Patricia N. “Pat” Olson, 94, formerly of Montmorenci Road, Ridgway, passed away on Monday, July 29, 2024.
She was born on October 19, 1929, in Ridgway, a daughter of the late Eugene A. and Marie A. Kilhoffer Nelson.
In September of 1949, Pat married the late C.H. Arnold Olson, who preceded her in death on October 1, 1981. Together they shared 32 years of marriage.
Pat graduated from Ridgway High School, class of 1948. She cared for her family for many years as a homemaker. Pat was a very involved member of St. Leo Magnus Catholic Church, where she served with the team that counted the collection on the 4th Sunday of the month for many years. She was also a proud member of the Catholic Daughters of America.
American Spices, LLC. of Ozone Park, NY is recalling Spice Class brand Ground Cinnamon, because it has the potential to be contaminated with elevated levels of lead. Short term exposures to very low levels of lead may not elicit any symptoms.
It is possible that increased blood lead levels may be the only apparent sign of lead exposure. Additional signs and symptoms of lead exposure are more likely with acute exposure to higher levels of lead or chronic exposure to lead. While lead can affect nearly every bodily system, its effects depend upon the amount and duration of lead exposure and age/ body weight.
If a child is exposed to enough lead for a protracted period of time (e.g., weeks to months) permanent damage to the central nervous system may occur. This can result in learning disorders, developmental defects, and other long- term health problems. For adults, chronic lead exposure is associated with kidney dysfunction, hypertension, and neurocognitive effects.
Spice Class brand Ground Cinnamon was distributed to retailers located in the New York City area between 12/01/2023 and 05/15/2024.
The product was not sold online.
The recalled product is SPICE CLASS BRAND Ground Cinnamon packed in 7oz and 11oz packing PET jars with expiration date: 12/2026.
Advance Food International, Inc. of Maspeth, NY is recalling Shahzada brand Cinnamon Powder in 7oz packing, because it has the potential to be contaminated with elevated levels of lead. Short term exposures to very low levels of lead may not elicit any symptoms.
It is possible that increased blood lead levels may be the only apparent sign of lead exposure. Additional signs and symptoms of lead exposure are more likely with acute exposure to higher levels of lead or chronic exposure to lead. While lead can affect nearly every bodily system, its effects depend upon the amount and duration of lead exposure and age/ body weight.
If a child is exposed to enough lead for a protracted period of time (e.g., weeks to months) permanent damage to the central nervous system may occur. This can result in learning disorders, developmental defects, and other long-term health problems. For adults, chronic lead exposure is associated with kidney dysfunction, hypertension, and neurocognitive effects.
Belmont, NY – When the Allegany County Democratic Committee hosts its monthly “Coffee with Democrats” on Saturday, August 10th in Wellsville, they will be collecting non-perishable food and personal care items to be donated to the Salvation Army Food Pantry. Last month the group collected for the Catholic Charities Joyce Family Food Pantry. This is one small way county Democrats “serve our community.”
Specific requests from the pantry include any and all types of non-perishable food, as well as personal care and paper products. They also welcome donations of cash or grocery store gift cards, so they can purchase perishable staples such as milk, eggs, cheese and bread.
Miska Young from Port Allegany High School was recognized in the 2024 Awards Presentation Banquet of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame at Penn State University.
Nancy Watkins Dunham passed away on July 24, 2024, at the age of 81. She was a devoted wife, loving mother, cherished grandmother, kind and generous community leader, and beloved friend to many.
She was born on January 22, 1943, to Emily (Gross) and Forrest Watkins in Winfield, Kansas, where her father was stationed at Strother Army Airfield for pilot training during World War II. The family returned to Pennsylvania and eventually settled in Port Allegany, where her mother worked as a teacher and her father as the high school guidance counselor.
Nancy graduated from Port Allegany High School in 1960 and from Allegheny College in 1964 with a B.A. in Elementary Education. She loved her years at Allegheny and met lifelong friends there. While at Allegheny she participated in Singers, the college choir. It is through her participation in the choir that she met her husband John Dunham while attending a Singers reunion concert in Emporium, PA. They shared a love of music and continued to participate in college choir reunions together and support their college and the music program.
