Wendy and I went to Newlonsburg Presbyterian Church to join 50 others supporting Franklin Regional students upon their return to classes. [caption id="attachment_1455" align="alignnone" width="200"] Supporting Franklin Regional[/caption] Video from WPXI - Supporting Franklin Regional Students The Franklin Regional School District serves the communities of Export, Murrysville and portions of Delmont. It is located approximately twenty miles East of Pittsburgh. With over 3,600 students and nearly 400 staff members, the district operates three Elementary schools (Heritage, Newlonsburg, and Sloan), a Middle School, and a Senior High School. (Screenshot from msn.com) [caption id="attachment_1477" align="aligncenter" width="678"] Supporting Franklin Regional[/caption] Update: Year Anniversary A year ago Thursday, Greg Keener went into surgery with less than a 30 percent chance of survival. In the hallway of Franklin Regional High School earlier that day, the 15-year-old was stabbed, his liver pierced by an 8-inch kitchen knife. His only chance for survival, said Jehangir Badar, a surgeon on the Forbes Hospital trauma team, was for doctors to operate immediately, find the injury and stop the bleeding. “A few more minutes later and he would have died,” Dr. Badar said. In all, the teen spent 39 days in the hospital — 30 in the intensive-care unit — received more than 40 units...Read More
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Interesting facts about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Interesting facts about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Premiering on NBC December 6th, 1964, Rudolph has become the longest running, highest rated television special in the history of the medium. "At first Johnny Marks (composer of the classic song) didn't want to do the special," says Arthur Rankin. "He was very protective of the song. The song provided a very large income to Marks and he was afraid that over exposure of the hit song might interfere with it's success as a popular song. He was a neighbor of mine at the time and I eventually persuaded him to do the show and he wrote some very memorable songs in addition to Rudolph." The special originally premiered on the General Electric Fantasy Hour on NBC and G.E. sponsored the show for the first three broadcasts. There were many GE print ads with the Rudolph characters from 1964-66 and the soundtrack album was a premium when you purchased GE home appliances. During these early airings, Rankin/Bass (then known as Videocraft INT'L) produced the General Electric commercials complete with Christmas caroler elves in 'Animagic.' Tony Peters, the continuity designer on the show explains, "I worked at Videocraft since the beginning and when it came...Read More
Halloween at the Keys
[caption id="attachment_83" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Halloween at the Keys[/caption] Angry Birds Pumpkin Kit