October 2009 #109

If This Quilt Could Talk Local Quilt Travels Great Distances

By Marsha Lavelle of Hometown magazine

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his is a story about a quilt. A colorful quilt that originated in the Punxsutawney area, then traveled around the country for almost 80 years before finding its way back to its hometown.

In 1994, a woman by the name of Lucinda Reddington Cawley, originally from Scranton, bought a quilt from a St. Louis, Missouri antique dealer at a show in Philadelphia.

Being an avid quilt collector, Cawley knew the quilt was old, but she knew nothing else about it at the time. The predominately bright yellow and white, handmade quilt had 250 names sewn into it, along with golden rod flowers and keystones.

Sometime in 1998, Cawley, now living in Salisbury, Maryland, began doing research in hopes of finding out more about the quilt. She contacted the Indiana Pennsylvania Historical Society that helped her a great deal. They told her they believed the names on the quilt were from the Canoe Ridge, Rossiter, and Punxsutawney areas.

Someone gave Cawley the name of Joyce Griffith, then of Punxsutawney. Cawley wrote to Evelyn and Jim Parker of Gilmer, Texas. Evelyn, whose maiden name is Piper, is originally from Punxsutawney.

She left the area when she was in first grade.

“She told me all about the quilt and what she had been researching,” Evelyn said.

It was soon discovered that the names of Evelyn’s mother, Jennie Craft, (before she married) and grandmother, Lillie Craft, are on the quilt. Both are deceased now, but it was estimated that the quilt originated at the Canoe Ridge Church of God, somewhere between 1930 and 1936. And friends and relatives believe the quilt was made by church members to raffle off as a fundraiser.

Cawley also talked with the late Emogene Cassaday Johnson of Punxsutawney, who was born in 1914, according to Evelyn.

Johnson remembered working on the quilt, and she specifically remembered driving there to work on it, because she had just

Evelyn Parker of Gilmer, Texas (formerly of Punxsutawney) holds up the antique quilt that was made in the 1930s at the Canoe Ridge Church of God. (Hometown photo by Marsha Lavelle)

gotten her driver’s license in 1930. She would have been about fifteen or sixteen at the time.

Two years had passed since the time that Cawley first contacted Evelyn Parker about the quilt.

“I really had just put it out of my mind,” Evelyn said. “But then, two years ago, my husband and I visited Pennsylvania while on vacation. We went to Punx’y and other places. When I got home, my sister, Dorothy Piper Zevely, and I were putting together a photo album.”

It occurred to both sisters at the same

time: “We’ve got to find that quilt. She (Cawley) had moved since I had talked to her,” Evelyn explained. “I had to find her.”

But Cawley was a collector, and in February 2009, when Evelyn asked to buy it, Cawley said she wasn’t interested in selling it. In April of this year, Cawley emailed Evelyn offering to sell the quilt.

“I didn’t quibble one bit,” Evelyn said, “I was ecstatic.”

Since Evelyn bought the now-famous antique, known more recently as the Keystone Friendship Quilt, she has traveled - Continued on page 4

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Local Quilt Continued from page 2

great distances to show relatives and friends.

“I went to New Brighton to show my 88year-old aunt, Ruby Craft,” Evelyn said, “She was Ruby Gaston back then, and has eleven siblings, seven of whom are on the quilt as well. My three first cousins from Asheville, N.Y., Hazel, Cac, Dortha, and a niece, Patty, came to see the quilt in Texas.”

After that, Evelyn came to Punxsutawney to show her two first cousins, Joyce Griffith and Donna Jacklet, whose mother’s name, Ebert Griffith, is sewn into the quilt.

Community members, most with ties to the names on the quilt, came to the Canoe Ridge Church of God to see the quilt firsthand when Evelyn proudly displayed it.

Some of the many last names that appear on the beautiful quilt include names that are still very common in this area, such as Bowers, Gaston, Ellenberger, Heitzenrater, Lundy, Kurtz, Irvin, Organ, Lowmaster, McFarland, Marshall, Pearce, Seger, States, Silvas, Sheesley, Tyger, Wetzel, White and Wilson.

While at Canoe Ridge Church, Bill and Phyllis Spicher, who live nearby, said they had relatives whose names were on the quilt. The Spichers invited Evelyn and her husband over to their home after services.

While there, Evelyn told other details of the quilt’s history.

“The very first quilting took place at the home of Irvin and Minnie Gaston,” she explained. The coincidence was incredible, as the Spicher home had originally been owned by Irvin and Minnie Gaston.

“We couldn’t believe it. I was standing in the home where the quilt was first made,“ Evelyn said, and she placed the quilt over the back of the Spicher’s sofa. “That quilt was home - we all felt it.”

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A Halloween-costume predicament

By Sharon Randall Scripps Howard News Service ust when I thought my costume days were over, my husband (an editor by day, a bass player any chance he gets) came home recently with a big announcement.

Some months ago, in what might be the world's longest rehearsal, he started meeting once a week to jam with a group of guys who, much like him, temper their passion for music with the nagging sense that they are probably not ready to quit their day jobs.

Which somehow brings to mind what my grandmother used to say about my granddad, a part-time Baptist preacher: "He works for the Lord when he can't find a paying job."

Preaching and playing music are not all that different.

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He knows how I feel about Halloween costumes. It's not that I don't like them. I just don't have any luck with them.

Growing up, I often had to take my blind brother along trick-or-treating. Once, for a costume, I threw a sheet over his head.

When people would say, "What a cute little ghost!," he'd get all insulted and yell, "I ain't a ghost, I'm a mattress!

When my oldest child was 10, he went to a church party for which children were told to come as Bible characters and avoid anything "scary or gory." I dressed him up as

John the Baptist and let him carry his "head." He was the hit of the party, but I nearly got excommunicated.

And once, when I was old enough to have had better sense, I twisted my hair up in buns around my ears, sprayed them with an entire can of mega-hold hairspray and went to a party as Princess Leia from "Star Wars." That was 1978. My hair has never recovered.

I have no clue what to do for a costume for this party. If you have any suggestions -- provided, of course, they can be easily

assembled from materials found around the home by a woman with little patience and no sewing skills whatsoever -- I would love to hear them.

Meanwhile, I asked my husband if he has decided what his costume will be.

"Yes," he said. "I'm going to the party as a bass player."

Maybe I'll wear a sign that says, "I'm with the band."

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them "a bunch of guys who play music for free") is planning a Halloween party.

And guess what? The "Not Really a Band" is going to play.

"You're invited, too," he said.

"Fine," I said. "We never get any trick-ortreaters anyhow. No reason to stay home. I can eat the candy later."

He grinned the way he does when he knows he's on thin ice and thinks being cute will help him skate. "Uh, there's just one thing ...

I gave him a look. "What?"

"You have to go in costume."

"Excuse me?"

"They said it's not costume optional. You have to wear one or they won't let you in."

I snorted Diet Coke out both sides of my nose. "And you believed them? Don't you know that old trick? If somebody tells you've got to wear a costume, you can bet your last piece of Halloween candy that you'll be the only fool in costume."

"Not if you go, too."

He is nothing if not persistent.

I started to tell him that my grandmother rarely went to church with my granddad, and she never would've gone at all if she'd had to wear a costume.