John and Nancy lived in Wellsboro where John worked for the family-owned business Dunham’s Department Store. They were married on Sunday, July 21, 1968, a day and date chosen because the store was closed on Sundays. Nancy had not planned to work at the family store but offered to work one day when an employee left unexpectedly, thus beginning an over 50-year career as a manager, buyer, and then owner of Dunham’s. She became a constant presence at the store, helping generations of shoppers pick out the perfect purchase while also managing other aspects of the business. Many remember visiting with Nancy and John at the store and in the coffee shop, where they connected with customers and spent time with friends.
Nancy dedicated her life’s work not only to the store, but also to Wellsboro as a whole, becoming active in a variety of civic and social organizations, including several foreign exchange student programs. Through these programs Nancy and John opened their home to many exchange students, creating lifelong bonds as some became like her own children.
Throughout her life Nancy loved to travel, easily making friends wherever she went and serving as a loyal ambassador for Wellsboro. Just this year she was able to attend her 60th college reunion and take an extended trip to visit family in Costa Rica. Most recently in June, Nancy joined her brother and sister-in-law Ed and Chris Watkins on a 4,400-mile road trip to visit and reconnect with dozens of friends and relatives whom she had not seen for many years. One stop on this trip was Nancy’s birthplace of Winfield, Kansas, where Ed and Nancy visited the historical society and helped identify an unmarked photo of their father in his aircraft taken at Strother Army Airfield during his training.
Nancy loved puzzles, reading, playing the piano, singing, and Broadway musicals. She delighted in family game night where she was nearly unbeatable in every word game. She remained steadfastly loyal to her birth state of Kansas, including a love of sunflowers and the Kansas University Jayhawks basketball team. The Christmas season held a special place in Nancy’s heart. She shared her love of the holiday by decorating every corner of her home, hosting Christmas parties, and taking her grandchildren Christmas shopping each year.
The 18th Season of the Endless Mountain Music Festival will end with three EMMF Orchestra concerts, this Friday, Aug. 2 in Steadman Theatre at Commonwealth University in Mansfield, and this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3 and 4 at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium in Corning, N.Y.
BOGO tickets – buy one ticket and get one free – will be sold at the door Friday and Saturday nights, Aug. 2 and 3.
Youth, 20 and under, are admitted free to all festival concerts.
At 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2 in Steadman Theater, the EMMF Orchestra conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser will kick off the closing weekend with a performance of classic works, including “Festive Overture, Opus 96” written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1954 and “Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major” composed by Franz Schubert in 1816 along with “Pentangle: Five Songs for French Horn and Orchestra” written by Peter Schickele probably in the 1970s and featuring Robert Danforth on French Horn.
Since its premiere in November 1954, “Festive Overture” has become one of Shostakovich’s most oft-performed works. In fact, its opening brass fanfare was chosen as the iconic musical theme for the Summer Olympics in Moscow in 1980. Today, Shostakovich is considered the Soviet Union’s greatest composer of classical music.
Schubert’s “Symphony No. 5” best exemplifies ‘The Way Things Were,” the motto of this Friday’s concert. Schubert glances backwards to Haydn and Mozart in shaping the first movement as a transparent sonata form full of joyful melodies presented in symphonic garb.
A surprise awaits the “Pentangle” listener. Expect the unusual.
“Franckly Speaking,” the Festival’s final evening performance on Saturday, Aug. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium will feature some of the most dramatic orchestral works in the classical canon, such as César Franck’s “Symphony in D Minor” composed in 1889.
Performing Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor” will be pianist Andrew Li.
During “Its Showtime,” the FREE Corning Pops Concert at 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon, Aug. 4 at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium, Anthony Nunziata and the EMMF Orchestra under Gunzenhauser’s baton will perform popular songs from the Great American Songbook.
“I’m in the business of making people feel good, making people happy, moving people in some way,” Nunziata said. “We all are on this life’s journey in search of that feeling of being moved, to feel alive. If I can have a small part in moving you in some way during my live concerts or through my music, this is the greatest gift I can give. To make people laugh, cry, feel something — there’s nothing like it.”
Nunziata is the New York City-based, internationally-acclaimed singer and songwriter who brings his soulful voice to classic jazz, pop standards and his original music.
