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Monday, June 23 and Tuesday, June 24 from 6 to 8 p.m., there will be a registration for Youth Cheerleading. Any girl entering first, second or third grade is eligible for the pee wee teams, and girls entering fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh grade are eligible for youth teams.
For more information, please contact Brenda after 6 p.m. at 684-4418, or call Crystal at 684-6094.

The streets of London in the Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver were filled with vendors, flower sellers and colorful character. Tyrone Community Players show in the picture are area residents Kate Coltabaugh, Jessica Fogelman, Ron Hildebrand and Laura Thompson.	In front is Derek Cruz as the undertakers apprentice Noah. Standing is Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry, the undertaker and his wife, played by Betsy Beck of Tyrone and Paul Mills of Altoona with their daughter Charlotte, played  by Emily Wilson of Birmingham.	These pickpockets await visitors at TAHS auditorium this weekend as the Tyrone Community Players present the timeless classic “Oliver!” Tickets can be reserved  by calling 684-ART2.  Adult tickets are $10 and  children are $8 and will be available at the door for both performances at the high school auditorium.

Charles Dickens’ greatest characters, Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sikes and The Artful Dodger, spring to life in the spectacular new production of Lionel Bart’s “Oliver!” at the  Tyrone Area High School auditorium this weekend June 21 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 22 at 2 p.m.
The Tyrone Community Players are presenting the timeless musical that includes a cast that includes more than 50 children.
The show is an adaptation of the classic Dickens’ novel “Oliver Twist” and tells the story of an orphaned boy, Oliver.
He escapes from a bleak workhouse to London where he is taken in by a gang of apprentice pickpockets who work for master thief Fagin who teaches his rag-tag gang their picpocketing trade. When Oliver is falsely accused of exposing the gang by the frightening Bill Sikes, Oliver begins to realize he has more friends than he thought.
With its vivid characters and engaging plot, “Oliver Twist” has come to life through dramatic interpretations time and time again.
The show’s unforgettable songs include “Food, Glorious Food,” “Consider Yourself,” “Where is Love?,” “You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two,” “I’d Do Anything,” “Oom Pah Pah,” and “As Long As He Needs Me.”
Tickets can be reserved by calling 684-ART2.  Adult tickets are $10 and children are $8.  Tickets will be available at the door for both performances at the high school auditorium.

At 10:30 a.m. worship this Sunday, June 22, Tyrone Presbyterians will welcome the immensely talented Tyrone singer and conductor, Brett Keith, in a service that will feature his vocal solo, a message about remaining faithful to Christ, and three  rousing congregational hymns.
Keith, a graduate of Tyrone High and Penn State, will present a vocal solo entitled, “If With All Your Hearts You Truly Seek Him/You Shall Ever Surely Find Him,” drawn from Felix Mendlessohn’s  celebrated Oratorio Elijah. When not pursuing his passion for music, Keith works as a customer service representative for The Kish Bank in State College.
The son of Claudia and Patrick Keith, Brett has distinguished himself as a singer and conductor, both in High School and in College. On the weekend of June 28, 2008, Keith will serve as musical conductor for the premiere of Tyrone Playwright Will Jones’ “Musical Jack,” staged at the Altoona Campus of Penn State. Earlier this week, Keith returned from New York City, where he had the opportunity to work with professional actors and directors on an earlier Will Jones’ Musical entitled, “Ghosts.”
In addition to Keith’s solo, Presbyterian Preaching Pastor, Mark Liller, will deliver the morning message entitled, “Let’s Just Be Friends.” Based on the appointed gospel reading for the day from Matthew 10:24-39, Reverend Liller will remind Presbyterians that Jesus predicted that His followers would be hated, tried, beaten, betrayed by loved ones and even executed. Liller will remind listeners that although they experience fear, remaining faithful to Christ in this life will help overcome any fear they may encounter.
The audience will respond to Pastor Liller’s challenge with three rousing hymns which emphasize Christian Commitment. They will open with British Priest John Monsell’s 1863 hymn entitled, “Fight The Good Fight, With All Your Might.” Following Pastor Liller’s homily, the audience will sing “Stand Up! Stand Up! For Jesus, composed in 1858 by Philadelphia Presbyterian Pastor George Duffield, as a call to evangelism. The service will close with Frances Havegal’s 1877 hymn which asks the  question, “Who Is On The Lord’s Side?”
As summer unfolds, why not join The Lord’s Side this Sunday, June 22 at the 10:30 a.m. worship in Tyrone Presbyterian Church?

CORRY (AP) — George R. Sample Jr., a journalist and newspaper owner whose career spanned more than 60 years, died Wednesday. He was 84.
Mr. Sample’s son, George “Scoop” Sample III of Huntingdon, said his father died of cardiac arrest at Corry Memorial Hospital, several months after he was injured in a fall at his home.
“In typical fashion, he was telling stories to the ambulance attendants as they took him to the hospital,” his son wrote in an e-mail to friends and family Wednesday morning. “While it is a sad time, it was a great ride and he took many of us along, building the finest newspaper family in the country. For him, the son of a tanner, an accidental college graduate, he achieved greatness in family, work and life.”
In the 1960s, Mr. Sample was one of the founders of what would become American Publishing Co., which was later sold to Hollinger International. He served as vice chairman for Hollinger’s American Publishing Co. and was credited for making improvements to the Chicago Sun-Times and the Jerusalem Post.
He also created the family-run Sample News Group, which owns two newspapers in Maine and five newspapers in Pennsylvania, including The Daily News, and was the longtime publisher of the Corry Journal, where he started working after graduating college.
Corry Journal general manager Bob Williams called Mr. Sample an icon and a champion of the common man. George Sample didn’t care whose toes he had to step on to tell the truth, Williams said.
“Whether it was city government or his friend down the street, he always told the correct story,” said Williams, 42, who was 9 years old when he first met Mr. Sample.
In 1972, The Associated Press managing editors cited Mr. Sample for editorials about censorship in a drug case.
Mr. Sample suffered a stroke several years ago, but still worked every morning at the Corry Journal until earlier this year. He was known for drinking a black cup of coffee and writing all the newspaper’s headlines. A golf enthusiast, he wrote a column for the newspaper called, “Teed Off by George” where over the years he questioned everything from the role of the FBI to local politicians.
In a 1995 column, Mr. Sample summed up his philosophy on newspapering.
“I hope we gave a little comfort to those less fortunate than ourselves. Helped unseat those who became too comfortable at the expense of others. And shed a little light along the way,” Mr. Sample wrote.
Born in 1924 in Curwensville, Mr. Sample graduated in 1946 from Penn State University, where he was managing editor of The Collegian newspaper and played lacrosse. Six of his eight children also attended Penn State.
In the 1960s, he was instrumental in getting Corry officials to build a municipal golf course, and oversaw its construction.
Mr. Sample is preceded in death by his wife, Janet, who died in 1998 at age 75.
In her honor, he endowed the Janet Neff Sample Center for Manners and Civility at Penn State Behrend in Erie. The goal of the center is “to foster a civility-enriched academic experience” on campus, according to the program’s Web site.
He is survived by his children, and more than a dozen grandchildren. His son, Scoop Sample, is publisher of The Daily News in Huntingdon and son, Mike Sample, is the owner and publisher of The Titusville Herald.
Funeral arrangements can be found on page two of today’s Daily Herald.