Newsletter February 12, 2006

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                       Monday, February 13, 2006
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     Great Clips Grand Opening at The Shops, Pittsburgh Mills where
     a  haircut  and blow-dry is only $4.99 with coupon.  Get  your
     coupon in Alle-Kiski Today Magazine in this months magazine.
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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
     
       => TODAY IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
           * AK Sports: The End Is Near: In The Playoffs
           * Gloria's Kitchen: Delicious Cabbage Rolls
           * Our Local Heritage: Monumental Efforts
       => WEATHER FORECAST
           * This Weeks Forecast
       => TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIEDS
           * Quality Childcare
           * House for rent
           * Want To Buy House
       => OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * The Pennsylvania Canal in AK Valley
       => FEATURED WEB SITE OF THE DAY
           * "Dirty Dozen" Tax Scams
       => COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
           * Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
       => TODAY’S HEALTH WEB SITES
           * Mayo Clinic: Building a Better Diet
           * National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
       => COOL TEEN SITES
           * Sparknotes
       => TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
            * The Fall of Enron
            * International Quilt Study Center
            * The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
           
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         WATCH LATEST LOCAL SPORTS ON COMCAST VIDEO-ON-DEMAND
     Alle-Kiski  Today sports and features are now  on  your  local
     Comcast  television Video-On-Demand channel. Watch the  latest
     stories  by  going  to Comcast Video-On-Demand,  select  “Your
     Town”, then select “Local Sports” then “Comcast Wrestling”
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     TODAY IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com
     
     AK Sports: The End Is Near: In The Playoffs
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/2621
     
     For  many  area  wrestlers, February  will  be  a  fast-paced,
     frenzied month. Burrell, Highlands, Kiski and Plum are all  in
     post-season  play,  and individual wrestlers  from  these  and
     other  schools such as Fox Chapel, Deer Lakes, Kittanning  and
     Valley will be involved in playoff action as well.
     
     Gloria's Kitchen: Delicious Cabbage Rolls
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/2604
     
     Sometimes I like to prepare larger dishes while I am preparing
     other  meals  so I can freeze some for later or have  on  hand
     when  company drops in. This meal is one of those and  doesn’t
     take a lot of time to prepare.
     
     Our Local Heritage: Monumental Efforts
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/2627
     
     Allegheny  Valley Cemetery in Lawrenceville A grave  situation
     is  occurring in O'Hara Township. And if your family  is  from
     one  of  the  Allegheny  River  communities  from  Harmar   to
     Millvale,  there may come a day that you'll want to  find  out
     what  Norman  Meinert already knows. It's a virtual  plot  you
     might not expect.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     This week’s weather:
     
     Monday: Cloudy with isolated snow showers. Highs in the  upper
     20s.  West  winds  10 to 15 mph. Chance of  snow  20  percent.
     Monday  Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. Southwest
     winds 10 to 15 mph.
     Tuesday:  Partly  cloudy. Highs in the  upper  30s.  Southwest
     winds  10 to 15 mph. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around
     30. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
     Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. Lows in  the
     mid  30s.  Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Highs in the  upper
     40s. Lows in the mid 30s.
     Thursday...Mostly  cloudy with a 40  percent  chance  of  rain
     showers. Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the mid 30s. Thursday
     Night: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers.
     Highs in the lower 50s. Lows in the mid 30s.
     Friday:  Mostly  cloudy  with a  40  percent  chance  of  rain
     showers. Highs in the lower 40s.
     Friday  Night: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of  snow
     showers. Lows in the lower 20s.
     Saturday:  Mostly  cloudy with a 50  percent  chance  of  snow
     showers. Highs in the lower 30s.
     
            Alle-Kiski Today weather is a direct feed from
               The Pittsburgh National Weather Service.
              Click Above for your latest weather report.
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     Your  kid’s  ages  2  to 5 will love Kiddies’  Korner  Nursery
     School  at  401a  First Street in Apollo.  Call  724-478-1420.
     Certified teachers for private preschool. Classes available.
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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIEDS
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/
     
     Quality Childcare
     Quality childcare in my Kepple Hill home or your home. Mother
     of  two  grown  children, daycare experience, nursery  church
     teacher,   clearances.  I  can  provide   meals,   structured
     activities  and  loving  supervision  for  your  child.   Kim
     Klingensmith Phone: 724--567-7014
     
     House for rent
     Newly  remodeled 2-bedroom house in Vandergrift $450.a  month
     plus   security   deposit,   Includes   garbage.   Call   for
     appointment. 724-727-2092 Elaine Pisone
     
     WANT TO BUY HOUSE
     Looking to buy a house in Salina, Avonmore, Apollo area.  Can
     be  Duplex or a single family house in the price range of the
     20's  or less. Give me a call at 724-309-4363 or email me  at
     wolfelipp@pa.net. Michele Wolfe
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/8
     
     A  FAR  FLOAT: The Pennsylvania Canal, portions of which  went
     through  the  AK Valley, was 64 miles long, from Johnstown  to
     the  mouth of the Kiski River on the Allegheny, near Freeport.
     That  did not include "slackwaters" areas that were dammed  up
     where the canal boats actually went down the river rather than
     in  a  canal bed. Read more interesting history at  Our  Local
     Heritage  at  above site. Click on “Archives” for  a  list  of
     history tidbits.
     
