GED test scheduled for Saturday
The General Educational Development Test (GED) will be given at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at East Side Elementary School.
The cost of the test is $40 for all sections and $10 per individual section. Preregistration is required.
For information call Debra Crowder at 533-5650.
Fashion show benefits literacy
Beginnings Junior Board will present its second annual Prom Fashion Show from 5 to 7 p.m. March 9 at the Holiday Inn Johnstown.
Proceeds from the fashion show will benefit the early literacy programs of Beginnings Inc.
Fashions will be presented from Alfred Angelo Bridal and Miller’s Formal Wear.
Twenty-five teens from Bishop McCort, Central Cambria, Ferndale, Johnstown, Portage, Richland and Westmont school districts will model.
The evening will include an auction.
Tickets are $14 and include dinner. They are available at Beginning’s office at 111 Market St., Johnstown.
Information: 539-1919.
Cancer relay meeting planned
MUNDYS CORNER – A planning meeting for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life in Northern Cambria will be held 6 p.m.
March 10 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Mundys Corner.
This year’s relay will be held from
10 a.m. June 14 to 10 a.m. June 15 at
Central Cambria High School. Volunteers and additional teams are invited to participate.
For more information, call Karen Bartlebaugh at 322-1031 or Ginny Hockensmith, 322-1090.
Laurel Highlands marketing lauded
LIGONIER – The Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau has been honored for its marketing campaign promoting the Great Allegheny Passage, a rail-trail that connects Washington, D.C., to near Pittsburgh.
The trail winds through Somerset County and is a developing tourist attraction.
The Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International recognized the visitors’ bureau with a silver award in the Adrian Awards Competition. The winning campaign was funded by a regional marketing initiative grant from the state’s Department of Community and Economic Development.
The visitors bureau serves Somerset, Westmoreland and Fayette counties.
Blind center offers health screens
SOMERSET – The Somerset County Blind Center will hold its annual health awareness screening from 7 to 10 a.m. March 15 at the center at 748 S. Center Ave., Somerset.
The Multiphastic Blood Test, which includes 39 tests, is available for $39. Other tests are available at additional cost.
For more information, call (800) 524-3414.
Local News
In brief
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Somerset County teacher accused of using insulting names
School board members and administrators say they’re still investigating whether a teacher called her eighth- and ninth-grade algebra students names like “retard,” “idiot” and “moron.”
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Seward tax preparer set to plead in federal court
A Westmoreland County tax preparer is scheduled to plead guilty or no contest to charges that he filed fraudulent income tax returns for his customers and asked some of them to lie to Internal Revenue Service investigators.
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Police probing financial irregularities at Indiana County parish
State police say they’re investigating financial “irregularities” at a Catholic parish with five worship sites in Indiana County, after the local diocese reported the problems to police.
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Blogging with heart
Anyone else have this issue: The more I know the more I want to learn.
As I am writing my heart month stories for this week’s packages, I occasionally come across a term or description unfamiliar to me. So I look it up. And then the definition or article has something else that sounds important, so I look that up. -
Video: Young bear, wolf play together
It’s like something out of a children's book: A bear cub meets a wolf cub and they become the best of friends. Even though they are different species and ferocious predators, the unlikely couple stays pals for life.
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Two Cambria district judge offices to be cut
Two of Cambria County’s 10 magisterial districts could be eliminated as President Judge Timothy Creany looks at realigning boundaries to cut costs while taking into consideration caseloads of the district judges and population changes.
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Westmont couple inseparable, even in death
People who knew James and Marjorie Landis of Westmont said the two were nearly always together.
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Company buys valuables from people ready to unload
Jan Hagerich’s buffalo nickel was “healthy” – which was unhealthy for her finances.
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Special Olympics return to region
More than 300 athletes eager to show off their skills, along with 135 coaches, will be coming to the region to take part in the 2012 Special Olympics Pennsylvania Winter Games.
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Special Olympics Schedule
Here is a list of events related to the Pennsylvania Special Olympics Winter Games through Tuesday at venues across the region:
Saturday
• Laurel Highlands Polar Plunge to benefit Special Olympics; Quemahoning Reservoir near Boswell; registration at 9:30 a.m.; plunge at 1 p.m. - More Local News Headlines
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