KEYSTONE CLIPS Voters find pushy people at polls
Sometimes, supporters working the election polls on behalf of certain candidates can be a bit overaggressive. Such was the case at a couple of polling sites in Mercer County on primary election day Tuesday.
Jim Bennington, county director of registration and election, said he received some calls from voters complaining about candidate representatives' besieging people as they approached the polls, trying to hand them cards, emery boards and other advertising gimmicks touting their candidates.
Bennington said he got a call from one woman who complained that the candidate representatives at her voting place confronted her as she got out of her car. She was so concerned, she turned around, got back into her car and drove away without casting her ballot.
Blood for a car
Donating blood at a couple of upcoming UPMC Horizon blood drives can win you a car. Everyone 18 and older donating blood from now until June 30 at one of Central Blood Bank's mobile locations is eligible to win a red 2003 Ford Mustang convertible.
That includes UPMC Horizon blood drives from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 3 in Assembly Rooms D and E at the hospital's Greenville campus and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 6 in Conference Room 2 at the Shenango campus in Farrell.
Donors must be at least 17 and weigh at least 110 pounds. The winner will be announced July 4.
Slippery Rock grant
Slippery Rock is getting a $30,000 state grant to make improvements to downtown businesses, said state Rep. Frank LaGrotta of Ellwood City, D-10th.
The money is from the Department of Community and Economic Development through a new program aimed at downtown revitalization. The money will be used to make facade improvements in the borough's central business district, LaGrotta said.
XCONTRIBUTORS: Harold Gwin, Vindicator Sharon Bureau, and Laure Cioffi, New Castle Bureau.