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Whitewater project spotlighted at this year's Rendezvous
30 North ChiefRiver enthusiasts will formally dedicate the whitewater release valve at the Quemahoning Reservoir during May’s Stonycreek Rendezvous. Scheduled for the weekend of May 13, the three-day event commonly draws more than 500 people to Greenhouse Park...Tags: Science and Technology, Physiology, Science, Sports, Politics
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Officials hope plan will eliminate vibration during whitewater release
30 North ChiefProject partners are moving forward with a plan to maximize flows from a whitewater release valve at the Quemahoning Reservoir. The Cambria Somerset Authority board on Thursday authorized the bidding of an engineering design that will remediate a balky...Tags: Science and Technology, Abusive Behavior, Physiology, Science, Social Issues
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Stonycreek's appeal not limited to whitewater
Daily American Sunday EditorThe roar of the rapids is somehow just as loud underneath the water. As I pop to the surface I see flashes of red helmet and lifejacket all around me and feel a shocking bump and scrape of rock as the current pushes me back toward the now-empty raft....Tags: River Surfing, Land Surfing, Windsurfing
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Valley's economic health hinges on small business success
Of The Morning CallFaced with rising health care and fuel costs, an increasingly competitive market for skilled workers and less-than-positive forecasts for the U.S. economy, the Lehigh Valley's small businesses will have some tough challenges in 2008, but they remain...Tags: Whitehall, South Whitehall Township, Career and Workplace, Business, Companies and Corporations
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At Your Service
![Pop singer Billy Joel sang 25 years ago about how "we're living here in Allentown, and they're closing all the factories down." In a general sense, that's what happened to a lot of manufacturing in the Lehigh Valley. What Joel didn't sing about was the roaring job-generator that replaced those factories: the service sector.](http://www.mcall.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-03/36376229-06143626.jpg "Pop singer Billy Joel sang 25 years ago about how "we're living here in Allentown, and they're closing all the factories down.\" In a general sense, that's what happened to a lot of manufacturing in the Lehigh Valley. What Joel didn't sing about was the roaring job-generator that replaced those factories: the service sector.")
Of The Morning CallPop singer Billy Joel sang 25 years ago about how "we're living here in Allentown, and they're closing all the factories down." In a general sense, that's what happened to a lot of manufacturing in the Lehigh Valley. What Joel didn't sing about was the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Career and Workplace, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Travel, Pennsylvania
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A safe bet: Sands BethWorks Casino likely to be a top employer
Of The Morning CallAlmost overnight, the Sands BethWorks Casino will do something it has taken some of the area's biggest companies decades to do: become one of the Lehigh Valley's top 10 employers. By the time the casino, hotel and shopping complex opens next year,...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Career and Workplace, Public Employees, Companies and Corporations, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Family speaks of being proud of brother, son
Sun National StaffThe frenzy surrounding the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court paid a short visit to a well-trimmed golf course suburb off Route 40 in Ellicott City yesterday, where the nominee's parents and two sisters crowded around an...Tags: Family, Washington (U.S. state), White House, U.S. Supreme Court, Indiana
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GM loses $1 billion, will cut 25,000 jobs
Sun StaffGeneral Motors Corp., a symbol of American industrial might a half-century ago when it became the first U.S. company to make $1 billion in a year, announced plans yesterday to cut 25,000 jobs after losing more than $1 billion in the first quarter of...Tags: General Electric Company, Automotive Equipment, Career and Workplace, Companies and Corporations, Management Change
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Tunnel fire choking East Coast rail freight
Sun StaffHigh-priority cargo found ways around Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel yesterday, but knots in the East Coast's rail network will grow increasingly tight with each day that the major north-south artery remains closed, freight customers said. Bethlehem...Tags: Coal, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Railway Transportation, Metal and Mineral, Maryland
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Submariners fought more than one enemy
Of The Morning CallRobert Holden graduated from Allen High School in 1941, then worked as an apprentice machinist at Bethlehem Steel Corp., boring 11- inch gun tubes for Navy cruisers. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * I loved...Tags: Whitehall, George W. Bush, Boats, New London (New London, Connecticut)
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A torpedo, then darkness at Pearl Harbor
Of The Morning CallPittsburgh native James W. Murdy moved to Allentown in 1936 and joined the Navy four years later to learn a trade. His father saw him off, saying, "You go in that Navy and get kicked out for any reason at all, don't you ever come back to my house." Young...Tags: Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Allentown
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'We said we were going to come back alive'
Of The Morning CallEarl R. Schantzenbach tried to join the Marine Corps during World War II, but bad teeth kept him out. The Army had no such scruples and drafted him early in 1943 while he worked in the foundry at Bethlehem Steel Corp. The young man, who had grown up on...Tags: Armed Forces, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes
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