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Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
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Camp Cadet makes return to Allegheny College this weekend
Pennsylvania State Police will be welcoming dozens of kids throughout the region for a week-long camp that builds self-esteem, discipline, and sparks new friendships. Camp Cadet is making its return at Allegheny College on Sunday. Great American Book Sale returning for 2025 with options for everyone Boys and girls ages 12-15 from across Erie, Warren, Crawford and Venango counties will spend the week there, taking part in numerous activities to build character. It gives kids the opportunity to learn hands-on from the men and women of the Pennsylvania State Police, getting them up close and personal with special response teams, helicopter search and rescue crews and more specialized members of the force. City of Erie announces Lights Over Lake Erie event details Cadets will show respect, discipline and learn military courtesy. Family and friends are invited to a graduation ceremony on Friday when camp comes to a close. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- General
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Northwest Tri-County honors 13 new adult education graduates
The hard work has finally paid off for 13 graduates as they turned the tassel at a graduation ceremony Thursday night. The Northwest Tri-County Intermediate hosted a graduation for their students Thursday night on Waterford Street in Edinboro. Bad blood– Community Blood Bank responds to out-of-town blood center drive in Erie The adult-education students have been working hard to get their GEDs, and Thursday night celebrated the achievement with friends and family. Two graduates said they're excited for what comes next. 'I'm actually heading to truck driving school now to get my CDL. I got all the things and then I start next week, and my classes start next week,' said Brittney Grayson-Pace, a new graduate. Great American Book Sale returning for 2025 with options for everyone 'Continuing to help people, and I would really like to continue education at some point here soon, so we'll see where I go,' Christianna Logsdon, another graduate, told us. Each graduate was given praise from one of their professors upon getting their certificate. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
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Great American Book Sale returning for 2025 with options for everyone
(WJET/WFXP)– Book lovers rejoice, the Great American Book Sale is returning for another year, offering a wide selection of gently used books, collectibles, and more with a mini book drive to kick things off by popular demand. The annual book sale will be returning to Flo Fabrizio Ice Arena from June 15-20 with more than 75,000 books and audiobooks of all genres, along with CDs, DVDs and puzzles to choose from as well as a greatly expanded children's book section. Bill passes PA House incentivizing buying healthy food with SNAP To kick the popular sale off, members of the community can donate books for the sale on June 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Flo Fabrizio Ice Arena. Guidelines for donations are available The sale will go on from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 15-19 then 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on its final day, June 20. Orphan wells being plugged in Millcreek Twp. to reduce methane emissions Prices this year range from $0.50 for children's paperback books and $1 for children's hardcover books, along with regular paperback books for the first few days of the six-day sale and $2 for hardcover and large paperbacks. All sales from the event benefit the Friends of the Erie County Public Library and help fund the classes, events, programs and grants they provide to the community. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
LGL: Friends of the Erie County Public Library
Borrow a book, buy a book, or share a book. It all happens at the Erie County Library. And this week, the Friends of the Library got a visit from Loving Giving Local. There is so much more to the Erie County Library System than just books. But it's the books that keep the place going. Thanks to a volunteer group called the Friends of the Library. 'This is kind of a community center as I see it. It's a place where people can enjoy lifelong learning. You hear the pitter-patter of little feet coming in. Parents and grandparents bringing their kids in, but also adults come in, and they can learn all kinds of wonderful opportunities. learn through the idea lab, how to make things, even how to start a business,' said Many of those opportunities are not funded by tax dollars. That's where the friends come in. They've been helping support programs since the 1980s. 'We're kind of a merry bunch of volunteers. None of us are paid staff. We've got probably over 400 members who help us with our book sales, they help us in our store, they help us collect books,' said Marcy Bencivenga of Friends of the Library. Those donated books from the public are sorted and recycled at a number of used book sales throughout the year. The next one is the Great American Book Sale at the Flo Fabrizio Ice Center. Mark your calendar, June 15-19. Here you can pick up a summer of great reading for just a few bucks. While it's the friends that raise money for the library, it's the library director and staff that decide where to spend it. 'So we use that funding to do programs for children, to do our regular story time, to fund things that happen in the idea lab,' Jessica Spitulski, Erie Co. library director. 'All of the programming that the library does is funded by the Friends, and so we here refer to them as the fairy godparents of the library because they're the ones that help us create the magic.' The friends got a helping hand in the form of a financial donation from Loving Giving Local. 'Well, the Friends of the Erie County Library have been in our community for over 40 years. So, for us to be able to deliver them a donation today, and learn today, this donation we bring will go into one of their youth programs, that's what Loving Giving Local is all about,' Joe Askins of Auto Express Resale Center went on to say. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
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Get your gently used book at Blasco Library sale this weekend
Book lovers can head to the Blasco Library over the next few days for a good deal on books for an even better cause. The Friends of the Erie County Library are hosting a sale in the Admiral Room of the Blasco Library Thursday through Saturday. Gannon donating two cruisers to Erie Police Department Books are lightly used and are mostly collected in donation drives. The most a book will be sold for is $2 and what isn't sold will be put back up for sale at the Great American Book Sale in July. Fore! Barstool Open returning for another year 'Inflation has hit every segment of commerce and books are quite a bit more expensive,' said Kathleen Horan, coordinator of small book sales for Friends of the Library. 'Programs that the library offers to children and adults a variety of programs, the idea lab, books for kids, book in a bag, all of those things are paid for by friends of the library.' The sale continues Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 until 3 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
