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(Sairttt Region Page 4 Friday, August 9, 2002 Obituaries Amy Winkelman Amy Palmer Winkelman, 62, of Blairsville died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002, at the Latrobe Area Hospital She was bom June 23, 1940, in Indiana, a daughter of James and Ethel Laney Palmer. Mrs. Winkelman was retired from Can-era Corp. of Latrobe.

She is survived by two daughters: Pauline Pinchock and her husband, Bruce, and Sandra Fink and her husband, Terry, ail of Blairsville; two sons: Terry Winkelman and his wife, Jan, and Perry Winkelman, all of Blairsville; nine grandchildren: Cheri Pinchock; William Lee and Amy Fink, Shane; James, and Krlstina Winkelman, Terry Winkelman Jr.i and Sara and Angela Free; and a brother, James "Porky" Palmer of Idaho. She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Winkelman on July 3, 2001; two sons: James and Gary Winkelman; her parents; and a sister, Velma Burkett. Friends will be received today from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the James Ferguson Funeral Home in Blairsville; where funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m.

The Rev. Jeff Thomas will officiate. InteN ment will be in Ml Tabor Cemetery, Blairsville, Leona Shull Leona R. Stuby Grosklos Shull, 91, of New Deny died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002, at Latrobe Area Hospital.

Friends will be received today from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Richard L. Shoemaker Funeral Home in Blairsville, where a funeral service will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. The Rev Chris Livermore and her grandson, Samuel Clark, will co-officiate.

Interment will follow in Twin Valley Memorial Park, DelmonL COOKS AND BOOKS Youngsters had fun Wednesday making paper aprons and chef's hats at the Indiana Free Library. The activities, which blended books and the culinary arts, were part of the Summer Reading Program sponsored by the library and the Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit. Among the participants were Brittany Simkins, 7, left, daughter of John and Barbara Simkins of Mdytown, and Sophia, center, and Anna Manges, 4, twin daughters of Vicki Stelma and Charles Manges of Indiana. (Gazette photo by Tom Peel) Cancer-center buyout clears way for facility continue to use the current treatment center until the Center for Oncology Care opens in the new building next year. Currently the cancer center sees an average of 20 patients a day, but Wolfe said he believes the new center will draw additional patients beyond the county.

The three-story, Medical Ans Building will house the cancer center on the first floor Sharing the second floor will be Neu-ropsychiatric Associates, headed by Dr. Steven Gelfand; the private pulmonary practice of Dr. Irnran Bajwa; and the IRMC Neurodiagnostic and Steep Laboratory, currently housed in die hospital. Gel and 's office is currently located at the Airport Professional Center, and Bajwa's office is located along Indian Springs Road. In an effort to bring.

a number of related services under one roof, the third floor of the building will house the Visiting Nurse Association, VNA Hospice and VNA Extended Care. The VNA and its hospice program are currently located in the 119 Profes sional Center along Wayne Avenue. VNA Extended Care is located along Route 422, about two miles west of Indiana. "We are constantly looking for ways to expand and improve the services we provide to this region," Wolfe said. Toward that end, the hospital is planning to develop a neurological and psychiatric institute, which will serve as a regional care center for Indiana County and beyond.

The hospital is collaborating with Gelfand' and will support his objectives to recruit new physicians, expand office space, relocate the neurodiagnostic lab the Medical Arts Building and have all neuropsychiatric services in one location. The expanded sleep lab will share space with the neurodiagnostic lab. The. number of sleep, stiidies at die hospital has increased "over the last Uiree years, from one to three studies a week to die current rate Df 14 per week. The new sleep lab will be able to accommodate as many as four patients per night.

Continued from page 1 medical and radiation oncology. Hospital aclministraiors have not -yet decided what they will use the current center for, but they said it will not remain empty. Plans for the new cancer center include the purchase of a dual-beam electron linear accelerator, which has die capability to deliver two levels of radiation treatment. The center will also have a positron-emission tomography, or PET, scanner, which provides a view of structures within the body, according to Dr. Bruce Bush, die hospital's senior vice president of medical affairs.

