soon became known as "the Sunday." Giffy found that he was making money on the dish and began advertising his "Ice Cream Sundaes," with the spelling changed so that it would lose its Sunday-only association. Regardless of the origin, by 1900, midwestern soda-fountain supply salesmen were carrying samples of tulip-shaped "Sundae Specials." continued from page 16

tising for hot fudge, then the ice cream can be fake, and the hot fudge is the focal point. Food styling may seem to be deceptive, but all of the food used is real and made from whatever ingredients are in the package that it’s coming from. But a food stylist will take hours to make it look the best it can look. When a consumer at home makes it, they just don’t have the time or desire to do that.

Career Satisfaction Right now I have roadside billboards up all over California for California avocado. I’ll be driving down the road and BAM my work is right there, bigger than life. But it’s also fun to walk into a grocery store, and see my work on nearly every aisle. ***** Kim Konecny Kissling is a 1987 graduate of Derry Area Senior High School and lives

– The Great American Ice Cream Book, Paul Dickson [Atheneum: New York] 1972 (p. 64-6) CITATIONS 1 “The History of Ice Cream.” The International Dairy Foods Association website, www.IDFA.org 2

Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, History of Food, translated by Anthea Bell, Barnes & Noble Books: New York, 1992 (pp. 749-50)

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4 See References listings on https:// en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Ice_cream_float, or the detailed article “Who Really Invented the Ice Cream Soda” at http://mentalfloss.com/ article/64970/who-really-invented-icecream-soda.

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David, Elizabeth (1994). Harvest of the Cold Months: the Social History of Ice and Ices. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-017641-1.

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She was also featured on the television show “Bay Cafe with Chef Joey Allman” who highlighted her work in the Napa Valley.

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Kim’s hands-on approach ensures that her client’s needs are met and most often exceeded. She manages all aspects of the food preparation and styling: starting from raw ingredients, to the cooking itself, from the styling and set display to the photographic shoot, Kim creates the perfect look for every shot. By combining her creative eye, her skills as a trained cook, and her imaginative touch, Kim brings a unique style to her creations – transforming food displays into works of art.

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THAT’S WHAT THEY SAY Thought-Provoking Insights on Common Quotations by Rev. Marjorie Rivera

“When In Doubt, Tell the Truth” MARK TWAIN

It has been my observation that most of us live in some degree of uncertainty. We bounce from one catastrophe to the next, trying to find some sense of normalcy amidst the chaos. When you ask most people what they want in life, they answer “I just want to be happy.” In our search for happiness, lots of us make lots of mistakes.

We try to mask our internal pain with a variety of different things.

We seek stability to mask our internal instabilities. We seek control over circumstances or people to hide what we cannot control in ourselves. We attempt to become numb through the use of drugs, alcohol, and sometimes food, so that we don’t have to really feel what’s going on inside of us. I am going to go out on a limb here and say we live in doubt most of the time. There are many unstable factors today like our government/s, our economy/ies, our religion/ s, and our relationship/s, just to name a few. I think it is safe to say that our earthly experience has become filled with doubt.

From a Spiritual perspective, when we are in doubt, it means we are not in truth. Being in doubt would mean we are not in a place of vibrational alignment to something higher than doubt, meaning truth. If we want truth to exude in our culture, we must align to truth. Each of us, could, at this very moment learn how to be a vibrational match for our desires. Do not hope, pray, or wish for what you desire. Instead be in the vibration of knowing what it feels like for your desire to be a totally normal part of your life. This means become the truth yourself. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Be the change you wish to see in the rest of the world. Let the change start with you. Going back to what Twain said, “When in doubt, tell the truth.” The saying takes on a whole new meaning. In an expanded way, we can choose to resonate internally to the truth by being more authentic and truthful in all of our interactions. Being more truthful and authentic is how we cultivate personal integrity in our endeavors. When each of us strives for personal integrity, we are reaching for our own personal truth.

It may not always be easy to understand someone else’s truth but it becomes easier to recognize and stand in your own truth once you familiarize yourself with it more. If you wanted to practice aligning your personal truth more frequently you could begin with asking yourself this simple question: “Am I being truthful to myself right now?” Then take a moment to sense your reply. You might get butterflies or nervousness in your gut, you might feel right or good, you may want to run away. The point of asking yourself the question is to make yourself feel what your internal alignment to truth is like so that you can build your relationship to it and recognize when you are perhaps lying to yourself. You may learn more about yourself by asking this simple question.

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What Makes Creative Thinkers the Best Entrepreneurs?

What separates an entrepreneur from the rest of the working class? When most people say the word “entrepreneur,” they think about genius businessmen who achieved success at a young age, and built an empire of wealth. But what defines an entrepreneur from others in a similar environment is a unique combination of assets: new ideas, well-developed thought processes, motivation, and excellent communication with their potential consumers. Entrepreneurs take one great idea and expand upon it in every direction; they are masters of problem solving who can carefully balance logic with the limits of known possibilities. How do they become so exceptional? By participating in creative activities at a young age, children develop into free-thinking adults who don’t have to struggle with the conventions of hum-drum business.

An awful lot of research has gone into figuring out how creativity happens, and how to teach people in all fields to think in a more productive way. In an article written by Thomas B. Ward called “Cognition, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship,” he explains that creative ideas happen naturally

as the result of using basic mental operations to access existing knowledge structures (Ward 173). Rarely do brilliant ideas simply explode into being while one is staring into space!

Rather, the common tendency of people trying to create new ideas (such as a plan for business) is to draw a “basic level exemplar” from a hierarchy of ideas; where specific ideas are stored under categories for broad ideas, the basic level is halfway between (Ward 183). This basic idea, such as the idea of a coffee maker, comes laden with specific knowns and unknowns. When you think of a coffee pot, you probably imagine an electric drip coffee maker with a glass server, wavy paper coffee filter, and a time display on the front. These details can be used as a platform for new ideas relevant to the old design, but can also constrain ideas that might form if one had a less specific vision in mind. Learning to pull out more abstract information as the starting point puts thinkers in a better position to employ various mental operations that build creativity.

So, if we can teach ourselves to retrieve our own knowledge better, where can we go from there? Our new

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ideas all have roots in our old ideas; the next logical step is “conceptual combination,” a process by which existing concepts merge mentally to form a new concept that has traits which are separate from its original constituents. These combinations often emerge in pop culture: the trendy term “mansplain” doesn’t just mean an explanation by a man, but refers to a culturally-specific practice of men oversimplifying to their audience (usually women). Although the root words aren’t related, they evoke a thought process to understand them in a new context. Laboratory studies in the 1990-2000’s tested this theory by giving participants word pairings with opposing or dissimilar meaning (e.g. “healthy illness”), and observing interpretations relative to typical word pairings (Ward 177). Participants given the former produced ideas which were considered more novel and unique; when thinking about opposing ideas, they better understood the scope of the subject. Entrepreneurs often use this bottom-up method of thinking to re-consider what their business problem might be. Methods like “problem construc-

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tion” tear apart the logic behind existing business models, and restructure a new plan based on needs. Ward explains: “Implicit or explicit in these models is the belief that the way in which people conceptualize a problem strongly influences their likelihood of achieving an original or creative solution” (Ward 181). When you undertake a goal and consider its most basic components, instead of accepting it as is, the impediments unravel in new ways; new problems will pique new and creative solutions.

Consider the development of cognitive functions as a whole. One of the more well-respected theories of childhood development is psychologist Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory, which began as an attempt to understand why children, at varying ages, will wrongly answer a question requiring logic; their answers were the key to differentiating how children think from how adults think (McLeod, S.A. 2015). Piaget’s Theory breaks down cognitive development into four stages: Sensorimotor (1), Preoperational (2), Concrete Operational (3), and Formal Operational (4) stages. At approximately ages 11-12, children transition into the beginning of their Formal Operational years: at this point, their logical abilities are finishing development, and abstract thinking emerges. Abstract thought is the keyhole through which creativity flows into the child’s life. It allows for deductive reasoning, enhanced problem solving, and metacognition: the ability to think about one’s own thoughts as well as the thoughts and ideas of others (McLeod, S.A. 2015).

With the ability to metacognate, children at this age are at a creative and communicational hallmark. Exercises in mental operations needed to create new ideas are at peak application at this age. When we encourage children to really see into the world around them, they begin to use their newfound abilities to create solutions for problems, and the entrepreneurial spirit emerges.

Making creative, cooperative experiences available to young people as they enter the Formal Operational stage is as essential to their personal development as to their economic deEvery Story Begins At Home.

velopment. Research shows that areas with a high concentration of creative people tend to act as “incubators of creativity,” and that human capital factors play a vital role in spurring regional growth (Lee et al, 3). This 2004 study compiled data from multiple statistical areas to find patterns

surrounding new firm growth, considering factors such as diversity, population size, education, and creativity. Their findings, across the board, were that the most positive correlation between human capital (in adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher) and new firm growth was creativity throughout many fields: artists, designers, musicians, craftsmen, and dancers (to name a few). The study also concludes that once new businesses are developed in a geographic area, they will attract others because “geographical proximity enables them to utilize social ties necessary to mobilize essential resources,” (Lee et al, 6). In short, it only takes a few motivated individuals to set a trend that will change the economy in their community. A community which will then be held in esteem by young entrepreneurs who grew up, studied, and were given opportunities in the peak of their development.

Consider activities beyond classic arts and music; there are many opportunities to be a part of local literature and entrepreneur-building activities.

Write Local, a Latrobe nonprofit, presents free and low-cost creative thinking events throughout the year to adults and students of all ages. After a

successful run of classes in the 20142015 academic year, Write Local will be offering a seven-week class series this fall called “Academy for Writers and Entrepreneurs (AWE)”at the Ligonier Valley YMCA. A group of writers will present weekly classes on writing and leadership building, to encourage young authors to pursue their ambitions. Another resource in the Pittsburgh area is Entrepreneuring Youth, a nonprofit which offers longer programs specifically built for students with a drive to develop business skills. In 2015 they will be hosting an event called “iPitch 2015,” wherein judges score presentations made by students for new business ideas. The presence of activities and organizations like these is an affirmation for entrepreneurial spirit in small towns as well as big cities.

Whether you’re a parent who wants to give his or her children some new educational opportunities, or if you’re cultivating a young adult with business ambitions, it is always a good time to get involved in creative activities. Our neighborhood, from the greater Pittsburgh area though Latrobe/ Ligonier, is an area with high student diversity and a reputation for serious culture. Creative adults everywhere are building niches for the next generation to spread their powerful new ideas. By supporting these local initiatives, we can give young people great creative potential, for themselves and for their communities.

