The Greater Alleghenies Blood Services Region of the American Red Cross will give a $5 Sheetz gift card to donors Friday through Sunday while supplies last.
And all presenting donors from July 1 through Aug. 31 will automatically be entered in a drawing for a year’s supply of gasoline, valued at $2,400. Five runner-up prizes of
$100 gas cards also will be awarded.
Richland High School
Class of 1958 reunion Friday
The Richland High School Class of 1958 will hold its 50th class reunion Friday at the Mirage Banquet Facility, 800 Scalp Ave., Richland Township.
Social hour begins at 6 with dinner at 7, followed by a “Remember When” program and dancing to the music of the 1950s and early ’60s.
Details are available at richlandreunion.com.
St. Francis hosting
Research Symposium
LORETTO – St. Francis University will hold its third annual Research Symposium from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday on the lower level of the John F. Kennedy Center on campus.
Twenty-five students from the university’s biology, chemistry, engineering, math, and computer science departments will present posters displaying the results of their eight-week research projects. This research was conducted under the guidance of faculty research mentors and was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and St. Francis.
The event is free to the public.
Worker suffers injury
in electrical accident
STOYSTOWN – An employee of an electrical company was taken to a Johnstown hospital Tuesday after an electrical accident at Highland Tank and Manufacturing Co. on Route 30 in Stoystown.
The unnamed worker in his 30s, and employed by Wiedenhoft Electric & Mechanical Services, was working with 480-volt circuit when the accident occurred, fire officials said.
A man who answered the telephone at Wiedenhoft said the employee was doing well and taken to Memorial Medical Center as a precaution.
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In brief: Blood donors to receive Sheetz gift cards
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