Sunday, May 19, 2013
The upcoming career fairs will include employers from UPMC, Goodwill, Giant Eagle, PNC Bank, the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. Steel, St. Clair Hospital, Asko Inc. and others.
WorkAble will be holding a career fair from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, May 21, at the South Hills Interfaith Ministries (SHIM) offices in Bethel Park. If you can't make it to that career fair, another will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 22, at the Millvale Community Center. The career fairs will include employers from UPMC, Goodwill, Giant Eagle, PNC Bank, the University of Pittsburgh, U.S. Steel, St. Clair Hospital, ASKO, Inc., and others. Individuals wishing to attend either date must register in advance by calling 412-586-3732. Launched in the fall of 2012 and supported by the United Way of Allegheny County, WorkAble is a county-wide employment and critical needs service for financially struggling adults, especially those…
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416 Lincoln Ave, Millvale, PA
Millvale Community Center
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5301 Park Ave, Bethel Park, PA
South Hills Interfaith Ministries
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Representatives from Susan F. Komen-Pittsburgh will be on hand to help.
Susan G. Komen-Pittsburgh representatives will be at South Hills Village Mall this weekend to sign people up for the 2013 Race for the Cure. Registration and T-shirt pickup is available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 28. In addition to South Hills Village, Komen staff and volunteers will also be at the Monroeville Mall, Ross Park Mall, The Mall at Robinson and at the Kohl's on Route 228 in Cranberry Township. If someone wants to register but misses their chance this weekend, registrations will also be available at the University of Pittsburgh's Wesley W. Posvar Hall galleria from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, April 29. Online registration is available through May 8. The 5,000-meter…
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301 S Hills Vlg, Pittsburgh, PA
South Hills Village
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
VIDEO: Outgoing Manager Mary McGinley said goodbye on Tuesday night.
Rob Zahorchak will become the newest manager of Baldwin Township on April 2, replacing Mary McGinley, who attended her final township Board of Commissioners meeting as manager on Tuesday night. Zahorchak was also at the meeting—his first—in the role of assistant to the township manager, a position that he assumed on Monday until McGinley retires at the end of the month. McGinley has served as the manager/secretary of the small municipality in Pittsburgh's South Hills area for the past 38 years and said goodbye on Tuesday, thanking her fellow township employees and welcoming Zahorchak. "It's been a great 38 years," McGinley said. "I've enjoyed working here tremendously." She called Baldwin Township "a safe place to live (and) raise a family…
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Baldwin Township Municipal Building (Administrative Offices)
10 Community Park Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Friday, February 8, 2013
The quadriplegic writer was asked tough questions about God and family.
Jan Scheuermann, the Whitehall Borough resident who is making worldwide news as part of a groundbreaking UPMC and University of Pittsburgh brain-computer interface study, has gone back to her roots—all the way back to her former elementary school in south Baldwin Borough. On Friday morning, Scheuermann celebrated Mass alongside students from Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic School before wheeling in front of the Saint Elizabeth Church altar to talk about her disease, her faith and the crazy turn that her life has taken into the very public eye. Scheuermann, 53, grew up on Brentview Drive—just two blocks from the church/school—and finished her time at Saint E's as a 1977 graduate of the now-defunct Saint Elizabeth High School. A …
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Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic Church and School
1 Grove Pl, Pittsburgh, PA
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And other notes from Wednesday night's Baldwin-Whitehall School Board meeting.
School Safety Expert Dr. Randal A. Lutz provided an update during Wednesday night's Baldwin-Whitehall School Board meeting regarding school safety-improvement efforts in the B-W School District. Lutz said that district administration has been focusing recently on three main areas that pertain to school safety: education/professional development, communication and "the hardening of structures, or hardening of exteriors." In the area of education/professional development, Lutz said that, during an in-service event on Jan. 21, local school safety expert Mary Margaret Kerr made a presentation to Baldwin-Whitehall educators on the topic of "owning spaces." Said Lutz, "The topic was really ... How do we go through our facilities and 'own' the …
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Baldwin-Whitehall School District Office
4900 Curry Rd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Harold Berkoben is the new vice president, and committee members also re-organize.
