Tidioute Area News
By LINDA SCOTT CorrespondentWarning!
A warning to all parents and guardians.
Any children riding bicycles at night after dark must have headlight, back end reflectors and helmets.
Lenten Lunches
Wednesday, April 1 at Tidioute First United Methodist
Wednesday, April 8 at Tidioute Presbyterian Church
Each will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the respective churches and are open to all who wish to come, there is no charge for these lunches.
Bible Study
High School Religious Ed Classes for Grades 9-12 and Bible Study for Adults at St. John Church will continue from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m Sunday, April 5 and the Easter Vigil, Holy Saturday night will be April 11.
Salvation Army
Camp
Once again there will be an opportunity for Tidioute Youth to attend a week of camp at Camp Allegheny in Ellwood City.
Any youth wanting to attend should contact Arlene Cramer at 484-3395 or Jeri Lee Higgins at 484-2271.
It is best to register early to assure a spot at the camp.
Transportation will be provided to and from camp for those attending.
Chocolate Raffle
Members of the Tidioute Senior Center are selling chances on a three pound chocolate basket from Sarris Chocolates filled with various chocolates.
Tickets are $1 each and 2 for $5 and can be purchased at the Tidioute Senior Center from Doris Svitek and JoAnn Spor.
Easter Stocking
The Pennsylvania State Championship Fishing Tournament is holding a raffle on a six foot filled Easter Stocking.
Tickets are $1 each and the drawing will be on Saturday, April 11 during the Easter Egg Hunt.
If you wish to view the contents of this stocking please stop in at Polly's Market where you can also purchase tickets or purchase them from any committee member.
Winner need not be present to win.
Easter Egg Hunt
The Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held on Saturday, April 11 at 10 a.m. at Tippy Ballfield weather permitting.
In case of bad weather it will be held at the Tidioute Community Charter School.
The children will be divided into age groups for the hunting of the eggs.
KofC
The Tidioute Knights of Columbus members are selling calendars that run for one year, from June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010.
There are 365 chances to win and are only a donation of $25 each.
All winning numbers are determined by matching the three digit number of the PA Daily Lottery-PM Drawing only.
This is their most popular fund raiser since they have had so many winners.
All proceeds benefit the Erie Diocese Charities and are ear marked for the Youth Ministries Program.
There are lots of good numbers left-get yours today.
Contact Gary Koech at 484-2252.
Trash Day
The Spring Clean up day for Tidioute Borough will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 8 a.m. to noon.
Items are to be taken to the Tidioute Borough Garage at the end of Grant Street.
Garbage is not to be taken there, that needs to be placed at the curb on Thursday mornings.
Cost is $10 per pickup truck load, and $5 per car load. Appliances are $5 extra for each appliance.
NO batteries, tires or cans of paint.
Krispy Creams
Students at Tidioute Community Charter School are now taking orders for Krispy Cream Donuts until Thursday, April 2.
Stop in at the school office to place your order or order from your favorite student.
Your choices of donuts are Glazed for $6.50 per dozen and there are also Lemon Filled, Raspberry Filled, Cream Filled, and Chocolate Iced for $7 per dozen.
Donuts will be delivered Thursday, April 9 just in time for Easter.
All orders are pre-paid. Checks should be written to Tidioute Community Charter School.
This sale benefits Student Field Trips.
For more information please contact the Charter School at 484-3550.
Coming Home
Ross Fike, son of Terri and Ed Fike who suffered a severe head trauma in a car accident in November of 2007 is coming home from the rehabilitation facilities.
Since the accident Fike has had three surgeries and has been a patient in Ohio, Pittsburgh, and Erie rehabilitation facilities.
He is coming home to continue his recovery.
His family would like to invite those wishing to welcome him home to an Open House on Saturday, April 4 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church on Main Street Tidioute.
Ross is anxious to return home and appreciates the support everyone has shown him and his family over the last 16 months. And we all wish him well as he continues to recover.
Tidioute Bucktails
The Tidioute Bucktails will hold a meeting on Sunday, April 5 at the Bucktails Clubhouse on McCauley Hill.
This meeting will start at 7 p.m. and all members are urged to attend.
50th Anniversary
2009 is the 50th anniversary for the Pennsylvania State Championship Fishing Tournament.
A celebration committee has been formed to organize a host of events to commemorate the anniversary.
Chairman for these events is Deb Genter.
There will be meeting on April 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Tidioute Towers.
A represented from all Tidioute Businesses and/or organizations are invited to attend.
Chairman Genter would like to have input and ideas so this event can be a success.
Library setback
Tidioute Library was, last week, saddened to receive the sudden and unexpected resignation of its librarian, Heather Koech.
Heather has been an able and willing asset in her position and will be much missed.
Her departure has left an immediate void and the situation will take time for the board to assess and begin the hiring process.
Hours during the coming weeks will be limited and posted as soon as possible.
KofC meeting
The councils regular meeting will be held on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at St. John's Center at 7:30 p.m.
All members are asked to attend and bring another member/guest with them.
Be active. Be Involved. Need a Ride? Give another member a call.
Sports Boosters
Tidioute Community Charter School Sports Boosters will be holding a meeting on Monday, April 13 at 6 p.m. in the school Cafeteria.
All those interested in the TCCS Sports are asked to attend.
