Newsletter February 20, 2006

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                        Tuesday February 212006
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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
     
       => WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
           * Specialist to Address Alzheimer's Support Group
           * Plum Heritage Series Starts 2nd Year
           * Skate Park Benefit Concert
       => WEATHER FORECAST
       => TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIEDS
           * Awning Shop Seamstress Wanted
           * Go-Kart Tires & Wheels
           * 2001 Chevy S-10 Truck
       => COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
           * How to customize a bulleted list in WORD
       => OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * A BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KISKI
       => FEATURED WEB SITE OF THE DAY
           * Terrorism Knowledge Base
       => TODAY’S SPORTS WEB SITE
           * NBC Olympics: Athlete Profiles
       => TODAY’S HISTORY WEB SITES
           * Western Union Telegraph Company Records, 1820-1995
           * Hancock Shaker Village
       => TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
           * Public Radio Fan
           * States and Capitals
           * Resource Discovery Network
                                   
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     WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
     
     Specialist to Address Alzheimer's Support Group
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/2650
     
     A  neurologist from Alle-Kiski Medical Center will  address  a
     gathering  of  the  Alzheimer’s Support  Group  of  Alle-Kiski
     Medical Center on February 22 at Destination Wellness  at  the
     Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills.
     
     
     Plum Heritage Series Starts 2nd Year
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/2646
     
     The  Plum Heritage Series will start it's second year in a new
     venue  at  the Council Chambers of the Plum Borough  Municipal
     Building,  4575  New Texas Road. The series  starts  Wednesday
     March 1st at 7:00 PM
     
     Skate Park Benefit Concert
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/2643
     
     Proceeds from a Westmoreland Park Benefit Concert will support
     the proposed Twin Lakes Skate Park skate construction project.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     Tuesday: Partly cloudy. A chance of flurries in the afternoon.
     Highs  in  the  upper 30s. West winds 10 to  20  mph.  Tuesday
     Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s. West winds 10  to
     15  mph.  Becoming  southwest around  5  mph  after  midnight.
     Wednesday:  Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower  40s.  Southwest
     winds 5 to 10 mph. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the
     mid 20s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday; Mostly cloudy.
     Highs  in the lower 40s. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with  a
     40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s.
     
               Alle-Kiski Today weather is a direct feed
              From the National Weather Service. Be sure
          To check it online for your latest weather report.
     
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     Need a new recipe? Check out our two popular recipe columns:
     Gloria’s Kitchen www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/7
     Healthy Eating  www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/13
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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIEDS
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/
     
     Awning Shop Seamstress Wanted
     To  start immediately. $8.50/hour plus benefits. Must be able
     to read a tape measure; knowledge of sewing/measuring/cutting
     essential. Apply in person at Laurel Awning Company  at  1573
     Hancock Avenue, Apollo (Oklahoma Boro).
     
     Go-Kart Tires & Wheels
     New  wheels  with mounted tires, all sizes. $15 each.  Andrew
     Wylie Phone: 724-388-9458
     
     2001 Chevy S-10 Truck
     Take over loan on truck, I owe 8000.00 on truck and only  pay
     192.57  easy payments a month for payments, Excellent  truck,
     automatic,  cd  player,  excellent interior  condition,  well
     maintained,  new  tires, color is blue,  tonnue  cover,  only
     53,000 miles on truck, 4 cylinder great on gas especially for
     the  price  of  gas these days. It is also a very  dependable
     truck  especially when you need to haul your  goods.  Serious
     inquires  but  if any questions please feel free  to  ask  or
     call.  I am available anytime. I do not want any profit  from
     the  truck you take over payments/loan and it’s a done  deal.
     Chad Myers Phone: 724-681-2830
     
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     Call  724-845-1145 James Humphrey, D.O. for your health  needs
     at  1181  State  Route  356, Leechburg  (Aside  Stanford  Home
     Center). Board Certified in Family Practice.
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     COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
     
     How to customize a bulleted list in WORD
     
     Did  you know that you can select the type of bullet you  want
     in your list? To do this, simply:
     
         * Select  (highlight) a bulleted list and right click  the
           selection.
         * This  opens  a menu, from which you select  Bullets  and
           Numbering.
         * When this box opens click Customize.
         * This  opens  yet  another  dialog  box  named  Customize
           Bulleted List.
         * Click  bullet  to  open the Symbol  character  map,  and
           select the bullet symbol you want, and click OK.
         * At  the  top of this screen you can also select  from  a
           library   of  characters,  for  example  Wingdings,   to
           broaden the choices you have.
         * Back  in the Customize Bulleted List dialog box you  can
           change the size, color, etc.
         * When  you are all done, click OK twice, and the bulleted
           list will be changed to the way you want it.
                                         [Source: computertips.com]
     