But he was playing his bass and couldn't hear me. Again.

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By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine ver the past several years, in October, the writer has taken readers on excursions to area cemeteries and graveyards to learn the history, beauty, and meaning of the stones and markers found in them.

Early burial places were private family plots on farms and homesteads during the area’s settlement. That was practical, of course. Soon after, church graveyards appeared as a person’s life (and death) centered on churches in the countryside. Then there were “community cemeteries” such as the Clayville and the historic North Findley Street cemetery in Punxsutawney, where the town’s founders and other early settlers were buried.

In the late 19th century came the Victorian era, when some villages became larger communities, even cities. The older term “graveyard” was replaced with the word “cemetery” as burial plots became landscaped “resting places” outside of town on rolling, grassy hills, with winding roads and flower gardens. The large, open spaces and a new attitude toward death revolutionized cemetery art.

For years, American funerals were gloomy and distressing for the bereaved. As a result, there emerged a desire to provide

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a beautiful setting to experience grief, and that eventually lead to the development of park-like cemeteries.

During this period, grave markers became massive, sculptural and more ornate.

They could be used in a way that the smaller churchyard could not allow. Circle Hill Cemetery and Cavalry Cemetery, originally created in the early bed-like grave markers, enclosures at ground level, are found at area cemeteries. They reflected a victorian feeling that deceased loved ones were 1890s on hill- “at rest” and not dead. (Hometown photos by Thomas Curry) sides outside of Punxsutawney and Clayville, are examples times. And, too, were the family histories offer more interesting and historical disof the Victorian-era burial spots. symbolized in individualized “monuments” coveries in cemeteries.

All of these older burial plots featured to display the family’s lifestyle or promiGenealogists are often frustrated by the ildecorated stones with a variety of art imnence. legible, obscure numbers and letters on ages bearing specific meaning for their This issue of Hometown magazine will - Continued on page 13

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By allowing yourself to feel successful, you are training your brain cells and giving them the most addictive force in nature -- intermittent positive reinforcement. Every time you give your psyche something to feel good about, it will gravitate to that feeling. If you celebrate successes throughout the day, no matter how small, you can't help but increase your desire to want more and, along with it, your sense of self-worth.

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An electric motor entering the Adrian Mine in McCalmont Township. The electric mine motor replaced the mule beginning about 1916. By 1930, mules were no longer used in large mines. In 1964, laws were past prohibiting beasts of burden to be used in any mine.

Mules in the mines Continued from page 7 mine. A blacksmith was required to shoe the mule. A veterinarian was required to see to the health of the mules. All of these were necessary to keep the mules working.

To handle the work of the mules the mine hired drivers. The driver and the mule or mules were a team. Many drivers had previously been stable boys who had come of age to work in the mines. Mule driver was one of the most hazardous jobs in the mine.

The driver, in order to do his job, had to move around the pitch black dark of the mines with his team of mules, picking up loaded cars and dropping off empty ones.

He had to ease his team through narrow passageways, avoid low ceilings, keep from knocking down mine props, and maintain a calm but steady pace while working.

The successful driver gained the confidence of the mules. He trained and treated his assigned mules with kindness and respect, and in turn got good work out of them. The driver was required to arrive at the mine about an hour earlier than the regular mine shift so that he could curry and harness his mules, gather empty cars, and be at the opening of the slope, or the bottom of the shaft in a deep mine, when the miners arrived. He would meet the miners and carry them in the empty cars to their place of work in the mine, which could be over a mile from the entrance. As he dropped off the miners, he also left them empty cars to be filled. He then began his pick-up route, collecting loaded cars and pulling them to the header, shaft, or the tipple, depending on the nature of the mine.

Drivers were responsible for managing the loads the mules pulled. Sometimes they would need to level the coal to keep the coal from falling out of the car and cluttering the tracks. They would link the number of cars the mules could pull into a train. Drivers were responsible for controlling the speed of the cars to avoid having the cars injure the mules. Since the cars did not have brakes, they used sprags, pieces of wood, which they jammed in the openings of the wheels to slow cars on downward grades of the track. If the mule felt the load pushing him, he would react by kicking or running out of control, which could injure the driver or other miners and in general created a hazardous situation in the mine.

Mules, when they felt trapped or were mistreated, would fight back by bucking and kicking, sometimes striking the driver in the chest or head, or would squeeze him against the wall of the mine. Mule driver accident

reports from the early 1900s describe these types of injuries: 05/18/1904, age 19, Florence #2 Mine, arm broken, was caught against a timber; 10/05/1904, age 19, Walston #3 Mine, leg broken, a mule pulled out a timber and the cross bar caught him; 09/27/1905, age 28, West Eureka #6 Mine, ribs crushed, caught between mine car and mine roof; 01/22/1906, age 32, Florence #1 Mine, body squeezed, caught between mine car and mule.

If the mule was killed as a result of the driver’s carelessness, the driver was required to pay the company for the mule.

When a mule was not able to work, the company was required to provide for his rehabilitation or retirement. The retirement home for mules of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron Company was at their Helvetia farm facility. Letters in the Rochester and Pittsburgh files at Indiana University of Pennsylvania record the transfer of mules unable to work because of age or injury to the Helvetia farm.

Electric motors were introduced into the mines beginning about 1916. It was more powerful than the mule and capable of hauling fourteen cars of coal where the mules could do four to eight. The electric motor required fewer supports, a good mechanic and a skilled driver. It did not need time to rest, or stables or veterinarians to keep it operational. And when it was no longer operational, it did not have to be maintained.

The use of any animals as beasts of burden in mines was outlawed in the 1960s, officially ending the use of mules in the mines.

(Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available the Punxsutawney Memorial Library, the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society and the Stapleton Library at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Photographs are from the personal collection of Shirley J. Sharp and the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection, 1900-1981, MG# 94, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University Archives and Special Collections. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization which brings together residents, business people, community leaders and civic organizations, to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. PRIDE is working to develop a Coal Memorial and Welcome Center for the Punxsutawney Area. Comments on this article may be directed to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767, or by calling 814-938-2493 and leaving a message. A PRIDE volunteer will return your call.)

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Punx’y Cemetery Art Continued from page 10

during the victorian era, cast metal tombstones were available for about 40 years. made of zinc and bluish-gray in color, they were inexpensive and resisted harsh weather conditions. (Hometown photo

by Thomas Curry)

older stones caused by harsh weather over many years. There are several monuments in area cemeteries that betray their years by the clarity of their sharp and clear markings that appear as carved words and images.

They are the “white bronze” markers, made of cast zinc. They appear to be made of bluish gray stone but are actually made of molded metal, with each of the sides separately cast.

The material was called White Bronze to make it more appealing to customers during the 40 years of its popularity before World War I. These monuments were ordered from a sales agent with a catalog and were inexpensive compared to the marble and white monuments they imitated. The customer could choose from many shapes and symbols for an overall design.

Many cemeteries banned these “stones” that were tested as monument material, claiming that they looked cheap. Folk, too, from a loyalty to local marble carvers, refused the new material because they were ordered by mail. Others resisted the metal grave markers because they were not convinced of the claims for permanence of the cast forms sold so inexpensively. That only one or two White Bronze grave markers are

found in any area cemetery might show that a local agent had little success, if any, and gave up.

