25 Years Ago

Herald of March 25, 1999

Cub Scout Pack 57 in Roaring Spring celebrated 50 years of being chartered to Trinity United Methodist Church in Roaring Spring. Over the years the pack had 26 cubmasters and served hundreds of boys ages 6-11 from Roaring Spring, Martinsburg, Duncansville and even Altoona for a time.

Shirley Kensinger of Roaring Spring succeeded the Rev. Timothy Knauss as president of Cove Lutheran Ministries, an outreach of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation of Morrisons Cove.

Dollar General relocated next to McDonald’s in Roaring Spring. The new store had approximately 2,000 more square footage of floor space than its previous location along Route 36 South.

St.Francis track standout Brian Sell, a Northern Bedford graduate, set a Red Flash school record in the 3,900-meter run at the Wake Forest Relays in Winston-Salem, N.C. Sell, a junior, finished in a time of 8:42.21, shattering the old school mark set in 1997 by more than 30 seconds.