Birthdays
Perryopolis news Regis Geller Sr. celebrates his birthday today. Other birthdays this week include: Evan Brnich, Dona Brazzon, Merritt Smith and Norma Bordash, Tuesday; Payton Strickler, Lou Krukowsky and Cal Hazelbaker, Thursday, and Steven Zielechowski, Saturday.
Reminders
n Saturday – Smock Homecoming 2010. For details, call Eleanor Vrabec at 724-677-2371.
n Aug. 3 – Annual Mon River Communities Cruise at 6 p.m. Cost is $60 if purchased before Tuesday and includes buffet dinner, cash bar, sightseeing, socializing with other community members and a brief awards presentation. Open to the public. Call the Chamber Office for more information at 724-929-3329.
n Aug. 6 – Physicals for varsity and middle school cross country, varsity, junior varsity and middle school football, varsity golf, varsity volleyball, middle school girls’ basketball and varsity and middle school cheerleaders.
n Aug. 9 through 14 – Dawson Grange Fair. Free admission and parking.
n Sept. 4 – Frazier Class of 1965, 45th reunion. Casual picnic at St. Nicholas Church pavilion from noon to ? Contact Ruthie (Hawker) Shields at 724-736-2578 or ruthieshields@verizon.net.
n Oct. 2 – Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department oldies dance from 8 p.m. to midnight. Cost is $10 per person and attendance is limited to 600. Call for reservations, 724-938-7950.
n For information on the Perryopolis Travel Club, call Ed at 724-326-4579.
n Christian Thrift Shop, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
n Perryopolis Food Bank, second Thursday of the month. Call Helen Coldren 724-736-2713 for information.
n Frazier Class of 1991 is gathering e-mail addresses from classmates for a 20th-year reunion for 2011. Information can be e-mailed to frazierclassof91@hotmail.com.
n Women of the Moose is accepting new members. Call Caroline at 724-984-5592 for more information.
n To rent the Sampey Park Pavilion for weddings, reunions, graduations and parties, contact Bob DeCroo at 724-326-8741.
St. John Festival
St. John Catholic Church is holding its annual festival today beginning at noon. Food, entertainment, flea market, games and fellowship will all be available.
Softball
PGSA (Perryopolis Girls Softball Association) will hold a league meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Perryopolis Borough Building.
Red Hat
The Perry Purple Passions will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at Hoss’s in Belle Vernon. Some upcoming ideas include a luncheon at Sandhill Berries and a picnic in August.
Fairview Methodist
Fairview United Methodist Church on Laureldale Road in Grindstone will hold a flea market at the church on July 24 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone interested in having a table to sell items may call the church at 724-677-0828.
The cost is $10 for each table. Food and drinks will be available. Call Dot at 724-677-2151. for more information.
Due to the unexpected death of the organist at the Fairview Church in Grindstone, the church is seeking an organist for a 10:30 service on Sunday morning. Anyone interested is asked to call the church at 724-677-0828 or Karen Langley at 724-677-4503.
Run for Fun
The 10th annual Run for Fun running camp will take place on July 29 and 30 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Sampey Park. The Run for Fun camp is free and students in grades K-8 are invited to participate. Registration will take place the day of the race. Runners will be introduced to the sport of running including technique, proper shoes, warm-up and practice running. Refreshments will be provided. The camp is sponsored by the Frazier Cross Country team. For more information, call Coach Joe Turek at 724-628-0999 or Trish Persichetti at: 724-736-8309.
Stone cold case
Crabby has a mystery she would like solved. She was picking out a tombstone at the Allen Monument Company in Uniontown in 1969. She didn’t see anything she liked. She wanted something different for her late husband. The owner suggested an unusual stone and said Crabby could find several in the Perryopolis cemetery.
Well, Crabby’s mother hardly allowed her out of the house after her husband’s death, but she was allowed to go to Perryopolis to visit her good friend, Betty. On the way to Betty’s house, Crabby went past the cemetery and found the stones the gentleman had told her about. There were four or five matching stones in one of the three cemeteries on Cemetery Road. They were cubes sitting on one point in a stone base, about 30 inches high.
Last year, for no real reason, Crabby went to the cemeteries to look for the stones. She searched all three cemeteries and the cubes aren’t there. She has asked the people at Blair-Lowther Funeral Home and anybody else she can think of and nobody can remember those stones. Crabby said it seems to her that you could see them from the road and that they were on the crest of a hill and easy to spot.
If anybody remembers those stones and knows what happened to them, please let Crabby know before she has herself committed.