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Coach John Franco Goes out in a blaze of glory.

After 18 years and 3 trips to the State Championships ,as Coach of the Tyrone Golden Eagles,  John Franco is returning home to Altoona, and everyone wishes him the very best!.  This past season, Franco was named  Coach Of The Year for AA Schools for the entire state of Pennsylvania.  Best wishes as he goes up from AA  into the AAAA and WPIAL.!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our 57th Birthday!

We are proud to be part

 

of the Tyrone Community!

 

From Mayor Bill Fink of Tyrone

20 Ag Students from Tyrone Area High took bus trip to annual State Farm Show in Harrisburg

Shown above are WTRN's Bob Johnson, interviewing Ben Morden, the Ag Sciences Teacher, and Samantha Sessamen, one of the outstanding Ag students at TAHS, who plans to become a Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine.  Mr. Morden took twenty Tyrone Area High Vo Ag students to the Farm Show. WTRN broadcast  reports on activities at the Farm Show, brought to you by these public-spirited area businesses: Conner Heating & Air Conditioning, Tipton,  Hunter's Garage, Pennington Road, Tyrone, Dorman's Jewelry, 712 Pleasant Valley Blvd, Altoona, Logan Valley Oil, Bellwood, G & R Excavation & Demolition, Tyrone,        McDonalds, Various Altoona Locations, and  Sel-Lo Oil,Altoona

COACH OF THE YEAR !       

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to John Franco, Coach of the Tyrone      Golden Eagles for the recognition as PIAA AA Coach of the Year!

PLAYER OF THE YEAR!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Stevie Franco, Quarterback of     the 2011 Tyrone Golden Eagles as PIAA AA Player of the Year!

 

WTRN Proudly Salutes Chuck Banas, who has retired after having been an Assistant

Coach of the Tyrone Golden Eagles Football Team since the year they were State Champions.

Chuck wrote the book, "Team, Toughness, Tyrone- a Championship Season" that is a prized

 possession of hundreds of fans in the Tyrone Area.  And, he served faithfully over the years, 

as Assistant to Coach John Franco.   Chuck is not retiring from Public Service to the area; 

he is busy arranging the annual Spring Concert for the Tyrone Library, which always brings

 noted Rock Stars to Tyrone in a great fund-raiser.  He continues as an active member of the

Kiwanis Club of Northern Blair County, of which he's a Past President.

Congratulations, Chuck! 

 

 

Tyrone's Community Information Center 

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Salute to our GIs

So long as our GIs are endangered in Afghanistan, we will keep this flag here.  We proudly display our country's flag in honor of our servicemen overseas.

 

 

 

 

  .For all of the Sports Information, Click Here

Keep in mind that the Coach of the Year and the Player of the Year had lots of help to gain this recognition: 
Thanks to Curt Werner for these action shots at Hershey.
And, who can ever forget the Aliquippa game the previous week!

Instead of throwing a pass, Stevie Franco receives one for a TD against the Quips

Thanking the Fans for their support.  These players and coaches will remember these moments the rest of their lives....

  Thanks to Virgie Werner for these great photos!

The Golden Eagles will always be #1!

 

 Thanks to Open Door Visions of Tyrone for their Public Service of carrying the WTRN Football broadcasts on their website!

LET US NOT FORGET-  WINNING OR LOSING- #1!

OUR TYRONE STATE FOOTBALL CHAMPS IN 1999,

shown during the Monogram Club Meeting in 2011 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1999 State Champions!   Click on Sports Page. 1999 Champs. 2011 Photo by Virgie Werner

SALUTE TO THE BLUE DEVILS OF 2011

2011 Varsity B-A Blue Devils

 Congratulations to the Bellwood-Antis Blue Devils and Coach John Hayes on a great 2011 Season.  Although it's over....it'll go into the record books as an outstanding year!

Every member of the team can be proud all the rest of his life of the great team he was a part of!

 

SALUTE TO THE NITTANY LIONS OF 2011-2012!

Follow the Nittany Lions on WTRN 1340AM/ 100.7FM.  They need your support more now than ever before!

 

CLICK HERE FOR Veterans Day and Memorial Day Parades and Programs 

 

Thanks to the thousands of "new friends" who have found WTRN on FM at 100.7.  In addition to 1340AM, you'll enjoy the same programming on FM.  

 

TACO AWARDS 2011: Click Here:   TACO Awards (Photos by Virgie Werner)

Photographs of Tyrone Mayor Bill Fink before he retired from Military Security involving Air Force One.CLICK HERE FOR FULL SIZE PHOTOS 

 

We remember the Tyrone YMCA and also Barney Mogle- Click Here Sports Page

 

 

 

MEMORIAL DAY 2011 PHOTOS BY VIRGIE WERNER CLICK HERE FOR FULL SIZE PHOTOS 

Antique Cars in Memorial Day Parade - Click HereAntique  Cars at Tyrone  

Congratulations to Tyrone's Nick Patton!  Silver Medal At 2011 State Track Championships

Click Here:for full-sized photos  Sports Page. Photo by Virgie Werner

Minerva Frank is honored on 100th birthday CLICK HERE FOR FULL SIZE PHOTOS 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How long will we wait for something to be done about the flood problem in Tyrone? The continued development and paving of areas that drain into the "bottleneck" at Tyrone must be dealt with. Every drop of rain that falls from 17th Street in Altoona to Bald Eagle must flow past Tyrone. This includes the Penn State Campus in Altoona, Bellwood, Tipton, Greenwood, etc.   WTRN urges everyone to work together to solve this problem.  The Flood on December first was just a few inches from coming onto the streets of downtown Tyrone!  

