April 19, 2024 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements
(Photo courtesy Altrusa Club of McKeesport)
The Altrusa Club of McKeesport will hold a mystery dinner fundraiser at The Rose Bar & Grille, 2811 Lincoln Way, in White Oak on May 4, a spokeswoman said.
The event, titled “Murder on the High Seas,” will raise money to support outreach from Altrusa, including donations to local charities such as the Salvation Army, The Intersection and animal-rescue organizations.
Tickets are $50. Reservations are limited to 100 people and sales will continue through this weekend, said Diane Kolesar, club treasurer and a member for more than 20 years.
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April 09, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
During the 2022 flag-raising ceremony, Jeffrey Alvarez, nursing director at UPMC McKeesport, liver transplant recipient Gene Wagner and Leslie Lash of the Center for Organ Recovery & Education displayed a flag for “National Donate Life Month.” (Tube City Almanac file photo)
UPMC McKeesport will join doctors, nurses, professional staff and patients for a flag-raising ceremony to celebrate April as “National Donate Life Month.”
The event will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the courtyard of the hospital, near the Prescott Building, a spokeswoman said.
National Donate Life Month, recognized each April, is an annual commemoration of organ donors and the recipients they have helped. A UPMC spokeswoman said more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and at least 17 will die each day waiting to receive an organ.
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March 26, 2024 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: Announcements
(Tube City Almanac file photo)
State and city officials are cheering the announcement Tuesday that $1.8 million in economic development funding has been allocated toward the replacement of the Versailles Avenue Bridge.
The two-lane span, which crosses Ravine Street, has been closed to all traffic since February 2022, when an inspection found that the bridge had become unsafe.
In a joint announcement, state Sen. Jim Brewster and state Rep. Matt Gergely said that a state multimodal transportation grant has been awarded to the city for a new bridge.
The grant was approved Tuesday during a meeting in Harrisburg of the Commonwealth Financing Authority, an independent agency of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community & Economic Development, the legislators said.
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March 04, 2024 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: Announcements
Built in the early 1960s to house the hospital’s School of Nursing, the Kelly Center at UPMC McKeesport is being demolished this month. (Tube City Almanac photo)
Demolition of the J. Clarence Kelly Center at UPMC McKeesport will free up space on the hospital campus for future reuse, a spokeswoman for the health system said.
The six-story building, constructed in 1963-64 as a dormitory and classroom building for the former McKeesport Hospital School of Nursing has been completely vacant since 2017 and was used only for meeting space prior to its closure, said Sarah Deist, senior manager of public relations for UPMC McKeesport, UPMC East and other hospitals.
The windows were removed last week. Deist said the demolition is expected to be complete by the end of summer.
No disruption to hospital operations is expected and while there will be temporary parking restrictions near the construction area, no long-term inconveniences are expected, Deist said.
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February 11, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
(Pennsylvania Resources Council photo)
Allegheny County and the Pennsylvania Resources Council will offer a glass recycling program in county parks again this year.
The PRC’s Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program will be available February through November to allow residents a resource to recycle glass, a spokesperson said.
The service is increasingly important because many communities have reduced their recycling programs or do not offer collection of glass jars, bottles and jugs.
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January 29, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
(Submitted photo)
Sales of an upcoming cookbook will help raise money for striking workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
“Seasoned with Solidarity” is seeking favorite home recipes for desserts, says Allie Petonic of United Steelworkers Local 3657. Recipes are being accepted through Feb. 5.
For more information, visit tinyurl.com/CookbookPGUnions.
Petonic says recipes have been received so far for apple cake, pear tart, poppyseed cake, lemon dream cookies, carmelitas, rum balls, puddings, sugar cookies, pumpkin cake, pound cake, oatmeal pie, strawberry cornbread, brownies, nut roll and many more, but additional contributions are welcome.
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January 29, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
National Alliance on Mental Illness McKeesport support group will meet at 6 p.m. Feb. 7 at Penn State Greater Allegheny in Frable Building Room 122, 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 NAMI Helpline call (412) 366-3788 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
January 18, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: Announcements
A newly-received state grant prompted the East McKeesport Borough Council to reject a bid for a portion of a storm water project and they will now seek bids for the entire project.
Borough Engineer Laura Branthoover of Glenn Engineering & Associates Ltd. told the council that the borough recently received a $100,000 Small Water and Sewer Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) for the Ice Plant Hill Project.
The project is designed to address storm water issues on the two-lane roadway by cleaning out some existing drainage pipes and adding additional collection inlets.
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January 12, 2024 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements
McKeesport unit of the NAACP and a group of churches will host a community-wide program Sunday to celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The event begins at 4 p.m. at Zion Baptist Church, 1300 Locust St., and will include a mime performance, church choirs, and a short skit, said Brenda Sawyer, unit president.
The Rev. Richard W. Truss, pastor of Zion, will be the featured speaker. The theme of the event is “Dream the Impossible Dream.”
Light refreshments will be served. Other churches participating include Christ Temple AME, Trinity Church of God in Christ and Macedonia Baptist Church of Duquesne.
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November 07, 2023 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements
An appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Senate last week could include a boost — valued at $1.7 million — to plans by the city and a local land bank to develop new affordable housing in McKeesport.
Senators by an 82-15 vote passed legislation funding military construction, veterans affairs, transportation, housing and urban development, agriculture, rural development and the Food & Drug Administration.
The three bills are the first bipartisan appropriations bills to pass so far in 2023 in either house of the U.S. Congress.
Included is $1.7 million for a program to recover seven abandoned lots in McKeesport and construct four new houses, said U.S. Sen. John Fetterman.
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