NUMBERS IN THE NEWS

118,000

How do area school superintendents stack up when it comes to salaries? They're well below the statewide average of $118,000.

Clyde D. Moate, newly appointed Superintendent of Schools for Cameron County, recieves $98,000 per year.

Coudersport's George Nuffer, who's retiring at end of the current school year, gets $86,000. Matt Hutcheson, Austin, is paid $86,000, rising to $99,500 in 2012.

Paul G. Vallas of the Philadelphia City School District receives the highest salary of all Pennsylvania superintendents, at $250,660. The lowest-paid superintendent is Gary W. Davis of the Apollo-Ridge School District in Armstrong County, with a salary of $58,500.

Factors affecting a superintendent's salary include years of experience, education and the different pay scales established by each individual district.

111

Pennsylvania leads the nation in all-terrain vehicle deaths. There were 111 ATV fatalities in the state between 2000 and 2006. About 28 percent of those killed were 15 or younger.

There are more than 237,000 registered ATV owners in Pennsylvania.

6

Because the lunar cycle delivers Easter early this year - on March 23 - the National Confectioners Association is forecasting a six-percent decrease in Easter candy sales.

On the other hand, the association predicted a threepercent increase in Valentine's Day candy sales.

2.5M

Elk Regional Health Center has spent about $2.5 million on a new biomass energy heating system for its St. Marys facilities. ERHC has installed a 16 million BTU combustion biomass energy heating system. Loans of $1.78 million have been obtained, as well as grants from the Pa. Energy Development Authority and the U.S. Forest Service.

All of ERHC is now heated with wood byproducts, at a fraction of the cost of using oil or natural gas.

4

Members of Rotary International are expected to approach decisions in accordance with the organization's Four-Way Test: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build good and better friendships? Will it be beneficial to all concerned?

The test was adopted in the 1930s to improve corporate performance and was later adopted by Rotary.

51

Some 51 percent of marriages in the U.S. will end in divorce. The figure was 25 percent in 1960. The divorce rate has held steady for the past 26 years. The average number of years a couple stays married is eight, up from seven years a decade ago.

About 68 percent of divorces are initiated by women.

Some 85 percent of American adults will marry at least once. Average age for a first marriage is 27 for men and 26 for women.

3,283

Donations received during the holiday fund-raiser for Potter County's "Meals on Wheels" program allowed for the purchase of 3,283 meals for eligible senior citizens.

One donor who wished to remain anonymous gave $5,000. E&G Auto Plus of Coudersport teamed with local grocers Costa's Shur Save and Jubilee Foods to sponsor a successful Meals on Wheels fund-raiser. Ed Clancy, former owner of Penn Valley Resort near Genesee, came through with another large donation from himself and friends in Florida.