This season marks the 50th anniversary of the eight original American Football League teams.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has announced that it is making available to the public a number of VIP, floor, and sideline seat tickets for the 2009 Enshrinement Ceremony as well as additional sideline and end zone seats for the NFL Hall of Fame Game. The newly released seats will go on sale to the public beginning June 24. Tickets may be purchased online by visiting the Hall’s Web site at Profootballhof.com or by calling 800-913-9788.

A Uniontown family is memorializing the loss of their first-born child Thomas A. Rennecker with an annual golf outing to benefit other local children and families being cared for in Aultman Hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Wingate University senior third baseman Hallie Pettigrew (Uniontown) has spent her four years at Wingate winning games and earning awards after graduating form Lake High School. The holder of six career school records, Pettigrew helped lead the Bulldogs during one of its mostsuccessful four-year periods in the programs history.

I am going to make one final attempt to wrap my arms around the 2008-09 high school athletics year. There were plenty of thrills and tears as our kids took to the fields and courts wearing their school colors. These were the lead stories for Sports Corner. Thanks for the memories.

Simmons Marine, on Manchester Road, is not just into repairing boats. Owner Jim Simmons is also a racing buff and has won numerous titles with his high speed Class Four race boat.
 

On June 20, deputies were called to a park on East Turkeyfoot Lake Road, where a woman was reported unconscious inside a car. A man at the scene told officers that he and the woman were injecting Oxycontin in his car when the woman passed out. Paramedics took the woman to an area hospital for observation. During a search of the man’s car, officers uncovered a syringe and a metal spoon with burn marks. The man, 19, of Hartville, was charged with possession of drug abuse instruments. Also, officers found marijuana and a drug pipe in the woman’s car. The woman, 19, of Clinton, was charged with two counts of possession.
 

The record for the team, in dual meets over the last 18 years, is now 124-5-1. This includes three consecutive undefeated seasons: 1988, 1999 and 2000, and now four consecutive seasons 2006, 2007 and 2008 as well as 13 undefeated seasons overall. This year’s team was able to achieve yet another great season with a record of 7-0 for the fourth straight undefeated season and the 18th straight Suburban League title.

The first annual Lake High men’s soccer alumni reunion match will take place at Lake Blue Streak Stadium’s Alumni Field on Friday, August 21 at 7:00 p.m.

The Lake High School athletic office currently has football reserved seat tickets and general athletic passes available to the public.

The Manchester Music Boosters, with the help of Hudson Village Pizza, will conduct its semi- annual pizza fundraiser from June 20 – July 4. Within the next few weeks people of the Manchester and surrounding communities will receive a call and be invited to select from pizza, Amish style fudge, coffee, cookie dough and trash bags.