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Nine Boy Scouts and seven leaders from Beechwood’s Boy Scout Troop 35 of the Buck-tail Council went on an 11-day excursion to Maine. A2

Increase in

hunting license?The Pennsylvania

Game Commission is seeking approval for what would be the first increase in hunting license fees in 16 years. A8

Pirates loseto Marlins

Major-league batting leader Dee Gordon tied a career high with four sto-len bases and scored twice to help the Miami Marlins to a 5-2 victory. B1

Boy Scout troop travels to Maine

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By Tim Pleacher

newsroom@thecourierexpress.com

DuBOIS — If you were won-dering what that roar was on Liberty Boulevard Tuesday afternoon, it was the thunder of more than 400 motorcycles making their way to the George D. Montgomery American Le-gion Post 17.

The National American Le-gion’s 2015 Legacy Run passed through DuBois on its way to the American Legion’s 97th An-nual National Convention next week in Baltimore.

The riders were met with waves and chants of support from about 100 spectators who gathered to welcome them. This is the fi rst time the route has included a stopover in DuBois. The tour began on Sat-urday in Indianapolis, Ind., and included a stop for a wreath-lay-ing ceremony at the Georgetown Veterans Home in Ohio. After leaving DuBois, the motorcade was headed for the Flight 93 Memorial and then to the Get-tysburg area.

The Legacy Run raises schol-arship funds for The American Legion, which now has more than 2.4 million members na-tionwide. The Legacy Schol-arship Fund provides college scholarships for the children of U.S. service members killed on

active duty since Sept. 11, 2001. The nine previous Legacy Runs have raised more than $5 mil-lion dollars.

Richard Coccimiglio, lo-cal organizer and former Post State Commander who has also served on the National Ex-ecutive Committee, has been a member of Local Post 17 for the past 46 years. “I’ve never seen anything like this before in our town,” Coccimiglio said. “It’s a privilege to have the program in DuBois. It not only shows camaraderie, but it gives honor and respect to the families of scholarship recipients. What we are, and what we will become as a nation will be defi ned by the student recipients. These donations make sure the future is strong by giving recipients a chance to be great citizens.”

Local Post Commander Bil-lie Jo Powers said, “It is a great honor to have this event at our post. It might be a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. It is also the fi rst time the National Com-mander has been here. I want to thank so many people includ-ing our local members and staff, the Auxiliary, the Sons of the American Legion, and the 100 plus members of our Legion Rid-ers. Through their energy and generosity we are making a do-nation to the scholarship fund of

American Legion Legacy Run roars through DuBois

Legacy Run riders travel along Liberty Boulevard on their way to the American Legion Post in DuBois. More than 400 motorcycles participated. (Photo by Tim Pleacher)

By Jeff Corcino

Special to The Courier-Express

CLEARFIELD – The Clearfi eld County Commissioners voted unan-imously on Tuesday to extend the Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone for the Clearfi eld County Com-merce Park in Lawrence Township for another 10 years, starting Janu-ary.

The KOEZ is for the undeveloped land in the park, and it gives new businesses that move there state and local tax forgiveness for ten years.

Approval from the commission-ers was the last step in the process

for extending the KOEZ time pe-riod, because the two other taxing authorities — the Lawrence Town-ship Board of Supervisors and the Clearfi eld Area Board of School Di-rectors have already approved it.

The KOEZ status and the recent awarding of 162 acres in the park food site certifi cation will allow the park to compete nationally and in-ternationally, said Rob Swales, Ex-ecutive Director of Clearly Ahead, which is marketing the park.

Garner Economics and Primus, both of the Atlanta, Georgia, area,

awarded the certifi cation.“We are really excited about this,”

Swales said.The commerce park is the only

site in the state to have this certi-fi cation, and he said this puts the park on the ‘shortlist’ of food service companies looking to expand or re-locate.

“This puts us way ahead of the competition in Pennsylvania and the region,” Swales said.

Swales added that Clearly Ahead chose to target the food-processing industry, because it is recession-proof, and there is a great demand for these sites.

Additionally, he said the com-

merce park offers a number of ad-vantages to the food processing industry, such as high quality infra-structure.

Not only is the park close to In-terstate 80, airport and a rail spur, it also has access to high quality wa-ter and sewer systems.

The infrastrucutre could save prospective companies $500,000 on pre-and post-treatment systems, Swales said.

The area offers a number of labor force advantages, as well as being in close proximity to Penn State Uni-versity’s highly-regarded food sci-ence program, which boasts a 100 percent graduate placement.

Commissioners extend tax-free zone at Commerce ParkClearfield County

Allen Heberling, left, his wife Sherry, and Steven DuBois, an American Legion Rider from Wisconsin, pose for a photograph at the American Legion Post in DuBois. (Photo by Tim Pleacher)

National Commander Michael D. Helm, left, and Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson pose for a photo at the American Legion in DuBois. (Photo by Tim Pleacher)See Run, Page A7

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