JOHNSTOWN —
More than 300 members of the Greater Johnstown/Cambria County Chamber of Commerce heard Artrell Hawkins, a Johnstown native and former professional football player, speak at the chamber’s annual dinner Thursday night at the Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center in the downtown .
Hawkins, a graduate of Bishop McCort High School, played for the Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers and New England Patriots in his NFL career from 1998 through 2007. A resident of Cincinnati, he launched his own sports talk radio show titled “2 Deep Zone” on ESPN radio in that Ohio city in 2009.
He was elected to the Cambria County Hall of Fame last July. In August he was selected as one of Cincinnati’s “Forty Under 40” award winners. The “Forty Under 40” are considered the rising stars in the Cincinnati community and the next generation of its leaders and innovators.
Hawkins, who is 34, Thursday night said he will pledge another $2,000 to a football camp he started last year in Greater Johnstown for young people as a means of giving them constructive activities to occupy their time.
He also said he was going to be in a movie starring George Clooney titled “The Ides of March.”
After the dinner, he said the film centers on a Democratic governor who decides to run for president. Hawkins said the movie will be released in March 2012.
The movie is being filmed by Cross Creek Pictures, a search of the Internet showed.
AmeriServ Financial received the chamber’s Cultural Affairs Award for 2011. Presented by Mary Borkow, chairwoman of the Cultural Affairs Committee, the award honored the financial institution for its long list of working with the community with various cultural events.
Borkow said among them is the AmeriServ Flood City Music Festival. She said the bank was instrumental in organizing other local financial institutions to save the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra’s July 4 concert at Point Stadium that was in jeopardy last year until those banks saved the music.
There are many other projects and events that experience the support of AmeriServ, Borkow said.
AmeriServ’s community-minded employees increased their contributions to United Way of the Laurel Highlands by nearly 300 percent from 2008 to 2010, Borkow noted.
Accepting the award was Glenn Wilson, AmeriServ’s president and CEO.
Mike Artim, executive director of Cambria-Rowe Business College, assumed the chamber’s chairmanship for a two-year term.
He succeeds Christine Cox, director of Highmark’s Southern Alleghenies sales.
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Johnstown native Artrell Hawkins, a former player in the NFL, speaks Thursday at the Greater Johnstown/Cambria County Chamber of Commerce annual dinner at the Frank J. Pasquerilla Conference Center. John Rucosky
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