vol. 134 - no. 43 westover man drowns in kayaking...
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Vol. 134 - No. 43
Partly sunny in the morning. then becoming cloudy. Highs in the lower 20s.
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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014
BURNSIDE — A Westover man drowned Sat-urday morning in a kayaking mishap.
Clearfield-based state police say Edward Aaron Heberling, 48, was kayaking with a relative in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River around 11 a.m. when the vessel overturned.
Heberling was thrown into the swift-moving, freezing water.
He could not be located due to ice covering the river in the area of the accident. A command post was established at the bridge at Kantz Hill Road and a search began.
About 45 minutes later, Heberling was discov-ered about 100 yards downstream. Emergency personnel began first aid and Heberling was tak-en by helicopter to Conemaugh Hospital in John-stown, where he was pronounced dead.
Assisting in the search and rescue operation were Westover Fire Department, Cherry Tree Fire Department, Burnside Fire Department, Sandy Township Fire Department, Treasure Lake Fire Rescue, Jackson Township Ice Rescue, Grampian Fire Department, Curwensville Fire Department, Citizens Ambulance and Mahaffey Ambulance.
Westover man drowns in kayaking accident
The locator on the Google map at left shows Kantz Hill Road in Burnside Township. A Westover man drowned Saturday morning in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River near the Kantz Hill Road Bridge and Route 219.
Free Medical Clinic of DuBois’ Executive Direc-tor Elvira dela Torre, far left, talks about the services offered at the clinic to State Secretary of Health Michael Wolf, second from left, and Deputy Secretary of Health Martin Raniowski Thurs-day. The clinic recently received a $155,000 grant from the state Department of Health. With that grant, the clinic was able to expand hours and hire a full-time Certified Nurse Practitioner Yvonne Rhoades, second from right. (Photo by Elaine Haskins)
This snow cat ice sculpture is getting noticed by those who drive by the residence of Nellie Longo on Fourth Street in DuBois. Longo said the cre-ative work was done by her grandson, Joe Fiedor of Penfield. (Photo by Elaine Haskins)
By Nick Hoffman
DuBOIS — The Tri-County Area dodged a snow storm bul-let over the weekend, but more cold weather found the mark and forecasters say more is in store.
Snowfall over the weekend was minimal as the brunt of a major snow and ice storm took aim at areas south of the Mason-Dixon line; Washington DC was bracing for 6 to 10 inches of snow today.
Wind chill advisories were in effect early today for the local area; it was 3 above zero at Du-Bois Regional Airport at 5 a.m.
Temperatures overnight to-night are forecast to plunge to near 10 below zero.
Below normal temperatures are expected to prevail through at least mid-March, according to the six- to 10-day and eight- to 14-day outlooks valid through
March 16.Same old . . . The new week begins where
the old one left off DuBois fell below zero for the 10th time this winter Friday with a low of 6 be-low zero at the sewage treatment plant.
Other low temperatures Fri-day morning, as reported by the National Weather Service, in-cluded:
• 14 below near Curwens-ville and 12 below near Gram-pian in Clearfield County. The Clearfield-Lawrence Airport checked in with 9 below and SB. Elliot State Park reported 8 be-low.
• In Jefferson County, it was 9 below near Punxsutawney, 7 below in Punxsutawney and 5 below at DuBois Regional Air-port near Falls Creek.
• 18 below was recorded 1 mile northwest of Johnsonburg in Elk County while Glen Hazel
had 16 below, Ridgway reported 15 below and it was 11 below near James City.
• In Clarion County, reports included 11 below 3 miles south-west of Clarion, 10 below in New Bethlehem, 9 below in Foxburg and 7 below in Clarion Borough.
• It was 16 below 6 miles southwest of Lynch in Forest County.
• 9 below zero near Empori-um, Cameron County.
• 12 below south of Philips-burg, Centre County,
• Bradford Regional Airport in McKean County had 19 be-low, as did a reporter near the Kinzua Bridge state park. It was 18 below near Kane and Bradford while Rew had 20 be-low zero.
• In Potter County, it was 18 below southeast of Coudersport, with numerous other reports from the Coudersport area rang-
Snowstorm misses Tri-County Area
By Elaine Haskins
DuBOIS — State Secre-tary of Health Michael Wolf and Deputy Secretary of Health Martin Raniowski visited the Free Medical Clinic of DuBois Thursday, one of 40 new recipients to receive a grant through the department’s Community-Based Health Care Subsidy Program.
The clinic will use its $155,994 grant to expand
hours, hire a full-time cer-tified nurse practitioner, expand the hours of a reg-istered nurse and the clinic coordinator to support an additional 32 hours per week.
The department’s Com-munity-Based Health Care Subsidy Program was ex-panded with an additional $4 million under Gov. Cor-bett and with the help of Sen. Ted Erickson, R-Ches-ter, via Act 10 of 2013 to increase access to primary
care services across Penn-sylvania.
“This program, which is also a core tenant of Healthy Pennsylvania, really is mis-sion critical to improving health care access, helping to bring immediate preven-tative primary care services to underserved areas of the state and directly benefiting facilities” such as the Free Medical Clinic of DuBois, said Wolf in a press release.
“We had a clinic open on Tuesday nights and it de-
pended on volunteers and with that patients had to wait two months to get in for new people,” the DuBois clinic’s Executive Director Elvira dela Torre, BSN, RN, CNA, said. With the grant, the clinic was able to hire certified nurse practitioner Yvonne Rhoades, dela Torre said. “So we are happy to have Yvonne.”
The mission of the clinic is to provide free medical care and pharmaceutical ser-vices to working uninsured
residents in Clearfield, Jef-ferson and Elk counties with dignity and confidentiality in a convenient and comfort-able facility, dela Torre said.
“Currently, we are limit-ing the group to those who currently work or are recent-ly unemployed, in between jobs, within five years. They should not have any health insurance,” she said. “There are also some, not being dis-respectful of the Affordable Health Care Act, but some
Free Clinic of DuBois receives $155,000 grant
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