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Windber Stadium Standouts

WINDBER-Most outstanding among the athletes to perform in Windber Stadium during the past year were tackle Edward Hordubay (left) and back Bob Hudy, both of Windber High School. Trophies were presented the pair during a banquet in honor of the Rambler team last night. The awards were sponsored for the fourth year by the Windber Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Stadium Titles Voted 2 Windber Gridders

Ed Hordubay, Bob Hudy Selected Best Performers on Windber Field

WINDBER-Two Windber High School Gridders were named as the outstanding back and lineman who played in Windber Stadium - during 1953.
Bob Hudy, halfback, and Ed Hordubay, tackle, were presented - trophies at a banquet in their honor last night in Mock's Dining Room. This is the fourth annual Windber Junior Chamber of Commerce award.
Hudy, Rambler back, led his - team in scoring with a total of 102 points and averaged nearly 102 yards every time he carried the ball during 10 games. He also played a stellar defensive game.
Hordubay bore the brunt of the Rambler defense besides being valuable as a blocker. He was considered by Coach John Kawchak as one of the team's best trappers. He also was one of the fastest players on the squad.
Presentation of the trophies was made by Coach Kawchak. He said that the selections were very good and that both players were valuable to the Ramblers' success during the past season.
Rev. Father John Yurcisin of Johnstown, pastor of Christ the Savior Cathedral, was master of ceremonies. Rev. Father Stephen Sedor, pastor of SS. Peter & Paul's Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, Windber, asked the invocation.
Selection by Committee
Robert Sherlock was chairman, of the athletic committee of the Jaycees, sponsors of the awards. The selections were made by a committee of Windber sports followers, who are not members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Brief remarks were made by Clyde E. Bounds, superintendent of Windber schools, John Lochrie, assistant coach; Frank J. Pasquerilla of Johnstown, state president of the Jaycees; Joseph Richter of Harrisburg, national director, and Ralph Peters, of State College, District 3.
Pass the Gavel Project
Attorney Alexander Ogle, president of Somerset Junior Chamber of Commerce, presented the gavel to Patrick Turcato, Windber president, as part of a state campaign. Attorney Ogle was accompanied to the meeting by other members of the Somerset group.
Chester Tokarsky, Windber quarterback was the first award winner in 1950. Other winners were John Slonac of Adams, 1951, and Fred Chicado of Shade Township Central City Borough Joint, 1952.
Hudy, a senior, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hudy of 411 Sixth Street. He has been a regular halfback for the Ramblers for the past three years.
Hordubay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hordubay, 1508 Veil Avenue, held down the left tackle spot for two seasons. He is a senior.
Honorable mention in the selections was voted to:
Backs-Joe Sloane and Bob Blanchetti, Adams; Terry Fagan, Windber; Ron Telenko and Park Baker, Conemaugh Township;
Wince Bestvina, Shade Township; Roger Barnhart, Richland Township, and Jim Dreier, Johnstown Linemen-Richard Myers, Adams; Tom Kanas and George Zindash. Windber, Steve Filyo, Shade Township; Bruce Lichty, Berlin; John Adams, Shade Township, and Don Progar, Adams.

