Our military personnel, past and present, will be recognized Wednesday, Veterans Day.

Two of them -- Albert DeFazio, of Verona, and Ed Halluska, of Monroeville -- will tell their real war stories beginning at 6:30 tonight at the William Anderson Penn Hills Library, 1037 Stotler Road.

You can read about Mr. DeFazio and Mr. Halluska, too. Their stories are included in a new book, "World War II Reflections," from Pennsylvania Cable Network. The author is Brian Lockman, who will speak tonight along with the two veterans.

Mr. DeFazio served in Italy; Mr. Halluska worked on the highly classified Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, N.M.

The PCN book is a follow-up to its "World War II: In Their Own Words."

For more information, go to www.pcntv.com.

If you like good music, and lots of it, take a blanket, a seat cushion and yourself to Gateway High School on Saturday.

The annual Pennsylvania Interscholastic Marching Band Association Inc. championships will be at Antimarino Stadium. Bands from 23 Western Pennsylvania high schools will compete in five classifications.

The tunefest will begin at 2:15 p.m. and end around 9:45, and will include two intermissions.

Kicking things off, in order of appearance, will be the Class A bands of Rochester, Springdale, Serra Catholic, Burgettstown Area, Beaver Area, Deer Lakes, East Allegheny, Cochranton and Fox Chapel Area.

Four Class AA bands will vie beginning at 4:45: Blackhawk, Southmoreland, Elizabeth Forward then Mars Area. The awards ceremony for these classifications will begin at about 5:45.

West Allegheny will be the first Class AAA band to appear at 7, to be followed by Slippery Rock, McGuffey and Trinity. The AAAA program will start at 8 with Woodland Hills, then feature Penn-Trafford, Moon Area and Gateway.

Norwin and Kiski Area, in that order, will compete in the National classification beginning at 9. The final awards ceremony will begin at about 9:30.

Tickets are $9 for adults, $5 for students. For a schedule and more information, go to www.pimba.org/events/championships2.asp.

John Fetterman is becoming an international figure.

The face of Braddock's mayor graces the cover of the November issue of The Atlantic, a long-respected monthly magazine. He is one of 27 individuals profiled in a feature titled "27 brave thinkers who are shaping the future."

The profiles also include President Barack Obama and "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

The Atlantic said Mr. Fetterman is brave because he is "luring artists to a dying steel town."

Then it says in the profile: "He imagines Braddock -- only a few miles from Pittsburgh -- as a community for creative types and eco-friendly businesses, filled with public gardens and culture centers. It's an utterly idealistic experiment in extreme urban renewal with next to zero financial backing -- one that could totally fail, or perhaps serve as a model for other devastated industrial towns."

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