Ambridge Area High School - Bridger Yearbook (Ambridge, PA)

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T HOW DOES AMBRIDGE ' MAKE A DIFFERENCE? 417 4, -17 1 Y ' TalenT Talenr To lenf TalenT ' r P lladini of CenTury iammin'. Dan Gibson beais To lTTle counTry To Tony a The rhyThm. Dave and STeve bring a i ' H' h. Soprano Doreen Zeranick sings solo. Ambrrdge ig The nighT away. Prowler rocks af,-f -if,-1 '-,,.,-- ... Af Opening Every year The sTudenTs of Ambridge d' lay Their skills aT The TalenT High isp show. This year There was an abun- dance of skills. Besides The Pinheads original performance, There were Three rock bands, Too l.aTe, CenTury, and Prowler, many solo acTs, dueTs, dancers Qones ThaT would give The Sol- id C-Bold Dancers some compeTiTion3, DrumfesT '85, and whaT every show needs- commercials. The TalenT show was held in The audiTorium on Nov. 27 and 28. lT provided everyone wiTh Two hours of cornpleTe enjoyment WheTh- er your TasTes were rock, counTry or swing, everyThing was covered. Once again Ambridge has wowed The TalenT scouTs. 9. as X N Q E.. Q TQ: 311

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X 1 1 I 1 B ' I , . ,f I rg W 1-.fr 4, I Current Events Current Events Current Event Many great sporting events occurred in 4985. if you can remember back in The summer when the weather was warm and The only thing that you had to do was Take your sister to The pool, The Los Angeles Lakers Took on The Boston Celllcs and defeated Them in an action-packed game. lf you remember That, Then jump forward to Sep- tember. laseball season was winding To a close and The World serles Tension was mounting. The Kansas City Royals and The Salnl Louis Cardinals were going to be The Two Teams vying for The championship, Royalty Tri- umphed over the Cardinals and won the series. The big- gest name in Hockey last year was The Edmunlon Ollers. They triumphed over the Phlladelphla Flyers for the Stan- ley Cup. Over in soccer, The San Diego Sockers kicked The Baltimore llasls out of The stadium to win Their presti- gious cup. One of the Three Grand Slam events in lennls this year, Wimbledon, was won by German Wunderkind lorls locker. Women's was won by Marllna Havrafllova. The U.S. Open championships were won both by Czecho- slovakians-lvan Lendl and Hana Manllkova. Winners of The French Open were Chris Evert Lloyd and Mats Wl- lander. Finally, The most popular sporting event-Super Sunday. This years superbowl contestants were the New England Patlols and the Chicago Bears. Despite a rug- ged battle, The Bears ran all over the Patriots and cap- tured a desecrating win with a score of 44-10. 6fCurrent Events ....: --n, - ' ., The best known medical event was The discovery of Presldenl Rea- 9an's cancer. Colon cancer was removed and also a common form of skin cancer was removed from his nose. Not for behind was the shock- ing revelation from movie star and former heartthrob Rock Hudson that he had A,l.D.S, l-le later died of the dreadful disease, This year the world saw a record breaking number of fatal plance crashes. The most destructive was in Manchester, England. On August 22, a British Airways, Boeing 737 crashed on takeoff killing 54 people. Lebanon terrorists hijacked TWA flight 8A7 leaving Greece, The Shiites shot and killed one passenger, a Naval officer and held captive 3A American hostages. A devestating volcano eruption in Columbia wiped out an entire Town ot 22,000 people. Shocking tornadoes ripped through Beaver County leaving destruction To many counties, This past February saw the worst llre in Ambridge's l-listory, The Marwood apartment building burned down on a frigid evening killing four people. November was the rainiest month all year. All but three days proved very damp resulting in flood- lng throughout Allegheny and surrounding counties. Unemployment rose even higher in the valley when LTV closed down operations ex- cept for 700 people when at onetime 5000 employees worked there. Armco corporation also closed down.