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Arcadia Theater

A stunning lineup of live entertainment will help distinguish Windber's Arcadia Theater's 10th anniversary year.
The highlight of the 2008 season will be an appearance by former teen idol Frankie Avalon at 7:00pm October 25 at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, 326 Napoleon St., Johnstown.
A show of this magnitude is just too big for our 690-seat theater to accommodate, said Frank Cunsolo, Arcadia's president and program director.
It is appropriate because, over the last nine years, we have grown to become a regional theater.
Organizers are anticipating a good turnout, judging from the amount of interest already being generated.
We are getting calls every day, said Denise Mihalick, Arcadia's public relations director.
We didn't want to limit this concert to our theater alone, given its capacity, so we are making it available to the entire region.
Mihalick said tickets will be offered at different levels of pricing, including a gala ticket that will entitle patrons to attend a meet-and-greet dinner with Avalon at the Pasquerilla Conference Center, 301 Napoleon St., following the concert.
Cunsolo is proud that Arcadia is fulfilling its mission of providing a variety of quality, affordable, professional and cultural entertainment to the region, including a children's series.
We have found our niche by offering a wide variety of performances, including tribute shows that offer some of the most popular music from the past by top-notch performers, Cunsolo said.
We kick off our anniversary year January 18 with a tribute to legendary rockers, The Rolling Stones.
The show, titled Satisfaction, is a tribute to the 40 years of classic hits by the British band, with a playlist that includes "Angie", "Wild Horses", "Honky Tonk Woman", "Start Me Up" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
"This is a full production complete with a tribute band that looks like, sounds like and acts like Mick Jagger and company", Cunsolo said.
"We also have several tribute bands returning by popular demand, including The Machine Ð The Pink Floyd Experience. We could have sold out two performances for their show in 2007", he said.
Other than the gala, all shows at the theater, 1418 Graham Avenue, are scheduled for 8:00pm.
The Machine takes the stage on February 22 and faithfully re-creates Pink Floyd's timeless music.
The New York-based band performs a show comprised of a cross-section of the 16-album repertoire that Pink Floyd amassed during its 30-year tenure as pioneers of experimental rock.
The Brett Family Singers of Branson, Mo., will appear in Windber on March 29.
"This is real down-home, all-American family entertainment ", Cunsolo said. "It's a high-energy musical variety show that is provided by a father, mother and their three children".
Another act from Branson is "Swing, Swing, Swing ", a performance that is billed as an acclaimed Broadway musical Big Band show spanning the "swing era" of the 1940s and early 1950s.
On May 22, Fab Four returns to the Arcadia to pay tribute to The Beatles.
The group has uncanny, note-for-note live renditions of Beatles' songs. It performs such classics as "Can't Buy Me Love ", "Yesterday", "Penny Lane", "Here Comes the Sun" and "Hey Jude".
The Grammy-Award winning Jimmy Sturr and His Orchestra return June 13 to thrill the audience.
"They, too, are back by popular demand ", Cunsolo said.
"We had them here for a sellout show for (Windber's) Miners' Day celebration in June, and people were amazed at their musicianship, which includes Big Band, country and polkas".
On July 12, Rock 'n' Roll Doo-Wop Show featuring Shirley Alston Reeves and the Shirelles, and the Tokens bring classic sounds to the Arcadia.
Reeves, co-founder of the Shirelles, will offer favorite classics such as "I Met Him on Sunday", "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow", "Mama Said", "This Is Dedicated to the One I Love" and "Soldier Boy".
The Tokens are most famous for their hits "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", "One Fine Day", "See You in September" and "I Got Rhythm".
Hotel California, a salute to the Eagles, will be on stage August 26.
Hotel California, who accurately reproduces the sound of the Eagles, is comprised of five multitalented California professionals.
Each concert presents an exciting showcase of The Eagles mega-hits such as "Take It Easy", "Heartache Tonight" and "Hotel California".
The group also performs select titles from the solo works of Eagles Don Henley, Glen Frey and Joe Walsh.
Cunsolo said a September 27 concert will be a treat for those who love the music of Old Blue Eyes.
Simply Sinatra features the stylings of Steve Lipia and His Orchestra.
"No one is going to replace Frank Sinatra, but Steve Lipia puts on a blockbuster show", said Cunsolo, who has showcased the act. "Steve's sound is reminiscent of the younger Sinatra".
Lipia's repertoire includes such standards as, "I've Got You Under My Skin", "The Lady Is A Tramp", "Mack the Knife", "Just the Way You Are" and "That's Life".
Cunsolo said Avalon's appearance in October has been nearly a decade in the making.
"I knew he was the kind of entertainment we wanted to offer when we saw him in Pittsburgh nine years ago", Cunsolo said.
"He has been busy with other things, such as touring with 'Grease' and performing with the Golden Boys, featuring Bobby Rydell and Fabian.
He does only about 70 solo bookings a year".
Two Christmas shows will add a festive air to the season.
On Nov. 15, the Best of Broadway Christmas Show returns to the Arcadia for a long-awaited encore.
The show was performed during the theater's 1998 grand opening.
"They will be back, and it's only fitting that they help us celebrate our 10th anniversary season", Cunsolo said.
"It should be an unforgettable evening of music that will put people in a festive mood".
The show features four Broadway musical performers who will offer music from around the world in a celebration of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
The Lowe Family Christmas will showcase the family's gigantic talent on December 15.
Billed as the No. 1 holiday favorite from Branson, the show is described as colossal.
"This is the largest show we have ever offered at the Arcadia", Cunsolo said.
"Twelve family members demonstrate an unmatched versatility with many musicals instruments".
The Lowes offer an amazing blend of show-stopping classics, Broadway, Irish, jazz, bluegrass, old-time favorites, six-part harmony and gospel arrangements.
The Arcadia doesn't have a season-ticket policy, but a discount is available.
"When a person buys six tickets, they get the seventh at half price", said Mihalick.
"Without our sponsors, these shows would be impossible to bring to the stage because ticket sales come nowhere near covering expenses".