Works Cited: • Lee, Sam Youl, Richard Florida, and Zoltan Acs. “Creativity and Entrepreneurship: A Regional Analysis of New Firm Foundation.”

Discussion Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Public Policy 1704 (2004): 1-23. www. econostor.eu. The Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems. Web. JuneJuly. 2015.

• McLeod, Saul. “Jean Piaget.” Simply Psychology. N.p., 17 Sept. 2009. Web. 13 July 2015. <www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html>.

• Ward, Thomas B. “Cognition, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship.” Journal of Business Venturing 19 (2004): 173-88. Web. June-July 2015. ***** Allison Checkeye is a creative writer from the small town of Vandergrift, and has studied, worked, and volunteered in the Greensburg area for many years. Checkeye is thrilled to currently be a summer intern at Write Local, a literacy initiative that inspires young writers to think creatively and innovate locally. She is currently working on writing her first play, and begins to plan the creation of a puppetry studio.

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Remember the Fruit on Top!

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Bananas are an excellent power food that can be used for lean snacks and meals. High in carbohydrates, Vitamin C, dietary fiber, Vitamin B6, and potassium these yellow wonders pack a punch for a quick energy source.

Bananas combat muscle cramps and premenstraul syndrome symptoms, improve digestion in several ways, and make you smarter!

Carbohydrates that are derived from plant sources are the leanest way to provide the body with fast energy without storing excess calories as fat.

At 100-200kCal/banana and around 28 grams of carbohydrates bananas are an excellent food choice (14g of sugar). With a low glycemic index (or amount of sugar that enters the body) bananas level blood sugar, and decrease hunger pangs and irritability.

Bananas are a wonder for digestive issues. Dietary fiber and pectin found in the fruit help to improve ‘regularity’ and motility in the bowel.

The majority of bananas’ fiber content is water soluble, so water travels to the intestines and slows digestion time keeping you fuller longer (weight loss aide). Digestion is also improved with a banana’s punch of natural antacids decreasing the symptoms of heartburn. As a raw fruit banana coats the stomach and decreases the effect of acids against the stomach’s lining and also boosts prebiotics in the intestine to combat ‘bad bugs’ associated with diarrhea.

Packed in micro and macronutrients, bananas are mega foods. As a source of Vitamin B6 and tryptophan (a precursor to serotonin) bananas improve mood, decrease stress levels, and decrease symptoms of smokers’ withdrawal. By offering potassium and magnesium, bananas decrease muscle cramp. They are excellent preworkout snacks and pre-bedtime snacks for those afflicted with exercise induced leg cramps or ‘restless leg

syndrome,’ respectively. A banana’s potassium load can also perk up the brain ‘muscle’ and make you feel alert and energized. Vitamin C sources increase bone density and decrease the risk of osteoporosis especially in adult females, and promote eye health.

Bananas can certainly increase your overall health and well-being.

During the Banana Split celebration that is upon us, remember the fruit on top packs a nutritional punch — just keep the ice cream treat below to a moderate level and enjoy!

Source: “25 Powerful Reasons to Eat Bananas.”

Food Matters, August 14, 2012. Retrieved from www.foodmatters.tv on July 20, 2015.

***** Hayley is a Certified Fitness Trainer and the coowner of Building Bodeez Fitness Center, located at 154 Pandora Rd in Derry, PA, as well as a fulltime Nurse Anesthetist with the University of Pittsburgh Physicians, currently based at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Fox Chapel, PA. Hayley offers a wealth of fitness and health knowledge, serving as the Group Fitness Coordinator and Wellness Programs Director at Building Bodeez.

What Causes An Ice Cream Headache?

The trigeminal nerve, shown in yellow, conducts signals from dilating blood vessels in the palate to the brain, which interprets the pain as coming from the forehead.

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It gives new meaning to the phrase “we all scream for ice cream.” You dig into your favorite dish of deliciousness, and suddenly you are blinded by the pain of a facial explosion!

A “sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” (ice cream headache or brain freeze) occurs during a rapid change in temperature at the roof of the mouth, specifically in the back where a cluster of nerves is located.

Drinking something cold like iced tea or eating ice cream rapidly cools the palate of your mouth and over-stimulates that nerve center, signaling the brain to think the body has suddenly lost a lot of heat. In response, the brain requests a rapid contraction of blood vessels in the head to stop the “leak,” followed by a quick relax to allow blood flow to rise again. This condi-

tion is similar to the fluctuations in blood pressure which cause a migraine headache, but typically only lasts a few seconds. People who suffer from migraines are also more prone to “brain freeze.”

Dr. Dwayne Godwin, a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre, recommends relief by jamming your tongue up to the roof of your mouth to help warm the blood passing through there again, or drinking warm water to increase the temperature of your mouth.

The only guaranteed solution to the problem is to avoid cold foods and beverages altogether ... but what fun is that?

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A Story for the Kids Corner

by Melany Johnson Just kill him. Just open your mouth and sing the toxic note that will bring him to his murky death. Don’t look into his eyes, I remembered as I noticed the cool breeze ruffling his curly, light brown hair. So I focused on the sharp edge of the rock under my hand that gave me enough leverage to pull my upper body out of the cold, dark water. The rough edge against my grey, smooth, scaly flesh. I knew that if I looked into his eyes I couldn’t bring myself to kill him.

I recalled the memories that all mer-children have of watching our elders bringing down large land prey such as wild horses, humans, or the rare young urgle that might wonder upon our shores. I thought of how good a fresh kill tasted. I imagined myself killing; I saw a flash of color. Red. Blood. Not its blood, but my blood. I panicked. There were so many ways a hunt could go wrong. I looked away trying to run from the thought and found myself looking into his eyes. Comfort. Friendliness. Warmth.

He has full lips that curve into the most beautiful crooked smile, a rounded nose that suggests his goat-like descendants, and pointed ears that curve back and disappear into his hair. His pupils, of course, are like all Satyr’s, small and square.

The memories of us lying by the shore for hours in the shade talking and laughing or playing together in the water flooded my mind. I realized, as I glanced back at the expectant faces of my family with their grey eyes bright in the fading light, that I didn’t want to be a killer or a mermaid. I pulled the rest of my body out of the water and as he wrapped a blanket around me, I watched my fins, scales, and tail wash away in the tide, leaving me with two human legs.

I looked up at the moon and thought of the legend of the first mermaid to use the energy the moon gives to the ocean to shed her undersea life. I glanced back at him and he helped me to stand. Then we made our way into the forest and lived happily ever after.

The end.

Melany Johnson is a student in Write Local’s Academy for Writers and Entrepreneurs program at the Ligonier Valley YMCA. She is entering 10th grade at Ligonier Valley High School. ***** Kid’s Corner shares student writing from Write Local’s K-12 programs. Write Local is a non-profit located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania that inspires young writers to think creatively and innovate locally. To see more student writing, please visit writelocal.org.

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Paris, France, as part of the Annual stacles that we all face in our own perThe next opportunity to see his Exposure Awards for contemporary sonal journeys. His work is often of work will be at the Mr. Fred Rogers photography. Sponsored by See.Me nature or pastoral scenes near his Fine Arts Regional Juried Exhibition Exhibitions, McWherter’s work titled home in rural Pennsylvania, with this at the Latrobe Art Center, September Yellow Woods, was seen as 1-30, 2015. This annual part of the digital display on group show includes a piece July 13th during the awards

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McWherter had the honor of In the fall, McWherter having his artwork being diswill be starting his 19th year played at the most esteemed as the Visual Arts Instructor museum in the world during at Derry Area High School, the one night event. the same high school that he McWherter’s picture was attended as a student. Also also selected for publication this year, he and his classin the companion compilamates last month celebrated tion book The Exposure their 40th year class reunion.

Awards –The Nature CollecMcWherter resides in Derry, “Yellow Woods” by Richard S. McWherter from his Tactual Dreams portfolio. tion. The full-color, hardPA with his wife, recently recover book is now available tired DAHS chemistry teaonline with proceeds from the sale of image starting from a photograph he cher, Kimberly McWherter. the book benefiting Pencils of Prommade in Laurel Hill State Park.

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The researchers valued the human health effects of the reduced air pollution at nearly $7 billion every year.

“We found that, in general, the greater the tree cover, the greater the pollution removal, and the greater the removal and population density, the greater the value of human health benefits,” says Dave Nowak of the U.S. Forest Service.

More recently a 2015 study from the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) in Barcelona, Spain found that children exposed to more greenery—as measured by satellite imagery of their schools and neighborhoods—demonstrated better attention skills and memory development. While the association was partly mediated by reductions in air pollution, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, one of the

study’s authors, noted that he and the study’s other researchers don’t think it’s all air pollution: “I think it’s also some kind of direct effect … you see quite a beneficial effect of green space on mental health.”

Numerous recent studies have focused on the positive effects that exposure to trees and nature has on our mental health. A recent study published in the journal Nature combined satellite imagery, individual tree data, and health surveys from 31,109 residents of the greater Toronto, Canada area, and found that people who live in areas with higher street tree density report better health perception compared with their peers living in areas with lower street tree density.

“People have sort of neglected the psychological benefits of the environment,” says Marc G. Berman, an author of the study and professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. “I’m very interested in how the physical environment affects the brain and behavior.”

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“Why do people bring flowers to the hospital all the time? Is it just superficial? Is it just a nice gesture, nice but not important? I would suggest that it is a much deeper recognition of the healing effects associated with affirming life,” Kellert told Yale 360.

With over 80 percent of Americans living in urban areas, this newer research implies an indispensable need for growth and implementation in urban tree planting, urban greening and biophilic design in educational institutions and places of business for enriched physical and mental health.

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Question: I eat for every reason ... happy, sad, tired, nervous, lonely, you name it. I don’t feel like I have any control over my eating at times. Is there anything that will help me stop eating when I am not hungry?

Answer: Emotional eating is a common yet complex problem which is a learned behavior from childhood.

The first step in controlling and changing emotional eating is to learn the high risk situation(s) that cause you to eat when you are not hungry. Then create a plan of action you can use when that high risk situation happens. For example, if you know you overeat when you are tired, plan to take a nap. If you grab food whenever you are under stress, then plan to deal with the stress in ways other than food such as taking a walk, taking 10 deep breaths or going to see a friend.