Photos of the Flooding in Tyrone on December 1, 2010.   Photos by Tyrone Borough Mayor Bill Fink

  LINKS to Click on:Here for:  Busy Days In Tyrone-YMCA demolished-  

TACO 2011 Radio Auction-  

OLD FRIENDS REMINISCE ABOUT TYRONE   

Antique Racing Cars at Tyrone          ABCD Blair County Development        TAHS - Alumni Page          Amtrak     

 Bellwood Antis Football       Bellwood Home Page     Bryce Jordan Center     

 CLICK HERE FOR LOCAL PHOTO ALBUM    

Tyrone VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS  Wonderful Memories,

 Col Crowther  Memorial Ceremonies and Encampment

 Del Grosso's on Today Show

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34318224/ns/today-today_cooking_school#38096184

 Dorman's Jewelry      Dover Millionaires           Drivers Licenses    

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab.htm


 Epworth Manor               History of Epworth Manor          
Frontline Ministries         

Photos by Bob Johnson and 2 Marvelous Gifts 

  Gardners Candies                   PHOTOS OF GARDNER GUARDS        GEOLOGY OF THE MOUNTAINS.    

Tyrone Sports Museum  

Grier School For Girls    Historical  Picture Pages   Hookies Fire Co.     Joshua House

 Little Juniata River Chapter of the  Federation of Fly Fishers    

 MYSTERY PHOTO CONTEST   CLICK HERE for past photos

  Andy Moore, amazing local artist remembered          Museum Early Tyrone, PA     

Muddy Run Raceway   MAPQUEST

 Tyrone National Guard  -photos by Virgie Werner              NASA site                         

Outstanding Citizen Award

 OLD FRIENDS REMINISCE ABOUT TYRONE    

Tyrone Paper Mill Reopens 2003- Team Ten- American Eagle

 Penn State Sports      Picture pages of Tyrone Past and Present      

Penn DOT      Q4U Museum-

  Railfan Guide-Horseshoe Curve     Railroad City     Search Google  

Project Freedom at Camp Anderson - 

Dedication  by Three Rotary Clubs for Boy Scouts/Easter Seals -Click Here 

  Saint Matthew School         A.J. Schopp, State Wrestling Champ.         

Let Us Not Forget Kathy Shea

  Tyrone Area Historical Society      Tyrone Area Schools     

Tyrone Church Information Page        Tyrone Snyder Public Library

  TAHS Wrestling  Tyrone Community Players  

Tyrone's  Sesquicentennial  Celebration

  USA Today   Woodland Avenue Paperboy-Gary Long              WILSON CHEMICAL COMPANY                  

Pa District-6 Wrestling

54 YEARS OF WTRN HISTORY  

TYRONE COMMUNITY DAY  at Del Grosso Park.Click here for photos of past  year's celebrations.

NEW INFORMATION ABOUT ANOTHER TYRONE AREA VETERAN 

WHO SAW THE FLAG GOING UP AT IWO JIMA

Click  TYRONE AREA VETERANS PAGE  Memorial Day and Veterans Day   Click Here

Click Here for  Patriotic Services at Christ United Methodist Church

 

 

EEO REPORT  Click Here

TODAY IN HISTORY!  Click on http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zoBIIU595Y

See the DelGrosso Story on The Food Network Show "Unwrapped" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zoBIIU595Y

 

Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck

Courtesy of WPSU: click below

http://wpsx/psu.edu/ourtown/tyrone/1.html

Click Here for 2005 Observance 

of the May 30, 1893

circustrainwreck.htm                 

DAVE PETERS

His parents are natives of Tyrone, and he's now the head of  a national

 support group to help kids to cope when cancer comes to their mother or

 dad. To learn more, click here:  http://www.kidskonnected.org/

Don't forget that Tyrone Football  games are on the Internet.  

Go to www.tyronepa.com

WORLD's  MOST UNUSUAL CLOCK: Click on

       http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

 

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WTRN remembers Suzanne Sickler Ohl. 

The inspiration and guiding force

 in preserving Tyrone History and Heritage.        

 

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ORGANIZATION, 

which exists for the good of the people of the 

Tyrone area.  

Call any member of the Tyrone Area Community 

Organization.

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TYRONE'S OWN FRED WARING!

For a complete collection of Fred Waring information 

by Tyrone's own beloved historian, 

Suzanne Sickler Ohl, click on  Fred Waring Page  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Painting by Vanelda Benn  (1926-2011) 

is In Loving Memory of her, by the WTRN Staff.              

