Newsletter March 20, 2005

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             ___ TODAY IN RIVERS, RAILS AND BACKROADS ___
     
       1.   WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
           * Pool Renovations
           * Teaching Children About Worship
           * HOPE Center to begin Volunteer Training
       2.   WEATHER FORECAST
           * This Week’s Weather
       3.   TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
           * Dogs: Free to good home
       4.   OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
           * Chambers's Book of Days
       5.   COOL WEB SITES FOR KIDS
           * Drought for Kids
       6.   TODAY’S SPORTS WEB SITE
           * Alle-Kiski Today local sports
       7.   COOL TEEN SITES
           * Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War
       8.   TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
           * The   Baby  Name  Wizard;  Gardens  for  Every   Body;
              National Assoc. of Unclaimed Property Administrators
          
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     WHAT’S NEW IN ALLE-KISKI TODAY
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/
     
     Pool Renovations
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/1948
     
     Renovated  Pool  The Saltsburg Swimming Pool renovations  will
     begin March 21, 2005.
     
     Teaching Children About Worship
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/1950
     
     Bonnie Griffith and her husband, who attend Hillcrest Alliance
     Church, were visiting Mars Alliance in Mars and saw this group
     and decided to invite them to their own church. “The fact that
     they  taught you how to do things really impressed  me,”  says
     Bonnie.
     
     HOPE Center to begin Volunteer Training
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/news/1951
     
     The  HOPE Center will begin volunteer training Tuesday,  March
     22,  2005 and Wednesday, March 23, 2005 from 6:00 p.m. –  9:00
     p.m.  and continue every Tuesday and Wednesday ending  May  4,
     2005.
     
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     WEATHER FORECAST
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/weather.html
     
     This week’s weather:
     
     Monday. Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds
     5 to 10 mph. Monday night. Partly cloudy. Low around 30. North
     winds  around 5 mph. Tuesday. Mostly cloudy with a 40  percent
     chance  of  rain. Highs around 50. East winds  5  to  10  mph.
     Tuesday  night.  Rain likely. Lows in the mid 30s.  Chance  of
     rain  60  percent. Wednesday. Mostly cloudy with a 50  percent
     chance of rain showers. Highs in the mid 40s. Wednesday night.
     Mostly  cloudy  with  a 50 percent chance  of  rain  and  snow
     showers. Low around 30. Thursday. Partly cloudy with a  chance
     of  snow  showers.  Highs in the mid 40s. Chance  of  snow  50
     percent. Thursday night and Friday. Partly cloudy. Low  around
     30.  Highs  in the mid 40s. Friday night and Saturday.  Mostly
     cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain and snow showers.  Low
     around 30. Highs in the upper 40s.
     
            Alle-Kiski Today weather is a direct feed from
               The Pittsburgh National Weather Service.
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     TODAY’S FEATURED CLASSIFIED
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/classifieds/
     
     Dogs: Free to good home
     9-year-old female yellow lab -spaded- very gentle; and,  a  4-
     year-old male boxer mix - neutered- nice. Must go, we  have  a
     growing family and don't have time to give to pets.
     Regan Fennell Phone: 724-568-3034
     
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     OUR LOCAL HERITAGE
     http://www.alle-kiskitoday.com/articles/archives/8
     
     Every  once  in a while we come across interesting  web  sites
     relating to history and from time to time we’ll pass them on.
     
     Chambers's Book of Days
     http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/BookofDays/
     
     "A  Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in connection  with  the
     Calendar." Browse this electronic reprint of the original book
     (published  in  1879) page by page, or select a  date  from  a
     calendar  to see who was born and died on that date and  other
     significant events.
     
     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
     
     Drought for Kids
     http://drought.unl.edu/kids/
     
     Describes what drought is ("not just a lack of rainfall"), and
     explains how droughts are tracked, the damage they can  cause,
     and  how  to  plan  ahead and conserve  water.  Offers  career
     information  about  people  who study  droughts  and  climate.
     Includes  a  glossary, maps and graphs, and a game  area  with
     crosswords  and  jigsaw  puzzles. From  the  National  Drought
     Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
     
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     TODAY’S SPORTS WEB SITE
     
     Alle-Kiski Today local sports
     www.alle-kiskitoday.com
     
     Check  out  all our local sports stories and video  interviews
     with area coaches.
     
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     COOL TEEN SITES
     
     Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War
     http://www.itvs.org/beyondthefire
     
     This Web presentation "introduces the real-life stories of  15
     teenagers,  now living in the U.S., who have survived  war  in
     seven war zones." Listen to or read transcripts of the stories
     of   teens   from  Somalia,  Sudan,  Sierra  Leone,   Liberia,
     Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq. Includes materials  for
     educators,  such as lesson plans and conflict  timelines,  and
     links  to  related  sites.  From  Independent  Lens  and   the
     Independent Television Service (ITVS).
     
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     TODAY’S FEATURED WEB SITES
     
     The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager
     http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/
     
     NameVoyager  "is  an interactive portrait  of  America's  name
     choices.  Start  with a 'sea' of nearly  5000  names.  Type  a
     letter,  and  you'll zoom in to focus on how that initial  has
     been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters,
     or  a  name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its  width
     reflecting the name's changing popularity. If a name intrigues
     you, click on its stripe for a closer look."
     
     Gardens for Every Body
     http://www.fse.missouri.edu/gardenweb/
     
     Guide  to  design elements for a garden accessible  to  people
     with   disabilities   and   physical  limitations.   Discusses
     container gardening, raised beds, pathways, trellises,  health
     and  safety,  and  adaptive, enabling,  and  ergonomic  garden
     tools. Includes sections on gardening tips and techniques  for
     repetitive    motion   injury   prevention,   children    with
     disabilities,   seniors,  and  people  with  arthritis,   back
     problems,  visual  impairments, and heart and  lung  problems.
     Provides related links.
     
     National Assoc. of Unclaimed Property Administrators
     http://www.naupa.org/
     
     Free  national search site to reunite you with your  unclaimed
     property   maintained   by  the  state   officials   who   are
     safeguarding it.
     
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