Second, eat scheduled meals and snacks to maintain your blood sugar levels and avoid physical hunger. By eating balanced, healthy foods on a regular schedule you may not feel the

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physical urge to eat during high risk situations. Avoid getting hungry and low blood sugar by eating combinations of whole foods that are good sources of protein, complex carbohydrate, fat, and fiber. An example of a healthy snack would be an apple with nut butter or natural nuts, or cottage cheese and whole wheat crackers.

The third step is to make it difficult to access comfort foods and foods that sabotage your efforts. Do not keep them around and you won’t be able to eat them when you are most vulnerable. Boredom triggers many individual to overeat and this step is a great strategy if you find yourself eating not because you are hungry but are bored. Common comfort foods are processed snacks, junk foods, sweets, or ice cream.

The following are techniques and strategies to help cope with emotional eating.

• Identify the root your emotional eating such as childhood influences.

• Manage your physical environment at home and around you to re-

duce food cues. For example, keep healthy, low-risk foods in sight and within reach and high-risk foods out of site or out of the house. Be aware of people who trigger your emotional eating.

• Manage your internal environment, or your thoughts feelings, emotions, and food cues that trigger high-risk behavior. Be aware of the time, your feelings and mood, what caused you to feel this way, and foods associated with episodes of emotional eating.

• Plan for high risk situations that trigger emotional eating. Formulate a plan of action other than food.

• Learn to “ride out” the immediate urge or impulse to eat when you are not hungry. Before you reach for your emotional comfort foods plan to procrastinate by doing something else first. This gives you time to get over the urge to eat. When you have the urge or craving to eat and you are not hungry, postpone giving in to the urge for a while by redirecting your attention to something else. Ninety percent of the time you will overcome the urge.

• Learn to think positively when you start to fall in to a spiral of negative thought. Positive thinking and a positive attitude may prevent emotional eating.

• Learn to break the chain of compulsive overeating. If you find yourself with the bag of cookies in front of the television, get up and throw the cookies away. It is never too late to stop the process from happening.

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What is the best way to recycle my old or unwanted paint, primer and stains?

Has one of the many popular shows on HGTV inspired you to renovate your own home? If so, you’re not alone! Home renovations have been on the rise the last few years in the U.S. and Canada, which can mean lots of leftover paint. Extra paint can last for years when properly sealed and stored away from extreme heat and cold, and if unneeded, can be donated to organizations like Habitat for Humanity and Keep America Beautiful. But if paint can no longer be used, what are some safe, environmentally-responsible ways to dispose of it?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that about 10 percent of the house paint purchased in the United States each year—about 65 to 69 million gallons— is discarded. Leftover and unusable paint wastes causes pollution when disposed of improperly, the EPA warns. Before you can decide how to dispose of old paint, you’ll need to determine what kind of paint it is.

There are two types of paint: oil-based and latex; and regulations on disposal of each type of paint vary by location.

In some areas, latex paint can be thrown out with the trash as long as it is completely dried. Keep in mind that some household waste haulers may not pick up latex paint even if it is completely dried, so always check with

your local waste disposal service provider on rules and regulations applicable to your area.

Oil-based paints, as well as paint thinners and other paint solvents, are considered hazardous household waste (HHW) and are typically disposed of at HHW facilities. While many communities across the country will hold annual or semi-annual HHW collection days to make paint disposal easy for local residents, the new nonprofit PaintCare is allowing residents of California, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Oregon, Minnesota and Vermont to have convenient disposal of house paint, primers, stains, sealers and clear coatings year-round. There is no charge for dropping off paint at a PaintCare drop-off site, and Paintcare’s site locator (available on their website and app) allows residents of applicable states to quickly find their closest drop-off location. PaintCare locations can be found at select Sherwin-Williams, True Value, Ace Hardware and other retailers.

“Retailer support of the PaintCare program is not only good business practice, but also an extension of good customer service,” says Scott Cassel, Chief Executive Officer of the Product Stewardship Institute, Inc., a nonprofit that in partnership with the paint industry, led the national dia-

logue that laid the foundation for the PaintCare program.

“By providing paint drop-off locations, retailers not only encourage more foot traffic, but they also offer an important kind of community service that addresses both environmental protection and convenience.”

PaintCare manages the leftover paint it receives according to a policy of “highest, best use.” Their goal is to recycle as much as possible. Most of the oil-based paint is taken to a cement plant where it is blended into a fuel and burned to recover the energy value. Latex paint that is not rusty, molding or spoiled is sent to recycling companies and reprocessed into new paint. Some paint that the non-profit receives is nearly new and in excellent condition, and is given away at swap shops or to charitable organizations.

Paintcare plans to expand its locations into Colorado in July of 2015, Maine in August of 2015 and the District of Columbia in January of 2016.

CONTACTS: EPA Paints & Coatings Program, www.epa.gov/sectors/sectorinfo/sectorprofiles/ paint.html; Paintcare, www.paintcare.org.

WESTMORELAND CLEANWAYS:

EarthTalk® is produced by Doug Moss & Roddy Scheer and is a registered trademark of Earth Action Network Inc. View past columns at: www.earthtalk.org. Or e-mail us your question: earthtalk@emagazine.com.

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TODAY’S EDUCATION

by Clair Ward, Head of School at Valley School of Ligonier

Learning to Soothe ... Yourself I have been either a teacher or a school administrator for nearly 30 years. Over that time, I have seen the onset of many “new” strategies and tools that now have an automatic place in the classroom. I have also seen my fair share of approaches to parenting, and I am a parent myself. I write all of this not in the spirit of presenting myself as an expert, but rather as a data collector.

My colleagues and I have begun to notice that children are arriving to school with significantly less selfsufficiency in the areas of calming and organizing themselves. We are seeing children who rely on adults exclusively to entertain them, distract them, redirect them and soothe them. We are seeing an increasingly exhausted group of parents who are concerned that they function at the whim of a child at bedtime and mealtime; the parents’ need to serve the children means significant programming during the weeks and weekends leaving the whole family running from structured activity to structured activity. There simple is no down time—no time to be bored or calm for either parents or children.

I recently gave a talk about the book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. This was a board book that my own daughter carried around as soon as she could walk. It was one of the first books that she memorized and it was often a part of her bedtime routine. In our house, simply reading

the book was a way to sooth a child, but inevitably it also had a similar effect on whichever adult was reading it to her. It had a cadence and a pattern that allows the mind to settle into a comforted mode. And most of us recall it being read with a soft tone.

The words matter less than the spirit of quieting the mind and the body. If you are familiar with the book, you will remember …

Goodnight room, goodnight moon Goodnight cow jumping over the moon Goodnight light, and the red balloon Goodnight bears, goodnight chairs Goodnight kittens, and goodnight mittens

We live in very hurried times these days. People struggle to eat well on the run, and the amount of sleep that children and adults get each night is declining. Technology plays an increasingly prominent role in our “down time” in spite of the research that says that screen time effects our sleep and body rhythms. Not only are children getting less and less practice soothing themselves to sleep or out of a heightened emotional moment, but the adults in their lives are leading the charge with chaotic schedules under the pressure of being perfect parents. In short, we are no longer taking time to soothe our children and we never soothe ourselves in front of them. There is no question that this is having an effect on children’s own ability to self-soothe.

As adults, we need to be role models. Children need to see us as being able to sooth ourselves. We need to ask children to practice self-soothing in ways other than digital devices. While Good Night Moon may no longer be a child’s preference, what are similar activities that a child could do to selfquiet? Singing? Reading? Knitting?

Walking?

We spend a lot of time as a culture soothing infants with things like Goodnight Moon. As children get older, we spend less and less intentional time doing this important and nurturing task for children. And this is what we are seeing in school: children unable to meet the rigor of learning or of playing, children who need adults to rescue them, children with a decreasing amount of resilience, children who crave “free” and unstructured time, and children who – no matter what they say – crave limits, structure and routine.

Grandparents, parents and friends, I urge you consider ways to reincorporate soothing routines back into your time with the children you know.

I urge you to consider the ways in which calming activities and regular/ predictable routines can help children relax. As adults, let us model for them ways in which to quiet the body and the mind other than those that take electricity or even leaving the house.

If nothing else, you can practice your quiet voice – and who knows, perhaps you yourself will benefit for a calm and soothing moment. ***** Clair Ward was appointed in 2008 to the position of Head of School at Valley School of Ligonier (www.valleyschoolofligonier.com). Ms. Ward holds an M.Ed. from Boston College and a B.A. in English/ Classics from Hamilton College. She lives in Rector with her daughter and husband, Bryon Williams, a doctoral candidate at Duquesne University.

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DOWN ON THE FARM

by Cathi Gerhard & Greg Susa

Penn State’s Ag Progress Days August 18-20 Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center Rock Springs, PA

Agricultural 'Brigadoon' Offers Wide Assortment of Activities for Visitors UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Almost Brigadoon-like, a small agricultural "city" is nearly ready to spring up amongst the fields at Rock Springs, along state Route 45, nine miles southwest of State College. But unlike the fictional town that mysteriously appeared for just one day every 100 years, this gathering is an annual, three-day affair.

Penn State's Ag Progress Days, one of the East's largest agricultural expositions, will be held Aug. 18-20. The event provides visitors with about 150 acres of commercial and educational exhibits, crop displays, machinery demonstrations, family and youth activities, equine presentations, workshops and an agricultural museum.

Guided research tours take visitors into the field in the surrounding, 2,200-acre Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center.

The expo typically attracts as many as 50,000 visitors – an estimated 60 percent of whom are directly or indirectly involved in agricultural production – from across Pennsylvania and beyond to get a glimpse into the science and business of agriculture. But, organizers say, you don't have to be a farmer to enjoy and learn from Ag Progress Days.

"Ag Progress Days provides a wonderful opportunity to learn about the many exciting advancements in agriculture and related fields to which our faculty and staff are contributing," said Richard Roush, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. "This is

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your chance to get a firsthand look at some of the research, extension, and educational programs conducted by your land-grant university with the support of our partners, friends and stakeholders.

"We have a wide variety of attractions designed to appeal to virtually everyone, from commercial exhibits and field demonstrations highlighting the latest agricultural technology, to

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Ag Progress Days will feature activities designed to appeal to farmers, homeowners, gardeners, conservationists, woodlot owners, families, youth and others.

