Newsletter January 12, 2005

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                      Wednesday, January 12, 2005
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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
                                   
       1.   WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
           * Looking to the Future with New Pastor
       2.   WEATHER FORECAST
       3.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * 0ne Acre Lot For Sale in Gilpin Township
       4.   INTERNET NEWS
           * Let Your Fingers Do The Talking
       5.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * Freeport, Luther, and Blue Slate (Part 1)
       6.   COOL TEEN WEB SITES
           * Teen Driving
       7.   TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITE
           * Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame
       8.   PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
     
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     WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
     
     Looking to the Future with New Pastor
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1698
     
     The  newly formed Vandergrift Presbyterian Church - the result
     of  a merger of two local Presbyterian congregations - is  now
     ready  to  fulfill its mission and take up  its  role  in  the
     community.  To  help them, the congregation called  in  a  new
     pastor  in  July, Reverend Frank Neal Galley.  Read  the  full
     story by clicking on the above link.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL WEDNESDAY MORNING
     Tuesday  night: Rain. Not as cool with lows in  the  mid  40s.
     South  winds  around  10 mph. Wednesday. Mostly  cloudy.  Rain
     likely  in  the  morning.  Then a chance  of  showers  in  the
     afternoon. Not as cool with highs around 60. South winds 10 to
     15  mph.  Chance of rain 70 percent. Wednesday  night.  Mostly
     cloudy.  Low  around 50. South winds around 15 mph.  Thursday.
     Cloudy.  A  chance  of  showers in the morning.  Then  showers
     likely  in the afternoon. Highs around 60. Southwest winds  15
     to  20 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
     Thursday  night.  Mostly cloudy. Rain showers  likely  in  the
     evening.  Then  a  chance  of  rain  and  snow  showers  after
     midnight. Much colder with lows around 30. Northwest winds  10
     to  15 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent. Friday. Mostly
     cloudy  with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Much  colder
     with  highs around 30. Friday night. Partly cloudy with  a  40
     percent  chance of snow showers. Much colder with lows  around
     10 above. Wind chill values as low as zero.
     
               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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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/
     
     0ne Acre Lot
     On Stone Gate Drive, Gilpin Township. Beautiful development on
     new  concrete  street.  All utilities on lot-gas-elect.-water-
     tele.-cable, ready to build. No tax on new home for  at  least
     first  two  years. Don`t wait, act now, only lot unsold.  Call
     724-845-6828. Ask for
     Dominic DeBernardi
     
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     computer  repair center in the area? People trust  HighVision
     for  their  reliable computer repair work. Fast  repairs  and
     reasonable cost. Call 724-568-2302 today.
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     INTERNET NEWS
     
     LET YOUR FINGERS DO THE TALKING
     Fingerprint   technology  appears   to   be   the   biometric
     identification method of choice, surpassing competing systems
     such  as  retina  scanning,  handprint  geometry  and  facial
     recognition.   "Fingerprints  will  be   dominant   for   the
     foreseeable  future," says Don McKeon,  product  manager  for
     biometric  security at IBM. One reason for its popularity  is
     falling  prices  for fingerprint readers: Microsoft  recently
     introduced a stand-alone model for $54 and earlier this  year
     American  Power Conversion rolled out a model for PCs  priced
     at  $45. Meanwhile, IBM said last week it would begin selling
     laptops  with  built-in fingerprint readers and Microsoft  is
     marketing   a   fingerprint   reader-keyboard   and   -mouse.
     International  Biometric Group predicts sales of  fingerprint
     readers will rise 86% to $368 million this year, up from $198
     million  last  year,  spurred by user rebellion  against  the
     myriad  passwords  computer users  must  now  memorize.  "Our
     parents  didn't  deal  with  the problem  of  remembering  20
     passwords, and our grandkids won't even know what they  are,"
     predicts McKeon.
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/8
     
     Freeport, Luther, and Blue Slate (Part 1)
     It  was  the  turn of the 18th century, and the  dawn  of  the
     1800s, in the area that would be known as Freeport one day. It
     was  a hostile land with few amenities. One could go for miles
     and not meet another person. And those you met were likely not
     to  have  anything in common with you. It was a strange  land.
     There  were settlers spread out in the Allegheny-Kiski-Buffalo
     river  valley  who had brought their beliefs  with  them  from
     their homelands. These pioneers, largely Dutch or German, held
     in  common a belief about Jesus and His Church that  had  been
     defended  by a pioneer of faith hundreds of years before.  The
     settlers and their forefathers had taken Martin Luther's  name
     to   describe  how  they  worshipped  the  Lord--the  name  of
     Lutheran. It was one of the first recorded instances of  these
     men and women at the edge of civilization meeting together  to
     honor  the  Lord in the wilderness. Pastor John Michael  Steck
     journeyed from Greensburg-most certainly a perilous voyage  of
     a  few  days--to call together these Lutheran believers.  They
     assembled  on  a hill that looked out over what is  today  the
     town  of  Boggsville.  They met in the  Iseman  home,  in  the
     neighborhood of grounds that were located about 1.5 miles west
     of  Slate Lick, near the crest of Buffalo Creek hill. (Part  2
     tomorrow.) Read more interesting history at Our Local Heritage
     at  above  site.  Click on “Archives” for a  list  of  history
     tidbits.
     
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     COOL TEEN WEB SITES
     
     Teen Driving
     http://www.teendriving.com/
     
     Lots of tips for new teen drivers.
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITE
     
     SCIENCE FICTION MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME
     http://www.sfhomeworld.org/
     
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     PLACES TO GO, THINGS TO DO
     http://alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/announcements.html
     
     PARENTWISE WINTER SERIES
     ParentWISE  Winter  Series, Parenting A  Child  With  ADHD  at
     Avonmore (Hebron Lutheran Church) 9:00-10:30 A.M. 1/12,  1/19,
     1/26.  To  register for classes, get directions, or  find  out
     more  about course content, please call the ParentWISE Office.
     724-837-5410 Beth Wheeler
     
     Fish Fry -Bell Township Volunteer Fire Department
     Fish  Fry  at  Bell Twp Vfd, Salina Pa starting Ash  Wednesday
     February 9th and Every Friday in Lent. Meal includes  Fish  or
     Chicken Sandwich or Chicken Planks, French Fries or Pierogies,
     Coleslaw and Dessert. Cost $6.00. For Info call Bell  Twp  Vfd
     at 724-697-4873
     
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