New President, Vice President The Whitehall Borough Council used its first meeting of 2013 to select Councilmen Glenn Nagy and Harold Berkoben as its newest president and vice president, respectively. The Whitehall Council regularly rotates its council members through those positions without controversy. As such, Councilmen William J. Veith resigned on Wednesday night from the presidency that he held in 2012 before joining a unanimous vote to elevate then-Vice President Nagy to the head seat. With the vice presidency then vacated, Berkoben was selected unanimously to replace Nagy. Also on Wednesday night, the borough's seven councilmembers received their new committee assignments for 2013: Police Retirement The Whitehall Council also …
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Borough of Whitehall Municipal Complex (Administrative Offices and Outdoor Recreation)
100 Borough Park Dr, Pittsburgh, PA
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Jan Scheuermann's story was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Dec. 16.
UPDATE: The "60 Minutes" piece on Scheuermann is now available online here. Jan Scheuermann, the Whitehall Borough woman whose groundbreaking brain science story was detailed in a UPMC video and Dec. 18 Patch article, will appear on a nationally televised episode of CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday night. Scheuermann's story was originally scheduled to be broadcast on Dec. 16, but it was preempted by coverage of the Newtown, CT, tragedy. Her episode will now air on Dec. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. As part of a UPMC and University of Pittsburgh brain-computer interface study, Scheuermann, a quadriplegic, has had two quarter-inch, square electrode grids placed in the regions of her brain that would normally control her right arm and right hand …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Scheuermann, a south Baldwin native, could change the world.
Jan Scheuermann has killed more than 250 people—and gotten away with it. But that's not what makes her extraordinary. No, it's Scheuermann's ability to move objects by using only her mind that makes her life so incredible. OK, so neither of those statements are entirely true, but Scheuermann, 53—a south Baldwin Borough native, one-time Californian and current Whitehall Borough resident—is well on her way, at least with the mental capabilities. Though, she'd love to get back to killing soon. You see: It used to be Scheuermann's ability as a fiction writer and murder-mystery-parties host that was her claim to fame, first in south Baldwin and then later in California. And she'd like to write some more. But whether she's ready or not, this …
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UPMC Montefiore Hospital
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Baldwin native has an amazing story to tell.
UPDATE: CBS has officially delayed this story's broadcast. Check back with the Baldwin-Whitehall Patch for updates. A Baldwin-Whitehall resident is a participant in a groundbreaking study whose findings are tentatively scheduled to be broadcast nationally on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday night, immediately following the Pittsburgh Steelers-Dallas Cowboys telecast. However, the Newtown, CT, tragedy may delay the story's broadcast at least a week as CBS may instead focus on the school shootings. Nevertheless, the study's findings are due to be published online on Monday by the British medical journal The Lancet. The identity of this Baldwin Borough native has been kept quiet at the request of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh's …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Baldwin High, World Affairs Councils host an international student summit on cyber-warfare.
On Dec. 7, 1941, 353 Japanese aircrafts attacked and killed 2,402 Americans at a Hawaii naval base, essentially drawing the United States into World War II. And that was even before computer hackers. Students from around the globe directed their eyes toward a Baldwin High School classroom on the anniversary of that Attack on Pearl Harbor, which served as a semi-fitting backdrop for an international student summit at the high school on Friday. The online summit, brought to Baldwin High by the World Affairs Councils of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia and made possible by technology from Twitter, Skype and the Philadelphia-based MAGPI network, linked together students from Pennsylvania, Texas and Islamabad, Pakistan, to tackle the ever-changing …
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Baldwin High School
4653 Clairton Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA
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Robert Edward Healy, III
11:10 pm on Sunday, December 30, 2012
UPDATE: The "60 Minutes" piece on Scheuermann is now available online here: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50137987n. more ›