Dear Editor:
\nI would like to take this opportunity to thank all individuals who came from Tyrone to Indiana for the IUP-Cal basketball game to see Tyrone native and IUP starting point guard, Eric Castorina, play. Both Eric\u2019s family and I were overwhelmed by the response.
\nWe think, with what we know, that there were about 130 Tyrone fans there. This includes the TAHS Boys Basketball team and some members of Eric\u2019s family from elsewhere, but it does not include those IUP students from Tyrone who came and sat with the Tyrone group. The IUP Athletic Department was really impressed with the turn out, as were the staff at the Indiana Eat-N-Park where about 40 of us ate. I am certain that the turnout impressed both those in attendance at the game and those listening by radio over WCCS, the IUP affiliate, and Tyrone\u2019s WTRN.
\nI also want to thank the staff of WTRN for the work they did to arrange the simulcast of the game with WCCS and their advertisers for supporting this special broadcast. I think the radio broadcast was a special treat for some in Tyrone who could not make the trip.
\nI hope that all you who came (and listened) had a great time. Sorry that we could not provide you with an IUP win, but it was a good game. We hope to repeat the event the next two years while Eric is still on the IUP team. I also hope that those who came out will feel free to come to IUP for other games and those with computers will tune into http:\/\/ www.redzonemedia.com for the internet broadcast of all the IUP games.
\nSincerely,
\nDr. Gary Buterbaugh
\nTAHS Class of 1963
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\nTo whom it may concern,
\nI was majorly disappointed in out town on Saturday, January 25.
\nA benefit was held to make money for our YMCA. My son is 22 years old so it\u2019s been quite a while since he has taken advantage of the Y\u2019s facilities, but I felt it was my responsibility and my son\u2019s and his family\u2019s responsibility to support the Y\u2019s benefit.
\nAs I looked around the small crowd of people I asked myself, where are all the parents of the children who benefit from all that the YMCA has to offer. Where was our mayor? Where were the board members? Where were the teachers? Where were the employees of the Y? Where are the people who if the Y closes would be the first ones to complain because the kids are hanging on the street corners.
\nIt was difficult for me to understand, because when I moved here 15 years ago, I felt so blessed to be a part of such a wonderful supportive community. I guess I just needed to mention this to whom it may concern.
\nRespectfully,
\nBeth Ann May
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\nDear Editor,
\nToday I would like to write about Tyrone, Tyrone \u2014 \u201cHub of the Highways\u201d \u2014exactly. Geographically Tyrone is located about equally distant north, south, east and west between Philipsburg, State College, Huntingdon and Altoona. What an advantage!!
\nLet\u2019s take inventory of ourselves, Tyrone Borough, that is. I have no conception of the location of Tyrone Township, but are you aware that Tyrone Hospital and Tyrone Area Schools are located in Snyder Township? Tyrone is surrounded by Snyder Township, Warriors Mark Township and Grazierville. Of what can Tyrone boast? How many subsidized housing units are there in Tyrone? I can count six, or is it seven? What percentage of the population does this give in relationship the number of taxpayers in the borough? No discrimination is intended for I once was one of them.
\nAs for new business \u2014 there\u2019s no argument there. For example we sure could use a hotel. Oh yes, we have a City Park Hotel. Where does one sleep, on the park bench? We have a very nice train station. How does one get on a train if it doesn\u2019t stop? Many folks, older people in particular, would go shopping if some sort of short trip transportation was available, a taxi, for instance. But to shop for what? Nowhere that I know of in Tyrone can one purchase a man\u2019s suit or a lady\u2019s housedress. We do have a great shoe store. We are very grateful for that. I don\u2019t know of any place in Tyrone that I can buy a pair of panty hose.
\nWell, what do we do? We go to Altoona of course. We by-pass Tyrone for there is nothing there.
\nWe do have some nice downtown newly paved streets and street lights. Will there be some new shade trees?
\nMany of us are grateful for St. Vincent DePaul and The Salvation Army for food and clothing. They benefit young and old.
\nLook at Snyder Township and Warriors Mark Township; they are both growing, each in its own way.
\nI would like to know what percentage of revenue for the school district comes from Tyrone Borough, Snyder Township and Warriors Mark Township.
\nWhat is wrong with Tyrone? I don\u2019t know. I have listed some negatives. I am sure there could be listed many positives as well. Then let\u2019s see what can be done with what we have available to us. Oh yes, there are grants for this, grants for that. Where does that money come from? Voters, citizens, taxpayers, wake up! Don\u2019t just sit there like a bunch of puppets. Get up and do! Speak your peace. Let\u2019s see you work.
\nMay God bless you all \u2014 I was raised in Warriors Mark, but have always thought of Tyrone as the \u201cBig City\u201d and a big part of my life.
\nYour\u2019s truly,
\nGertie Gunsallus
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\nDear John,
\nI was saddened to see that your recliner has put you totally to sleep. You spelled my name right but that\u2019s the only thing you got right in your remarks from the supine position.
\nBut perhaps as far as getting facts right, I may be vulnerable since the facts I use are those printed in local papers. Lets review. Quoting the lengthy exercise in smoke and mirrors from the mayor and borough manager, The Daily Herald printed January 18: \u201cThe funds set aside for the Streetscape project are for that and just that,\u201d said Stoner. \u201cWe have specific projects that are outlined that need to be completed as they are outlined. We just can\u2019t move finding here and there. No Streetscape money is going into housing rehabilitation and no housing rehabilitation money is going into the Streetscape project. It just can\u2019t happen.\u201d
\nAnd yet a January 8 article written by Walt Frank in another area paper reported in a Tyrone datelined article, \u201cBorough Council members Monday approved a proposal from Innovative Consulting Group Inc., of Altoona to complete redesign work and provide construction management services for the first part of Phase II of the borough\u2019s Streetscape program.
\n\u201cThe estimated cost for redesign is about $10,000, and the estimated cost for construction is about $21,000.
\n\u201cCommunity Development Block Grant funds will be used for the additional costs.\u201d
\nJohn, am I not right in assuming CDBG funds are the source of monies for housing rehabilitation? There\u2019s a $31,000 chunk that is going to be used for Phase II of Streetscape.
\nAnd that\u2019s not the only time CDBG funds were used for Streetscape. According to a letter to the editor The Daily Herald printed from then-Councilperson Sara Jane Miller, in August 2001 which stated, \u201cResidents should remember that the borough did spend a \u2018small sum\u2019, $170,000 of our Community Development Block Grant money to Pellegreni Engineers for the engineering these projects which could have been used for housing rehabilitation, utility line improvements, or other much needed community projects instead of downtown decorations.\u201d
\nThe \u201cthese projects\u201d Mrs. Miller was referring to were the \u201chotel\u201d and Streetscape.
\nIn an August 2, 2002 Letter to the Editor, I rebuked your Mr. Lash for saying what you recently parroted that my facts weren\u2019t straight. In that letter, I cited the same $170,000. Put those two together and that\u2019s $201,000 of CDBG money taken from the entire community to serve a small, elitist community. As the saying goes, where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.
\nNow as for not attending boring, cut-and-dried council meetings, I plead guilty. I see no point in addressing closed minds. The only way to change Borough council minds is to change heads.
\nConcerning revolution, I am merely parading the banner of our Founding Fathers, \u201cNo Taxation Without Representation!\u201d
\nAn election is coming up.
\nViva La Revolution
\nDan Meckes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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