St. Andrew Orthodox Church has announced the winners of its recent drawing.

Richard Ordy of Butler won first prize. Second and third prizes went to

Andrew Musko and Elena Swank, both of Butler.The raffle was held during the recent cookie sale.———

Lifestep's Early Education Center recently received a grant of $1,000 from the Sam's Club Foundation.The money will be used to purchase classroom materials for children in the Developmental Preschool program.———Artwork by

William and Brittney Garing, children of Stanley and Donna Garing of Butler, was recently published in the December 2006 issue of Farm Collector magazine.Both students at Center Township Elementary School, Brittney, a first grade student, and William, a third grade student, both drew pictures of tractors.———Winners at the Butler Duplicate Bridge Club game held Dec. 7 were

Polly Black and

Richard Horlacher. Coming in second were

Nick Tredennick and

Alan Martin.———

Seneca Valley Middle School on Wednesday participated in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously in Multiple Locations."About 1,200 seventh- and eighth-graders joined students across the country at noon in reading a passage from "Charlotte's Web." Walden Media organized the event in advance of the release this coming Wednesday of the movie from the book.According to Guinness World Records, the current record is held by 155,528 students from 737 schools throughout the United Kingdom in 2004.