With many styles of monuments, cemeteries have their own “personalities.” On a walk around the last resting places of those who have lived before us, a person might find a monument that looks like a bed.

These bed-like resting places are often called “cradle graves,” though they do not mark only the interments of children.

Suggesting the departed loved one was “at rest,” and not dead, the grave marking followed a popular spiritual theme of the Victorian period of the late 19th century. In many cemeteries, these ground-level enclosures surrounded a single grave. The “just sleeping” practice seemed to be a denial of the reality. Memorial flowers or shrubs would be planted in the center of the enclosed space. In some cases, objects that were symbolic of the person’s interests while alive would be placed in the space.

Another familiar setting in some of the older church and family cemeteries is the use of ornate iron fences, stone walls, brick walls, hedges, and cement strips that surround small family plots. These outlined plots reflected the importance of a strong family unit in culture As mentioned in earlier accounts of grave markers and tombstones, the local stone carvers and engravers, as individuals, were mostly unidentified, except by local residents of the early period who knew of these men in the trade. However, there is written record of some of the earlier companies who were in the business of providing the gravestones.

Before 1900, the S. T. & A. C. Robinson Brothers Undertaking and Marble Cutting Company was the principal producer of monuments, headstones, and markers in the Punxsutawney area. In newspaper accounts, the Robinson brothers were often recognized for their work. In one report in 1888, when the old cemetery on North Findley Street was the town’s burial spot, there was this credit, “... the popular undertakers of this place do fine work in all kinds of cemetery furnishings ... They presented the Cemetery Committee with a fine piece of sculpture, cut from marble, in the shape of a lamb ... This lamb is on exhibition at Beyer’s drug store and will be chanced off at twenty-five cents a chance, the money to go into a fence fund.”

The Robinsons also advertised themselves as agents for iron fences, the ornamental borders seen in many cemeteries and around some residences during that time.

An apprentice for A. C. Robinson & Bros. was Charles M. Neal, who began his work - Continued on page 19

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But when snoring is a sign of sleep apnea, a condition that causes breathing to be interrupted repeatedly during the night due to airway obstructions, it can signal some dire consequences.

Researchers are certain that obesity is a major contributor to sleep apnea, but studies have also found that the condition leads to high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease and diabetes, among other problems.

A report in the journal Diabetes Care in June noted that out of 306 obese patients with type 2 diabetes, testing found that 87 percent of them also had obstructive sleep apnea, although most of them did not know it.

More than half of those tested stopped breathing between 16 and 20 times per hour (moderate apnea) or more than 30 times an hour (severe).

But the sleep-obesity loop is even more complicated. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, studying more than 200 people with sleep-related breathing disorders, found that as their conditions worsened, they actually burned more calories when they were at rest.

This is not the way nature intended. We're supposed to burn fewer calories when resting. The findings, along with other research, support the notion that disrupted sleep patterns disrupt hormones and metabolism over time and contribute to obesity and diabetes.

It's estimated that some 12 million Americans have sleep apnea.

Even a temporary onset of apnea, which often occurs in pregnant women, can cause problems. Researchers at Northwestern University reported last summer that women who were frequent snorers during pregnancy were about four times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than those who did not snore.

About 4 percent of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes, in which a woman without previously diagnosed diabetes develops high blood-sugar levels during pregnancy. This often leads to larger-than-normal babies and birth complications, as well as a greater risk of the infant having low blood sugar, metabolic problems and obesity later in life. Gestational diabetes usually dissipates after the woman gives birth.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has developed a comprehensive list of websites and companies selling various gels, kits, supplements, sprays and other unauthorized products that make unsubstantiated claims about H1N1 protection or treatment.

Dozens of companies contacted by the FDA have changed or modified their websites after being contacted, according to the

agency. But new sites continue to pop up and individual products are posted on a daily basis on online retail sites such as Alibaba.com, making it difficult for authorities to find those who are illegally marketing H1N1-related products.

For instance, searching for "H1N1" on Alibaba.com this week produced hundreds of results from prospective sellers offering everything from an H1N1 vaccine to rapid flu test kits and "anti-H1N1" masks.

(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

••• Punxsutawney businesses advertise in the pages of Hometown magazine!

aging services, inc P.o. box 519, indiana, Pa 15701

Prescriptions • oTCs gifts • FRee Delivery PA loTTeRY 203 N. Hampton Ave. - Groundhog Plaza

938-9150 Fax 938-9151 FRee & Convenient Parking in the

M-F 9-8, Sat 9-5, Closed Sundays

Full Line of Vitamins & Minerals Full sized gift shop with FREE gift wrap or gift bags - including yankee Candle, home decor, cards, event gifts, Webkinz, personalized Crocks.

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additional services available social centers serving you • Adult Day Care • Apprise Benefits Counseling Chestnut Hills ........(724) 459-5251 • Caregiver Support • Care Management Indiana Center ......(724) 465-2697 • Exercise & Health Promotions Mahoning Hills ......(724) 286-3099 • Home Delivered Meals • Ombudsman • Telephone Reassurance • Protective Services Saltsburg Center ....(724) 639-9055 • Senior Employment Program • Transportation Two Lick Center ....(724) 254-9820 LooKinG for a job? Are you 55 or older? oUR SEnioR EmPLoYmEnT PRoGRAm helps to bridge the gap between the older worker and employer.

If you are at least 55 years of age and desire to work part or full time, or if you are an employer looking for a seasoned mature worker, call today and ask for our SEnioR EmPLoYmEnT CooRdinAToR. You’ll be glad you did!

Questions on any of these programs?

call (724) 349-4500 or 1-800-442-8016

The new Short Term Rehab Therapy Unit is Christ The King’s latest addition to making the transition from hospital to home as easy and comfortable as possible. Featuring highly trained physical therapists, occupational and speech therapists.

Other amenities include: Sleeping Rooms with Mini-kitchens • Activity Room Country Kitchen • Separate Dining Facilities Spa • Training Facilities For more information and a tour of the new facilities call 814-371-3180.

1100 West Long Avenue, DuBois, Pennsylvania 15801

Punxsutawney Hometown – October 2009 – 17

Medical: Snoring Continued from page 14 havioral weight-loss program that included portion-controlled diets and prescribed 175 minutes of exercise a week. The control group got three lectures on diabetes management, diet and physical activity over the yearlong study.

The first group lost an average of 24 pounds, and 13.6 percent of the group had complete remission of sleep-apnea symptoms, compared with about 3.5 percent of the second group, which lost an average of 1 pound.

Other research shows that sleep disruption can also set the brain up for disease. A mouse study reported last week by the Washington University School of Medicine found that chronic sleep deprivation makes the brain plaques that characterize Alzheimer's disease appear earlier and more often.

Medical professionals treating Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative illnesses have long noted that many patients experience disturbed sleep. But until recently, it was thought that sleep disruption was more a

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byproduct of disease than a contributor.

By some estimates, as many as 70 percent to 80 percent of dementia patients also suffer from sleep apnea.

And scientists at the University of California, San Diego, last year showed for the first time that treating sleep apnea in patients with Alzheimer's actually seemed to improve cognitive function.

