Newsletter March 08, 2004

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       1.   WHAT’S NEW ON ALLE-KISKI TODAY ONLINE
       2.   READ THESE INTERESTING STORIES
       3.   COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
           * A Game A Day Interactive Just for Kids
       4.   WEATHER FORECAST
       5.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * 10 years of attacks at their Plum Creek home
       6.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * Appliances For Sale
       7.   PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
       8.   COOLS SITES FOR TODAY
           * 2003 World Fact Book
           * One Look Dictionary Search
           * Cyber Times Navigator
            
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     WHAT’S NEW ON ALLE-KISKI TODAY ONLINE
     
        ·    ALLE-KISKI STORIES:
          
          => Alle-Kiski People: Larry Rowe
          => Alle-Kiski Educators: Brenda Griffith
          => Inspired: Resurrection Musical Play To Be Staged
          
                      Read the latest stories at:
                        www.alle-kiskitoday.com
     
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     COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
     
     A Game A Day Interactive Just for Kids
     http://www.agameaday.com/kidsindex.htm
     
     This  lively  puzzle site features a new interactive  game  or
     puzzle for kids each weekday.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather
     
     Sunday   Night:   Windy   with  snow  showers   likely.   Snow
     accumulations around an inch. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest
     winds  at 20 mph gusting to 35 mph. Chance of snow 60 percent.
     Monday:  Cloudy  with  a 30 percent chance  of  snow  showers.
     Little  accumulation. Cooler with highs in the mid  30s.  West
     winds  around 15 mph. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy  with  a  30
     percent  chance  of snow showers. Lows in the  mid  20s.  West
     winds  10 to 15 mph. Tuesday: Cloudy with a 40 percent  chance
     of  snow showers. Highs in the upper 30s. West winds 10 to  15
     mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance  of
     snow showers. Lows in the upper 20s.
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     www.kiskivalley.com/features/features.shtml?feature=heritage
     
     Raid  at Roaring Run: 10 years of attacks at their Plum  Creek
     home  had  sent  the Sharps back to Kentucky. 3 families  fled
     with  them  down the Kiski in May 1794. Reaching  Roaring  Run
     (outside present-day Apollo) at nightfall, the group tried but
     never made it ashore. Indians killed several, and wounded  the
     remaining men. Mrs. Sharp quickly rowed the boat away,  barely
     escaping with her own life. They didn't know they'd stopped at
     a  Native  American 'gateway' crossing into Indian  territory.
     Read  more interesting history at Our Local Heritage at  above
     site. Click on “Archives” for a list of history tidbits.
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/index.shtml
     
     Appliances For Sale
     Kenmore trash compacter, $30; Large Whirlpool microwave oven,
     $20. Call 724-727-3608 or enquire via e-mail
     Laird Parke, hparke@kiski.net
     
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     PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com/frontpage/announcements.shtml
     
     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.
     
     The Continental Singers in Concert
     The  Continental  Singers, an internationally known  Christian
     singing group, will be performing a free concert at the  First
     United  Methodist Church of Vandergrift on Thursday, March  11
     at  7:00PM. The theme for their concert is: Airborne: Reaching
     For   A   Higher  Purpose.  Their  concert  will  consist   of
     contemporary  music blended with traditional  favorites  along
     with choreography. The Continentals range in age from 16 to 28
     years old. CD's, tapes and other Continental materials will be
     available for sale. 724-568-5575, www.firstumcvandergrift.org
     
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     COOL SITES FOR TODAY
     
     2003 World Factbook
     http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
     
     This reference work provides a snapshot, as of 1 January 2003,
     of   wide-ranging,   hard-to-locate  information   about   the
     background,    geography,   people,    government,    economy,
     communications,  transportation, military,  and  transnational
     issues  for countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.  The  nine
     primary information categories and 134 subcategories for  most
     entities   include  geographic  coordinates,  Gross   Domestic
     Product,  number  of  telephones,  natural  resources,   legal
     systems,  political parties, illicit drugs,  mortality  rates,
     and  more. Included among the 268 geographic listings  is  one
     for the "World," which incorporates data and other information
     summarized where possible from the other 267 listings.
     
     OneLook Dictionary Search
     http://www.onelook.com/
     
     Look  up a word or term in an Internet dictionary or glossary.
     Free  search access to a frequently updated database of words,
     terms, names, and acronyms. OneLook's reverse dictionary  lets
     you  describe  a  concept and get back a  list  of  words  and
     phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few
     words,  a  sentence, a question, or even just a  single  word.
     5,990,011 words in 963 dictionaries indexed.
     
     Cyber Times Navigator
     http://www.nytimes.com/navigator/
     
     Navigator  is the home page used by the newsroom  of  The  New
     York  Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent is  to
     give  reporters  and editors new to the Web a  solid  starting
     point  for  a  wide  range of journalistic  functions  without
     forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly  to
     find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose
     is  to  show people that there's still a lot of fun and useful
     stuff going on out there. (Free registration required).
     
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