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Beginning Wednes-day, July 1, the 2020 End-less Mountain Virtual Music Festival is avail-able online. Featured are video concerts recorded and submitted by guest musicians who were to perform this summer in Pennsylvania and New York during the live con-certs in the event. All of the online concerts are free to everyone.

A special tribute to essential workers in-cludes 13 members of the EMMF Festival Sympho-ny Orchestra’s brass and percussion sections per-forming American com-poser Aaron Copland’s three-minute “Fanfare for the Common Man.” For this piece, videos and audios recorded in-dividually by each of the fanfare musicians are brought together and then intertwined with photographs of essential workers.

Fanfare musicians in-clude Rebecca Dodson-Webster, Ken Bell, Brad Tatum and Christiana Smith on French horn; Luis Engelke, Tom Cook and Brian Strawley on trumpet; John Sebastian Vera, Nicholas Bulgarino and Phil McCelland on trombone; Kevin Ladd on tuba; Jason Mathena on percussion and Juan-manuel Lopez on tim-pani.

Among the concerts by the EMMF guest art-ists are eight, short Scor-ing the Decades “teas-ers” during which each of eight emerging Hol-lywood film composers talks about composing and plays a portion of his or her original composi-tion, which represents one of eight decades of music from the 1940s through 2020. Their

works will premiere dur-ing EMMF’s 2021 season.

At the piano are Bram Wijnands perform-ing stride jazz pieces and Sheng Cai playing Beethoven and Rach-maninoff. The Fire in the Glen trio gives a porch concert of Celtic music and Peggy Dettwiler, Mansfield University’s Choral Activities direc-tor, shares music from the university’s choral program from 2016 to 2020 “to generate enthu-siasm for the day when we shall sing together again,” she said.

Others showcased in the virtual concert series are: singer-songwriter Abbie Gardner, a tal-ented Dobro and slide guitarist who writes and performs original folk songs; Grammy-winner Doris Hall-Gulati on clarinet; Jessica Wilbee on harp; and violinists Hua Jin, Sirena Huang and Siwoo Kim.

“We were going to

hold a big celebration for our 15th anniversary this summer but in light of the coronavirus crisis felt it necessary to put the health and safety of our musicians, staff, volun-teers and audience first,” said board President Ardell Thomas in April when the decision was made to move the entire 2020 festival to July 16 through Aug. 1, 2021.

Maestro Stephen Gun-zenhauser and EMMF Executive Director Cyn-thia Long worked with the musicians and com-posers to reschedule all of the concerts for this year to next year. Gun-zenhauser founded the Wellsboro-based festival and has served as its ar-tistic director and con-ductor since the first fes-tival in 2006.

Long credits Gunzen-hauser with coming up with the idea for the trib-ute to essential workers and the 2020 Virtual Mu-sic Festival. “The EMMF

live festival will be back and better than ever in 2021 featuring these in-credible guest artists,” Long said. “In the mean-time, we hope people en-joy their virtual perfor-mances.”

All 2020 pre-pur-chased season passes will be honored in 2021. To learn more, visit www.endlessmountain.net or call the Endless Moun-tain Music Festival Box Office at 570-787-7800.

To access the 2020 Vir-tual Endless Mountain Music Festival and view each of the concerts and tribute to essential work-ers individually use this link https://vimeo.com/showcase/emmf2020. It is available on the End-less Mountain Music Fes-tival’s website at www.endlessmountain.net, the EMMF Facebook page at Endless Mountain Music Festival, at Instagram@endlessmountainmusic-festival, or Twitter@EM-Musicfestival.

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photo by GORDIE DUNLAPAmong essential workers recognized in the Endless Mountain Music Fes-tival’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” tribute are those working at UPMC Wellsboro, including the operating room nurses here.