Specifically, putting patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's and sleep apnea on a machine that delivers pressurized air into the lungs during sleep over the course of six weeks resulted in improved test scores for things like verbal learning and mental processing.

While the mouse study indicates that sleep disruption may actually accelerate the disease process, the California scientists said the improvements they registered could simply be the result of improved oxygen levels in the brain and a clearer mind as a result of getting a better night's sleep.

Earlier studies in adults with sleep apnea, but no dementia, have also shown improvements in mental function after receiving the pressurized air therapy.

(E-mail Lee Bowman at bowmanl@shns.com.)

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Punx’y Home Health Offers Flu Shots

P

unxsutawney HomeHealth Care has been offering seasonal flu shot clinics around Punxsutawney and surrounding areas for the past ten years.

MaryAnn Hampton stated that the program would not be possible without the help of all the clerical and RN volunteers from the area.

Punxsutawney HomeHealth Care will have several more clinics coming up for those that have yet to get their flu shot.

Reynoldsville Senior Center Wednesday, Oct. 28th, 10am to Noon; Pine Street Senior Center, Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 10am to Noon and Saturday, November 7th from 8am to 11am at the Pine Street Senior Center which will be co-sponsored by the Punxsutawney Lions Club. PHHC also provides seasonal flu vaccine to homebound patients. For more

At

Volunteer Sue Shields from Punxsutawney HomeHeatlh Care giving flu shot to Sue McCoy of Punxsutawney during the Flu Clinic at Punxsutawney County Market.

information regarding a seasonal flu vaccine administration call PHHC at 814-938-2431.

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PUNXSUTAWNEY HOME HEALTH CARE

• Skilled nursing • Social Services • Physical/Speech occupational/ Therapy • Home iv nursing Care • Home Health aides

SErviCES availablE To all individualS rEgardlESS of agE. MEdiCarE CErTifiEd.

• Health & Wellness Education • Maternal Child Care • Enterostomal Therapy • Community Wellness Screenings

938-2431 Station Square Suite 15, Punxsutawney

our dedicated staff of professionals celebrates providing the community with the highest standard of care for over 30 years.

Punx’y Cemetery Art Continued from page 13 as a stonecutter in 1882, at age 15. In his trade, he was described as “a pioneer in artistic cemeterial sculpture.” Born in Smicksburg, he moved to Punxsutawney in 1884. His talent and skills with many huge granite markers in cemeteries throughout Jefferson, Clearfield, Cambria, Indiana, and Clarion counties were often acknowledged in stories about the placement of the magnificent granite tombstones, 12 to 20 feet tall, in area cemeteries.

One stone done by C. M. Neal, erected in 1898 at Circle Hill Cemetery, was described in detail, “It is a beautifully ornamented shaft of

HaLLoWEEn CoLoRing ConTEST EnTRY FoRM While many tombstone cutters from the past can not be identified, in the late 19th century, Punxsutawney’s Charles m. Neal was widely recognized in a five-county area as “a pioneer in artistic cemeterial sculptural.” His 17-foot, granite monument in the Circle Hill Cemetery for the Neal family is one among many in the cemetery near Punx’y. (Hometown photo by Thomas Curry)

dark Vermont granite. It is fifteen feet high and weighs ten tons ... at each of the four corners of the die, are four richly carved Corinthian columns, and upon the top of the whole is a draped urn. Design and workmanship are of very superior order” (Punxsutawney Spirit, May 4, 1898). In 1899, Neal was credited for a 17-foot monument for the S. T. North and Sanford Neal family plot at Circle Hill Cemetery.

Neal purchased the Robinson’s company in 1900.

By 1904, the labor and time needed in doing his work was improved when an air compressor had been installed in his “marble works” on South Gilpin Street, on the site where Deeley’s Funeral Home had been. The chisel and mallet were put aside as cutting tools for the stones. Neal moved to California in 1909.

Frequently, individuals and perhaps communities, too, have mixed feelings about old cemeteries. Are they a waste of land? Could they be better used instead of being an attraction for vandals? Those people who look after cemeteries are the first to recognize their values, which are usually many and varied – respect for our forefathers, religious, genealogical research, artistic characteristics that reflect social history and spiritual meanings in culture.

Today, many smaller graveyards such as Punxsutawney’s old North Findley Street cemetery and the old Clayville cemetery, and the many church and countryside cemeteries in the area, are in danger because no one is there to care for them. I wish it was not so. The history they hold could be lost.

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Name __________________________ Phone ______________ Address____________________________________________ City______________________ State_____ Zip_____________ Return entry form and coloring page by Nov. 7, 2009: Hometown Coloring Contest Punxsutawney Hometown magazine, P.o. Box 197 Punxsutawney, PA 15767

Contest Rules 1. Contest open to children ages 10 and under.

2. Complete the entry form.

3. mail the entry and coloring page to Hometown Coloring Contest, P.o. Box 197, Punx’y, PA 15767.

4. All entries must be received

by Nov. 7, 2009.

5. one winner will be randomly

drawn from all entries for a $20 gift certificate to an advertiser in Hometown magazine.

6. Hometown magazine retains the right to make any final desicions regarding the contest, and by submitting an entry, contestants agree to abide by the rules of the contest.

Costumes • Masks • Accessories Adults - Children - Plus Sizes - Pets 10% off SaleS • 20% off rentalS Costume & Theatrical Needs

• The Costume Shop • 33 North 6th St., Indiana, PA

724-465-2260 • www.tcsindiana.com

October Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10-8; Sat. 10-5; Sun. Noon-4

Senator Joseph Scarnati Have a fun and safe Halloween!

Gigliotti Costume Shop Over 300 Children & adult Costumes $

2500 and Up

walston, pa

938-2346

Bring the Whole Family Neale’s Pumpkin Farm Pumpkins, Gourds, Indian Corn & Much More

Open Now thru Oct. 31 Hours: Mon.-Fri. 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Sat. & Sun. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Sprankle Mills Rd. Punx’y

938-9040 Punxsutawney Hometown – October 2009 – 19

Chamber Debuts New Gift Certificate Program T he Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce has begun a new gift certificate program. Called “Punxsutawney Gift Checks,” the new program makes available a gift certificate that can be purchased and redeemed at the

holder’s choice of over 100 local businesses.

Punxsutawney Gift Checks are on sale at the Chamber of Commerce/Phil’s Souvenir Shop location downtown, and online at Groundhogstuff.com. The gift checks come in denominations of $5, $10, $15, $20, and $25, with other denominations available with advance notice. Each gift check comes with a brochure that names the local businesses where the gift checks can be used.

Businesses must be a member of the Chamber of Commerce to participate in the

program.

According to Chamber Director Marlene Lellock, the Gift Check program replaces the Chamber’s former program, which was discontinued in February of this year when the company that administered it declared b a n k r u p t c y.

Lellock is hopeful that Punxsutawney Gift Checks will pick up where Certifichecks left off.

“Because we are administering the program,” she said, “we have more flexibility to make specific denominations readily available and we can accommodate special requests more easily, such as making up large quantities of Gift Checks for businesses that want to give them to employees for Christmas.”

