LOCAL ANGLE?: Doreen Tominez of Rochester, N.Y., has a
post-Oscar question. “At sixth ward school there was a librarian by
the name of Mrs. Dalton (the 1970s) who had a son that worked in
special effects in the movies. Could it be the same Burt Dalton
that won an Academy Award for special effects for the movie ‘The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ this evening?”
Would any of our readers know?
OUR THANKS: Cheryl Covert of Cyclone writes, “I would like to
thank the PennDOT crews for doing such a great job taking care of
the roads the last couple of years. I have always been scared to
drive in the winter and since my husband’s death, I have to rely on
me to get to work. The crews have done a marvelous job keeping up
with the roads. I know there are times when people complain about
PennDOT but I have all the praise in the world for them. Thanks
again and keep up the good work.”
We drive daily up and down Marshburg hill and agree with Cheryl.
Sure, there’s times it’s impossible for anyone to keep up with this
“old-fashioned” winter, but those occasions are rare. By and large,
the hill has been well maintained which we appreciate.
COLD ONE: Don Parrish of Beaver Falls, a former Waterways Patrol
Officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, recalls that
chilly February we told readers about the other day:
“Quite vividly, I remember the February morning in Mount Jewett
30 years ago when I walked out the front door to retrieve The
Bradford Era. The snow crunched beneath my feet and my nostrils
stuck together when I inhaled. The frosty thermometer nearby read
minus 36 degrees! I said to myself, ‘Nobody in their right mind
will be ice fishing today, I think I’ll go back to bed!’
Jim Long of Bradford writes, “It was really cold that winter but
on that particular day I was driving past the courthouse in
Smethport about 6 a.m. and noticed that the statue of the civil war
soldier had thrown his rifle down and had his hands in his
pockets.”
(Funny guy, Jim.)
TODAY’S QUOTE: “The tragedy of journalism lies in its
impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance
condemns it to an early death,” said Vera Brittain, British writer,
1940.