Information
What: 2008's 12-concert season.
Where: Arcadia Theater, 1418 Graham Ave., Windber.
Phone: 467-9070.


January 05, 2008 11:19pm
Company plans to burn waste coal

The Tribune-Democrat

BY KECIA BAL
CENTRAL CITY Ñ In a watershed marred by the ugly after-effects of coal mining, an international company is planning to turn piles of waste coal into profitable power creating at least 165 permanent jobs and helping to clean up abandoned mine drainage.
With a $900 million, waste-coal-burning power plant in Shade Township, Manhattan-based Sithe Global Power LLC could help treat abandoned mine drainage through both power production and by burning the by-products of past coal operations that now sit in piles in the township, leeching polluted water into the ground and nearby watershed.
"Right now, the coal is laying on the ground, polluting your streams", said Stephen G. Poje, development senior vice president for Sithe, the project's owner and developer.
The company has a design for a 300-megawatt power plant and has begun a lengthy permitting process that could include as many as 25 approvals from state, county and local agencies, said permitting consultant Robert J. Golden Jr. of TRC Companies Inc.
The power enough to run 300,000 residences for a year will be sold to an electric transmission grid, PJM Interconnections LLC.
At the soonest, the plant could be in production by mid-2013.
"It is an ongoing process", Golden said.
The coal is to be purchased predominately from PBS Coals Inc.'s Shade Preparation Plant, adjacent to the 200-acre site where Sithe wants to build the cogeneration plant. To minimize truck traffic, Poje said the waste coal would be transported via a conveyor belt from the PBS site south of Central City to the neighboring power plant.
"There is enough waste coal for the next 30 years there", Poje said. The plans also allow for accepting waste coal from conservation projects.
Over time, the plant could remove about 1.5 million tons of waste coal per year, he said.
The plant would use the cleanest technology available a circulating, fluidized bed boiler to convert otherwise useless coal into power, said Paul Shewchuk, project engineering manager for engineering firm WorleyParsons, based in Reading.
If it is economically feasible, water to run the plant could be piped from nearby abandoned mine discharges into Dark Shade Creek Reitz No. 3 and 4, which discharge 1,500 gallons of AMD per minute, and the Loyalhanna discharge, which gushes up to 1,700 gallons per minute said Maureen L. Casey, water treatment technical specialist for WorleyParsons.
"That is what we want to do at this point", she said.
As a by-product, the process would create an alkaline ash, which would be sent back to PBS via conveyor belt and then distributed to conservation groups as a tool to fight abandoned-mine drainage. The ash can be used to balance pH levels in acid-mine drainage areas, Poje added.
"Our intent is to be a good corporate citizen and a good neighbor", he said.
The facility itself would cover 15 acres of the 200-acre site between Rock Cut Road and Bunker Hill Road in Shade Township.
To run the plant, Sithe will need to hire about 65 workers from management to laborers. Another 100 to 200 employees will be needed to maintain trucks and make deliveries. At the peak of the plant's construction, Poje said up to 1,200 workers will be needed.
F. Gregory Nadeau, senior project manager for engineering firm WorleyParsons, said as many as 100 engineers could be working on this power plant.


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