With these new features, Lellock hopes to entice even more people to use the Gift Checks as a great gift idea. “We hope that making the program a little bit easier for people to use will increase the sales of the Gift Checks and keep more money in our local economy.”

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Community Happenings rom the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here are Punx’y events to look forward to.

To schedule an event on the Community Calendar, visit www.punxsutawney.com/calendar to complete the submission form. n OctoberFest in Downtown sponsored

by PRIDE will be held Saturday, October 24 beginning at 9 a.m. Join the fun with carriage rides, spooning for apples, sidewalk chalk art, the announcement of the winner of the Scarecrow Decorating Contest, and specials in the stores! n The Punxsutawney Concert Association presents Daniel Rodriquez on Thursday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Punxsutawney High School Auditorium. To purchase a subscription for the season or tickets for this event, contact Bessie Depp at 814-938-5333.

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n Childrens Halloween Party at the Pantall Hotel on Saturday, October 31 from 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. All children in Halloween costumes will receive a free treat bag with surprises and all children will eat free all day on Oct. 31st if dressed in a Halloween costume n Enter a float or unit in the Home for the Holidays Parade today! The parade will be held Saturday, November 28 (the Saturday after Thanksgiving) beginning at 6 p.m.

Entry forms are available by calling the Chamber office at 938-7700. Deadline to enter is November 14. n Punxsutawney Gift Checks are now on sale at the Chamber of Commerce/Souvenir Shop and on-line at Groundhogstuff.com.

Redeemable at over 100 local businesses, the gift checks come in denominations of $5, $10, $15, $20 and $25 and make a terrific gift!

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20 – Punxsutawney Hometown – October 2009

Start your holiday shopping early and visit these local businesses during Oktober Fest!

TRAILHEAD GALLERY With each purchase in October, you get a chance to Win One Of tWO prizes Lighted Gourd by Linda Juliette (value $50) “Daybreak”

by Judith Gibson (value $350)

Let Us frAMe Your photos or Keepsakes.

We offer the best prices on framing and we want you to compare!

fEAturIng loCAl ArtIStS Work 938-1004

124 W. Mahoning St. Punx’y (Downtown)

Teisha’s

Flair For Hair STYlISTS: Anteisha Stahlman, Owner Michelle Long Becca Rummel Sandy Serrian

For Appointment Call

938-3438

238 N. Findley St., Punxsutawney

HaIr Trends 114 W. Mahoning sreet, Punx’y

938-4247 “Wet Hair”

& Day Spa

let us comfort you with our cost “cutting” prices. $24.95 Full set / $15.95 Fill $24.95 Pedicure $13.95 Just a Cut (hair must be clean & product free)

Walk-In HaIr & naIls Only!

largest salon & staff in the area to better serve you.

Spa Party Sampler Massage, Facial & Pedicure

7499

$

Bring your friends to Hair Trends.

“Fall” in love with our service and relaxing atmosphere.

Book your spa party today! 938-4247 “Wet Hair”

KORNER KUPBOARD 9 Rooms of: • Antiques • Collectibles • Quality Furniture • Refinishing Products • Melissa’s Primitive Wicks

Halloween Trick or Treat Sale 2nd Floor Everything 1/2 Off

abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, american eagle, aeropostale Hurley, Fox & More!

653-2178

502 Main St., Reynoldsville

FaLL MeRCHaNDiSe HaS aRRiVeD! New SHiPMeNT eVeRy week.

Hours: Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Closed Sun. & Mon. Owners: Pat & Doc Gordon

Hours: Thurs.-Fri.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm 527 e. mahoning St., Punx’y (Across From Kuntz motors)

Van Dyke & Company AND

The Mahoning Valley Ballet FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 7:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, NOV. 28, 2:00 p.m.

wearing apparel from the store are Brittany Smith, Searra wasicki, olivia Brink & dylan wasicki.

at the Punxsutawney Area High School Name________________ Address ______________ _____________________ Phone________________ Email ________________

All That Glitters Christmas Shop

sat. & sun. Nov. 14th & 15th 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday - Holiday Pet photos from 2-4 p.m. by Curly Bear Productions.

Portions of proceeds go to GoodPawsCause.org

Instore Specials • Refreshments

Country Lighting Tart Warmers Candles Visit our Celtic Room for Tartan & Celtic Jewelry

“Great Gifts & Homespun Hospitality Regular Hours: 7570 Rt. 119 Marion Center Tue.-sat. 10-5 Just South of the ‘Rayne Drop Inn’ sun. in Nov. & Dec. open 1 to 5

724-397-2442

Includes name in the program & 2 reserved center section seats

Sugar Plums..............................@$100 ____ Includes name in the program & 4 reserved center section seats

Total ____

Send Self Addressed Stamped Envelope or pick up at door.

Send checks payable to: Van Dyke & Co. P.O. Box 146, Punxsutawney, PA 15767

724-349-5768

windgate

cay & dan enerSon, proprietors

Banquet Room • Private Parties Seminars • Weddings Wine-of-the Month Tastings • Join us on the 3rd Weekend of Every Month to sample our wine-of-the month at the Windgate salesroom. Refreshments served noon to 5 p.m.

• on Wine-of-the Month sundays, see how wine is made with an owner-led tour of the winery (1 & 3 p.m. on sundays only)

vinEyaRds & WinERy

Award Winning Wines:

Red Raspberry Shamokin Red Blueberry

Silver: Silver: Bronze:

Reserved $15

Includes 2 reserved seats for each performance

Tues. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sun. 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.

www.thistle&pine.com

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Candy Canes.............................@$55 ____

953 North Ben Franklin Rd., Indiana exactly 2 miles from YMCA

Check us out at:

# of Tickets Needed

Check Performance General $13 (Center Section) __Fri. 11/27 7pm _________ ________ __Sat. 11/28 2pm _________ ________ Parents Pkg.................................@$85 ____

Ethnic Christmas Ornaments • Tea Pots & Cookie Jars Fontanini Nativities • Snowmen, Santas & Angels Christmas Clocks, Heritage Lace, Chocolate Advent Calendars, Garlands, Wreaths, Door Decorations, Huge Selection of Unique Ornaments and Much, Much More.

appointment recommended. walk-ins welcome.

Call 814-938-8434 for more info

Send order before 11/18/09

on Sale now!

Punxsutawney Gift Checks IndIana Mall Oakland Ave. indiana

Open Mall HOurs

The Shop aT The WInery 1998 Hemlock Acres Rd., Smicksburg

Open Daily 12-5 • (814) 257-8797

pITTSburgh MIllS locaTIon Galleria at Pittsburgh mills, 327 Pittsburgh mills Circle, Tarentum

Open Mall HOurs • (724) 274-5901 e-mail: danielenerson@aol.com • www.windgatevineyards.com 814-257-8797 Fax: 257-8616

punxsy Sew n Vac Brittany Ludwick - New Owner

Sales, Accessories, Repair & Service, Alterations, Embroidery Fabric & Sewing notions now available with new Fabrics arriving Monthly

814-938-9382

PRESENTED BY

The Nutcracker

Christmas Open House

Celtic & Country Collectibles

The Nutcracker

New NaMe BRaND CLoTHiNG aT GReaT Low PRiCeS

October 27 thru Oct. 31

Bad Weather - Call Ahead

obsessive apparel

129 w. Mahoning St. Downtown punx’y (next to Miller bros.)

the new gift certificate program from the Chamber of Commerce. Redeemable at over 100 local businesses!

