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November 13, 2009

In brief | Johnstown-based copters at PSU

Anonymous The Tribune-Democrat Fri Nov 13, 2009, 10:59 PM EST

STATE COLLEGE — Four Apache helicopters based in

Johnstown will have Penn State football fans looking skyward before today’s game with Indiana University. Flown by members of the 1st Battalion, 104th Aviation, the helicopters are part of a week-long observance of Veterans Day at Penn State.

They will carry eight Army Reserve pilots, supported by a large ground crew at John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport.

Drug suspects’ hearing postponed

SALIX – A preliminary hearing for three women who allegedly distributed large quantities of prescription pills that had been scheduled for Monday has been postponed until Nov. 23 before District Judge Rick Varner.

The suspects include two sisters, Kathleen Weimer, 30, of the 300 block of Oak Street, East Conemaugh; and Kelly Weimer, 20, of the 2500 block of William Penn Avenue, East Taylor Township. The other defendant is Shawna Delozier, 22, of the 700 block of Cambria Avenue, Revloc.

District Attorney Patrick Kiniry alleged that the women were “high-level prescription pill dealers who controlled the distribution network” in East Conemaugh, Jackson Township, Nanty Glo, Ebensburg, Cresson and the Mainline area.

They were arrested in late October by the Cambria County Drug Task Force.

Toys for Tots boxes in place

Area Marines have kicked off the 2009 Toys for Tots season by delivering more than 100 toy donation boxes to businesses in Cambria and Somerset and Bedford counties.

The program’s mission is to collect new, unwrapped toys to distribute as Christmas gifts to needy children.

Signups are scheduled as follows:

Johnstown area: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday at St. Vincent de Paul on Franklin Street.

Somerset County: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday from Thursday through Nov. 30 at the Salvation Army in Somerset.

Bedford County: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 19 and 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Children and Youth office in the Bedford County Courthouse.

Anyone unable to sign up in person may contact Sgt. Matthew Starratt, Johnstown Toys for Tots coordinator, at 539-7206, ext. 1008, or by e-mail at matthew.starratt@usmc.mil.

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