        “Computer~Internet Tools And Tips” is at your Own Risk.
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/8
     
     A  BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KISKI: The total construction package
     cost  of  the Pennsylvania Canal in the mid-1800s included  35
     bridges  costing  $250 apiece. Gee, if the new  Apollo  Bridge
     would  have  been  in that price range  .  .  .  !  Read  more
     interesting history at Our Local Heritage at above site. Click
     on “Archives” for a list of history tidbits.
     
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     Grand  Opening  of  Great Clips at The Shops Pittsburgh  Mills
     where a haircut and blow-dry is only $4.99 with coupon in this
     month’s issue of Alle-Kiski Today Magazine.
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     FEATURED WEB SITE OF THE DAY
     
     Terrorism Knowledge Base
     http://www.tkb.org/Home.jsp
     
     This  site is the one-stop resource for comprehensive research
     and  analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related
     court  cases, and terrorist groups and leaders. The  Terrorism
     Knowledge  Base  illuminates the current status  of  terrorism
     today.  It  takes  users  through the  history,  affiliations,
     locations,  and  tactics of the terrorism  entities  operating
     across  the  world  at  this  moment.  The  database  features
     interactive  maps, biographies on key terrorist personalities,
     dynamic graphs, and succinct summaries on who is who and  what
     is what inside the shadowy world of terrorism today.
     
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     TODAY’S SPORTS WEB SITES
     
     NBC Olympics: Athlete Profiles
     http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/index.html
     
     We  planned to sit this Olympics out. And we did -- for  about
     48 hours. Then, the Flying Red Tomato bested the halfpipe, the
     figure  skater bowed out in tears, and all the bizarre  events
     showcased  by  the  Winter Games charmed us  into  submission.
     (Three  cheers  for curling!) Now we've blown  our  cool,  and
     there's  nothing  for  it but to hunker down  until  the  last
     bobsled whizzes past the finish line. The Web offers a  wealth
     of  great coverage, not the least of which comes from our  own
     Yahoo!  Sports. We're also rooting for NBC's page  of  athlete
     profiles,  which  offers interviews, photos,  trivia,  and  an
     amazing wealth of video clips. We highly recommend some of the
     historic footage, such as the spectacular 2002 wipeout in  the
     men's  short  track 1000m race with Apolo Anton Ohno  and  Ahn
     Hyun-Soo,  and Hermann Maier's 1998 gold-winning giant  slalom
     run in Nagano. [Source: Yahoo! Weekly Picks]
     
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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
     now.
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     TODAY’S HISTORY WEB SITES
     
     Western Union Telegraph Company Records, 1820-1995
     http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_wu_index.aspx
     
     This listing of Western Union Telegraph Company records begins
     with a concise history of the telegraph, including Samuel F.B.
     Morse's  invention  of  the early telegraph,  the  Morse  Code
     system, further developments that allowed Roman letters to  be
     sent   in  addition  to  dots  and  dashes,  early  commercial
     telegraph  services, the 1860 Pacific Telegraph Act,  and  the
     history of Western Union Telegraph Company.
     
     Hancock Shaker Village
     http://www.hancockshakervillage.org
     
     This   village  is  run  by  a  nonprofit  organization  "that
     preserves  and presents to the public the Shakers'  legacy  at
     their  community in Hancock, Massachusetts. The Shaker Central
     Ministry  closed the community in 1960." The site  features  a
     virtual  tour  of the grounds, a history of the Shaker  social
     and religious movement in America, a bibliography (from 2001),
     a Hancock community census, and related information.
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
     
     PUBLIC RADIO FAN
     http://www.publicradiofan.com/
     
     Program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around
     the world.
     
     STATES AND CAPITALS
     http://www.50states.com/
     
     RESOURCE DISCOVERY NETWORK
     http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
     
     A  searchable  interface  to  major  meta-sites  in  academic
     disciplines maintained in Great Britain, including  Business,
     EEVL-Engineering,    Mathematics   and   Computing,    Humbul
     Humanities   Hub,   PsiGate-Physical   Sciences   Information
     Gateway, and SOSIG-Social Science Information Gateway.
     
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