Punxsutawney Gift Checks

Give the gift of choice and keep money circulating in our local economy! availablE aT THE CHaMbEr/SouvEnir SHoP

102 W. Mahoning Street downtown also available online at: WWW.gRoundHogSTuFF.CoM

100 W. Mahoning Street downtown Punxsutawney LocaL & RegionaL aRtists Recognized as a Pennsylvania wilds aRtisan tRail RetaileR Table arT • PerSonal acceSSorieS • HoMe Décor jewelry • PrinTS • arT glaSS • PHoTograPHy ScenTS • baby & ToDDler gifTS

gift Certificates available 814-938-1255 • www.fairladycompany.com Extended Holiday Shopping Hours: Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Punxsutawney Hometown – October 2009 – 21

Volunteers Needed for Groundhog Day 2010

A

re you an outgoing person? Do you crave adventure? Would you like to meet people from all over the world? If this sounds like you, then your help is needed for Groundhog Day 2010.

Groundhog events start at noon on February 1 and continue throughout February 2, 2010.

Volunteers will work in the heated celebration tent located in Barclay Square.

Whether you're an early-bird or a nightowl, there is a time for you. Please help to make this celebration memorable for our guests. Volunteer a few hours of your time.

If you can help, contact Laura Shaffer at the Chamber of Commerce, 938-7700, ext.

3, 2010.

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FirST eVer

PUNXSy ANImAl wellNeSS SPA

Burkett’s

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Rainbow Mountain Alpacas

Farm Visits • Fiber Sales • Spinning Classes

P.A.W.S.

Quality Suri & Huacaya Bloodlines • Large Selection of Patterns & Colors Exceptional, Beautiful Fleece • Financing Arrangements • Brokering Boarding and Support Services • New Clinical/Grooming Facility

Treat your family pet to a day at the spa.

THey’ll loVe yoU FoR IT! PlUS our hands-on grooming can detect various problems.

242 NoRTH FINdley STReeT • PUNXSUTAwNey GO STEELERS!!!

938-3974 or 1-866-884-7964

Pet Halloween Party at Thistle and Pine

“Yappy” Halloween Party will be held for pets from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 25 at Thistle and Pine Country Collectibles, Route 119, Marion Center.

cutest Pet contest

beau

Curious about these beautiful animals?

Call to arrange a farm visit.

Alpacas make great pets!

2346 St. John Rd., punx’y • e-Mail: rainbowmtalpaca@yahoo.com Office phone: 814-939-7079 • Farm phone: 814-938-3792

Point

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Carulli Computer Support

chance

tiny tiff

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Jackson

BROWN S&M R.D. MEMORIALS

GRoomING & BoARdING We are now a

Verizon Wireless Retailer Cats and dogs are welcome to participate in a parade, costume contest, and pet photos. Refreshments will be available. For more information, phone (724) 397-2442.

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938-6241 230 W. Mahoning St. PUNX’Y Hopey, Greeter at Carulli Computer Support

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80 YANkASkY DR. ROSSITER, PA

Remember Your Pet...

938-8474

By Appt. Only

It’s a “PAW-fECt” Pleasure to serve you!

938-2100 314 N. Findley Street • Punx’y

Contest Proceeds Benefit Gateway Humane Society of Jefferson County Enjoy a Longer Healthier Life With Your Pets!

Posh Pets Grooming Salon Brooke D. DeJohn-Shumaker

Brookville V

eterinary Hospital

542 South Main St. Ext. (Rt. 436) Punxsutawney

103 Allegheny Blvd., Brookville 814-849-2211 • www.brookvillevet.net James B. Shields, VMD - Owner Marin Boghean, DVM - Associate Jason Chamberlin, VMD - Associate mon.-Fri. 8 am to 6 pm; Sat. 8 am to Noon

DOCTOR IS ON CALL FOR EMERGENCIES

Bring your “DEAR” family, to visit our “DEER” family.

Brooke’s

OPEn DAily MAy 1 TO DEC. 1 10 A.M. TO DuSk

RT. 36, 3 MilES SOuTh Of COOk fOREST STATE PARk

GLOW IN THE DARK Indoor Mini Golf (Summer Season)

938-8921

Hours: Mon. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Tue. 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Wed. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Thur. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Bacha’s UPPeR GRoom Call to schedule your grooming appointment.

Beth Bacha, C.A.H.

brodi

brutis

hoPey

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242 NoRTH FINdley STReeT • PUNXSUTAwNey

939-3720

Miniature Horses FOR SALE

maximus

mercy

sadie

sebastian

VoTe for the cutest pet - Deadline for votes is nov. 6 Punxsutawney hometown magazine

cutest Pet contest Contest Benefits Gateway Humane Society of Jefferson County Employees and independent contractors of Hometown Punxsutawney magazine and their families are ineligible to participate.

join THe Fun!

PET NAME: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– YOUR NAME: ––––––––––––––––––––––––– PHONE: –––––––––– YOUR ADDRESS ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

To cast your vote for ‘The cutest pet,’ complete ballot and mail to:

one random voter will receive a $20 gift certificate to an advertiser in Hometown magazine.

cutest pet contest

punxsutawney Hometown magazine p.o. box 197, punxsutawney, pa 15767 or drop off the the hometown office

Make one of these loveable miniatures part of your family.

Once you see them you’ll fall in love!

Contact Rick or Colleen at rack1047@comcast.net to set up a time to stop by and see these great miniatures for yourself.

Punxsutawney Hometown – October 2009 – 23

Archaeologists dive for clues to early prehistoric settlement

By David Templeton Pittsburgh Post-Gazette nerous searches often are compared with finding needles in haystacks. But two archaeologists are involved in a search dramatically more challenging.

That's because they've had to find the

O

proverbial haystacks long before even thinking about finding the proverbial needles.

C. Andrew Hemmings, a research associate at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa., and James Adovasio, director of the school's Archaeological Institute, plan next summer to dig for evidence of prehistoric humans 130 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico seabed.

It might sound odd, at least initially, that clues to human habitation of North America are submerged in the Gulf of Mexico.

But as far back as 22,000 years ago, a substantial portion of Earth's water was in the form of glacial ice atop the continents. Ice two miles thick, for example, covered current-day Erie, Adovasio said. Much shallower oceans meant coastlines extended hundreds of miles onto the continental shelves. So what once was dry coastline now is 130 to 160 feet underwater.

That means more than 9 million square miles of what used to be the coastlines of the world now are underwater, Adovasio said.

That left the research team a 350,000square-kilometer area of the gulf to locate target spots, where they could dig through sediment and silt to turn up evidence of prehistoric humans.

Their finds, they said, could help answer questions that have lingered since 1492.

When did American Indians first venture to the Americas? What route did they take?

And once here, did they stick to the coast or immediately head inland?

Decades ago, an Adovasio team's excavation at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Jefferson Township, Pa., revealed human artifacts dating back 14,000 to 16,000 years. But Meadowcroft, widely considered the most ancient human site in North America, sits 380 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

Based on settlement patterns in Australia, people tend to live along coastlines, sometimes for millennia, before venturing inland.

