Davidsville News

BY JANICE RAINEY JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM The Rev. Tom Verner, pastor of Franklin Street United Methodist Church in downtown Johnstown, will begin a new teaching series, "God's Plan and Our Place In It," during the 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday worship services.

Involved in county government for 20 years, Elk County Commissioner Daniel Robert Freeburg, in his second term as a commissioner, believes in the local community.

Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania is partnering with families in the region to give girls the leading edge in school and with their peers through the "Follow the Reader" family reading project.

BY RENEE CARTHEW RCARTHEW@TRIBDEM.COM Parishioners at Kaufman Mennonite Church, 916 Miller Picking Road, Davidsville, will celebrate the church's 100th anniversary with a community picnic at 5 p.m. today.

A Davidsville woman has admitted to stealing more than $200,000 from the government in her plea made in U.S. District Court.

By July, the Conemaugh Township Area school board is expected to approve a plan that calls for closing its early grades elementary school in Jerome and paves the way for $25 million in capital spending.

Cody Miller is climbing the rungs in the Boy Scouts through a project others can see as they slide downhill.

A grieving Atlanta father who said he suffered a series of indignities while trying to bury his stepson is suing a Somerset County funeral home and a casket maker.

Gregory R. Pile was elected June 5 to a fourth term as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Allegheny Synod during the synod assembly June 4-6 in Altoona, Pa.

For 50 years, Camp PARC has been bringing together special-needs individuals and volunteers for a week of fun.

BY TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Greater Johnstown Community Chorus will perform an impressive array of sacred music during its annual spring concert.

BY JANICE RAINEY JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM Amen's prayer breakfast will be held at 7:30 today in The Zone at Emmanuel Baptist Church, 425 Luther Road, Richland Township.

Joyce A. Bowser, 62, of the 3100 block of Carpenters Park Road, Davidsville, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of taking more than $200,000 in government money.

BY RUTHRICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Those who plan to attend the annual Cruisin' for Courtney benefit car show will be taking a ride of their own.

A couple got away with what police described as a "high-end" watch in a grab-and-go robbery at Kranich's Jewelers in The Galleria mall.

A woman was taken to Memorial Medical Center on Wednesday with minor burns she received when a fire erupted on her stove while she was cooking.

BY JANICE RAINEY JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM Lynn Miller, a consultant and retired stewardship theologian of Mennonite Mutual Aid, will lead a discussion today on how to buy less and live more at Kaufman Mennonite Church in Davidsville.

Nearly 4,700 music lovers of all ages packed the Cambria County War Memorial Arena on Wednesday night to listen to classic rock bands Styx, REO Speedwagon and Kansas perform.

Thanks to Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania and Menoher Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 155 in Geistown, some troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa will be getting special treats - Girl Scout cookies.

BY JANICE RAINEY JRAINEY@TRIBDEM.COM Mennonite Mutual Aid and Johnstown Mennonite Ministerium will co-sponsor Stewardship University, an education partnership with local faith communities.