Your input and support is greatly appreciated.
TCCS Update
PSSA Testing has been completed, this is part of the No Child Left Behind Act. Testing took two weeks to complete.
The last two years Tidioute Community Charter School has made the Annual Yearly Progress.
The Drama Club has been busy writing their own play entitled "After Happily Ever After" which will be performing on May 15, 16, and 17 at the school.
Two senior high student attended District Chorus and six elementary students attended District Songfest.
TCCS Prides themselves in teaching with a "hands on" format such as expeditionary projects. Projects this year included students building working robots from household appliance parts and making a topographical map and drilling rigs replicas and they studied our local oil heritage and oil history of our nation.
This year any student in grades 3 through 12 who is on the honor roll every grading period will be rewarded with a special field trip.
A trip to Washington DC for secondary students and a trip to Pittsburgh for elementary students.
The school is hopeful that this will encourage the students to study hard.
SADD, Students Against Drunk Driving, will be hosting a motivational assembly and a mock "Car Crash" before the Prom.
Other Up-coming events include Bring your Little Kids to School day on April 9; Spring Concert for Kindergarten through grade 12 on May 12; Blood Drive on May 13; Senior high Students have a Math tournament at Jamestown Community College; and a Book Fair-Buy-one-Get-one Free on May 15, 16, and 17 at the school.
Soup winners
Sunday was the homemade Soup contest at the Tippy Canoe and Lorraine Zuendel won First Place with her Potato Soup; Polly and Nick took second place with Ham and Cabbage; and Sam Bower with Split Pea and Pizza Joe's Wedding Soup tied for Honorable Mention.
There were ten entries.
Judges were Denny Zuck, Skip Weilacher and Al Hall.
Lions Club
Two new members were installed into the Tidioute Lions Club, they were Shelia McAllister-sponsored by Betty Marshall and Denise Myers- sponsored by Jim Marshall and installed by District 14-F District Governor-Becky Eldridge.
Past District Governor Jim Eldridge gave an update on the District Convention to be held in Warren this year at the Holiday Inn on April 18.
A 50/50 raffle was won by Jim Marshall who donated the money back to the Lions club.
Dinner was prepared by the Presbyterian Women and consisted of pancakes, sausage and cheese omelets.
April birthdays
1. Angela York, Andrew Shields, Sara Barton, Helen Nelson, Lori Klos, Diane Rondinelli, Luke Morgan
2. Margaret Alberth, Caroline Storer-Duke
3. Barb Downey, Bob Anderson, Jamie Molek
4. John Konkle, Brady Dashner, Bronwyn Davis
5. Al Vanderpoel, Joe Sanderson, Scott Williams, John Robertson, Linda Reese
6. Jacinta Reese, Christi Nuttall, Roseanna Nicholson, Kristie Ziegler
7. Shawn Weaver, Shawn Silvis
8. Amanda Fulkman, William C Baker, JR., Emily Come, Jim King, Christopher York
9. Samuel Schwab, Carol Nicholson, Jake Barton, Marian Dashner, Joseph McLaughlin, Nathan Schwab, Jeremy Smithers
10. John McCauley, Denny Zuck, Denny Martin, Wade Adams, Craig Snavley, Doug Stover, Connie Peterson
11. Dayle Beck
12. Ryan Schwab, Matthew Nicholson, Linda Reed
13. Scott McKay, William F. Brown
14. Fran Stoneburg, Jimmy Konkle, Karen Craft, David Smithers, Christopher Molek
15. David Kane, Jennifer Nuttall, Christopher Shields, Alex Sabella, Danielle McCauley, Sue Gresham
16. Heather Higgins, Kathryn Sveda, Mark Williams
17. Jordan Wolford, Thelma Sabella, Marolyn Tipton, Chris Martin, April Gazalie, Melanie McLaughlin
18.Rob Konkle, Evan Duncan, Sally Sabella, Eugene Robertson, Wilma Watson
19. John Ziegler, Stephanie Jenkins
20. Ashton Frederick, Christian Baker, Lucas Sabella, Joe Kelly, Bev Morrison
21. Brandon Navarro, Stanley Kowalski, Kit Pascarella, Bob Degruttola, Ed Burris Jr
22. Mindy Calvin, Nancy Schwab
23. Jorge Navarro, Zebbie Martin, Susan Robertson
24. Robbie Kitelinger, Billy Yeager, Candy Druggan, Jimmie Williams, Charles Barton, Laurie Rehe Jessica Nuttall
25. Camille Sizemore, Neva Matie, Jesse Higgins, Mary Huntington
26. Tara Gerus
27. Janet Dygan, Kathy Morrison
28. Steven King, Sue Shields
29. Roxanne Pagley, Daryl Simons
30. Jenefer McKown, David Manning Jr., Bonnie Reese, Tommy Heenan.
TCCS news
The Little Dribblers Program will have its skill exhibition on Wednesday, April 1, at 6 p.m. in the gymnasium. Parents are invited to attend
No school on April 10th.
Buy One Get One Free Book Fair at TCCS on Thursday, April 16, from 9 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. and April 17 from 6 to 8 pm.
Movie Night at TCCS April 17 from 6 to 8pm.
The TCCS National Honor Society Induction Ceremony will be held April 15 at 5:30 with hors 'doeuvres to follow.
