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Celebration of service set for Sunday at military museum

BOALSBURG — A Celebration of Service: Honoring Pennsylvania Veterans will take place at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Pennsylvania Military Museum, Boalsburg. The event will feature a U.S. Army reunion and memorial service sponsored by the Pennsylvania National Guard, commemorating the Pennsylvanian Citizen Soldier with a military band concert and equipment displays. There is no admission charge. For more information, call (814) 466-6263.

Away game

Thanks to their athletic prowess, two local student athletes got the opportunity of a lifetime to travel to Ireland and perform on a different type of stage. Juniata senior football and basketball player Tyler Clark, and Greenwood sophomore field hockey star Paityn Wirth, went to the ...

Athletes learn life lessons by playing overseas

Both Tyler Clark and Paityn Wirth will benefit greatly from their trip to Ireland. Not all of the benefits will come from their respective fields, courts or tracks. Clark will see the impact immediately from his experience in Ireland as he will be heading to Juniata College in the fall to play football and continue his education. Most freshmen go into college unaware or ill-prepared for social and lifestyle change and don't understand the difficulties of being on their own or being tasked with meeting and getting along with new people. Clark will be able to draw from his ...

Reunions

Editor’s note: A list of upcoming reunions is published weekly on the Entertainment page. Missing classmate requests are published once and repeated only if updated. Brief reports of reunions and class reunion photos with the people identified in the order in which they appear are accepted for publication in the Living section. Submit reunion notices to Jane Cannon Mort at The Sentinel; email jmort@lewistownsentinel.com, or call 248-6741. The Chief Logan High School Class of 1957 is seeking information on the following classmates. Catherine (Reese) Reiss; Richard Reiss; Daryl H. ...

Roadside attractions

Sentinel photos by JANE and JOHN MORT It started out as a fairly routine assignment — the Juniata River Valley Visitors Bureau added a couple new features to their website, and could we help inform our readers about them in conjunction with National Travel Week, May 7-13. Sure, I said ...

Weekend itineraries show there’s plenty to do in the region

LEWISTOWN — You have out-of-town guests coming for the weekend. What do you suggest they do while visiting Mifflin and Juniata counties? Jenny Barron Landis, executive director of the Juniata River Valley Visitor’s Bureau posed that question to three people she calls “local notables.” Their answers will become a part of a regular feature on the bureau’s website, www.juniata rivervalley.org, alongside a list of 11 local special interest tours for visitors or curious residents. Writing the inaugural weekend itineraries were Rocco Pallotto, local radio personality, Mifflin ...