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McKeesport’s 39th annual Festival of Trees opened Thursday afternoon with more than 90 decorated holiday displays representing different groups and organizations in the Mon-Yough area.
Hours are 12 noon to 9 p.m. daily through Dec. 9. The festival is located in the newly renovated Jacob Woll Pavilion in Renziehausen Park.
Admission is $2. Children 12 and under who bring a canned good or non-perishable food for donation to a local food pantry are admitted for free.
(Submitted photo courtesy McKeesport Model Railroad Club)
McKeesport Model Railroad Club begins its annual open house and holiday train show this weekend. Hours are 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 29.
Located at 2209 Walnut St. in Christy Park, the club's 2,200-square-foot model railroad depicts fictionalized scenes of Western Pennsylvania. The permanent layout is built in HO scale, about 1/87th of actual size or roughly half the size of larger Lionel-style trains.
The club, founded in 1950, also entered the parade for Irwin’s light-up night and McKeesport’s Salute to Santa Parade.
A donation of $7 for adults and $5 for children ages 5 to 17 is requested. Scouts, military personnel with ID and first responders with ID are admitted for free.
Santa Claus will visit with children on Dec. 14 and 15 and Dec. 21 and 22.
Parking is available in the lot of CP Industries, across the street. For more information, visit the club’s website or Facebook.
Cooper the Emu and the Better Block Foundation will headline McKeesport’s 59th Salute to Santa parade on Saturday.
The annual event, kicking off the holiday season, begins at 11 a.m. on Fifth Avenue, Downtown. Parade units will begin lining up at 10 a.m. on Water Street near the Palisades Ballroom.
The reviewing stand is located at the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets. Weather-permitting, Tube City Community Media will carry live video on its YouTube channel.
The National Weather Service in Moon Twp. is predicting that rain showers will taper off before 10 a.m. Saturday, and temperatures in the city should be around 44 degrees.
This year’s parade is being held in conjunction with a pop-up holiday market inside the People’s Building and two vacant store fronts, the former D&K Stores and CVS Pharmacy. The holiday market — and a performance space in the Cox’s Corner parking lot — have been created by the Texas-based Better Block Foundation, in partnership with Penn State Greater Allegheny and the Richard King Mellon Foundation. Hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday only.
Take Action Advocacy Group will hold a town hall Saturday to discuss public safety, police accountability and voter engagement.
The discussion, organized in cooperation with ALC Court Watch, begins at 2 p.m. Nov. 2 at Jacob Woll Pavilion at Renziehausen Park in McKeesport.
Organizers called the forum necessary in the wake of several incidents involving local police officers, including the arrest of a former McKeesport police detective and the McKeesport Area School District’s police chief; as well as an ongoing investigation by the Allegheny County district attorney’s office into items reportedly missing from the McKeesport police evidence room.
Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president, speaks during a 2016 campaign stop in Omaha, Neb. (Matt A.J. photo via Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0)
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will attend a candidate forum in Renziehausen Park tonight (Wednesday) sponsored by Mon Valley-based Take Action Advocacy Group and Pittsburgh’s 412 Justice.
The Environmental Justice Candidate Forum begins at 5 p.m. at Jacob Woll Pavilion in McKeesport. The event is free, but online registration is requested.
In addition to Stein, other candidates who are scheduled to attend include Leila Hazou, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate; U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, Democrat of Swissvale, who is seeking her second term in Congress, and challenger James Hayes (Republican Party); state attorney general candidates Eugene DePasquale (Democratic Party) and Richard L. Weiss (Green Party); Malcolm Kenyatta, Democratic candidate for state auditor general; Erin McClelland, Democratic candidate for state treasurer; State Sen. Jay Costa, Forest Hills Democrat, seeking re-election in the 43rd District; and John Ritter, Republican candidate for state General Assembly in the 25th District.
National Alliance on Mental Illness McKeesport Support Group will hold its next meeting at 6 p.m. Nov. 6 in Room 122 of the Frable Building, Penn State Greater Allegheny, a spokeswoman said.
The meeting is open to families and friends of loved ones living with mental illness. A “care and share” session will be held. This opportunity offers understanding and support unique to those who are affected by mental health conditions of loved ones.
For more information about the McKeesport meeting, call (412) 527-6600. For the free NAMI Helpline, call (412) 366-3788 weekdays between 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Penn State’s Greater Allegheny Campus in McKeesport will hold a community Halloween bash from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 29).
Guests will enjoy indoor and outdoor activities and games located in the Student Community Center and on the Buck Family Lawn. Parking is available in the Red Lot across from the SCC.
The event is being organized by students at PSUGA, said Rason Conner, who is majoring in recreation, park and tourism management at Greater Allegheny Campus.
Event highlights include trunk-or-treat, a costume contest, a photo booth, apple bobbing, a “smash the pumpkin” game, pumpkin Tic-Tac-Toe and other games, scary stories, scary movies, and arts and crafts.
A White Oak man was arrested following a traffic stop after Allegheny County police alleged he was in possession of crack cocaine, marijuana and a digital scale used to weigh narcotics.
Lamont J. Price, 27, is being held in the Allegheny County Jail pending a preliminary hearing Oct. 21 before Magisterial District Judge Eugene F. Riazzi Jr.
According to a criminal complaint, county detectives were working a violence suppression detail in the area of Crawford Village in McKeesport on Oct. 9 when they observed a Ford Escape make a turn without signalling, and then go through a stop sign.
Tiffany Carter Siar of Take Action Advocacy Group and Women for a Healthy Environment accepts a proclamation from McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko at the October council meeting. (Tube City Almanac photo)
City officials have joined Take Action Advocacy Group and Women for a Healthy Environment to remind residents to get their homes checked for lead exposure.
Mayor Michael Cherepko and city council last week issued a proclamation recognizing Oct. 20-26 as National Lead Poisoning Week in McKeesport and October as Children’s Health Month.
Tiffany Carter Siar, a community health worker with WHE and TAAG, accepted the proclamation on behalf of both groups.
TAAG and WHE, based in Pittsburgh, have teamed up for a series of events in the McKeesport area designed to raise awareness of lead poisoining, especially in infants, children and pregnant mothers.
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