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• LACKAWANNOCK TOWNSHIP: Service offers hope, prayers for peace, safety of troops

• MERCER COUNTY: Be aware of war's effects on children, parents advised

• FARRELL: Local soldiers still at Fort Dix, N.J.

• GROVE CITY: Jars of Clay broke in on top

• NEW WILMINGTON: Scholar on Middle East to speak here

• SHARON: Salvation Army slates special public meetings

• NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: Distributor nixes contract with business under investigation

• Armenia "Minnie" DePascal Fister, 75, Masury, formerly of 313 Patt Drive, Farrell.
  
• Mary Jane Jones, 76, of 6 Jones St., Stoneboro.
  
• Margaret "Peg" Elizabeth Saeler McMurdy, 55, of 324 E. Main St., Grove City, formerly of Butler.
  
• Evelyn G. Lightner Palmer, 82, of 186 Cranberry Road, Pine Township.
  
• Leon E. Toles, 83, Highland Trailer Park, New Bedford.
  
  
  

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