He has performed more than 400 concerts over the past few years headlining major performing arts centers, theaters, symphony concert halls and private events across the country and around the world. The Brooklyn-born, classically trained singer is hailed by Broadwayworld as “an explosion of love and entertainment.” Nunziata co-headlined Carnegie Hall for two sold-out concerts with the New York Pops Symphony Orchestra.
For more information about the concerts, call the Endless Mountain Music Festival Box Office at 570-787-7800 or visit www.endlessmountain.net
Donald Houser, 72, of Reigel Rd. in Kane, PA passed away on Sunday (July 28) at UPMC Hamot in Erie, PA.
Born on January 23, 1952 in Kane, he was the son of the late Frank and Eleanor (Pearce) Houser. On June 18, 1976 in Kane, he married Peggy Van Straten, who preceded him in death.
After high school and technical school, Don took a year off to drive around the country with a friend. After seeing much of the country, he settled into a simple life that he enjoyed greatly. He loved spending time with friends and being outdoors gardening, fishing, and hunting. Don enjoyed the company of his pets. He also loved learning obscure facts and was very good at trivia.
Always a hard worker, Don put in the effort to do a job well. He had various jobs throughout his life starting as a newspaper carrier as a kid and culminating with retirement from Kane Hardwood. His favorite job, other than retirement, was as a heavy equipment operator at Kane Stone Co.
Leonora C. “Lee” Irish “beloved wife, mother and fur mom”
COUDERSPORT, PA—Leonora C. “Lee” Irish, 86, a longtime resident of Coudersport, PA passed away on Sunday, July 28, 2024, in UPMC Cole, Coudersport, after a short illness.
Born on Tuesday, April 5, 1938 in Norwalk, Connecticut, she was a daughter of Charles R. II and Celia Barbarosa Pennington. On October 15, 1960 in Norwalk, she married Ferd W. Irish, who passed away on January 9, 2018.
Lee was a graduate of Norwalk High School in Norwalk, CT and was a graduate of Yale-New Haven Nursing School in New Haven, CT. She earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing from Alfred University.
After her marriage and relocating to Coudersport, Lee was employed as a private duty Registered Nurse taking care of Charles Cole at the former Potter County Hospital in Coudersport. She then was employed at the hospital and after the completion of the “new hospital” was head nurse for many years in the Emergency Room. She was then instrumental in writing the policies and procedures for the Short Procedure Unit (SPU) running that department for many years until her retirement at the hospital. After her retirement from the hospital, she became Dr. Miller’s nurse at the Potter County Health Center until finally retiring from healthcare. She had recently served as Sweden Township Auditor. She, for many years, served as Judge of Elections on the election board in Sweden Township. It goes without saying that as a potato farmer’s wife, she was there to help her beloved husband in any way possible on the farm.
Lee was a member of the former St. Bibiana Catholic Church in Galeton and was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America Court Doyle 932 in Coudersport where she had previously served as treasurer. She was a former member of Potter County Hospice where she also served on the Board of Directors. She served on many volunteer associations’ Board of Directors, including the Pennsylvania Lumber Museum in Ulysses and also the Coudersport Public Library where she was active in their auctions. She was a devoted wife, mother and fur mom. Her compassion covered not only humans but animals of all kinds. She had a love of all animals. Lee was a voracious reader. At the age of 55, she proudly completed the NYC Marathon.
She was a woman of great faith, finding comfort and strength in her beliefs throughout her life.
At 11:33 AM on Wednesday, Kane Ambulance was dispatched to a location off Route 66 for a land rescue of an ATV operator who crashed off a trail over an embankment. Marienville Fire Company and a Rescue out of Clarion County are dispatched as well.
Wayne Edward Heck, 83, of Middlebury Center, PA passed away July 29, 2024, at his home surrounded by family. He was born September 4, 1940, at home in Middlebury Center to Albert and Genevieve (Gaylord) Heck. Wayne graduated from Wellsboro Area High School in the class of 1959.
Wayne worked at Cornell Brothers for forty-nine years, Owlett’s Farm Store for three years, and Tops Markets for five years. On May 6, 1967, he married Patricia McConnell.
He served Middlebury Township in the Volunteer Fire Department for sixty-six years and was a life member and past chief of the department. He was a member of the Elkland and Wellsboro Moose, and the American Legion. Wayne was an avid outdoorsman who loved to garden, hunt, and fish.