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Sponsored by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, Ag Progress Days is held at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College on Route 45. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 18; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 19; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 20. Admission and parking are free. http://apd.psu.edu #agprogressdays www.facebook.com/AgProgressDays

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Chamber President David Martin. Sendell Motors will have multiple cars on display throughout the Banana Split footprint in Latrobe but will also have cars on both sides of the stage on Saturday night, as well as at the entrances to Memorial Stadium. That’s where concert-goers and banana split visitors will be able to participate in Sendell’s popular “Sendellfie” promotion and have the chance to win a great prize.

“My main motivation for getting involved is to support what they (GLLV Chamber) are doing, energizing the Greater Latrobe area,” said Chris Mohler-King, who along with her brother, Bill, owns Sendell Motors. “I want this event to be successful, and if we can be helpful that’s great. Any kind of community involvement is good for us. I’m all for good things happening in Latrobe and hopefully this will be a great success and pump up the reputation of the town.”

Beyond providing cars for display and the “Sendellfie” promotion, Sendell Motors will also be adding concert Banana Split Celebration promotions to their vehicles on display at the Westmoreland Mall. The Chamber is also excited to announce that 1480 WCNS will be the media sponsor for the concert that evening. You’ll be hearing Clarks ads on the station throughout the month of August and WCNS will be in the stadium during the concert.

“1480 WCNS is thrilled to partner with the GLLV Chamber of Commerce in being the media sponsor for the Clarks Concert on August 29th, during the Great American Banana Split Celebration.

It is a fantastic opportunity for us to support this momentous event that will benefit not only Latrobe but the greater Westmoreland community at large,” said Brandon Kail, general manager at 1480 WCNS. The station will also be giving away concert tickets live on air! Tickets for the concert will be $15, with student tickets available at $10 with student ID. There will also be standing tickets next to the stage for $20. To make the concert a success, many volunteers are needed, including help with ticketing, parking and security. All volunteer opportunities for the celebration can be found on the event website.

“Excela Health is pleased to be a presenting sponsor for the Banana Split Celebration. Just as the banana split is synonymous with Latrobe, so too is Latrobe Hospital, and they share an equally long legacy. In fact, Strickler’s Drug Store, the birthplace of the banana split, is featured in the hospital’s History Corridor, where we celebrate the early days of pharmacy and the important role they played in the health and well-being of our community,” said Maryann Singley, Vice President of Patient Care Services, Excela Latrobe Hospital.

On the 28th (Friday), there will be a Yellow Tie Gala at the Latrobe Art Center. It’s a semi-formal event with heavy hor d’oeuvres, wine and yes, a banana split bar. Tickets for that event are $40 and are available at the Latrobe Art Center.

“This is the third year of the festival and it’s a wonderful thing for our community. I hope everybody is as excited about it as I am and support it and help it to grow,” said Latrobe mayor Rosie Wolford. “It’s a day for the community. I’m a firm believer we should remember and celebrate our history, and this is a great way to do that.”

The event has grown in its’ first two years and that growth is expected to continue in a big way this summer. “It started out as a hometown thing,” said Jim Okonak, the executive director of the McFeely-Rogers Foundation. “If Punxsutawney can do what they did with Phil, imagine what we can do. This could become an important thing for the Greater Latrobe area. It’s great for Latrobe.

We’ve gotten some great exposure from this already.”

“The re-imagined event has amazing momentum and can be a true signature event for the city of Latrobe and the region,” said GLLV president David Martin. “Some of the event’s elements will have a regional draw and that is a win-win for the entire Greater Latrobe area.”

Every Story Begins At Home.

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HOME STUDY

by Brian Mishler

Iceboxes: The Big Chill Ever visited a friend that doesn’t have a refrigerator? Didn’t think so. The allso common appliance is the unsung hero of just about every kitchen in the developed world.

But consider for a moment how we would live without it, without our banana split!

While Dr. Strickler’s invention is celebrating its 111th birthday this year,

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the invention of the refrigerator in your kitchen is only celebrating its 102nd birthday.

Inventors began dabbling with artificial refrigeration in the 1750’s, but by and large, the most common form of cooling in developed countries was the icebox. Quite literally, it was a large cabinet with a block of ice in it that kept your food cool. This is why many people still refer to refrigerators as “the icebox.”

If you’ve ever heard air conditioners – especially their cooling capacity – referred to in terms of a “ton,” that is the artificial refrigerator’s equivalent cooling capacity to a ton of ice. (12,000 BTU = 1 ton.)

Other intrepid pioneers of the era used other means. Some homes in our region have springs in their basement.

These not only provided some indoor “plumbing” but springs were housed in troughs with varying depths: the deeper end for the large milk cans, the shallower portions for buckets and tubs of butter, cream etc. The water would flow in one end, and out the other. Some springs were housed in a closet type of enclosure in the basement foundation and had shelving built over them to serve as racks for butter, the water below keeping them cool.

These early iceboxes and coolers were only good to keep mostly milk, butter, eggs and just a few items cool; they could not stay as cold as today’s refrigerator. And freezing? No way!

This is why ice cream was such a treat in the early 1900’s: only commercial ventures such as pharmacies and markets had the freezers to store it, and why Dr. Strickler liked to invent new sundaes for his customers.

While residential refrigerators were invented in 1913, it wasn’t until 1921 that they became available. In LAUREL MOUNTAIN POST

1923 Frigidaire introduced a selfcontained unit that might be recognizable today; but the style that we are accustom to didn’t come on the scene until the1940’s.

Of course in the 19-teens, before you could run out and buy a refrigerator, someone needed to get the house wired for electricity! ***** Brian Mishler is the owner of HomeStudy Inc., and a 20-year veteran home inspector. He began performing home inspection after 15 years in the construction industry convinced him that his body wasn’t made for hard labor. Brian is the former president of the Pittsburgh Regional Organization of the American Society of Home Inspectors (PRO-ASHI), and currently sits on the board of Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh, a nonprofit that rehabilitates homes for disadvantaged seniors and veterans, assisting them with prerenovation inspection and selection. Brian also teaches a variety of real estate-related classes, and has mentored others seeking to become home inspectors.

He currently resides in Latrobe, with his better half, Carol, their Boston terrier Gizmo, three cats, and three transient college students. When spare time is to be had, Brian can be found on a motorcycle, in a kayak, or hiking in the area. He can be reached at brian@homestudyinc.com.

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Fans of All Ages Sophia Koontz (2 1/2) looking cool as her brother, Colton Sanders (7), reads his favorite magazine, the Laurel Mountain Post.

“Because some words are hard to pronounce, I like the magazine because it has lots of great pictures to go with the stories,” Sanders explained. “I really liked the cover with the chickens.”

The children live in Derry with their parents, Dwight & Debbie Koontz, and brother, Evan Sanders (5).

Blood donations often decline in August as final summer vacations are planned and back-to-school activities ramp up. On average, during the summer months, about two fewer donors give blood at each Red Cross blood drive than what is needed.

Donations are needed now to help ensure blood is available for patients in need. Donors with types AB, O negative, B negative and A negative blood are especially encouraged to donate. Plasma from type AB donors can be transfused to patients of any blood type, as can type O negative blood. Type B negative and A negative blood can be transfused to Rh-positive or negative patients. These are the most in demand blood types and are in constant need.

Avonmore • August 25: 2 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Avonmore Volunteer Fire Hall, 210 Fifth Street Greensburg • August 20: 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Bovard Elementary School, 840 Bovard Luxor Road • August 26: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m., Blood Donation Center, 351 Harvey Avenue Jeannette • August 27: 12:30 p.m. - 6 p.m., Ascension Church, 621 Division St Murrysville • August 18: 1 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Mother of Sorrows Church, 4202 Old Wm Penn Hwy Vandergrift • August 31: 12 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Masonic Lodge # 617, 113 Washington Ave To make an appointment to give blood, download the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visit redcrossblood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).

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8/12/2015 Kentuck Knob’s Farm to Table Dinners Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kentuck Knob 723 Kentuck Rd., Chalk Hill, PA 15421 724.329.1901 kentuckknob.com We are delighted to announce that Kentuck Knob and Fish Hawk Acres are joining forces to offer visitors an exciting and exceptional opportunity that combines a guided tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s house on Kentuck Knob, followed by a delicious Appalachian dinner on the beautiful grounds.

8/12/2015 Let’s Travel: A Photographic Tour of South Africa Graceful Aging Wellness Center bethlen.com 3PM-4PM | $5 registration Non-Members/Silver Sneakers | Free registration Members/Silver + Fit Call 724-238-2142 to register.

Dr. Lynne Alvine, Professor Emerita in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Department of English, will share a photo narrative based on her three trips to Durban, South Africa and the surrounding area. The focus will be on 'township' life and culture. Highlights will include changes in the educational system since the dissolution of apartheid and a visit to a big game reserve.

8/12/2015 Business After Hours Presented by First Commonwealth Bank @ Grabiak Chevrolet & Performance Center (New Alexandria) GLLV.org. 724-537-2761. 5:05 - 6:35 PM Join us for a "Mid-Summer BASH" at our August "Business After Hours" signature monthly networking event, presented by First Commonwealth Bank at Grabiak Chevrolet & Performance Center!

Grabiak Chevrolet & Performance Center is THRILLED to announce that CLEM's CAFE BBQ is catering the event!! Grabiak Chevrolet is also filling the tubs with FREE ice-cold BEER, WINE COOLERS, Soda & Water, and blowing up the beach balls!

Latrobe DQ will be offering FREE ice-cream so be sure to bring the kids along - or just bring the "big kid" in you!

Bloomin' Genius Exotic Flowers & Gifts will be showcasing some of their lovely arrangements!

Nickers N Neighs Therapeutic Riding Center is our non-profit spotlight table!

DJ Dark Shark is bringing the cool SUMMERTIME music and we're going to celebrate summer!

Bring your flip-flops, sunglasses and business cards and network with the "FUN" CHAMBER! 8/12/2015 Cannonball Club Fort Ligonier 200 S. Market St., Ligonier, PA 15658 724.238.9701. fortligonier.org Every Wenesday, July 1 through August 12, Cannonball Club Members can meet at the Fort and participate in fun activiteies, such as: crafts, scavenger hunts, games, museum quests, and more! Parents or guardians may register children in advnace or at the door.

8/13/2015 3D Printer Demonstration Adams Memorial Library, Ligonier St. Latrobe adamslib.org. 2 PM. (724) 539-1972 Have you been reading about 3D printing or seeing it on TV? Come see what it's all about as librarians Tracy Trotter and Kathy Tobolewski demonstrate the library's 3D printer and describe how it turns digital designs into real-world

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objects. You'll also learn how the library can help you print your own 3D projects. Register at the circulation desk or by phone.

