KEYSTONE CLIPS 'Senior Follies' seeks local talent

The Shenango Valley Senior Community Center is looking for talent for its first "Senior Follies," scheduled for August 2004. The show, formatted as a variety/vaudeville performance, is open to anyone in Mercer County age 50 and older.
Producers are looking for singers, dancers, chorus groups, musicians, comedians, solo acts, ventriloquists, magicians and other acts. The sign-up deadline is Nov. 8 at any senior center in the county. Rehearsals begin in January.
The show will be staged at Hickory High School and will be a fund-raising event for the community center on North Buhl Farm Drive, Hermitage. Interested performers can call the center at (724) 981-7950.
Keep wheelchairs rolling
The Medical Equipment Recycling Program of UPMC Horizon Foundation will have an equipment drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at its facilities in the Salvation Army building at 660 Fisher Hill St., Sharon.
The focus will be on wheelchairs and tub benches needed by individuals in the community who can't afford to buy them. Those bringing items to the drive should use the Fisher Hill side entrance to the building.
Additional information is available by contacting program coordinator Jennifer Barborak at (724) 347-3605.
Heating-bill help
U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart of Bradford Woods, R-4th, announced the release of $68 million to the state of Pennsylvania by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help low-income residents with their heating bills during October, November and December.
These funds represent grants to states, tribes and territories under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. LIHEAP helps eligible families pay the costs of heating and insulating their homes in winter and cooling homes in summer.
More than 4 million low-income households receive assistance each year. Pennsylvania got the country's second-largest allocation.
SRU recycling
Faculty, staff and students at Slippery Rock University are recycling more than ever. In 2002, the university recycled 477,257 pounds of material -- up 10 percent from 2001. The university recycles everything from used batteries to newspaper, magazines and cardboard.
XCONTRIBUTORS: Harold Gwin, Vindicator Sharon Bureau, and Laure Cioffi, New Castle Bureau