Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) talked up the Defense Industry Expo in Johnstown, where Paul Newman made the movie Slap Shot.
literally was standing at the center of the rink where it was made as he pronounced himself bullish about this town’s prospects.
The host site — the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, which was the home of the real team, the Johnstown Jets of the Eastern Hockey League, on which the Paul Newman movie was based — was filled with booths from the different defense contractors in the area and decorated with red, white, and blue balloons and flags throughout the 17,000-square-foot rink.
Casey said it is important for small cities such as Johnstown to continue to find ways to reinvent their economies. JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania — Each year the Showcase for Commerce outs Johnstown’s contributions to the nation’s national security and defense on display at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena, which is home of Johnstown Jets Eastern Hockey League, the team the filmLast year the financial website SmartAsset used data from the U.S. Census Bureau, real estate site Zillow, and the IRS to compile rankings of the 10 poorest counties in the state.
Casey said he is also encouraged by the recent groundbreaking news of analysis of compliance data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection showing that if extracted with complete efficiency, lithium from the wastewater of Marcellus shale gas wells in Pennsylvania could supply up to 40% of the United States’s demand.
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