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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sock hop to benefit veterans D.C. bus trip
The Agent Orange Veterans Project is sponsoring a sock hop Saturday to benefit an upcoming veterans bus trip. The dance, featuring music by The Dorals, will be from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Sons of Italy at 905 S. Mill St. The doors will open at 6 p.m. The cost is a $10 per person donation. A cash bar, drawing and pizza and chips will be available. Members of the Agent Orange Veterans group are organizing a 24-hour trip to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 27 to visit military monuments. The trip will not involve an overnight stay and is free to any veteran. A total of 112 seats are on the buses. The bus, chartered by Campbell Bus Co. of Slippery Rock, will leave at 3 a.m. from the Maitland Lane Free Methodist Church and return there around 3 a.m. Sept. 28. The trip to D.C. will involve stops at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery to watch the changing of the guard; the Vietnam, World War I and II and the Korean War memorials, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. Coryea is hopeful of getting a visit to the White House, which is not guaranteed, he said. Bus trip travelers thus will need to provide Social Security numbers for security purposes, he said. The bus will ride by the White House if a visit is not possible, he said. It will also ride past the Capitol. The Agent Orange Veterans Project is raising funds from donations from community members. The sock hop will be one of its biggest fundraisers. Tickets for the event are available by contacting Coryea at (724) 651-6747 or one of the board members, or they may be purchased at the door. Any veteran interested in attending the bus trip, or anyone who wants to donate toward it, may contact Coryea. dwachter@
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Better late than never – it's maple syrup time
SHARPSVILLE, Pa. (WKBN) – The maple syrup season is running a little behind, but that's OK. There's still plenty of time to collect it and turn it into various products of maple goodness. The trees are tapped. Over 1,400 plugs are going at least an inch into the maple trees at Coryea's Maple Products. And today, sap collection started. 'Very exciting. We're about three weeks later than last year, so we've been patiently waiting for today to come,' said Aleigh Coryea. In the first week of February 2024, Coryea's was already cooking. When the temperature is below freezing, it builds up pressure in the trees. The temperature rises, and the sap is pushed out and into the lines that run to collection tanks. The sap drips slowly, but the season runs fast. It takes over 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.'We can't make maple syrup without collecting the sap. So this is our season right now, thankfully. So our whole the rest of our whole entire year is based on what we do over the next few weeks,' Coryea said. Coryea's is an award-winning producer, and this is the most important time of the season. The lines are laid, and now is the time to collect what it needs to make its variety of maple products. 'Our season ends whenever Mother Nature stops giving us freezing nights. So whenever it doesn't freeze again, then we're done,' Coryea said. Coryea's had some leftover sap collected last year, which it could start cooking today. Maple Taste & Tour weekend is coming up. That's the annual open house and three sugar houses are participating in Mercer County, plus 23 others across northwest Pennsylvania, including Coryea's in Sharpsville, Munnell Run Farm in Mercer and Windy Knoll Maple in Stoneboro. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