8/13/2015 to 8/17/2015 Summer Art Camps 2015: Camp #5 Daniel Tiger & Friends Week Latrobe Art Center 819 Ligonier St., Latrobe, PA 15650. latrobeartcenter.org It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood with Daniel Tiger and friends. Celebrate a week of creating artwork to display within Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

8/13/2015 iPad Tips & Tricks Graceful Aging Wellness Center bethlen.com 2:30PM-3:30 PM OR 5:30PM-6:30PM (choose one time slot). Call 724-238-2142 to register. $5 registration Non-Members/Silver Sneakers | Free registration Members/Silver + Fit Pick up tips and tricks to use your iPad in this interactive, group class. Please bring your own iPad and charger.

8/14/2015 2014-2015 Classic Film Series: Dirty Dancing State Theatre Center for the Arts 27 E. Main St., Uniontown, PA 15401 724.439.1360 statetheatre.info Play a crazy game at every movie sponsored by The Herald Standard for a chance to win prizes!

8/14/2015 Concerts in the Park Penn Eben Park E. High St., Ebensburg, PA 15931 814.472.8780. ebensburgmainstreet.com Live Music by Never Enough 8/14/2015 Italian Day Festa Idlewild and SoakZone Route 30 East, Ligonier, PA 15658 724.238.3666. idlewild.com Known as the “BEST FAMILY ITALIAN FESTA IN THE COUNTRY,” this festival celebrates Italian heritage and culture with great entertainment and delicious food. Visit “La Cucina”, featuring several Italian food vendors, or listen to the non-stop musical entertainment from Noon until 9:30 pm.

We end the evening with a beautiful fireworks display accompanied to the music of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Lou Monte and other Italian favorites! Discount tickets for this event are available through numerous Columbus 500 ticket outlets.

Call 724-238-3666 for more details.

8/14/2015 Night at the Fort Museum: Secrets of the Fort Fort Ligonier 200 S. Market St., Ligonier, PA 15658 724.238.9701. fortligonier.org Our museum comes alive during this entertaining, interactive evening! New this year, an overnight option! (Call for details and reservations) 8/14/2015 One Night with You Rockwood Mill Shoppes & Opera House 450 Main St., Rockwood, PA 15557 814.926.4546 rockwoodmillshoppes.com Elvis is in the Building! Celebrated Elvis Presley tribute artist Walt Sanders returns with his acclaimed show, One Night With You. Walt has refined his show and we can’t wait to see what he brings this year.

8/14/2015 The Stroll Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce 120 E. Main St., Ligonier. 724.238.4200. visitligonier.com Stroll into the fabulous ‘50s with oldies music, dancing, live entertainment, and classic cars on the Diamond.

8/14/2015 to 8/30/2015 Hay Fever Freeport Theatre Festival 2498 White Cloud Rd., Leechburg, PA 15656 724.295.1934 freeporttheatrefestival.org Presenting Nöel Coward’s Hay Fever. One of his best loved comedies, as light and crisp as a glass of chilled champagne. Directed by Marushka Steele.

8/15/2015 and 9/5/2015 Family Fun Day at Keystone State Park Derry, PA. 1-4 PM. (724) 668-2566 8/15/2015 Free Summer Concert Series Twin Lakes Park 219 Twin Lakes Park, Latrobe, PA 15650 724.830.3959. co.westmoreland.pa.us Makin’ Trax, 6:00pm - 8:15pm 8/15/2015 to 8/16/2015 Laurel Hill Bluegrass Festival Laurel Hill State Park 1454 Laurel Hill Park Rd., Somerset, PA 15501 814.445.7725. friendsoflhsp.org Music, food, crafts, re-enactor village, children’s activities - and admission is FREE! 8/15/2015 to 8/16/2015 Laurel Highlands Garlic Festival Faranda Farm 1171 Penn Ave., Hollsopple, PA 15635 814.479.7109. farandafarm.net Come Celebrate the Miracle of Garlic “The Stinking Rose” 8/15/2015 to 8/16/2015 Living History Compass Inn Museum 1382 Route 30 East, Laughlintown, PA 15655 724.238.4983 compassinn.com. Proctor’s Militia 8/17/2015 Be Prepared! The Pillowcase Project American Red Cross: Westmoreland/Armstrong Adams Memorial Library, Ligonier St in Latrobe. adamslib.org. (724) 537-4383. 6 PM The Pillowcase Project is a preparedness education program for children in grades 3 to 5, which teaches students about personal and family preparedness, local hazards, and basic coping skills. The program also teaches kids how to create their own emergency supplies kits by packing essential items in a pillowcase - a common household item-for easy transport during an emergency. Pillowcases will be provided!

8/17/2015 Taking Pictures with Instagram Graceful Aging Wellness Center bethlen.com 1PM-2PM | $5 registration Non-Members/Silver Sneakers | Free registration Members/Silver + Fit Call 724-238-2142 to register.

Instagram is a photo and video sharing and social networking application that you use on your phone. You will learn how to download Instagram, take pictures, and use filters to enhance the photo’s quality. Please bring your own smartphone and phone charger. Participants will sign a photo release form in class so that we can practice taking Instagram pictures.

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8/18/2015 Bad Poetry Night Adams Memorial Library, Ligonier St in Latrobe. adamslib.org. 724-539-1972. 6 PM Description: Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm bad at poems, and I hope you are too! AML will be hosting a night of silly, terrible, and pun-ny poems. Bring in your dramatic reading voice and your creativity - we'll provide paper, pens, and some of your favorite bad poems (if you don't want to share or write one of your own). Feel free to bring a poem written beforehand, or one from your favorite (or…least favorite) poet. All ages are welcome. Register at the circulation desk or by phone.

8/19/2015 BYOB Wine and Painting Night Graceful Aging Wellness Center bethlen.com 5PM-7PM | $35 registration (includes supplies) Call 724-238-2142 to register.

Relax, unwind, and revitalize your creativity in our serene setting. Individuals will follow step-by step instructions from Latrobe Art Center’s Director, Gabi Nastuck, to complete their piece of art. No experience is necessary to enroll in this class. Art supplies, wine glasses, cork screws, and snacks will be provided. Please bring a bottle of wine or beverage of your choice.

8/20/2015 Chamber AM Networking Breakfast @ SpringHill Suites by Marriott (Latrobe), 7:30 - 9:00 AM GLLV.org. 724-537-2671 Wake up and smell the networking at our August Chamber AM Networking Breakfast! Join us at the SpringHill Suites by Marriott (Latrobe) for a morning of hot coffee, full breakfast and constructive networking! Business cards are strongly encouraged (especially to win a door prize!) Marketing material IS permitted at tables.

(Please take unused material with you at the end of event.)

8/20/2015 Art & Jazz Nite III Irwin Business & Professional Association PO Box 222, Irwin, PA 15642 412.877.2141. irwinborough.org The 3rd in the series of art, jazz, food, drink, and fun in Irwin.

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8/21/2015 Concerts in the Park Penn Eben Park E. High St., Ebensburg, PA 15931 814.472.8780. ebensburgmainstreet.com Live Music by Ghostown Revelery

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8/21/2015 Back to School Night Motordrome Speedway 164 Motordrome Rd., Smithton, PA 15479 724.872.0203. motordrome.com Back To School Night! All students get in free with valid student ID plus NWAAS Racing.

8/21/2015 to 8/29/2015 Westmoreland Agricultural Fair Westmoreland Fairgrounds 123 Blue Ribbon Lane, Greensburg, PA 15601. westmorelandfair.com Admission price is $7 and includes parking, amusement rides, admission to all commercial and agricultural exhibits and judging exhibitions.

Early bird admission on special days (not including either Saturday) is $3 per person before 2 p.m., but does not include rides. Admission is free for children 2 and younger, and $4 ride tickets are available in the amusement area. (724) 423-5005 8/22/2015 45th Annual New Berlin Day 9 am - 4 pm. Outdoor antique, arts and crafts shows. Strolling musicians, food stands. Restored 1815 court house, now a museum, will be opened and free. Take a chance on a quilt or place a bid on the Silent Auction items. Over 150 antique dealers , artists and craftsmen. This event is held rain or shine. Come and spend the day with us.

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8/22/2015 Antiques on the Diamond Downtown Ligonier 120 E. Main St., Ligonier, PA 15658. 724.238.4200. visitligonier.com Over 50 antique dealers located around the Diamond!

8/22/2015 Slaughter & Kix The Palace Theatre 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, PA 15601 724.836.8000. thepalacetheatre.org Zodiac Productions presents Slaughter and Kix with special guest Twisted Fate Slaughter, a hard rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, has several hit singles including “Up All Night”, “Mad About You” and “Fly to the Angels”. The band remains a steady act in national tours across the U.S. and has sold more than 5 million records worldwide. Founded in Hagerstown, Maryland, Kix is a hard rock band that achieved popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hits include “Blow My Fuse”, “Cold Blood” and “Don’t Close Your Eyes”.

8/22/2015 to 9/27/2015 Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival 112 Renaissance Lane, West Newton, PA 15089 724.872.1670. pittsburghrenfest.com For our 2015 season, we take you on a magical tour through time and legend. As you wander down the village streets and pathways of the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival, ready thyself to revel with master revelers, watch artisans create original works of their ancient craft and be taken in by the tantalizing aromas of roast turkey legges, steak on a stake, fresh baked goods and much more.

8/23/2015 Free Summer Concert Series Cedar Creek Park 453 Evergreen Dr., Belle Vernon, PA 15012. co.westmoreland.pa.us

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Sunday, August 23-The Solitudes. All concerts start at 4:00pm at the Amphitheater.

8/23/2015 Pavilion Music Series-Sugar Mountain Christian W. Klay Winery 412 Fayetter Springs Rd., Chalk Hill, PA 15421 724.439.3424 Sugar Mountain is influenced by the roots of jazz, rock and roll, country, blue grass, western swing and blues. Food and wine for purchase.

Free wine tasting and admission.

8/24/2015 Folk Music Performance with Rick Bennett Graceful Aging Wellness Center bethlen.com 11AM-1PM (includes lunch). $5 registration NonMembers/Silver Sneakers | Free registration Members/Silver + Fit. Call 724-238-2142 to register.

Learn about the folk music of the 50’s and 60’s from Rick Bennett as he takes you on a musical tour through the decades. Enjoy live renditions of songs by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and more! Stick around after the show for lunch and conversation.

