Cameron County High School Marching Band and Band front will be dressed in new uniforms when they perform at their half time show this fotoball season.
The band uniforms were delivered to the school more than two weeks ago, while the band front uniforms arrived on Wednesday of this week.
The outfits, created by DeMoulin Bros. and Co., cost about $63,000. They were ordered in March after the students were measured by a company representative.
The uniforms replace ones worn by numerous different band and band front students during a period of more than 20 years.
"They look a lot sharper on the kids," Band Director Daniel Sensenig said. "They (students) are going to look real nice."
The pants and jacket remain black, while the overlay has changed from white to red. A new black buffalo hat has been ordered for band members, as well.
Students started raising the money for the uniforms last August, tallying around $6,000. The y sold items from Cherrydale Farms and Gardners Candies, and also sold fruit. Band members also held a dunk tank at the fair last year to raise money.
But it wasn't long after that others started chipping in and began donating money. The Emporium Foundation donated about $20,000, and the Cameron County School Board gave $45,000. The band boosters provided about $10,000.
Last year students got the chance to draw what they wanted their uniforms to look like.
"We took it pretty much from the student designs," Sensenig said.
Norfolk Southern Railway Corp. will offer residential pH water sampling in the Cameron County area affected by the June 30 train derailment. The samplings which will be conducted by the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health during the week of Aug. 21
Mirror Mirror on the wall.. which of the Wilds is Wildest of them all???
I used to love being a correspondent for the Bradford Era, the Cameron County Echo, and the Cameron County Endeavor.
I would drive down to Emporium from Roulette, in the winter, on Route 155, and in the summer, over Reed Run Hill.
I grew up in Roulette, I knew what it meant to live in Wild Country, but I always spend so much time in Sizerville State Park (which crosses all three counties).
And when I started driving down almost everyday to cover the news, it stirred from within me something deep. Something long forgotten.
I'd find myself taking the "long way home." I'd drive out to Sterling Run, and look at the spring fountain built be the CCC on the way, or look at the old coke ovens at the Little Museum. And I dreamed of the pioneer life, and the heart of the woodsmen, and the lumberjack would awaken.
Deep in the heart of every man, there is a warrior. There is a tough guy, there is a wild man.
Cameron County draws it out of you. It's raw. Sure, there's industry, but even industry at it's heart is wild: making something from nothing-- that's wild.
The people, the woods, the streams, the roads-- it's all wild.
The Canoe Classic, when people dress up like Natives and jump in a canoe and pit themselves against the rapids-- The history of Gardeau, and Parker's Tomb-- The spirit of Tom Mix-- it's all wild. It's the wildest.
I remember meeting Kurt Steiner. He holds the Guiness World Record for stone skipping-- that boyhood sport that pits man against nature--
I met him in Kane, where he was staying with his mother for a little while. Kurt lives in Cameron County though. The bearded burly guy, with a mind like a college professor, educated in literature, engineering, computer science, lives for most of the year in a cottage in the woods of Cameron County, without electricity or phone. They go shopping every now and then, and put their food in a cooler. They eat the cold stuff first, and then gradually live off the rest, and off the land. When they built the place, he converted his car to a generator to run enough electricty to run a saw. Every now and then, he'll make a trip up to Lake Erie to walk on the beach and gather polished slate stones to practice stone skipping. He's sick of the corporate smoggy electronic life, and he went to Cameron County to be a Wild Man.
There's some of Kurt Steiner in all of us. And there's more of Kurt Steiner's heart in Cameron County than anywhere else in the world.
When Governor Ed Rendell hired a team of white collared marketers to develop a money-making strategy to appease a dying economy in the tree filled northlands, who would have ever guessed that they would come up with a name so perfect-- so pristine-- so true.
And in the heart of the Wilds is Cameron County-- the Wildest of them all.
After decades of neglecting the tourism potential of 2.1 million acres of public land and surrounding towns in 12 primarily rural, naturally spectacular, northern tier counties, the state plans to spend almost $200 million dollars to promote it. Branded Pennsylvania Wilds by state marketers, the project focuses on a swath of rolling woodlands that blankets the Allegheny Plateau and drapes in lush folds across the Appalachians. It's a landscape where the state's bulging elk herd, tallest trees, grandest canyon, wildest woodlands and darkest skies can be found. It's also a sparsely populated area where the political landscape is decidedly conservative, historically short on cooperation between the counties and long on distrust for any government not populated by neighbors. And a cyclical economy defined by natural resource extraction -- logging, wood products production, oil and natural gas drilling and mining -- has helped foster an underlying tension between development interests and conservationists. Read the Complete Story in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
State Police in Cameron County are investigating an incident of criminal mischief is under investigation. Sometime on the 1st or 2nd of August, Rexford Waddington the Third discovered that someone placed aluminum nails in his driveway. Waddington discovered the nails in his flat tire, and decided to call State Police.
Officers are looking into the Shippen Township incident. There is no word on a suspect at this time.
An 18 year old Emporium Resident and an underage juvenile were both cited by State Police in Emporium Saturday, August 5 for making too much noise and using obscene language. The 18 year old was listed as Michael Richards. Two such incidents occured over the weekend were reported.
Editor's Note: Sounds like a few Emporium residents need a couple bars of soap! ;)
An incident August 6 in Emporium drew in he State Police. Officers say that William Putt and Valerie Beck were both cited for using excessive noise and obscene language by State Police after a verbal argument on East 6th Street.
DEP CREATES DOCUMENTS REPOSITORY IN EMPORIUM FOR DETAILS ON TRAIN DERAILMENT
MEADVILLE -- The Department of Environmental Protection’s public files relating to the June 30 train derailment that severely impacted Sinnemahoning-Portage Creek will be available for review beginning next week at the Cameron County Courthouse. The Cameron County Conservation District is housing the document repository at its office in Room 105 of the courthouse, 20 E. Fifth St., Emporium. Residents should contact conservation district Manager Jan Hampton by phone at 814-486-9353 or via e-mail at ccconservation@cameroncountypa.com to arrange an appointment for a file review. “We want to help residents stay informed about the activities taking place in their community,” DEP Northwest Regional Director Kelly Burch said. “Having documents available to residents in a location that is convenient to them is an important aspect of keeping individuals up to date with an issue that will be ongoing for an extended period of time.” About 44,000 gallons of sodium hydroxide, also known as caustic soda or lye, spilled when 28 Norfolk Southern railroad cars derailed June 30. Some of the sodium hydroxide entered Sinnemahoning-Portage Creek and devastated aquatic life and fish from the accident site near the McKean County village of Gardeau to a point 7.5 miles downstream in Cameron County. An unknown amount of sodium hydroxide soaked into the ground in and around the derailment site, and this residual material needs to be addressed to ensure a complete recovery of Sinnemahoning-Portage Creek. DEP currently is reviewing a site assessment plan that Norfolk Southern submitted detailing what steps the company intends to take to precisely identify the areas of contamination. The plan indicates the railroad will use borings and probes to gather information about the soil below the surface and install numerous monitoring wells to collect information about groundwater to determine the depth and breadth of contamination. Based on the findings of the site assessment, Norfolk Southern will develop a cleanup plan that will be implemented once DEP approves it. At the site this week, crews are cutting up and removing damaged railcars. The public still is advised to avoid the creek starting at the spill area and extending south two miles downstream to the county border of McKean and Cameron. For more information on water quality, visit DEP’s Web site at www.depweb.state.pa.us, Keyword: “Water Quality.”
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