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Saturday, November 12, 2022 WEATHER, COUNTY & STATE

SEVEN-DAY FORECAST Fetterman announces transition co-chairs;
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and FOX 66 Shapiro to talk transition next week
By Eric Scicchitano ington, D.C., but with the help of Senate be sent to transition@johnfetterman.com.
ERICS@CNHINEWS.COM veterans Adam and Kristen, I am certain Governor-elect Josh Shapiro is also put-
we will be ready to serve the people of ting together a transition team. During an
HARRISBURG — Senator-elect John
Pennsylvania and have an impact in appearance Friday on NewsRadio WILK
Fetterman is seeking applicants to work
what will be an exciting and challenging in northeastern Pennsylvania, Shapiro said
in his Washington, D.C., and Pennsylva- time,” Fetterman said in a press release. he’d begin making announcements about
nia offices. Gentile has worked in the Senate since the transition next week.
Fetterman announced on Friday the 2002, according to the release, perform- Shapiro said he wants a team of people
co-chairs for his transition committee: ing different roles in the offices of Sena- that “looks like” the people of Pennsyl-
Adam Jentleson and Kristen Gentile. tors Mark Dayton and Sherrod Brown as vania, and he wants them to challenge
Tom Atkins Tom DiVecchio Craig Flint
Jentleson is a former deputy chief of well as with Casey. She, too, served as a him daily.
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YOURERIE.COM staff to the late Harry Reid, who served senior advisor to Casey when he joined “When you do that, frankly, you get a
as Senate majority leader from 2007 to the Senate in 2007. better result,” Shapiro said.
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2015. Gentile is the current chief of staff Jentleson has nearly 20 years of expe-
to Fetterman’s fellow Pennsylvania sen- rience in politics and advocacy, the re- Eric Scicchitano is the CNHI Pennsyl-
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turn on their full headlights rich and many other motorists was at the base of a small hill
roadways and turn on their during rain events as the at risk, attorney Albert Evans,
vehicle’s headlights any and shaded by trees, hidden
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daylight running lights who filed the suit on behalf of from view.
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T-storms Flurries Snow Ice feature on some vehicle does Gingrich’s children, said Fri- Gingrich hit it going about
are being used. not automatically turn on the day in a phone interview. The
PennDOT urges drivers to 35 mph in a 40 mph zone and
NATIONAL SUMMARY: As rain and high winds from Nicole exit New England today, taillights. family is seeking unspecified
a second area of rain with thunderstorms is forecast to slice northeastward across be alert to water on road- lost control, the family said in
money damages.
the Appalachians. Mixed rain and snow will affect parts of the Great Lakes and
ways, obey warning signs their suit. She wasn’t wearing
A message was sent to
Ohio Valley. Colder air will stretch from the West to the Midwest as rain and snow
extends from California to Utah. and traffic control devices, PennDOT sued over PennDOT seeking comment. a helmet, though Evans has
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on roads. Shallow, swiftly tion agency dug a ditch and ing a drainage pipe under After the crash, PennDOT
flowing water can wash a car didn’t tell anyone, and it cost State Route 895 near Auburn, said it was investigating the
Tomorrow’s Forecast from a roadway, as it takes a motorcyclist her life, the in Schuylkill County. The work done at the site “to
just two feet of fast-moving victim’s family says in a new crew backfilled the cutout but determine if all policies and
water to float a car. Also, the civil lawsuit. did not pave it, and the gravel procedures were followed.”
roadbed may not be intact Leslie Gingrich, a mother subsequently washed out, It’s unclear if that review was
under the water. of three who was training to residents have said. completed. The agency has
Anyone who drives around get her commercial driver’s Residents also said Penn- declined comment since be-
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Cloudy/mix Cloudy/mix Cloudy/mix Cloudy/flurries barriers intended to close license, was riding her Harley DOT knew about the hazard ing put on notice it was being
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Organist
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— not in a bad sense, but in
Monday Tuesday Wednesday getting the organ soloist to be
Cloudy/flurries Partly sunny Rain/mix a mainstream instrumentalist
27-37 25-40 30-41 — I really think Cameron was
responsible for doing that.”
Before Carpenter, who was
in the running for a Grammy
in 2009, no organist had ever
Thursday Friday been nominated in the best
Scattered Chance of solo instrumental performance
snow 29-37 snow 26-35 category. Before Carpenter,
organists, no matter how ac-
complished, were anchored
to their instruments and to the
relatively few concert halls and
churches that housed them. But
in 2014, Carpenter took to the
stage of New York’s Lincoln
Center to debut the Interna-
tional Touring Organ, a digital
organ designed to his speci-
fications and transported via
tractor trailer.
The Touring Organ is
mothballed now, a casualty of
Junior Forecasters wanted: Submit drawings the pandemic’s limited tour-
from your kids or class by dropping them off ing opportunities, but Carpen-
or mailing them to 947 Federal Ct., Meadville ter won’t need it now that Erie
offers the sort of instrument
typically found only in much
larger cities.
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“It’s a really important thing
that this has happened,” Car-
penter said of the installation
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Organist Cameron Carpenter, a native of Crawford County, rehears-
es with the Erie Philharmonic in preparation for a performance
tonight at the Warner Theater in Erie.
an organ to the Warner The-
ater, where the original instru-
ment had been removed in the
1970s, a virtually unique situ-
ation. “To have a monumen-
tal restoration of this cultural
center and then to also install
an organ where an organ had
not been present for many de-
cades — it’s almost as though
a new theater had sort of been
dropped from the sky.”
Carpenter’s performance
of Francis Poulenc’s Concer-
to for Organ, Timpani and
Strings with the orchestra and
two solo pieces will be his
first performance in western
Pennsylvania since he played
with the Pittsburgh Sym-
phony Orchestra in 2018. A
busy rehearsal schedule has
kept him from returning to
Crawford County this week,
he said, but he remains “very
much influenced by the area.”
“My upbringing in north-
western Pennsylvania al-
lowed me to focus on music
and creativity and to develop
into an individual,” he said.
The individuality that re-
sulted often draws reactions
from music critics who note
the flashiness of his perfor-
mances or the unconventional
nature of his youthful hairdos
in the same breath that they
praise his technical brilliance
on an instrument that he often
seems to engage like a gym-
nast on an athletic apparatus.
It’s an instrument that, per-
haps surprisingly, drew the
young prodigy through visual
appeal rather than aural.
YOU CAN GO
Crawford County native
and world-renowned organist
Cameron Carpenter joins
the Erie Philharmonic tonight
at the Warner Theater in
Erie. The concert marks
the orchestral debut of the
recently completed “Mighty”
Wurlitzer Theater Organ, a
vintage instrument installed as
part of the $27 million theater
reconstruction. Tickets for the
performance remain avail-
able. The theater’s box office
opens at 7 p.m. and the show
begins at 8. Tickets are also
available online at eriephil.org/
calendar/cameron.
“I was attracted to the idea
of the console, the many
controls, keyboards and the
obvious implication of the
possibility that is inherently
implied in the image of so
many controls,” Carpenter
said. “Even as a little child
this was really exciting to me
and investigating that led me
further into the instrument
and into the music itself.”
Warner Theater audience
members tonight will have a
unique opportunity to see —
and hear — Carpenter con-
tinue his exploration of those
musical possibilities.
Mike Crowley can be
reached at (814) 724-6370 or
by email at mcrowley@mead-
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