That would suggest that humans had settled in North America long before they ventured inland to the Meadowcroft Rockshelter.

"In the grand scheme of things, the last chunk of land colonized by humans is the New World," Hemmings said. "The honest answer in my opinion is, we can't say within 5,000 years when people got here.

We don't know."

Motivated to answer such questions, the Adovasio-Hemmings team landed a grant through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with matching grants from Mercyhurst and other universities participating in the research.

Using a side-scan sonar device and a subbottom profiler aboard the research vessel Weatherbird II, the team traced the ancient riverbed of the Suwannee River from near Tampa, Fla., 100 miles into the gulf.

Next they pinpointed the ancient confluence of the Suwannee and St. Marks-Aucilla rivers, which represent a coveted haystack where they hope to find human artifacts. Such a confluence likely would lure prehistoric humans, especially if it had an outcrop of chert -- the hard stone from which prehistoric people made tools and weapons.

"The successful tracking of the St. MarksAucilla and Suwannee rivers between 50 and 150 kilometers, respectively, represents what we believe to be the most extensive delineation of submerged prehistoric river systems ever done anywhere in the world," Adovasio said in a news release.

Hemmings' expertise is underwater archaeology -- a difficult task considering high costs, sizable dangers and the limited time available deep underwater to do any

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3. Enter one of the participating advertisers on page 24 & 25 in the space provided to redeem your coupon should you be the contest winner.

4. Clip and forward the coupon to: Steelers Football Contest, Punxsutawney Hometown, P.O. Box 197, Punxsutawney, PA 15767 5. All entries must be received at the Punxsutawney Hometown office

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8. Punxsutawney Hometown retains the right to make any final decisions regarding the contest, and by submitting an entry, contestants agree to abide by the rules of the contest.

nogacek's

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One kill-or-be-killed shot at dropping grizzly saves Canadian bow hunter

By Ian Bailey Toronto Globe and Mail ith a grizzly bear straddling him, so close he could smell its “musky, wet-dog smell,” Rory Chapple knew he had one shot at avoiding a mauling or death.

The veteran bow hunter, flat on his back after tripping, with the 600-pound sow looming over him, pulled an arrow from the quiver on his compound bow and plunged it into the bear’s chin.

There had been no time to draw the arrow and shoot the bear.

Chapple’s only warning of what was to come was a “huff, huff, huff” sound behind him.

He turned and saw the bear coming “full charge” at him.

He tripped, was on his back, then the bear was on him.

But the aluminum-shaft arrow with a three-bladed stainless-steel point did its job.

“Those (arrows) are designed to have zero resistance,” said Chapple, 39, of Fort St. John, British Columbia.

“Just like a hot knife through butter, they’re designed to penetrate and cut. It went in lickety-split.”

He was aiming for the bear’s mouth, “but my aim was off,” which was no surprise, as the bear was atop him, although not positioned in a way that put all her crushing weight on him.

What happened when the arrow sank in is hard to forget, he said.

“Instantly her breathing changed,” he recalled.

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“I was just thinking how close I was to dying. Had I not happened to stick that arrow in exactly the right spot, there’s no doubt I would have been mauled pretty good for sure.”

He suffered a sore back and his pants were torn.

All of this happened on Sept. 8 at about 6:30 a.m. after Chapple left his tent ahead of four hunting buddies, hoping to get an early start on the day’s hunting near the Kechika River, eight hours drive plus a three-hour boat ride from Fort St. John.

Chapple, an auto-body repair technician, has been an archer since he was 14.

He has hunted throughout his life, largely using a rifle, but decided to turn to a bow and arrow for the challenge — you have to get closer to prey than when hunting with a firearm.

He has taken black bears before, shooting behind the front shoulder through the heartlung area.

He had always hoped to get a grizzly.

Jeff Ginter, regional operations manager of the provincial conservation officers’ service, said that his staff planned to interview Chapple for further details on the incident to gather information on attacks for their database and to help decide whether the grizzly should be tracked down.

Other hunters may be at risk from the animal, he said.

Chapple and his friends went looking for the grizzly after the incident, but found no sign of her.

Ginter said, on average, three British Columbians are injured by black bears each year, and three by grizzly bears.

In the past 23 years, there have been six fatal attacks by grizzlies and eight by black bears, he said.

Ginter said Chapple’s experience is unique.

“This is the first I have heard of an arrow (being used) like that,” he said, although he said he has heard of people fending off bears with knives and shovels, among other tools.

Chapple, president of his local archery club, said a friend is making a glass case for the arrow in question, now bent and twisted.

“It will be up on the mantel for sure.”

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oward Heinriche of Punxsutawney found work in 1888 with the Hollingwood Lumber Company of Montreal in the Lake of the Woods region, Manitoba.

In early January of that year, Heinriche and a Swede named Ivanoski journeyed to the forest north of the lake to mark timber for cutting. Manitoba was no place to be exposed to the elements, especially in the months with the lowest temperatures. Upon their arrival, Heinriche and Ivanoski constructed a rough log hut to shield themselves from the extreme cold and windy nights.

After working for several days in the area, a huge snowstorm hit the region. Forgetting to pack their snowshoes — a necessity for Canadian winters — the lumbermen were restricted to their encampment for three days, keeping as warm as possible around the small fire in the center of the hut.

During the third night of the storm, Heinriche was awakened by a terrified scream.

A grizzly in search of food, upon finding the scent of the two lumbermen, stalked its prey and had clawed its way through the snow into the crude shelter.

Ivanoski was stretched on the floor of the cabin as the bear mauled and chomped at his face. The astonished Heinriche reacted

quickly and grabbed his Winchester rifle and fired at the animal. The wounded bear sprang on him, seizing his arm in its powerful jaws, crushing it to the bone and nearly tearing it off. Expecting to be killed, the attack suddenly ended and Heinriche’s life was spared. The bullet struck a mortal spot. The grizzly fell on Heinriche and lay motionless upon him, dead.

Suffering through incredible pain, Heinriche struggled to escape from beneath the heavy weight of the bear. Once free, he turned his attention to Ivanoski, and found to his horror that he was dead, his head nearly chewed off, hanging only by threads of flesh.

For the following three days, Heinriche, unable to move because of his lacerated arm, lay immobile in the cabin, expecting death to come at any moment.

When some lumbermen, who were making their way through the area, unexpectedly stumbled upon the bloody scene, they didn’t hesitate to cut off Heinriche’s injured arm in order to save his life. They buried the Swede under the hut.

Even though he lost his arm, Heinriche recuperated. He returned to Punxsutawney to tell his Hometown tale, recounting that it had been his swift reaction — a few decisive seconds for him to snatch his rifle and pull the trigger — that brought him home.

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October 6, 1886 — Walston, backed by the push, energy and money of the Coal Company, is building up rapidly.

Among the latest improvements is a physician’s office; laboratory for chemical and medical experiments, and twelve new blocks. Besides these, a hotel is in course of erection and new tipples for the slope are to be built soon.