8/24/2015 Pond and Lake Workshop Penn State Extension. Donohoe Center. 214 Donohoe Road, Greensburg. 6 PM The Penn State Extension Water Resources Team will be offering a pond and lake workshop at the Donohoe Center Building. The workshop is free, but participants are asked to pre-register.

Topics to be covered at this workshop include: getting to know your pond or lake, fish and wildlife issues, managing nuisance plants and algae, and an introduction to harmful algal blooms will also be presented. Featured speaker for the workshop will be Penn State Extension Water Specialist, Brian Swistock. The workshop is co-sponsored by PA Headwaters, who provided a

grant through the Sinnemahoning Stakeholders Committee. The grant pays for the workshop and the placement of a microscope in the Westmoreland County Extension office strong enough to aid in the identification of algae samples.

Participants are encouraged to carefully bring samples of possible harmful algae blooms to the workshop for identification by trained Penn State Extension Water Resource Educators. To avoid contact with potential irritants from these algae samples, pond owners should wear plastic gloves when they are collecting samples. Keep the samples on ice while you are transporting the samples to the workshop. If possible, two pictures of the algae bloom, one from a distance and one within two feet of the pond surface should also be submitted.

Registration is due by August 17.

Contact: Linda Hyatt Phone: (724) 837-1402 Email: lch8@psu.edu Website: http://extension.psu/Westmoreland 8/28/2015 Concerts in the Park Penn Eben Park E. High St., Ebensburg, PA 15931 814.472.8780. ebensburgmainstreet.com Live Music by Flood City Brass 8/28/2015 A Taste of History Fort Ligonier 200 S. Market St., Ligonier, PA 15658 724.238.9701. fortligonier.org A casual evening with friends at the Fort! Enjoy music, refreshments and cooking demonstrations.

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8/28/2015 Jeanne Robertson The Palace Theatre 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, PA 15601 724.836.8000. thepalacetheatre.org Westmoreland Cultural Trust presents Jeanne Robertson Humorist Jeanne Robertson is bringing her “Fabulously Funny” tour to Greensburg. An overnight success nearly half a century in the making, Jeanne Robertson keeps audiences rolling on the floor with laughter. At 71 years young, this former Miss North Carolina stands tall at six-foot-two and has a personality, heart and sense of humor that soar just as high.

8/28/2015 NWAAS Racing Motordrome Speedway 164 Motordrome Rd., Smithton, PA 15479 724.872.0203. motordrome.com Motordrome Speedway is a 1/2 mile paved, asphalt track located in Smithton, PA. Motordrome is the only NASCAR Sanctioned Speedway in Southwestern, PA and has over 40 years of a rich, storied HISTORY and tradition. Motordrome runs every Friday Night from late April through early September and is conveniently located directly off of the highly trafficked I-70 just south of Pittsburgh.

8/28/2015 to 8/30/2015 Seven Springs Wine Festival Seven Springs Mountain Resort 777 Waterwheel Dr., Seven Springs, PA. 800.452.2223. 7springs.com The Seven Springs Wine Festival, August 28 through 30, 2015, showcases wineries from all over Pennsylvania offering a tantalizing experience for anyone who loves wine. The festival features complimentary wine sampling from up to 30 wineries, daily seminars, live entertainment, a variety of crafts, and musical entertainment.

8/28/2015 Yellow Tie Gala - 2015 Latrobe Art Center. Ligonier St in Latrobe. (724) 5377011. latrobeartcenter.org. 6:30 PM The Yellow-Tie Gala will include catering by Sun Dawg Café, dessert by Happy Camper Cakes and a do-it-yourself banana split station provided

by Latrobe Dairy Quieen. There will be an Open Bar including wine, beer, a banana split cocktail, soft drinks, coffee, tea & water.

The open-air dining room & dance floor will feature musical entertainment by Neon Swing Xperience with tables & chairs and of course … dancing in the street!

Dress code is semi-formal … wear your yellow!

Fee is $40 for LAC members and $50 for nonmembers. RSVP by August 25, 2015. Proceeds benefit Latrobe Art Center.

8/28/2015 to 8/30/2015 The Valley Dairy Great American Banana Split Celebration presented by Excela Health Downtown Latrobe Ligonier St., Latrobe, PA 15650 724.537.2671. bananasplitfest.com Although others have claimed they are the home of the banana split, evidence shows that Latrobe is the top banana! For years the debate raged on, until historians came to the conclusion that the City of Latrobe was where the Banana Split was invented!

8/29/2015 20th Annual Twilight Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater 1491 Mill Run Rd., Mill Run, PA 15464 724.329.8501. fallingwater.org Experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as the sun sets over the ridges of the Laurel Highlands during the 19th Annual Twilight Tour and Concert on Saturday, Aug. 29.

8/29/2015 Comedian Brian Regan The Palace Theatre 21 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, PA 15601 724.836.8000. thepalacetheatre.org Regan was seen in the Chris Rock movie, Top Five, and he was nominated for a 2014 American

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8/29/2015 Hammer In Blacksmith Day Compass Inn Museum 1382 Route 30 East, Laughlintown, PA 15655 724.238.6818. compassinn.com. Call for more information.

8/29/2015 Bookmark Station and Story Time with Write Local www.writelocal.org Great American Banana Split Festival, Latrobe, PA Kids, enjoy literary crafts with Write Local at the Great American Banana Split Festival. Find us at the Medicine Shoppe Kids' Corner in downtown Latrobe for our Design Your Own Banana Bookmark station and Why the Banana Split story time.

Free and open to the public.

8/29/2015 Rave on-The Buddy Holly Tribute The Arcadia Theater 1418 Graham Ave., Windber, PA 15963 814.467.9070. arcadiatheater.net RAVE ON is a band that features the music of Buddy Holly & Roy Orbison. Don’t miss you chance to relive memories and sing along to hits like “That’ll Be The Day” “Peggy Sue” “Pretty Woman” “Only The Lonely” along with other classic from early Rock and Roll.

8/30/2015 Free Summer Concert Series Twin Lakes Park 219 Twin Lakes Park, Latrobe, PA 15650 724.830.3959. co.westmoreland.pa.us Eric Barchiesi Trio, 4:00pm - 6:00pm 8/31/2015 Adult Story Time Adams Memorial Library, Ligonier St in Latrobe adamslib.org. 724-539-1972. 6 PM Do you miss story time at the library, but happen to be over the age of 18? Well fret no more! This month we'll focus on creepy and suspenseful stories. "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe will be read aloud. All ages are welcome to listen in. Register at the circulation desk or by phone.

9/4/2015 to 9/7/2015 Annual Pennsylvania Arts & Crafts Labor Day Festival Westmoreland Fairgrounds 123 Blue Ribbon Lane, Greensburg, PA 15601 724.863.4577 familyfestivals.com Come and celebrate the end of summer! With more than 220 exhibits situated on the Westmoreland Fairgrounds in rural Greensburg, PA, there is truly ‘something for everyone!’

9/4/2015 Champions Night with Labor Day Fireworks Motordrome Speedway 164 Motordrome Rd., Smithton, PA 15479 724.872.0203. motordrome.com Motordrome Speedway is a 1/2 mile paved, asphalt track located in Smithton, PA. Motordrome is the only NASCAR Sanctioned Speedway in Southwestern, PA and has over 40 years of a rich, storied HISTORY and tradition. Motordrome runs every Friday Night from late April through early September and is conveniently located directly off of the highly trafficked I-70 just south of Pittsburgh.

9/5/2015 The Freedom Band Stone Villa Wine Cellars 1085 Clay Pike Rd., Acme, PA 15610 724.423.5604. stonevilla.com Saturdays 1pm-5pm, Sundays 12:30pm-4:30pm 9/6/2015 Backstreets Unplugged Stone Villa Wine Cellars 1085 Clay Pike Rd., Acme, PA 15610 724.423.5604. stonevilla.com Saturdays 1pm-5pm, Sundays 12:30pm-4:30pm

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Summer Events!

Latrobe Farmer’s Market – TUESDAYS Latrobe Community Revitalization Program Legion Keener Park, Latrobe, PA 15650 724.805.0112. latroberevitalization.org Noon to 4 pm. (Thru October 21) Keystone Park Farmer’s Market – TUESDAYS 1150 Keystone Park Rd., Derry, PA 15627. dcnr.pa.gov. 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. Vendors are welcome, cost to set up is $10 per table. (Thru September 27) Central Westmoreland Farmers Markets Greensburg, PA. TUESDAY afternoons, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., 516 Donahoe Road (parking lot by the Nature Trail and Red Barn). SATURDAY mornings, 9 a.m. to 12 noon, Lynch Field Parking, Rt. 119 N. by the Kirk S. Nevin Ice Arena (address: 520 New Alexandria Road.)

Lincoln HighwaySupperMarket – WEDNESDAYS Lincoln Highway Experience 3435 Route 30 East, Latrobe, PA 15650 724.879.4241. 5-8 pm lincolnhighwaysuppermarket.org. (Thru August.)

Murrysville Farmers Market – THURSDAYS Murrysville Volunteer Fire Company, 3235 Sardis Road, Murrysville, PA 15668. 3-7 pm Summer Sounds – FRIDAYS Concerts are held in the Robertshaw Amphitheater at St. Clair Park located at the intersection of N. Maple Avenue and E. Otterman Street in the City of Greensburg. 7 pm. summersounds.com Johnstown Farmers Market The Downtown Johnstown Farmer's Market runs every FRIDAY from 9 am until 2 pm at Central Park on Main and Franklin Streets, and Gazebo Place in Downtown Johnstown. The West End Farmer's Market runs every TUESDAY from 3 until 6 pm Senior Life Parking Lot on Broad Street, Route 56 in Cambria City. (Thru October) Ligonier Country Market – SATURDAYS Corner of West Main St. & Springer Rd., Ligonier, PA 15658. ligoniercountrymarket.com Located on the Loyalhanna Watershed Farm near the intersection of West Main Street and U.S. Route 30 Ligonier, PA. 8 am to noon (Thru October 3) Somerset County Farmer’s Market – SATURDAYS 800 Georgian Place Dr., Somerset, PA 15501 somersetcountyfarmersmarket.com 9 am to 1 pm. (Thru November 21) 4th Street Market – SATURDAYS Irwin Business & Professional Association irwinborough.org. 4th & Main, under the arch Vendors bring you the freshest produce this side of the farm, along with unique food and treats only found in Irwin.

Free Summer Concert Series – SATURDAYS/ SUNDAYS Twin Lakes Park and Cedar Creek Parks.