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     FEATURED WEB SITE OF THE DAY
     
     "Dirty Dozen" Tax Scams
     http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=154293,00.html
     
     The  Internal Revenue Service released its latest annual tally
     of  some  of  the most notorious tax scams. Dubbed the  "Dirty
     Dozen,"   the  list  includes  two  new  schemes   since   its
     publication last year. The new tricks,  "zero wages" and "form
     843  tax  abatement," comprise scams in which filers  use  IRS
     forms  to  claim  that  their  tax  bills  have  been  wrongly
     inflated.
     
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     Is  your  computer is running slow, getting a lot of "pop  up"
     advertisements,  more and more Spam e-mails or  blue  windows?
     Your computer may be infected with malicious spy software.  It
     is  a  major catastrophic problem today. Call HighVision right
     away and we will get all those spies out of your computer  and
     make it safe for you again. Call 724-567-2302 today.
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     COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
     
     Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
     http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=377
     
     This  lesson  plan focuses on helpful animal  tales  and  folk
     tales  with  human  and  animal  cooperation.  Provides  three
     lessons  (for grades 3-5) with suggested readings. Includes  a
     link  to a related lesson plan, "Folklore and Ecology: Animals
     and Humans in Conflict and Cooperation."
     
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     TODAY’S HEALTH WEB SITES
     
     Mayo Clinic: Building a Better Diet
     http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-diet/NU00190
     
     Perhaps  you've noticed that the days of the four  basic  food
     groups  - dairy, meat and protein, fruits and vegetables,  and
     breads  and  cereals  -  are long gone. Today,  healthy-eating
     plans  -  including  the U.S. Department of  Agriculture's  My
     Pyramid  -encompass a far wider range of options. Such options
     include legumes, whole grains, seeds and nuts, fish, and  even
     plant  oils,  such  as  olive oil. Add in  ethnic,  religious,
     cultural  and personal preferences, and you have more  options
     than  ever  when  planning healthy meals and  snacks.  Healthy
     eating  can  be  presented in a variety of plans,  but  eating
     healthfully  doesn't have to be complicated. This Mayo  Clinic
     site  provides  some basic principles common to  all  healthy-
     eating plans to help you stay on the path to good health.
     
     National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [pdf,  Real
     Player]
     http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/
     
     The Department of Veterans Affairs created the National Center
     for  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1989  “to  address  the
     needs  of veterans with military-related PTSD”. Over the  past
     sixteen  years, the Center has created a cornucopia of helpful
     resources  on  this subject, including fact  sheets,  research
     papers,  and  handbooks. Many of these items are available  on
     this  site,  and will be helpful to health care  professionals
     and  those  who might have a friend or loved one  living  with
     PTSD.
     
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     COOL TEEN and EDUCATIONAL SITES
     
     Sparknotes
     http://www.sparknotes.com/
     
     Become  a  free  member  and  use  Sparknotes  to  check  plot
     summaries   or  criticisms  of  a  wide  variety  of   classic
     literature titles.
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
     
     The Fall of Enron [pdf]
     http://www.chron.com/news/specials/enron/
     
     The Houston Chronicle has taken on this topic by creating this
     rather comprehensive and intelligent look at the fall of  this
     once-mighty corporation. On the site, visitors can learn about
     the  events  leading  up to the company’s downfall  through  a
     timeline  of  events and past news stories  created  by  staff
     members  at the newspaper. The site also contains a tremendous
     amount  of  material on the current trial of Enron  executives
     Kenneth  Lay  and  Jeff  Skilling.  Coverage  includes   blogs
     containing  observations from noted attorneys, transcripts  of
     court documents and testimony, as well as photo galleries.
     
     International Quilt Study Center
     http://www.quiltstudy.org/
     
     The  International  Quilt Study Center has  grown  to  include
     research symposia, a graduate program in textile history,  and
     numerous  online resources. Visitors may want  to  search  the
     quilt  collection online through their helpful search  engine.
     Users can search by primary pattern, quilt title, quilt maker,
     country  of  origin,  and  predominant  technique.  One   very
     interesting  feature of the site is the “Quilt of  the  Month”
     area, where visitors can learn about some of the Center’s most
     unique  quilts, such as the Chicken Ribbons Quilt  from  1913,
     which  features blocks of blue, red, and white silver  printed
     ribbons.
     
     The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
     http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/clickmap/
     
     This  site  hosts the best and most complete online collection
     of  astronaut photographs of the Earth from 1961  through  the
     present.
     
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