 

Do you think that Gamesa is a small company in Ebensburg that

 makes"Windmill Towers"?  Yes, you're right, except that 

Gamesa's plant in Ebensburg  is one of scores of plants all over 

the world, including 5 in China.  This is their  World 

Headquarters Building in Madrid, Spain.  At this time, in 

addition to working on the Windfarm on Ice Mountain and 

Sandy Ridge, they are also busy installing more wind-turbines

 in Scotland, Mexico, Ireland, Germany, throughout South 

America, including Brazil, and almost every other country

 around the world. They're working on off-shore windfarms,

 which is an exciting idea, since  there are no nearby neighbors

DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN

If you look down at the base of all of this underbrush growing in the bed of the Little Juniata River, you will see a "tiny creek".   But, when torrential rains come, this tiny creek is fed by all of the drain-off from the middle of Altoona to Tyrone.....and the community is in peril.   Isn't there someone who will listen among the paid government employees....and let this underbrush be trimmed?  We will be pleased to post your point of view.  Call WTRN 814-684-3200 or fax 814-684-1220 or email amnnet@aol.com

RESPONSE

From Bill Anderson:

 In response to WTRN's Community Information Page on-line, which suggests that removing brush from the Little Juniata streambed is a flooding solution, I have attached  two editorials I wrote a year or so ago, They were both published in the Daily Herald.(Note: One of these is attached at the end of Bill Anderson's comments. In the interest of space, the other is available upon request)
 
     I received no response to the editorials...... from Mayor Fink, or anyone else, for that matter. Notice that the "New" (built in 1983) Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge becomes a dam during exceptionally high water events (based on personal observation during the Ivan storm). Clearly, cutting brush or ditching upstream from the bridge will have no effect except possibly to make things worse by speeding the water along. (there was no visible brush or trees blocking the bridge during Ivan). However,  It is my view that several fairly inexpensive steps if taken, could make Tyrone a lot more flood proof. 
 
First, the debris built up on the bend and under the bridge on the Reclamere side of the river should be excavated. Additional excavation under the bridge may also be useful in allowing more water through. Or we could just replace the dam(n) bridge with a steel, open framework, suspension structure (like the old one). 
 
Second, the flood wall behind the Armory/Moose should be raised at least two feet and extended upstream to join with the "dike" behind Park Avenue (this dike should also be inspected and repaired, I see what look like breaches here and there).
 
Even though the ultimate solution is to prevent storm run-off from townships upstream, these two steps would have saved 10th street, the YMCA (and Joybeans) from the Ivan flood waters of September, 2004..
 
Of course, while I am a degreed engineer (retired), these recommendations are only opinions, until an engineering  study is done. However, The cost would be minimal and the results would not  harm people or the river. By the way, the improvements to the flood wall could be included in the Tyrone RiverWalk project. Several of us were pursuing this until interest lagged. 
 
PS:  I have also sent this to Amanda Golden at the paper.
 
Bill

Attached: Bill's Comment from Daily Herald

Mayor Fink gets it

That the periodic flooding of downtown Tyrone is a serious problem is indisputable. On the night of September 18th, 2004 Hurricane Ivan came rushing down 10th street , inundating our little coffee shop (Joybeans) and many other businesses in the process. The loss Carol and I suffered was hard to swallow but it was insignificant compared to some others, especially those along Park Avenue , whose homes were bathed in muddy water and left with the stench of mildew and mold.

Through editorials, presentations to groups and forum responses, I have tried to focus the borough leadership and its citizens on the real cause of flooding in Tyrone and indeed most Pa towns. And that cause, as Bill Fink correctly states, is poorly managed storm- water runoff in the headwaters of the river. We have long maintained that digging a deeper ditch (advocated in the 1978 flood plan), is the wrong answer. What we need is to focus our attention on where the water comes from and that is Antis and Logan townships. Every new roof, parking - lot, clear-cut or roadway that is created upstream, sends more storm water down our way. 

This does not mean that development has to cease in our neighboring townships. What it does mean is that we must be sure that each new project, small or large, has a plan in place to retain all additional storm-water runoff on site, both during construction and after.  In addition we need a proactive plan for reducing storm water runoff from existing large impermeable surfaces such as the I99 corridor and significant roofs and parking lots throughout the headwaters.  

Mayor Fink’s efforts to understand the Tyrone flooding issue is commendable. He has brought our concerns to PennDOT, Congressman Shuster and others. He has called for a consortium including Snyder and Antis townships and the Mayor of Bellwood. These are excellent first steps and we congratulate our new Mayor for taking them. However, several very important stake holders have been omitted. Many of the Little Juniata River tributaries flow out of Logan Township , Juniata and east Altoona . In addition to local governments, watershed protection groups, such as the Little Juniata River association also have a role to play and we stand ready to do so. What is needed is a watershed wide plan for storm-water management.  Mayor Fink is on the right track.

 Bill Anderson

 President

Little Juniata River Association     

WTRN invites you to express your views.  Send to amnnet@aol.com.