VOL. 20, NO. 8 SERVING CLARION, CLEARFIELD, ELK, FOREST AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES FEbRUARy 23, 2014

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• Leo Grenier, 74• Jackie Kohlhepp, 88• Alice Popson, 83• Earl Beatty Jr., 84• Richard Himes, 81

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TIONESTA (AP) — A woman who withdrew her earlier guilty plea to involuntary manslaugh-ter was found guilty Fri-day in the fatal shooting of her husband during a domestic dispute at the northwestern Pennsyl-vania hunting camp.

The (Warren) Times Observer reports the trial of 59-year-old Ruth Angert of Butler opened Thursday and concluded Friday in Forest County. Angert was found guilty of criminal homicide fol-lowing the two-day trial at the Forest County Courthouse after about five hours of deliberation by the jury.

State police say An-gert fatally shot her 60-year-old husband Larry after the couple argued at their hunt-ing camp in Tionesta on Nov. 17, 2012.

Forest County Dis-trict Attorney Elizabeth Ziegler told the jury that the cabin didn’t show evi-

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By Kimberly Finnigan

kfinnigan@thecourierexpress.com

CLEARFIELD — The final numbers are in and the Clearfield Area United Way has reached its fundraising goal for another year.

According to a recent press re-lease, the Clearfield Area United Way volunteers announced that after much hard work, the 2013-14 Campaign Goal of $245,500 has been achieved. All proceeds are used to help 25 local member agen-

cies located throughout Eastern, Southern and Central Clearfield County. The agencies include the Clearfield-Jefferson Chapter of the American Red Cross, Boy Scouts of America Bucktail Council, The Clearfield Arts Studio Theater, Camp Confidence, Catholic Chari-ties of DuBois, The Children’s Aid Society of Clearfield, Clearfield County Area Agency on Aging, Clearfield County League on Social Services, Clearfield County Society for Handicapped and Disabled Citi-

zens, Crossroads Inc. of Clearfield, Curwensville Civic Center, Curw-ensville Public Library, Goodwill Industries, Girl Scouts of West-ern Pennsylvania, Marian House of Clearfield, Mid-State Literacy Council, Pentz Run Youth Ser-vices, Salvation Army, Joseph and Elizabeth Shaw Public Library of Clearfield and the Clearfield Com-munity YMCA.

The United Way also assists with school health funds in the Clearfield, Curwensville and West

Branch area schools.At the Clearfield Area United

Way’s annual meeting, Campaign Chairwoman Michele Fannin an-nounced the goal had been met, but stressed more is still needed to help reach the growing needs of the com-munities served.

First Vice President Mark Schul-tz said the United Way should be proud of its accomplishments this year and lunch is a great time to

Clearfield Area United Way meets 2013 goal

By Elaine Haskins

ehaskins@thecourierexpress.com

DuBOIS — Bill Fike of DuBois and his 15-year-old grandson, Alex Bukousky, never thought their tinker-ing around with what looks like a Crosley-built garden tractor would get much at-tention.

They just wanted to get it in running condition to take to the annual Nittany Antique Machinery Show at Penns Cave in Centre Hall last fall.

And they did exactly that.But something else ex-

citing happened while they were at the show – the old tractor got noticed by a writ-er for the Lawn and Garden Tractor magazine. The writ-er, Al Hofer, was looking for “Oddballs and Misfits” rath-er than garden tractor en-thusiasts’ best equipment.

Hofer wasn’t having any luck until he stumbled upon Fike’s garden tractor, which was just one of more than

900 on display at the show.“He came over with the

camera and started tak-ing pictures,” Fike said. “He told me who he was. He looks for unusual stuff. He said, ‘Well maybe it will be published in the maga-

zine,’” Fike said.“Well to tell you the

truth, I thought it would be a very small piece in the magazine, maybe a quar-ter page and a short article

Garden tractor garners attention

DuBOIS – The Penn State DuBois THON Danc-ers, Evan Aravich and Jes-sica Metzger, were sent off to the world’s largest student-run philanthropy event in style Thursday night, with the THON Dancer Sendoff in the student union. The event included a hair auction, which raised $1,680 for the cause. In all, the Penn State

DuBois THON Committee raised $15,643 to contribute to the university-wide to-tal this year, surpassing its $15,000 goal.

Aravich and Metzger are representing the campus at THON, the 46 hour dance marathon at the Bryce Jor-dan Center at University

Penn State DuBois represented at THON

Bill Fike of DuBois looks over his Crosley-built garden tractor. Now that he got the tractor running, he said he plans to do more work on the tractor this year in addition to painting it. (Photo by Elaine Haskins)

Bill Fike of DuBois looks over the most recent copy of Lawn and Garden Tractor magazine, which features a four-page article and color photos of Fike’s ‘home-brew garden trac-tor’. (Photo by Elaine Haskins)

DuBoisman in nationalmagazine

Seven schools in the 25th Senatorial District have been selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to receive state school safety grants, according to Sen Joe Scarnati, R-Brockway.

The grants are for the Safe School Initia-tives Program. The funding will be used to establish and implement plans to prevent and reduce incidents of violence. Each of the schools selected in the 25th Senatorial District will receive the maximum grant award of $25,000.

“Ensuring that students and teachers feel safe in their learning environments is a crucial part of helping children to learn and succeed,” Scarnati said. “I am very pleased that seven area schools have been selected to receive this grant fund-ing. Across Pennsylvania each school’s safety needs are unique, which this program recognizes by allowing local school officials to determine how best to use the grants to protect our children.”

Scarnati said last year he introduced legislation to ex-pand and enhance the safe schools grant program within

Area schools given $25,000in safety grants

Scarnati

Adell Doty, 6, volunteered to have her hair cut by stylist Brenda McGarvey for the THON Hair Auction. Doty also plans to donate the 10 inches of her hair that was cut to Locks of Love, to be made into wig for a cancer patient. (Photo cour-tesy of Penn State DuBois)

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