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January 19, 2012 | Volume 8 Issue 4

This Weekend’s Hot Spot - Courtney's Cause
By Terry Pentelli

This Saturday, January 21st will mark the second annual Courtney’s Cause for Cancer, an event that benefits the Kanzius Cancer Foundation.

The lavish Ambassador Crystal Ballroom located at 7794 Peach St. Erie will host the event that will begin at 3pm and run until 9pm. The benefit will feature food, cash bar and a Quick Snap photo booth along with live music.

The Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is made up of a group of dedicated individuals supporting ongoing research for the Kanzius Non-invasive Radio Wave Treatment project.

The Radio Wave Treatment project is an experimental, non-evasive cancer treatment, which inserts metallic nanoparticles in or around cancerous cells, then exciting the particles using radio waves and the energy from the radio waves, creates heat, which burns the cancerous cell clusters....Read More

Lady Knights Hosting Pink Zone Feb. 18

Goal is to raise $15,000 for Erie Unit of the American Cancer Society

The Gannon University women’s basketball team is asking its fans and the community to “black out” cancer on Saturday, Feb. 18.

That day, the Lady Knights will host their fifth annual Pink Zone game, to be played at 1 p.m. at Hammermill Center against Lock Haven. Admission to the game, and to the Gannon men’s basketball team’s game against Lock Haven to follow, is free.

In addition, the first 500 fans to the women’s game will receive free pink rally towels.

The Lady Knights, and their 10th-year head coach, Cleve Wright, have set a goal of raising $15,000 for the Erie Unit of the American Cancer Society. The team’s four previous Pink Zones have raised a total of $52,500, with an average attendance of 2,500...Read More

High Heels, Skirts and Rock’n Roll
By Jenna Croyle

Inspiring us in each and every way, old school rock 'n roll was never as powerful as it was by the ladies of Rock and their music. Throughout the decades, bands like Heart, The Bangles, The Go Go’s, Joan Jett, and even Pat Benatar touched our hearts, stretched our minds and reached our souls.

This week’s featured band, Stiletto brings back that old familiar feeling of times long past, when the women of Rock ruled.

Formed in 2010, Stiletto featured the best female singers Erie had to offer, including Monica Lewis, Emily Foht, Angie Myers and Lindsey Vendetti. Since that time, Vendetti has moved on, transforming the fantastic four into the tremendous threesome....Read More

Who Is Gigging Where?

Find Out Where Your Favorite Band Is Playing This Weekend.

Who is where every weekend. Keep up to date with each bar and club and your favorite bands with each weekend's Bands listing...Read More

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANIS!!

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Joke Of The Week

Ventriloquist

A ventriloquist cowboy walked into town and saw a rancher sitting on his porch with his dog:

Cowboy: "Hey, cool dog. Mind if I speak to him?"

Rancher: "This dog don't talk!"

Cowboy: "Hey dog, how's it going?"

Dog: "Doin alright"

Rancher: (Extreme look of shock)

Cowboy: "Is this your owner? (pointing at rancher)"

Dog: "Yep."

Cowboy: "How's he treat you?"

Dog: "Real good." He walks me twice a day, feeds me great food, and takes me to the lake once a week to play."

Rancher: (Look of disbelief)

Cowboy: "Mind if I talk to your horse?"

Rancher: "Horses don't talk!"

Cowboy: "Hey horse, how's it goin?"

Horse: "Cool."

Rancher: (an even wilder look of shock)

Cowboy: "Is this your owner?" (pointing at rancher)

Horse: "Yep."

Cowboy: "How's he treat you?"

Horse: "Pretty good, thanks for asking." He rides me regularly, brushes me down often, and keeps me in the barn to protect me from the elements."

Rancher: (total look of amazement)

Cowboy: "Mind if I talk to your SHEEP?"

Rancher: (stuttering, and hardly able to talk)...... "Th-Th-Them sheep ain't nothin but liars!!!"

Potpourri

Historical Place

Quote of the Week

Roueche House

Meadville PA

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~ Christopher Reeve

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~ James Baldwin

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
- Victoria Holt

Did You Know...

Smoking in Public Buildings First Banned in 1940s

While British and American tobacco companies are in the headlines often, China actually is the world’s largest cigarette producer. Almost 50% of Chinese men puff their way through the 2 million trillion cigarettes made there mostly by The China National Tobacco Corporation, the world’s largest cigarette producer. They supply one-third of the world’s cigarettes.

And while western governments nowadays are up in arms about the health hazards of smoking the Nazi government actually was the first to link cancer with smoking and was the first to ban smoking in public buildings in the early 1940s. Hitler was vehemently anti-smoking. He even gave gold watches to associates who stopped smoking. All things considered, perhaps he rather should have let them smoke.