Round The Square:

RTS for Wednesday, April 9, 2008

APRIL 1, 1945: “Sixty-three years ago on April 1, 1945, the battle for Okinawa began. We landed on the north end of the island. I don’t remember the Jap name for the bay. Later it was named for Gen. Buckner who had died. Around the 15th, we heard President Roosevelt had died.”

So says Warren “Whitey” Coryell of Smethport, commenting on a recent RTS subject. “I also have a picture of the stone laid at the site where he was laid to rest, Ernie Pyle.”

“The USS Pennsylvania had taken a hit. Heard it was a Jap sub (don’t know). I am tired, so God bless America, and please remember our men and women of our Armed Forces of today.”

GOOD IDEA: Liz (Heck) Sanders writes us from Whitefish Bay, Wisc., with a good idea: “My family is from Bradford and we spent quite a few summers there when we were growing up. Both my mom and dad were raised there. Since my mom was always a big supporter of the SPCA, we have continued the tradition since she died.”

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My sisters, Jen (North Carolina) and Erin (Illinois) and I usually purchase memorials through the SPCA when an acquaintance or pet dies and like to find ways to help them raise funds.

“We have just helped the McKean County SPCA register as a GoodSearch charity.  We would like to challenge residents in the area to start using GoodSearch as their search engine. It’s free and the SPCA will get at least a penny for every search.

“It doesn’t seem like much but it can really add up. Just go to www.goodsearch.com and select the ‘McKean County SPCA’ as your designated charity. It only took me about three minutes to add the search box to my toolbar and now I can use it easily. Just three of us have used it over 170 times since mid-March.

“Besides, I think of all the fun we had in Bradford every time I see it.”

PIN SETTER: At the end of March, our sports department carried a story about John Stiles of Bradford who, at the age of 90, has been bowling for at least 50 years.

Hal Harmon of Bradford phoned to tell us he remembers being a pin setter for John many years ago at Star Lanes. “I got ten cents a line,” Hal reports.

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