"This is an important day for the Indiana Regional Medical Center and for patients who have been diagnosed with cancer," Wolfe said. "This means that they will be able to obtain state-of-the-art treatments, within a short driving distance from, home." Construction of the new Medical Arts Building is slated to begin 15, with the opening scheduled for August 2003. Cancer patients will Tomorrow's funerals HERBERT, Lynetta Diane, 11 a.m., First Alliance Church. Toccoa, Ga. Whidock Mortuary, Toccoa, Ga.) RUDDOCK, S.

Kathryn, 11:30 a.m., United Methodist Church, Homer City (C. Frederick Bowser Funeral Home, Homer City SHULL, Leona, 10 a.m., Richard Shoemaker Funeral Home, Blairsville WINKELMAN, Amy, 11 a.m., James Ferguson Funeral Home, Blairsville Memorial Service FOWLER, John, II a.m.. Harmony Presbyterian Church, Perm Run (Bence-Mihalcik Funeral Home, Indiana! Seniors rely on deliveries Continued from page 1 Blairsville, Indiana, Saltsburg and Mahoning Mills." Meals go as far as Dilltown, Avon-more, Black Lick, Homer City and throughout the northern third of the county. Drivers do not deliver in the immediate Indiana area, however. Meals on Wheels; a service not connected with Aging Services, provides meals for those residents.

Only Aging Services' clients in the' center of the county still get frozen' foods delivered for the week. And on the day of the delivery, they also get a hot meal, Short, said. "Now our clients don't have to worry about" heating or storing the meals," Short said. And each client is assured that someone from Aging Services will be stopping by their homes each day. "Sometimes our driver is the only person these people see, week in and week out," Short said.

Recendy, Aging Services has given' each of its drivers a cell phone in! case of an emergency "If one of the people we deliver to doesn't answer their door, we calf them on the phone, and if diere is nc answer, we call a friend, a neighbor; someone from their church" to come and check on them. The cell phones have saved a few lives, Short said. Meals are delivered Monday Uirough Friday to people 60 or older: Clients who need supper or a couple of meals for the weekend can request what Snort refers to as brown-bag lunches from their drivers. "We do require that people call and make reservations," Short said. "And We do request a donation" about $1.50 a meal "but we don't turn" anyone away who can't pay." To order a home-delivered meal or to make reservations to eat at one of the county's senior centers; call Aging Services at (724) 349-4500 at least one day ahead.

Contract promises peace Continued from page 1 Costellu and Henning said that the length of the accord was one. of the lust tilings they decided. "I wish that's what the arbitrator ruled two years ago," Costello said. "I thought he would give us some time, so I wanted to get a long-term contract this time. "We have so much to do.

We will now be able to focus on instruction, improving our curriculum and improving our ability to teach our students." The board ratified the contract 8 0. Vicki Smith, the board vice president, was absent. In other business, the board: Adopted a professional-education plan for 2002 to 2005. The plan assures the district's compliance with a 1999 state law that requires teachers to continually update their education and certification. Approved an induction program for 2002 to 2008.

The program sets goals for all new professional employees in the district and describes the roles that ex-. perienced teachers and adminisua-tors will have in helping the new teachers. Hired Thomas Lawson as the cross-country coach for 2002-03 at a salary of $2, 762. Renewed a service agreement with Citizens' Ambulance Service for 2002-03 for a fee of an increase from $2,200 in the past school year. Exonerated Center Township Tax Collector Frank Pavlick from collection of $352 of 2002 real estate taxes from senior-citizen property owners who earned tax exemptions by serving as volunteers in the schools.

to, li Lynetta Herbert Lynetta Diane Domenick Herbert. S5.ofBaldwm,Ga.,rtedWednesday, Aug. 7. 2002, at her home. She was born March 23, 1947 tn Lucernemines, a daughter of Leonard and Sybil Horrell Domenick.

Mrs. Herbert, who lived in the Stephens County, area for 33 years, was a member of the Toccoa First Alliance Church and was employed by Stephens County Hospital as a nurse for four years. She is survived by her husband, Jim Herbert, at home; a daughter, Debra Lynn Herbert Norton of Toccoa; her mother, Sybil Domenick of Lucernemines; five brothers: Leonard Domenick Jr. of Brookville, Marlin Domenick of Akron, Ohio, Dean Domenick of St. Clair Shores.

