Sep 3, 2014 3 min read

You’ll feel the energy inside Burnett Center tonight.

Washington & Jefferson College’s Energy Lecture Series will kick off at 7 p.m. with “Is European Energy Policy Looking Forward or Looking Backward?” As with all lectures, it will be free and open to the public inside Yost Auditorium. Registration is not required.

This will be the third academic year for the series, which is organized by the college’s Center for Energy Policy and Management. Diana Stares is the director.

Kirk Junker, chair of the International Master of Environmental Science at the University of Cologne (Germany), will be the featured speaker. He previously was on the faculty at Duquesne University, where he was director of International Programs and associate professor of Law.

There will be six sessions during the 2014-15 year, but only three have been determined.

“Global Gas Markets in Transition” will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 22, with Kenneth B. Medlock III lecturing.

“Switch,” a documentary film about how scientific principles and practical realities create global energy change, will be in November, date to be determined.

The other three lectures will be in early 2015, speakers and dates to be announced.

Field & Stream will start reeling in customers Sept. 12 at Old Mill.

Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the store that caters to anglers, hunters and other outdoors aficionados. It will be preceded at 9:45 by a musical performance by Ruff Creek.

Events actually will begin Sept. 11 with the Field & Stream Hunt, Cast & Pitch Youth Challenge. From 4 to 7 p.m., youth ages 6 to 15 will compete in archery, casting and tent building, with prizes going to those with the best combined score in each age category.

Festivities are planned through Sept. 14, including an appearance by The Diesel – Steelers defensive lineman Brett Keisel. He will be there from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 12. Naturalist Eustace Conway is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 13.

Professional anglers will give tips all weekend at the store’s 4,000-gallon bass tank.

Dick’s Sporting Goods owns Field & Stream. The South Strabane Township site will be the second such store in Western Pennsylvania; the other is in Cranberry Township.

For more information on the Washington County opening, visit fieldandstreamshop.com.

• Bradley Cunic of Proudfit Insurance Agency, North Strabane Township, recently became a PaceSetter agent – part of a select group of independent agents with State Auto Insurance Companies.

• Lisa Wamsley of Avella has been hired as finance specialist at Washington Community Federal Credit Union. A graduate of Carmichaels Area High School and California University of Pennsylvania, Wamsley worked most recently in human resources at Washington Hospital.