The Community Blood Bank is reporting most blood types are at a less than a one-day sup-ply available to the pa-tients in need in the local hospitals. Approximately 35% of the organizations that hold blood drives in local communities are not operating onsite or have limited opera-tions, resulting in the expected loss of nearly 1,000 units during the already strained summer months. It’s particularly important to see an ad-equate amount of blood donors coming out of the 4th of July holiday.“There is always a way to do something positive in challenging times,” said Deanna Renaud, ex-ecutive director for the CBB. “Blood donors are needed desperately now, and for months to come. Many blood centers are facing the same need for donors so there is no other option but for our community to donate the blood needed here at home.”

The next blood drive will be held from noon to 5 p.m. Monday, July 6 at UPMC Wellsboro, 32 Cen-tral Ave. Wellsboro.The

blood supply has been below adequate levels in recent weeks, as elec-tive surgeries have been rescheduled after delays due to COVID-19. How-ever, with schools and many businesses still op-erating remotely, blood drives continue to be canceled and donor turn-out has been low.

Call Shari Jerman at 814-688-3696 to schedule an appointment to do-nate.

The CBB implemented precautionary measures to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all donors, staff and vol-unteers.

Individuals are eligi-ble to give blood if it has been 56 days since their last donation; they are at least 17 years of age (16 with parental consent); weigh at least 110 pounds; have not received a tat-too or body piercing in the past 12 months; are in good general health and do not have a cold or the flu. You must have a valid photo ID to donate. Prior to donating, those giving blood should eat a good, solid meal and drink at least 18 ounces of water.

Blood drive set for July 6

The Joint Commission, in conjunction with The American Heart Asso-ciation/American Stroke Association, recently cer-tified UPMC Wellsboro as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital.

UPMC Wellsboro un-derwent a rigorous on-site review when Joint Commission experts evaluated compliance with national disease-specific care standards. Clinical practice guide-lines and performance

measures also were as-sessed.

“When it comes to stroke care, time is ev-erything and a minute can have an impact on a patient’s recovery,” said Janie Hilfiger, president, UPMC Wellsboro and UPMC Cole “As a rural hospital, it’s important that our patients have ac-cess to safe and effective treatment options when they need them. Achiev-ing certification recog-nizes UPMC Wellsboro’s

efforts ensuring our com-munity has access to the highest quality care right here in Wellsboro.”

“Acute Stroke Ready Certification recognizes health care organizations committed to foster-ing continuous quality improvement in patient safety and quality of care,” said Mark Pelleti-er, RN, MS, chief operat-ing officer, accreditation and certification opera-tions, and chief nurs-ing executive, the Joint

Commission. “We com-mend UPMC Wellsboro for using certification to reduce variation in its clinical processes and to strengthen its program structure and manage-ment framework for stroke patients.”

For more information on stroke care provided by UPMC in the Susque-hanna region, visit UPMCSusquehanna.org/Stroke.

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UPMC welcomes Kyle Hubler, DO, orthopaedic su rgeon sp ec ia l -izing in total hip and knee replace-m e n t s , to the musculo-sk e le t a l ser v ices team in the Susquehanna region.

Dr. Hubler received his medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medi-cine, Philadelphia. He

completed his medi-cal residency at Memo-rial Hospital, York, and his fellowship training in adult reconstruction and orthopaedic trauma from Hennepin County Medical Center, Minne-apolis, Minn. Dr. Hubler is board-certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Orthopedic Sur-geons.

“My goal is to help my patients move freely and live pain-free,” said Dr. Hubler. “I combine my surgical expertise and experience with innova-tive therapies to restore

range of motion and work with my patients to help them reclaim their active lives. I’m proud to be part of an orthopaedic team that has received awards for excellence in patient outcomes and look forward to caring for patient across the re-gion.”

Dr. Hubler will see patients at SH Orthopae-dics, 1705 Warren Ave., Williamsport.

To schedule an ap-pointment, call 570-321-2020 or visit UPMC-Susquehanna.org/Ortho.

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