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Saturday, June 14, 2014

1889 Flood - Ceremony at the Point

Ceremony marking the exact time the flood wave hit Johnstown at 4:07 pm - May 31, 1889. Richard Burkert, JAHA President starting things off. 
From left to right - Mark Pasquerilla, Pastor Jeffrey Bassette, Mayor Frank  Janakovic, Congressman Keith Rothfus, sitting behind the fern on the right is keynote speaker Michael Novak, Jeff Reinbold and a spokesperson from Sen. Toomey's office.

Presentation of Colors - 911th Airlift Wing of Pittsburgh, Air Force Reserve Command. Dominick Carnevali sang 'The National Anthem'.

 Keynote Speaker - Mr. Michael Novak - Johnstown Native - an author, theologian and philosopher. He spoke for about 20 minutes. I should have brought a tripod along - this was all handheld and my arm was getting tired - which is why this clip only goes a little over 12 minutes. 

It concluded with Bagpiper - Jeffrey DeLisa - 'Amazing Grace'

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