Mark Domenick of Lucernemines and Wade Domenick of Homer City; and four sisters: Olivia D. Osten of Springfield, Deborah D. Hill and Alva D. Hill, both of Blairsville, and Lola D. Skoff of Homer City.

She was preceded in death by her father. Friends will be received today from 7 to 9 p.m. at Whitlock Mortuary Inc. of Toccoa, Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1J. a.m.

at the First Alliance Church in Toccoa. The Rev. John Harvey will officiate. Interment wilt follow in Stephens Memorial Gardens. The family has suggested memorial donations may be made to the First Alliance Church Family Life Center, P.O.

Box 1183. Toccoa, GA 30577. AnnaBelle Wymer AxinaBelle Fairman Wymer, 71, or DuBois died Thursday Aug. 8, 2002, at the DuBois Regional Medical Center. Visitation will be held Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.

and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Goble-Baronick Funeral Home, in DuBois. Arrangements arc incomplete. A complete obituary will be published in die Saturday edition of the Indiana Gazette. Melvin Halberg Melvin J.

Halberg 48', of Blairsville (Blacklick Township), died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2002, at his home. Friends will be received Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Richard Shoemaker Funeral Home in Blairsville, where a funeral service will be held Monday at 11 a.m.

The Rev. Russ Whitfield will officiate. Interment will be in Blairsville Cemetery. Veraa Bothell Friends are invited to a memorial service for Verna Elizabeth Bothell, who died Saturday, July 27, 2002. The service will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m.

at the Plum Creek Church in Willet with the Rev. Tim Monroe officiating. The John A. Lefdahl Funeral Home, Indiana, is in charge of arrangements. Deaths elsewhere By The Associated Press John M.

Allen NEW YORK John M. Allen, a retired Reader's Digest editor and former vice president of the Reader's Digest Foundation, died of cancer on July 31. He was 75. Allen worked from 1956 to 1986 at Reader's Digest, where he held positions including senior editor and assistant managing editor. Iran Do HANOI, Vietnam Retired Lt.

Gen. Tran Do, Communist Vietnam's leading dissident, died Friday after more than a month of hospitalization for multiple ailments. He was 78. Do, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and former head of the Communist Party's ideology and culture department, was expelled from the party in January 1999 for saying the party should give up its monopoly on power. He had been under surveillance since then.

In June 2001, public security officials briefly detained Do in Ho Chi Minn City, where he was visiting his son, and confiscated his memoirs. Charles P. Stetson Sr. HANOVER, N.H. Charles Stetson a stockbroker, philanthropist and longtime board member of Outward Bound USA, died Tuesday.

He was 82. Stetson, who lived in Southport, was the founding patron of Outward Bound South Africa, established in 1992. The agency works to improve the lives of young South Africans. Stetson was born in New York, graduated from Yale in 1942 and was a naval lieutenant in the South Pacific in World War II. He was co-founder, in 1 952, of the Stetson Securities Corp.

Briefs Homer City radio station sold Red Cross blood drives The American Red Cross chapter in Indiana County collected 107 pints of blood last week. The Armagh United Methodist Church held a bloodmobile Aug. 1 that collected 44 pints. The United varsity football players, parents and coaches sponsored the drive. The Armagh United Methodist Church, its Outreach Committee, the BiLo in Seward and Mack's Mini Mart donated food and drinks.

Roadway Pharmacy, Stiles Market and Hardware, Bank, Griffith's Bar, Family Hairstyling and the Armagh-East Wheatfield Volunteer Fire Department donated items for the gift basket. Gloria Shepler coordinated die drive, and Austn Anderson transported the blood. A bloodmobile Aug. 2 at Trinity United Methodist Church in Indiana collected 63 pints. Pat Simkins coordinated the drive, and Frances Cir-rani and Biane Crook transported the blood.

Shop 'n Save and McDonald's provided food and drinks. Upcoming blood drives: Monday, Aug. 19 St. Matthew Church, Saltsburg, noon-6 p.m- Thursday, Aug. 22 Blairsville Eagles, noon-6 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 27 The Salvation Anny, Indiana, 1-7 p.m.; St. Andrew's Village, Indiana, noon-6 p.m. Food distributions under review. Now, the programmers want to make sure the stations compete less with each other.

