×

BRIEFS

Weir boosters meeting today

WEIRTON — The Weir High Soccer Boosters will meet at 6 p.m. today in the team room at Weir High Shool.

Past Big Red honorees invited

STEUBENVILLE — The 21st-annual Lew Giammarco Appreciation and Kickoff Dinner, sponsored by the Big Red Boosters Club, will be held on Sunday in the high school commons. The event begins at 2 p.m.

Those being honored by the boosters club this year are Ruth Ann Bruzzese, Virginia Fabian, Bob Giammarco, Craig Klein, Henry Maxim and the late Margie Radakovich.

The club has invited all past honorees to be its guest for the dinner, which will feature a preview of the upcoming 2017 Big Red football season by veteran coach Reno Saccoccia. Past honorees interested in attending should contact Ed Takach (740) 264-3522 by today.

Tickets, priced at $10, can be purchased through today by calling Takach or Herb Crossland (740) 282-5123. Tickets also can be purchased at the high school.

Edison scramble coming

RICHMOND — The Friends of Edison Levy Committee is hosting a four-person scramble Sunday at Spring Hills Golf Course. The cost of the tournament is $60 per person and the fee includes prize money for the top three teams, coffee and donuts, a light lunch and steak dinner at the conclusion of the tournament.

There will also be 50-50 drawing, skins and skill games.

To register for the tournament, call Spring Hills at (740) 543-3270. For information regarding the tournament, call Bill Beattie at (740) 282-0065.

Concussion awareness upcoming

STEUBENVILLE — Trinity Health System’s Sports Medicine and Performance Center will hold a concussion awareness and management workshop at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the YMCA gym floor.

The workshop will include tips on concussion prevention and recovery, diet and nutrition alternatives and EMT demonstrations. Those interested must RSVP by Wednesday at (740) 283-7241. Information can be found at TrinityHealth.com.

Free youth football clinic coming

MARTINS FERRY — The Ohio Valley Athletic Conference is hosting its annual free youth football clinic in conjuction with the Rudy Mumley OVAC All-Star Charity Football Classic Saturday at Purple Rider Stadium.

Registration is from noon to 12:45 p.m. on that day. The clinic will last from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and is for boys and girls ages 6-13.

For information, visit ovac.org, e-mail james@ssmllc.com or call (304) 639-1238.

Oak Glen scramble upcoming

NEW CUMBERLAND — A golf scramble benefiting the Oak Glen football team will be held on July 29 at Mountaineer Woodview Golf Course.

Registration is $70 per person or $280 per team and includes 18 holes with a cart. To sponsor, donate or register, call (304) 374-3540 for more information.

Edison practices start soon

RICHMOND — Edison junior high football and volleyball seasons will begin in the next two weeks.

Football conditioning will run from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. beginning Monday and ending July 28. Practice begins on July 29 at the same time.

Volleyball practice begins from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 1 in the annex building. Practice will run from that day until Aug. 4.

Crosby, Cup going to Nova Scotia

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Sidney Crosby will mark his 30th birthday by once again parading the Stanley Cup in his province.

In tweets sent out by the Sidney Crosby Hockey School, Crosby said he would hoist the trophy in the streets of Halifax and Dartmouth as part of an annual civic parade.

“Get ready, the Stanley cup is coming to town!” Crosby confirmed in the tweet sent late Tuesday night. “I will be taking Lord Stanley to the streets Monday August 7th in the Halifax–Dartmouth Natal Day parade.”

The parade, part of annual events that celebrate Halifax’s birthday, also happens to fall on the Pittsburgh Penguins captain’s 30th birthday.

Natal Day chairman Greg Hayward said he expects another 25,000 people will be lining the parade route on top of the roughly 40,000 usual attendees.

“It’s extremely exciting to think that we’re going to have Sid and the Cup in our Natal Day parade,” Hayward said Wednesday.

Crosby has shown off the Stanley Cup twice before in his hometown of Cole Harbour, just outside Dartmouth, in 2009 and 2016.

Last July, Crosby carried the Cup in the back of a pickup that made its way to an arena in Cole Harbour as thousands of cheering fans looked on in sweltering heat.

Helicopter makes ocean landing

GILGO BEACH, N.Y. — The son of World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon was rescued Wednesday from a helicopter that made an emergency landing in the ocean near a New York beach.

Shane McMahon, also a WWE executive, was the passenger in the Robinson R 44 helicopter that set down in lightly rolling waves near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach late Wednesday morning.

Neither he nor the pilot, Mario Regtien, was hurt.

It was not yet clear what went wrong.

From staff and wire reports

NEWSLETTER

Today's breaking news and more in your inbox

I'm interested in (please check all that apply)
Are you a paying subscriber to the newspaper? *

COMMENTS

Starting at $4.73/week.

Subscribe Today