Newsletter January 13, 2005

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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
                                   
       1.   WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE_KISKI TODAY ONLINE
           * Elena Restaurant Customers Keep Coming Back
       2.   WEATHER FORECAST
       3.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * 1987 S10 Blazer 4X4
       4.   COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
           * Nigerian scams and beyond
       5.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * Freeport, Luther, and Blue Slate (Part 2)
       6.   COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
           * Injury Prevention For Kids
       7.   TODAY’S SPORTS WEB SITE
           * Saltsburg Coach Jeff Clawson & the Trojans
       8.   TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITE
           * Searching For Photos
     
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     WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE_KISKI TODAY ONLINE
     
     Elena Restaurant Customers Keep Coming Back
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1710
     
     One  way  you know a good restaurant is by the high number  of
     people  who  become regular customers, some who  come  two  to
     three  times a week. Elena Restaurant & Café at the  Hillcrest
     Shopping Center in Lower Burrell is one of those restaurants.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     . Wind advisory in effect from 7 am Thursday to 2 am Friday.
     . Flood watch in effect from noon Thursday to midnight Friday.
     Wednesday  night: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance  of  rain
     early  this evening. Low around 50. South winds 10 to  20  mph
     with  gusts up to 30 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent. Thursday.
     Cloudy  with showers and thunderstorms likely. Mainly  in  the
     afternoon. Windy. Highs in the lower 60s. South winds 20 to 30
     mph  with  gusts  up  to 50 mph. Chance of  rain  70  percent.
     Thursday  night.  Rain  showers and evening  thunderstorms.  A
     chance  of  snow  showers after midnight. Little  or  no  snow
     accumulation.  Breezy. Much colder with lows around  30.  West
     winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 40 mph. Becoming northwest
     5  to  10  mph with gusts up to 20 mph after midnight. Friday.
     Mostly  cloudy.  Much  cooler with highs  in  the  lower  30s.
     Northwest  winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.  Friday
     night.  Partly  cloudy. Colder with lows around 16.  Northwest
     winds  5 to 10 mph. Saturday. Partly cloudy. A chance of  snow
     showers in the morning. Highs in the upper 20s. Chance of snow
     30  percent. Wind chill values as low as zero. Saturday night.
     Partly  cloudy. Low 10 to 15. Wind chill values as  low  as  5
     below.
     
               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/
     
     1987 S10 Blazer 4X4
     Real  good tires, 2.8 6cyl. High miles but runs good and don't
     use  or  leek oil. Body a little rough around the edges.  Four
     wheel  drive  works good. Needs battery and  inspection.  $450
     Call Clay after 5 at 724-697-489. Clay Graham
     
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     COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
     
     Nigerian scams and beyond
     You’d have thought the old Nigerian bank scam would be so well
     known that it’s pointless, but people are still being suckered
     in.  In  case you’ve just returned from Mars here’s the  basic
     scam:  You get an email from someone claiming they have access
     to  a  large sum of money (usually in the millions)  but  need
     overseas  help  to  access it. You  are  asked  to  assist  in
     exchange for a percentage of the money. If you’re silly enough
     to  reply  you’ll  be told that some money is  needed  to  pay
     various  costs, but if you pay up then the requests  for  more
     funds  are  sure  to  follow. At the extreme,  people  fly  to
     Nigeria  and  get  caught up with some  very  nasty  people  –
     physical violence can be your ultimate reward. In recent times
     the  scam  has been picked up in other countries with messages
     appearing to come from places as far away as Burma. The  story
     varies  and  sometimes includes the names  of  real,  but  now
     deceased,  people.  See http://www.419legal.org/pages.php?p=12
     for   more  information.  The  most  recent  variation   takes
     advantage of the widespread knowledge of the 419 scam. Now you
     can  get  emails saying that money is held in your name  in  a
     Nigerian  bank but will be taken by the government. The  story
     is  different but the scam is the same – you’d be asked to pay
     fees  in exchange for payment of ‘your’ money. There's  plenty
     of  other variations, as I type this a 'Cry for Help'  message
     from  an  Englishman in Dubai has arrived.  He's ill and  want
     money  distributed to charities via you.  All the buttons  are
     pushed  -  cancer, car accident, widower, orphans, God  -  you
     name  it.  But it's just a variation on the Nigerian scam  and
     isn't even worth space in your Deleted Items folder.
     [Source: Woody's EMAIL Essentials, December 5, 2004]
     
        “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
     
     Freeport, Luther, and Blue Slate (Part 2)
     Years later, the meeting place of these faithful pioneers  was
     known  up  and down the river valleys as the "Blue  Slate"  or
     "Dutch  Protestant"  Church.  The  Blue  Slate  name  was   no
     derogatory term. Apparently, in a small creek near the church,
     a  ream  of blue slate snaked through the creek bed.  But  the
     name  stuck, and by 1825, the fruit of those believers  Pastor
     Steck  initially called together were known,  at  least  in  a
     legal  document  of the day, as "the Blue Slate congregation".
     Reverend  Steck probably continued as Pastor for the Lutherans
     until  1813  or  1817, making his travels from  Greensburg  as
     often  as  he could. The Germans Are Coming: A German preacher
     of  the  Gospel began preaching to settlers in the area  whose
     faith  in  Christ in their homelands had been German Reformed.
     Philip Muckenhaupt began planting and harvesting the seeds  of
     faith  around  1802.  The  seeds must  have  grown.  A  German
     Reformed body of believers also began meeting on the same site
     as  the Blue Slate Church group just before 1807. Henry  Bash,
     probably  one  of  the  German Reformed  Christians,  in  1806
     harvested  and milled the logs that would make up the  meeting
     place.  It  looks like both groups of believers--the Lutherans
     and the German Reformed churches--both owned and used the site
     and meetinghouse together. Both groups would work together  at
     least  through  1834, when they once again build  another  log
     meetinghouse for the churches. Both groups would  serve  as  a
     foundation for a church that still lives today in Freeport  as
     a  testimony  to the faith in Christ of a few early  settlers:
     Trinity  Evangelical  Lutheran Church. 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 WEB SITES FOR KIDS
     
     INJURY PREVENTION FOR KIDS
     http://www.chp.edu/besafe/kids/kidsintro.php
     
     Information  about how to have fun and be safe  while  playing
     your favorite sports or activities. By Children's Hospital  of
     Pittsburgh.
     
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     TODAY’S SPORT’S WEB SITES
     
     Saltsburg Coach Jeff Clawson & the Trojans: Picking It Up
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1706
     
     Coach Jeff Clawson Clawson expects a lot out of them, and
     says, "We’re young but very talented…the seniors have a lot of
     character, lot of heart."
     
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