"We're satisfied with where we're at on the AM and we want to be better," Bertig said. "The FM will continue to be dominated with music We will program some sports we've renewed our contract with the Penguins, we'll do Blairsville football again and may add a schedule of high school basketball but for the time being, everything's going to remain the same." Tony Renda, the president of Renda Broadcasting, could not be reached for comment. In addition to the Homer City, Blairsville and Brookville stations, Renda also owns WPXZ AM and FM Punxsutawney; Pittsburgh stations WSHH, WJAS and WPTT; and stations in Jacksonville, Daytona and Naples, Fla. and Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla-Harley will retain ownership ofWOKW-FM in his.hometown, Clearfield. ChaunceyRoss Our 30 TH YEAR as a trusted and dependable Indiana Co.

contractor. Call us when you need New roof Home addition New siding General contracting work Our reputation is built on 30 years of quality work at reasonable rates. Workmanship Guaranteed HOMER CITY The Homer City radio station lias been sold to a Pittsburgh-based broadcasting company, station officials said today. 1 160 WCCS became the 21st facility in the Renda Broadcasting Inc. chain on Aug.

1., according to Mark Harley, the president of Raymark Broadcasting. "It's a done deal." Harley said. "We just have to wait for Federal Communications Commission approval and that's going to take about two months," Harley declined to reveal the sale price.The new owners plan to keep the stations staff intact, according to General Manager Mark Bertig, but some changes are contemplated for die studios and programming. "The biggest change tiiat we're excited about is adopting WLCY-FM into the mix and giving us an AM-FM combination," Bertig said. "It will be a powerful mix" Renda also owns WLCY-FM in Blairsville and WYTR-FM in Brookville and plans to develop complementary programming and advertising strategies for the three stations.

"The concentration will be on WCCS and the marriage with WLCY," Bertig said. "We'll be combining staffs and we think it will be a very healthy situation for our advertisers and listeners." Renda will either enlarge the 1160 offices and studios along Old Route 119 in Center Township or find a different building somewhere else to house both the WCCS and WLCY operations, Bertig said. That may happen within a few months. The stations' program offerings are Beekeepers holding picnic HOLLIDAYSBURG The Cam-bria-Clcarficld-Blair County Beekeepers Association will hold its annual picnic Aug. 18 at 2 p.m.

at a private residence in HoUidaysburg. A baked-goods contest and an auction will be held during the picnic No fee will be charged, and people need not be beekeepers to attend. Call (814) 247-9934 or e-mail beel313forspeed.com. The Indiana County Community Action Program will hold food distributions next week at the following times and locations: TUESDAY Blairsville Borough noon to 1 p.m., the Presbyterian church along Walnut Street. 1CCAP asks that people re-register by bringing all of the following information: documentation of income for the past 30 days, including money from any source; Access and Social Security cards for everyone in the household; and proof of residency, such as anything that shows a current address.

Also, bring or know the date of birth for everyone in the household, your telephone, number and your household's municipality. Indiana Borough 9 to 11 a.m., Trinity United Methodist Church. Montgomery Township and Cherry Tree Borough 2 to 4 p.m., Arcadia Presbyterian Church. ICCAP asks that people re-register by bringing all of the following information: documentation of income for the past 30 days, including money from any source; Access and Social Security cards for everyone in the household; and proof of residency, such as anything that shows a current address. Also, bring or know the date of birth for everyone in the household, your telephone number and your household's municipality.

North Mahoning Township 9 to 10 a.m., township building. White Township 10 a.m. to noon. Church of the Brethren along Route 286, across from the Rustic Lodge. WEDNESDAY Rayneand East Mahoning townships and Marion Center borough 10 a.m.

to noon, Marion Center Community Park building. Washington Township and Creeks ide and Ernest boroughs 1 to 3 p.m., Creekside United Methodist Church Education Building. THURSDAY, AUG, 15 Clymer Borough and Cherryhill Township 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.. Church of the Resurrection administration center, Morris Street in Clymer.

United area 10-11 am, Clyde fire hall along Route 22. ICCAP asks that people re-register by bringing all of the following information: doc- umentation of income for the past 30 days, including money from any source; Access and Social Security cards for everyone in die household; and proof of residency, such as anything that shows a current address. Also, bring or know the date of birth for everyone in the household, your telephone number and your household's municipality. LimiSQiSSSBlilBEBEE graftal.