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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 asPIAA 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!
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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.
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!
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
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.
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