724.830.3959. co.westmoreland.pa.us. Cedar Creek, Sundays at 4 pm in outdoor amphitheater. Twin Lakes, Expansion Area amphitheater, as scheduled.

66th Annual Summer Band Concerts – SUNDAYS Live music on the Ligonier Bandstand every Sunday evening at 7 p.m. In case of bad weather, the concert is moved indoors into the Town Hall auditorium. (Thru August 30). visitligonier.com

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9/6/2015 Pop the Cork on the Road Chef Dato’s Table 645 State Route 217, Latrobe, PA 15650 724.537.7011. latrobeartcenter.org 9/7/2015 Happy Labor Day! Greendance-The Winery at Sand Hill 306 Deerfield Rd., Mount Pleasant, PA. greendancewinery.com Join us in the Garden as Shirley of Gashouse Annie performs!

9/7/2015 US Air Force Band-Airmen of Note Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center 450 Schoolhouse Rd., Johnstown, PA 15904 814.269.7200 upjarts.org The Airmen of Note is the premier jazz ensemble of the United States Air Force. Stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., it is one of six musical ensembles that comprise The U.S. Air Force Band. Created in 1950 to con-tinue the tradition of Major Glenn Miller’s Army Air Corps dance band, the current band consists of 18 active duty Airmen musicians including one vocalist.

9/9/2015 The First Step to Small Business Success St. V incent College, 6-8 PM. stvincent.edu/sbdc The First Step is an informal workshop that provides an overview of starting a business. It is designed to answer your business start-up questions and to provide information and direction to anyone considering a business venture. The course covers: entrepreneurship, business marketing and management plan development, incorporating a legal structure, registering a company, and exploring financing options. $20. sbdc@stvincent.edu. 724-537-4572 9/9/2015 to 9/13/2015 Farmers & Threshermens Jubilee 3054 Kingwood Rd., Rockwood, PA 15557 814.926.3142. ncrvfc.com The Farmers and Threshermens Jubilee is a country festival where antique machinery takes center stage. For over 60 years, this festival has showcased the early machines of agricultural life – from ponderous steam engines and early gasoline tractors to horse- and dog-powered machines! During the Jubilee there are demon-

strations, parades and contests featuring these amazing antiques.

9/11/2015 2015 Pooches in the Pool!

Latrobe-GLSD & Recreation, (724) 537-4331. 6 PM www.latroberecreation.org Yes, it's your pooch's turn to take a dip! Treats will be provided!

Fee: $5 will admit one dog and one master; $2 for additional masters. Registration deadline: 8/14 Location: Rogers-McFeely Memorial Pool, Latrobe 9/11/2015 31st Annual Art Auction Benefit Loyalhanna Watershed Assoication 110 Andi Lane, Ligonier, PA 15658. loyalhannawatershed.org LWA’s largest fundraiser, the 31st Annual Art Auction Benefit showcases original artwork from artists across the county in a Silent Auction. Live music, an open bar and tapas menu create a festive, fun event. The event is held at the Barn at Ligonier Valley. For more information visit loyalhannawatershed.org or contact the office.

9/11/2015 to 9/13/2015 Mountain Craft Days Somerset Historical Center 10649 Somerset Pike, Somerset, PA 15501 814.445.6077 somersethistoricalcenter.org Over 125 craft artisans, musicians, and entertainers will be on hand to interpret the rich frontier heritage of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Mountain Craft Days was founded in 1970 to preserve and interpret the wonderful historic craft and trades heritage of Somerset County, and with over 100 booths and a dozen outdoor performance sites located within walking distance of each other in gentle meadows and along wooded paths. A wonderful mix of historical demonstrations, music, and food is available for visitors to enjoy. General admission is $7.00 for adults; children 6-17 are $4.00, and children under 5 are free of charge. The event is held rain or shine.

9/12/2015 Back in Time Stone Villa Wine Cellars 1085 Clay Pike Rd., Acme, PA 15610 724.423.5604. stonevilla.com Saturdays 1pm-5pm, Sundays 12:30pm-4:30pm 9/12/2015 to 9/13/2015 “Fall of the Leaf” Weekend Idlewild and SoakZone Route 30 East, Ligonier, PA 15658. idlewild.com Join us for a weekend of fall splendor, filled with fabulous food, music, crafts, and good times! *Please note: SoakZone does not open for “Fall of the Leaf ” Weekend.

Murrysville Heritage Festival Last year the Sampson/Clark Heritage Village welcomed over 500 visitors of all ages eager to engage in daily life activities of 18th-19th century Murrysville. Once again the Murrysville Historical Preservation Society with the support of the Export Historical Committee will have period re-enactors, skilled artisans, merchants, traders, farm animals and townsfolk of all ages. There will be childrens crafts, baking bread, roasting potatoes, butter making, food and much much more. Heritage Village festivities are scheduled 10:00 to 5:00 on Saturday, September 12th. Access is at the red light off route-22 to Triangle Lane (between Rick’s and Cozy Inn).

ADMISSION AND PARKING TO THE HISTORIC VILLAGE IS FREE.

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9/12/2015 Connellsville Mum Festival Crawford Ave., Connellsville, PA 15425 724.320.6392 downtownconnellsville.org This one day festival is held in Downtown Connellsville along Crawford Avenue. Arts & craft and food vendors line the streets. Musical entertainment is provided throughout the day.

9/12/2015 Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Christian W. Klay Winery 412 Fayette Springs Rd., Chalk Hill, PA 15421 724.439.3424. cwklaywinery.com Wine tasting, buffet and a mystery to solve! This is a great event for a group of friends. $42/person.

9/12/2015 Murrysville Heritage Festival Sampson Toll House 4100 Sardis Rd., Murrysville, PA 15668. murrysvillehistory.org We will have reenactors, festival crafts for kids and adults, demonstrators, food and much more.

There will also be a colonial wedding where 2 of our reenactors are renewing their vows in colonial style. The event is held at The Sampson/Clark Toll House and more info and directions are available on our website. The event is FREE.

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9/12/2015 Sandyvale Wine Festival Sandyvale Memorial Gardens 80 Hickory St., Johnstown, PA 15902. sandyvalewinefest.com Join us at the Sandyvale Memorial Gardens for wine, live music, great food from select caterers and local cheese producers. Entertainment will include hot air balloon rides, local artists, carriage rides, magician, palm reader, strolling musicians and much more. This sustainable event will raise money for continuing improvements and to help fund the garden’s general maintenance costs.

9/12/2015 - 9/13/2015 Hempfield Community Days www.hempfieldcommunitydays.com Hempfield Park, Rt. 66 N., Greensburg The Community Days will feature Kidz Zone activities, entertainment, games of chance, crafts, car show, fireworks, food booths and much more.

Free admission. Please visit our website for full schedule of events.

9/12/2015 to 9/13/2015 Smicksburg Apple Festival Smickburg Specialty Shops 105 E. Kittanning St., Smicksburg, PA 16256 814.257.0192. smicksburg.net The apples are ripe for pickin’ and that we did … Come enjoy the festivities and entertainment this fine weekend.

9/15/2015 to 9/27/2015 The Hound of the Baskervilles Mountain Playhouse 7690 Somerset Pike, Jennerstown, PA 15547 814.629.9201 mountainplayhouse.org The suspense and terror of a Sherlock Holmes’ mystery is fused with the absurd humor of a Monty Python farce in this spine-chilling comedic thriller, placed in a modern setting.

Saturdays 1pm-5pm, Sundays 12:30pm-4:30pm 9/19/2015 to 9/20/2015 Railroad Days Festival - 2015, Derry Borough www.derryrailroaddays.com The Railroad Days Parade will begin at 10 a.m.

Saturday with the festival opening at the conclusion of the parade. There will be musical entertainment, an art show, food, crafts, and information booths both Saturday and Sunday.

9/17/2015 Hobo Picnic Derry Borough, Near the RR Museum Caboose 5:30 PM. www.derryborough.org The public is invited to attend a dinner of hobo stew, a cookie and a beverage, with entertainment provided. Attendees should bring a chair, cup and spoon and dress in railroad attire.

Donations are accepted and appreciated.

9/19/2015 to 9/20/2015 Flax Scutching Festival www.flaxscutching.org. Route 711, Stahlstown There will be live entertainment, crafts, vendors, hayrides, food, antique farm equipment, live music, civil war encampmentwell other events. The festival features descendants of Ligonier Valley pioneers recreating the art of making linen from the flax plant. 9 AM each day.

9/19/2015 Free Summer Concert Series Twin Lakes Park 219 Twin Lakes Rd., Latrobe, PA 15650 724.830.3959. co.westmorland.pa.us Bands and times to be determined

9/20/2015 Orienteering Keystone State Park 1150 Keystone Park Rd., Derry, PA 15627. dcnr.pa.gov ALL PARTICIPANTS must wear appropriate clothing (shoes that cover the feet and long pants). There are ticks and other biting insects.

Using insect repellant is an exceptionally good idea. It is spring, so it is likely to be somewhat wet or muddy. Beginner Instruction: There will be

9/19/2015 The Vandells Stone Villa Wine Cellars 1085 Clay Pike Rd., Acme, PA 15610 724.423.5604. stonevilla.com

9/12/2015 Avonmore Harvest Jubilee Pasternak Recreational Area 501 Indiana Ave., Avonmore, PA 15618 724.697.4910 The Avonmore Harvest Jubilee is celebrating the anniversary of the first event in 1964. It will feature live entertainment, festival food, Saturday parade, car/motorcycle cruise, pony rides, and fireworks, kids stage with karaoke, arts and crafts, games, and a duck race on the Kiskiminetas River.

9/13/2015 Phil & Roxie Trio Stone Villa Wine Cellars 1085 Clay Pike Rd., Acme, PA 15610 724.423.5604. stonevilla.com Saturdays 1pm-5pm, Sundays 12:30pm-4:30pm 9/13/2015 Lobster Clambake Christian W. Klay Winery 412 Fayette Springs Rd., Chalk Hill, PA 15421 cwklaywinery.com The winery brings this New England tradition to the Laurel Highlands! Succulent seafood, wine tasting, beach music and more!

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Ligonier Boro – MLS # 1055774 This great commercial building used to be the Ligonier Library. Now it’s been upgraded and wired for phones and internet. It currently houses 30 engineers. The renovated lighting brightens each workspace, for a friendly productive environment. Priced at $350,000

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WEEKEND MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 1:00 PM on the 3rd Floor August 8 & 9, 2015 1976 production of “THE SHOOTIST” Starring Jimmy Stewart, Lauren Bacall, and John Wayne.

