Newsletter March 04, 2004

                      RIVERS, RAILS and BACKROADS
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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
     
       1.   WHAT’S NEW ON ALLE-KISKI TODAY ONLINE
       2.   COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
           * Another great homework help site
       3.   WEATHER FORECAST
       4.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * A slimmer, trimmer Plum Township
       5.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * Double Wide Modular Home
       6.   PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
       7.   COOLS SITES FOR TODAY
           * HomeTownLocator gazetteer: Census Data
           * Book Browse
           * Brainy Quote
     
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     WHAT’S NEW ON ALLE-KISKI TODAY ONLINE
     
          => * Despite  Hurdles, Highlands Cheerleaders  Land  High
               Honors in National Tournament
          
     Go to: www.alle-kiskitoday.com for above stories.
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     COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
                                   
     B. J. PINCHBECK'S HOMEWORK HELPER
     http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.htm
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather
                                   
     Thursday:  Showers  likely.  Highs  near  55.  Winds  becoming
     southeast  5  to  10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.  Thursday
     Night:  Showers  likely,  then  a  chance  of  showers   after
     midnight.  Lows  in the mid 40s. South winds  10  to  20  mph.
     Chance  of rain 60 percent. Friday: Variable clouds. Scattered
     showers  and  a  chance  of  thunderstorms  mainly  afternoon.
     Breezy. Warmer with highs in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 15
     to  25 mph and gusty. Chance of rain 50 percent. Friday Night:
     Mostly   cloudy  with  a  chance  of  showers.  A  chance   of
     thunderstorms  in  the evening. Lows in the lower  40s.  Winds
     becoming west 15 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com
                                   
     A slimmer, trimmer Plum Township appeared on the scene in 1871
     when  the  area  where  Verona is now  was  born  from  Plum's
     original  acreage. Plum had already given birth to an  earlier
     baby  in  1849  when a large parcel of its land became  Patton
     Twp.   Today  that  land  is  called  Monroeville.  Read  more
     interesting  history at Our Local Heritage  online.  Click  on
     “Archives” for a list of history tidbits.
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/index.shtml
                                   
     Double Wide Modular Home
     24  x 48 w/attached garage, addition to garage, room addition,
     deck  w/hot  tub.  Three  bedrooms, two  baths.  New  furnace,
     central  air,  hot  water tank, roof. Exterior/interior  newly
     painted.  Berber  carpeting  throughout  house.  New   kitchen
     cabinets,  w/Mannington Gold flooring. Appliances, dishwasher.
     New Metal awaings on porch and windows. New shutters. Vertical
     blinds  throughout.  Must see to appreciate.  Located  minutes
     from Monroeville and New Kensington areas.
     Harold Mele, 724-727-2655 or hmmele@kiski.net
     
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     PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com/frontpage/announcements.shtml
     
     Spaghetti Dinner
     Highlands Area Rotary Club Spaghetti Dinner Thursday, March 4,
     2004 4 - 7 PM Blessed Sacrament Church, Patterson Hall Freeport
     Rd & Broadview Blvd., Natrona Heights Eat in: $5 Take out: $6 All
     proceeds benefit Rotary High School Scholarship Fund Contact
     person: Father Stan Gregorek 724-226-4900
     
     Attracting Hummingbirds and Butterflies
     Saltsburg  Free Library will host a workshop about  attracting
     hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden. Two sessions will
     be held at the library on Salt Street in Saltsburg: March 8 at
     7  p.m.  and March 13 at 3 p.m. The workshops are the same  at
     both   meetings.  There  will  be  slides,  photographs,   and
     handouts.  There  is  no  fee  for  this  workshop.  For  more
     information,  contact  Louisa Fordyce at  724-668-8808  or  at
     dr_fordyce@yahoo.com
     
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     COOL SITES FOR TODAY
     
     HomeTownLocator gazetteer: Census Data
     http://gazetteer.hometownlocator.com/index.cfm
     
     This  site allows you to browse physical and cultural features
     of  the United States, arranged by individual state. From each
     state  listing,  you  can  learn about  various  physical  and
     cultural  attributes within each county,  such  as  hospitals,
     bays,  airports, oilfield, and post offices. After browsing  a
     list  of each type of feature, you can elect to view an aerial
     photograph  of  the feature and its environs as  well.  Census
     2000  information  may  be  browsed by  city,  town,  village,
     county, or zip code. You can also use the My House feature  to
     obtain  a  photo of the street you live on and use a  distance
     finder to calculate the distance between two cities, towns, or
     zip codes.
     
     BOOKBROWSE
     http://www.bookbrowse.com/
     
     Every  week they scour newspapers, magazines, and websites  in
     the USA and worldwide, to find out which books are getting the
     buzz,  both in the publishing world and in the consumer press,
     and then feature the best of these at BookBrowse.com.
     
     BRAINYQUOTE
     http://www.brainyquote.com/
     
     Over 38,000 famous quotes by 10,000 authors from Aristotle  to
     Zappa. By topic or author. Many extras.
     
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