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At their 10:30 a.m. mid-summer communion service, Tyrone Presbyterians will feature tenor vocalist Larrie Derman, hear Pastor Liller’s message about the disciple Peter stepping out on faith, and sing several congregational hymns, in which life is portrayed as a challenging sea journey.
Long-time Presbyterian church elder and tenor vocalist Larrie Derman will present a solo before Pastor Liller’s communion service message. A 1957 graduate from Pittsburgh’s School of Mortuary Science. For more than half a century, Derman has served his hometown as a mortician, school board president, borough councilman, church elder, choral society soloist, and chair person of the Presbyterian building and grounds committee. Besides his extraordinary singing talent, Mr. Derman also owns and maintains three antique automobiles, is an accomplished carpenter, and enjoys the history of the Civil War and Gettysburg.
At this mid-summer communion service, Epworth Manor chaplain and Presbyterian preaching pastor Mark Liller will deliver a message entitled, “Why haven’t you walked on water?” With Matthew 14: 22-26 as his bible basis, Pastor Liller once again will tell the story of Saint Peter stepping out on faith to walk on the water to Jesus. When Jesus rescued frightened Peter from sinking, that disciple learned the lesson that Jesus challenges believers to step out to faith, and Christ will provide support if they sink.
In response to Pastor Liller’s homily about Saint Peter’s struggle to reach Jesus in a sea storm, the congregation will sing two American hymns which portray life as a journey to Jesus in a sea storm. They will open with Edward Hopper’s 1871 hymn which prays, “Jesus, savior, pilot me, over life’s tempestuous sea!” As August unfolds and autumn approaches, Presbyterians urge the people of Tyrone to join them at 10:30 a.m. on August 10, 2008 for mid-summer communion. There, they will hear tenor soloist Larrie Derman, listen to Pastor Liller speak about the faith of Saint Peter, and sing these comforting words about spiritual rescue: “I was sinking deep in sin, far from the peaceful shore/Very deeply stained within, sinking to rise no more/But the master of the sea, heard my despairing cry/From the water lifted me/Now safe am I/Love lifted me, love lifted me!”

The Tyrone Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Monday, August 11 at 7 p.m. An Executive Board meeting will occur at 6 p.m. and the hostess should arrive around 6:45 p.m. A special guest speaker from the Master Gardeners at PSU will be discussing the proper ways of gardening.

The regularly scheduled hours at the Tyrone Salvation Army Service Center have recently changed. The new hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.

Richard Consiglio, Blair County District Attorney, was the special guest speaker at a recent Tyrone Kiwanis Club breakfast meeting. Shown is Consiglio with Tyrone Kiwanis President Fred Miller. (Courtesy photo)

Reservoir Park will again be jumping to the music of the big band era as the Summer Sunday series presents “The Big Band Sound, Incorporated” at 6 p.m., August 10, on the amphitheater stage.
This talented group of musicians from a four-county area is a blend of players with years of combined training and experience which is evident with their amazing sound and smooth style. With a repertoire of over three hundred musical arrangements, the BBS, Inc. uses the full instrumentation of the original big bands.
The Big Band Sound, Inc., now in its thirty-seventh year, was begun by retired music teacher, Richard Burkholder under the auspices of the Mount Union Area School District as an adult education program. Throughout the years the band members have changed, and there are no longer any of the original members still playing. The band continues to claim Mount Union as its home and is supported in part by the MU School District for thirteen weeks of rehearsals to prepare the season’s concerts.
The BBS, Inc., now led by Frank Furfaro, is a full 18-piece group like original big bands, but has added the more up to date electric bass. The saxophone section is comprised of Dixie Enyeart, Tate Pollock, Phil Wysocki, Gretchen Burkholder, and Bill Croissant.
Playing trombone are Bob Madden, Charlie Port, Katie Patterson, Dan Loucks, and Stephanie Benson, who also doubles on clarinet. David Switzer, Nina Trego, Tracy Loucks, and Rick Kane make up the trumpet section. The rhythm section is comprised of Sue Briggs on bass guitar, Terri Limes on keyboard, Bob White on guitar, and director, Frank Furfaro on drums. Vocalists this season include Bob Madden, singing Frank Sinatra’s  ” I Wanna Be Around”  that will have the girls swooning, and Stephanie Benson singing “Embraceable You” that may do the same for the boys!
The Big Band Sound, Inc., with its timeless music pleasing audiences everywhere, has performed for festivals, concerts, and social events throughout Central Pennsylvania including the People’s Choice Festival in Boalsburg and Raystown Lake Amphitheater.
Summer Sunday concerts begin at 6 p.m., and, in the event of rain, will be held in the Lutheran Church on Logan Avenue and Thirteenth Street.
All concerts are made possible by a grant from the PA Council on the Arts, a state agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and Tyrone Borough.
Concerts are free of charge and audience members should bring a chair or blanket for seating. For additional information contact the Arts Line Office at 684-ART2.