Saturday, August 8, - 1 to 4 PM Sunday, August 9, - 1 to 4 PM August 15 & 16, 2015 1977 production of “AIRPORT '77” Starring Jimmy Stewart, Olivia deHavilland, and George Kennedy.

August 22 & 23, 2015 1978 production of “THE MAGIC OF LASSIE” Starring Jimmy Stewart, Mickey Rooney, and Pernell Roberts.

Saturday, August 22, - 1 to 4 PM Sunday, August 23, - 1 to 4 PM August 29 & 30, 2015 August 31, marks the 60th Anniversary of the release of: 1955 production of “THE MAN FROM LARAMIE” Starring Jimmy Stewart, Cathy O'Donnell, and Arthur Kennedy.

Saturday, August 29, - 1 to 4 PM Sunday, August 30, - 1 to 4 PM Last entry in the Museum is 3:30 PM.

HARVEY AWARD 2015 Honoree JIM CAVIEZEL August 29 at 6 PM Chestnut Ridge Resort $150.00 Per person which includes cocktail reception (cash bar) complete dual entrée dinner, dessert, coffee, etc. and Program.

Your support ensures the future of our museum and educational programs at the Jimmy Stewart Museum, and great events like the 2015 Harvey Award. Please join us for our annual fundraising event for an evening of great conviviality, great food and very special memories. Call the Jimmy Stewart Museum at 724-349-6112 with your credit card to order or log on to our website.

835 Philadelphia St. in Indiana, PA 724-349-6112 • www.jimmy.org

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two sessions, one starting at 11 am, the other starting at 1 pm. In each session, there will be instructions on map reading, simple use of the compass (orienting the map) and how an orienteering course works. If time allows, there may be additional instruction topics. There will also be an exercise in which participants can put what they have learned into practice. Each session will last approximately 90 minutes. Compasses will be loaned to those who do not have them. Advanced Exercise: There will be four types of exercise to choose from. The courses are kept short to allow participants to do more than one exercise: starting an exercise may be done between 11 am - 2:30 pm.

9/20/2015 John Kerr Stone Villa Wine Cellars 1085 Clay Pike Rd., Acme, PA 15610 724.423.5604. stonevilla.com Saturdays 1pm-5pm, Sundays 12:30pm-4:30pm 9/25/2015 to 9/27/2015 Mt. Pleasant Glass & Ethnic Festival Downtown Area, Mount Pleasant. Daily, 11 AM www.mtpleasantglassandethnicfestival.com This three-day event begins on Friday and continues Saturday and Sunday with glass blowing demonstrations, a parade, rides, games, bingo, food booths and live entertainment.

9/26/2015 Ligonier Highland Games Idlewild Park, Ligonier. 9 AM www.ligonierhighlandgames.org Gates will open at 8 a.m. for the Ligonier Highland Games at Idlewild and Soak Zone.

Games begin at 9 a.m. Event will feature dance competition, pipe bands, Scottish food, dog exhibit, display of Celtic wares and genealogical information.

Admission is $20, or $18 for those 55 and older, and $10 for those 13 to 17; younger children enter free.

9/26/2015 Walk 93 Flight 93 Memorial, Route 30 West of Stoystown/ Somerset County. 9 AM flight93friends.org/programs-events/ Friends of Flight 93 National Monument and Leadership Somerset County will host Walk 93.

The 2.8-mile noncompetitive walk will benefit the building and maitenance of memorial site trails.

The visitor center will open at 7 a.m. Fee of $25 for ages 18 and older, or $12 for ages 13-17, includes a T-shirt. Participation is free to younger children; smaller T-shirts will be sold.

Save the Date ...

10/3/2015 3rd Annual Hometown Hero Walk – Murrysville Murrysville Recreation Department/PA Hero Walk Proceeds from the walk will benefit Pennsylvania wounded and disabled veterans and their families. The walk will begin at the Franklin Regional School District and end at Murrysville Community Park’s veterans’ memorial for a short program followed by a picnic for all participants.

Individual and team walkers are needed for the walk, which is the main fundraiser for the event.

Walkers who raise at least $20.00 in sponsorships will receive a PA Hero Walk t-shirt. This event can include participants of all ages! Food and games will be available at the park so come out and support our veterans! For more information and to register for the walk, please visit the PA Hero Walk website at www.paherowalk.com.

The History of Sparky the Sparkle: Mount Pleasant Glass and Ethnic Festival Mascot During the early 1900s, glass manufacturing was prominent in the friendly town of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. A young immigrant glass artist made Mount Pleasant his home while working for a small glass factory. He worked diligently day after day, hour after hour, creating crystal works of art with a delicate hand and unique precision. He was a gifted craftsman, capable of shaping glass into almost anything imaginable.

This young artisan was asked by the company's founder to create unique crystal pieces to give to the young men from Mount Pleasant who were going off to war. He wanted to give them a small piece of their hometown for when they got homesick.

Laboring late into the night, the glassmaker got an idea. Working carefully with the molten glass, he blew into the pipe and swung it back and forth while varying the temperature in order to create the desired shape. He cut designs into the glass with detailed artistry, then polished it for hours. The glass smith created an object that had a beautiful and flawless sparkle. When the young immigrant saw his reflection in the sparkle, he dreamed of a promising future in the small town of Mount Pleasant. Calling it Sparky, his heart felt proud.

The soldiers carried Sparky across the ocean. The lovingly crafted glass brought them hope and light in the dark of war. As the soldiers traveled through the war-torn regions, they gave Sparky away to others who needed a little hope in their lives.

Many years later he retired, no longer able to do the work he loved. When the elderly artisan was cleaning his work area, he found a shining, sparkling glass piece just like the ones he remembered making for the young soldiers. His heart filled with pride as he gazed upon the last Sparky.

Throughout the years, this sparkle of glass became a symbol of hope and inspiration for Mount Pleasant. The Glass and Ethnic Festival was formed to celebrate the ethnic diversity and glass heritage of the community, and took on the sparkle as a symbol of a hope-filled vision. The vision became reality through Sparky.

Sparky the Sparkle continues to bring hope and joy to all of Mount Pleasant. During the Glass and Ethnic Festival, people from all over celebrate a sparkling fall spectacular and homecoming tradition.

If you would like to have Sparky at your next event, please call Jeff at 724.542.4711.

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by Nancy Clark

When green is all there is to be, it could make you wonder why But why wonder, why wonder? I am green and it'll do fine It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be – Kermit the Frog (lyrics by Joe Rapposo)

One Size Fits All? Kermit, the Frog, perceives himself as a misfit in his #1 hit song about “bein’ green.” He laments that his verdant hue separates him from “the real world,” and he struggles to “fit in” – even among his pink, orange, blue and purple-skinned best friends. The green frog just wants to be recognized and accepted as an “average guy.”

NEWS FLASH, Kermit: in the average salad bowl of life, sometimes you’re the tomato, and sometimes you’re the peel.

Millions of us go through life with a unique physical characteristic that falls short of making the “average” charts. Whether our anomalous uniqueness is rooted in genetics, happenstance, or life choices, we are challenged to not only find a way to fit “in” but also a graceful way to “fit into.”

This is especially true when it comes to public seating.

Theater auditoriums are notorious for “girth discrimination.” Not all ticket-holders are fashion-runway thin and slight of derrière. Those of us with extra gluteal padding find comfortable seating to be as rare as hens’ teeth.

Recently, hubby and I were among a sea of student-supporters packed like sardines in a high school auditorium, a space short on air conditioning but long on seating challenge. The temperature rose from uncomfortable to unbearable as a flash mob wave of gyrating patrons wiggled and squiggled to settle adult “booties” into third grade-sized seats. Sitting with right hand clutching left shoulder and vice versa (so as not to invade an elbowneighbor’s private space), one hour into the program felt like three hours in a straightjacket. (Don’t ask.)

Only Kermit slithered easily into a seat before his pollywog took to the stage.

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Major airlines recently announced plans to install more seating in the fuselage of their flying machines.

HELLO! Is anyone out there aware that even the average-sized adult is currently in need of a shoe horn to get into a seat?

Amusement park marketers spend bucco bucks to promote family fun on a plethora of ride cars outfitted with a one-size-fits-all safety bar. The thrill loses its appeal for above-average-size riders, however, when the safety bar is totally disobliging to body girth. To reduce embarrassment and trauma at the front of the ride line, I propose the signage posted at the “Line Forms Here” spot that advises who can and cannot ride the ride include the following caveat: “Rider must have less than 22 inch waist and 32 inch hip to board this ride” Being born six degrees too short or too tall ain’t a walk in the park, either. Rod, a tall, cool drink of water at six-foot, seven-inches, requires a 44-inch inseam to cover his “stilts.”

Rod never sits in a commuter window seat for fear his knees will the stab the backside of the passenger in front of him. Nor will he ever own a low, lean driving machine – at least not until the law permits driving with one’s head poking through a moon roof.

My octogenarian friend rarely finds suitable apparel for her petite frame in the Ladies clothing Department. At four-foot-nine and weighing in at 74 pounds, Marjorie is relegated to shopping in “Young Girls,” where appropriate styles are grossly limited.

Do statisticians creating formulas to determine the ubiquitous “average body” size ever think to include our “soles?” Charlie knows what it is to be off the charts in the foot department.

It ain’t easy finding shoes to fit his size 13B “dogs.”

As for me: All I want for Christmas are longer legs and extra phalanges at the end of my fingertips.

Then I could reach the last box of baking soda at the back of a top grocery shelf or the last gallon of milk on the highest rack in the dairy case.

And if I could have a five-spot for every third grader seat my derrière has assaulted through the years, I could purchase my own auditorium armchair, plant it next to Kermit’s and put a butt-end to at least one of my fitting “into” issues.

By the end of his song, Kermit no longer laments “bein’ green.” In fact, he’s proud to be a lettuce leaf in the salad bowl of life. And his message to us is that we do the best we can with who we are, where we are and with what we have; respect the issues and needs of others, and find contentment in how we “fit in” and fit “into.”

Most importantly, he tells us to get comfortable in the skin we’re in, no matter how green it is.

Wise frog, that one. ***** Nancy Clark and her husband, Tom, rejoice in 50 years of marriage, three children, three grandchildren, and on great-grandchild. She dabbles in freelance and memoir writing when she isn’t baking, knitting, reading, or building a jigsaw puzzle.

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