Mr. D. P. Frampton, who has the contract for putting up these buildings, will soon begin on ten blocks at the Company’s new town, Adrian.” (The Valley News) October 7, 1903 — Punxsutawney has a full-fledged anti-swearing society which is becoming quite popular. Already the membership numbers about 25. Each member carries a little passbook and every time he utters an oath he fines himself five cents and out comes his little book in which he records the “cuss word,” the date and the amount is set opposite. The members meet once a week in McAfee’s tailor shop when all the fines are turned in. The money goes to charity. It is a good move and there are many in this town, including boys, who might be benefitted by joining.

(Punxsutawney News) October 13, 1897 — A Projectoscope exhibition will be given on thursday and Friday evening, October 14th and 15th, in Municipal hall for the benefit of the Congregational church. The Projectoscope show life size pictures on a large canvas in life motion, and action. Street

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Every man in town wanted one in front on his house, but as there are several hundred houses in town and only about twenty lamps, it could not be done. For our own part we think the lamps were very judiciously placed, especially the one which was placed in front of our residence. (Punxsutawney Spirit) October 20, 1870 — OUR TOWN was visited by Hamilton & Rowdon’s Indian Show and Trained Horses, last Saturday.

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Archaeologists dive Continued from page 24

digging.

Last summer, he and three other divers went down 130 feet to the target site, where they found chert. But with only nine minutes of air available, they had neither the time nor a dredge necessary to dig for artifacts. They will present their findings in upcoming presentations and papers with plans to reapply for NOAA funding to extend their project and dig for artifacts.

Any artifacts older than 16,000 years would alter perceptions about the earliest human history in North America.

"We found the haystacks," Hemmings said. "Now we have our hands on the needle cases."

Excavation at the site, he said, could turn up leaves, shells, seeds, wood and cordage, bone, ivory and tools that early humans left behind. If so, the location could prove that humans lived in North America as many as 26,000 years ago -- or 10,000 years earlier than Meadowcroft.

Still, the Gulf of Mexico seems an unlikely location for researchers to solve landbased mysteries of prehistory.

"We are missing the first chapter of archaeology if we are not looking underwater," Hemmings said. "There are good reasons specifically to be in this place."

(David Templeton can be reached at dtempleton@post-gazette.com. For more stories, visit scrippsnews.com.)

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HouRs: Mon-Fri. 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sat. 8 a.m. to Noon

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Winter Tires Are In Stock...

Ready to Go...

24 HOUR Road Service Available

WE DO MECHANICAL WORK

• Computer Diagnostics • state Inspections • Computerized Wheel Alignment • steering & suspension Repairs • Brake service

Are YOU Protected?

Family Home Care Since 1972

Pisano’s Personal Care Home

“We salute our firefighters during fire Prevention awareness Month and all year long! Thank you for helping us protect the families of the Punxsutawney area!

24 Hour Care Licensed Under Labor & industry Rehabilitation Services nurse on Staff 24 Hours a day

We’ll keep you protected!

“Home away from Home”

ShieldS inSUrAnce

RD 1 - 756 Stonetown Rd. Rossiter • 938-7407

221. W. Mahoning St., Punx’y

814-938-4055

938-5291

www.valleytireco.com

We Salute our Local Firefighters!

JAWCo Fire, Inc. Catch the Community Spirit!

102 Indiana St., Punxsutawney

(814) 938-5770 www.cf-bank.com

Member FDIC

On behalf of Acme Machine and Welding Co., We would like to salute our employees that volunteer their time keeping our community safe, along with all of the other local fire departments.

acme Machine 46 Anchor Inn Road Punx’y • 938-6702

october is Fire Prevention month

PlEASE SUPPORt OUR lOCAl FiRE DEPARtMEntS

sCHeDule YouR sNoW PloWINg NoW! Proud supporter of our Firefighters

Sam Smith State Representative

On e Job Working For You

JACQUe INSURANCe

PeRRy 814.938.7110 31 universal drive, suite B punxsutawney, pa 15767

Funeral Home

Dr. Rick Bishop Tel: 814.938.3111 Fax: 814.618.1037

PooLS • SPaS • aCCESSoRiES Service & installation

HouRs: Mon.-Fri. 9-6 sat. 9-? • sun. Closed

Commemorating Our Local Firefighters for Serving Our Community

Auto ~ Home Business ~ Life

Richard L. Fait

The Pool guys Layaway your pool in the FALL, so you can swim in the SPRING!

938-8600

•Big Run •Central •elk Run •lindsay •mcCalmont •oliver •Perry •Rossiter

PAid FOR by THE CiTiZENS FOR SAm SmiTH

old Man Winter is right around the corner...

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Committed to Excellence

PUNXSUTAWNEY BRANCH OFFICE

fire extinguishers fire suppression systems commercial kitchen exhaust systems

“We Serve As We Would Be Served. . .

Because We Care”

117 N. Jefferson Street Punxsutawney 938-8200

rick@drrickbishop.com www.drrickbishop.com 115 West Mahoning St. Punxsutawney

Saluting our local firemen!

Punxsutawney Hometown – October 2009 – 31

annual Fall open House Prizes and Refreshments

Saturday, october 31st from 9 am to 5 pm Huge Savings on all ATVs and Rangers

EAST AMERICAN MOTORSPORT

2 miles south of Punxsutawney on Rt. 119

814-938-4230

www.eastamericanmotorsport.com

Offers good on new and unregistered units purchased between 7/22/09 and 10/31/09. Offers only available at participating Polaris dealers. *Polaristar Payment Protection provided by cynoSure Financial, inc. must purchase and take delivery by 10/31/09. Other restrictions apply. See your participating Polaris dealer for details. void where prohibited by law. Polaris reserves the right to terminate the program at any time. **Rebates vary by model and are only available on select ATv and RANGER® vehicles. ***Offer is good at participating u.S. Polaris dealers and subject to product availability. On approved Polaris StarCard® qualified consumer purchases. Reduced Rate 9.99% APR and the following payments are effective if your Account is kept current: $59 for purchases financed up to $5,000 (ATv only). Specified payments may be increased due to debt-cancellation fees or any late fees (if applicable). After the promotional period, the standard minimum monthly payment and Standard Rate 21.99% APR will apply. For Accounts not kept current, the promotion will be canceled and the default Rate 21.99% APR and standard monthly payments will apply. Paying only the amount advertised will not pay off the purchase during the promotional period. minimum Finance Charge: $1. Certain rules apply to the allocation of payments and Finance Charges on your promotional purchase if you make more than one purchase on your Polaris StarCard. Call 1-888-367-4310 or review your cardholder agreement for information. Warning: ATvs can be hazardous to operate. For your safety, avoid operating Polaris ATvs or RANGERs on paved surfaces or public roads.

Riders and passengers should always wear a helmet, eye protection, protective clothing, and a seat belt on RANGER vehicles. Riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. Polaris adult ATv models are for riders aged 16 and older. 90cc ATv models and RANGER RZR® 170 models are intended for riders aged 12 and over, and 50cc ATv models are only intended for riders aged 6 and over. drivers of RANGER vehicles must be at least 16 years old with a valid driver’s license. All ATv riders should take a safety training course. For ATv safety and training information in the u.S., call the SviA at (800) 887-2887, see your dealer, or call Polaris at (800) 342-3764. vehicle is shown with optional equipment. ©2009 Polaris industries inc.

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