Newsletter March 17, 2005

                      RIVERS, RAILS and BACKROADS
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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
                                   
       1.   WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE_KISKI TODAY ONLINE
           * County  Parks Offer Summer Environmental Programs  for
              Youth and Adults
           * Valley High School Student Receives Award
           * Making Tracks Across The Valley
           * PUBLISH YOUR OWN NEWS is here
       2.   WEATHER FORECAST
       3.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * 1978 Thunderbird, Fitness Equipment and Bushguard
       4.   COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
           * For Mac lovers: OmniWeb
       5.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * All About Wherry’s Defeat in Leechburg
       6.   COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
           * Little Animals Activity Centre
       7.   TODAY’S SPORTS WEB SITE
           * Fishing Statistics
       8.   TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
           * Yahoo  Image  Search,  Insects on  the  Web,  National
             Gravesite Locator
     
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     WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE_KISKI TODAY ONLINE
     
     County Parks Offer Summer Environmental Programs for Youth and
     Adults
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/1940
     
     Westmoreland County Parks and Recreation will offer Summer
     Environmental Programs once again this year. A variety of day
     camps for children and single day programs for the entire
     family have been designed to cover a myriad of topics! Come
     experience the fun and get closer to nature in Westmoreland's
     largest outdoor classrooms - our County Parks!
     
     Valley High School Student Receives Award
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/1941
     
     Valley High School Senior Amber Higgins was nominated and then
     awarded the ROTC award for the Local DAR (Daughters of the
     American Revolution). Her teacher nominated her for excellent
     . . . read the story online.
     
     Making Tracks Across The Valley
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/1864
     
     Now, in the midst of winter, the onset of warmer temperatures
     is greatly hoped for. In just weeks spring will be here and
     already people can see the light at the end of the winter
     tunnel. With the coming improvements in the weather also comes
     the opportunity for outdoor sports and recreation. One of the
     greatest treasures in our communities are walking trails. As
     much as we all enjoy them seldom do we stop and think about
     the time, hard work, and money that have been invested into
     them. And this isn’t being done by some large contractor but
     by people just like us….volunteers. It is the volunteers that
     make it happen.
     
     PUBLISH YOUR OWN NEWS is here
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/1888
     
     Submit Your News! Are you ready to be the reporter? Now you
     can get the publicity you need to promote your organization!
     Now you can post births, anniversaries, engagements, weddings
     and much more! With photos! It's easy and it's FREE!
     
     Read the whole story on publishing your own news here (Special
     Edition): http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/newsletter/979
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     Thursday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. West winds  5
     to  10  mph.  Tonight. Partly cloudy. Lows  in  the  mid  20s.
     Northwest  winds around 5 mph in the evening.  Becoming  light
     and  variable. Friday. Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper  40s.
     West  winds around 5 mph. Friday night. Partly cloudy  in  the
     evening. Then becoming mostly cloudy. Low around 30. Southeast
     winds  around 5 mph. Saturday. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
     chance of rain. Highs in the mid 40s. Southeast winds 10 to 15
     mph.  Saturday night. Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain  showers
     in  the evening. Then a chance of rain and snow showers  after
     midnight.  Lows  in  the mid 30s. Chance of  precipitation  50
     percent. Sunday. Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and  snow
     showers  in the morning. Then partly cloudy with a  chance  of
     rain  showers  in the afternoon. Highs around  50.  Chance  of
     precipitation 40 percent.
     
               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/
     
     1978 Thunderbird, Fitness Equipment and Bushguard
     1978  Thunderbird-2door, 351 engine, Sky  blue.  Some  surface
     rust.  93,000  miles-$1800.00.  Nordic  Track  Sequoia-$50.00,
     Fitness  Flyer,  hardly  used-$50.00,  Brushgaurd  for  pickup
     truck,  needs  painted-$30.00. If interested in any  of  these
     items you can e-mail me and I will get back to you. I do  have
     pictures  of the Thunderbird if you would like to see  them  I
     can e-mail you some. Diane Daurora a: dd@kiski.net
     
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     COMPUTER~INTERNET TOOLS AND TIPS
     
     OmniWeb 5.1
     http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/download/
     
     This  is for Macs only: The newest version of the OmniWeb  5.1
     Web browser contains a number of helpful features that will be
     most  welcome to those looking for extra features as they surf
     the  web. With this version, users will be able to create tabs
     in  order  to  identify  several web  pages  at  once,  create
     workspaces to save individual browsing sessions, and also auto-
     save  browsing sessions to boot. This free version of  OmniWeb
     5.1  may be used for 30 days, and is compatible with operating
     systems running Mac OS 10.2 and higher.
     
     
        “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
     
     All  About Wherry’s Defeat in Leechburg: 'Wherry's Defeat' was
     two miles down river from Leechburg in the early 1900's. James
     Wherry, during the time there was a canal, had been given  the
     contract to build a retaining wall between the Kiski  and  the
     canal towpath. It took months of labor, but the job was almost
     finished  when the Kiski, during one of its rampaging  floods,
     whisked  away  the entire fortification. Though it  was  later
     rebuilt, Mr. Wherry lost what today would be nearly a  million
     dollars  in  the  washed-up investment. 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
     
     Little Animals Activity Centre
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/index.shtml
     
     The  Little Animals Activity Centre is a fun way for 4-8  year
     olds to learn and play at home.
     
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     TODAY’S SPORT’S WEB SITE
     
     AMERICAN SPORTS FISHING: Fishing Statistics
     http://www.asafishing.org/asa/statistics/index.html
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
     
     National Gravesite Locator
     http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
     
     This site by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contains
     more  than  three million records of veterans and  dependents
     buried in VA's 120 cemeteries since the Civil War. It
     also   has   records  of  some  burials  in  state  veteran's
     cemeteries  and burials in Arlington National  Cemetery  from
     1999 to the present.
     
     Yahoo Image Search
     http://images.search.yahoo.com/info/image_whatsnew.html
     
     New  and  improved Image Search resource from Yahoo. Provides
     latest celebrity and news images, photos, illustrations,  and
     more.  Site allows search by format, coloration, and size  --
     including wallpaper-sized images. The database contains  more
     than 630 million images.
     
     Insects on the Web
     http://www.insects.org/
     
     This  site  aims  to  help you really  see  insects  for  the
     miniature  marvels  they  represent  and  to  understand  how
     intertwined  our  cultures  have  become  with  these   alien
     creatures.  New  content  includes  an  expanding  the  links
     section,  adding another issue of Cultural Entomology  Digest
     and  adding  more  educational modules to the  Class  Insecta
     section.
     
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