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Out & About: Ligonier museum hosts plein air painting session
In anticipation of reopening to the public, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley invited area artists to a plein air painting session Wednesday. Fortunately, lowering clouds and a few rain drops gave way to sun as artists set up easels on the wide back lawn, under shady...
Northern Snakehead ‘Frankenfish’ moves farther into lower Susquehanna River near Lancaster
The Northern Snakehead fish, an aggressive invasive species that displaces local fish, has moved deeper into Pennsylvania’s lower Susquehanna River outside of Lancaster. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) issued a statement Friday urging anglers to report and kill any invasive Northern Snakehead caught in the lower Susquehanna River....
Out & About: Greensburg Garden Center tea a floral-scented success 
Greensburg Garden Center’s annual Spring Tea was like a breath of fresh air in a weekend of otherwise foreboding news — bringing with it the scent of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, forsythia, pussy willows and roses. Tables at the “March Into Spring” event, held March 14 at Maplewood Presbyterian Church in...
Out & About: NAACP prayer breakfast focuses on spiritual weapons
As event cancellations mounted, driven by coronavirus concerns, leaders of the Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP forged ahead with the organization’s Annual NAACP Prayer Breakfast. The event, held March 14 in the Ramada by Wyndham Greensburg Hotel and Conference Center, carried this heartening theme: “Prayer: Your Weapon of Warfare.” Conveying the message was...
Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show canceled due to coronavirus concerns
The Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show has been canceled as a result of coronavirus concerns. Officials said the event, which started March 6 and was scheduled to run through Sunday at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, was halted in response to guidelines issued by the Allegheny County Health Department....
Out & About: Leadership Karaoke brings out hidden musical talent 
Participants in Westmoreland Diversity Coalition’s Leadership Karaoke say that the organizations’ co-chair Carlotta Paige has a particular talent for getting people to sing at the event. It’s called arm-twisting. Everyone who performed at the second annual event, held March 7 at Ferrante’s Lakeview in Hempfield, was happy to have their...
Out & About: Guests relive prom night at Blind Association event
Prom is an occasion for high schoolers to make memories that last a lifetime. On March 6, the Westmoreland County Blind Association provided an opportunity for reliving those memories and making some new ones with its A Night to Remember … Adult Prom. Held at Rizzo’s Banquet Hall in Crabtree,...
Out & About: Roaring 20s dance benefits Westmoreland food bank
Did you know that the male equivalent of the Roaring 20s flapper was called a sheik? Well, now you do. A century later, some 2020 sheiks and flappers drove their flivvers to Ferrante’s Lakeview in Hempfield on March 7 for a Roaring 20s Retro Dinner/Dance to benefit the Westmoreland County...
Out & About: Parks and rec comedy night is a tonic for 300 guests
They say laughter is the best medicine. The Mayo Clinic confirms it, noting on its website that laughter benefits internal organs by upping oxygen intake, lessens tension and stress, relieves pain and boosts the immune system. That being the case, about 300 people left the Youngwood Fire Hall on March...
Out & About: Party at The Palace offers delights of Carnivale 
From New Orleans to Venice, all the delights of Carnivale were there for the enjoyment of guests at “Masquerade,” the annual Party at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg. Held Feb. 29, the event gave more than 250 guests, both masked and unmasked, the chance to savor the delights of several...
Out & About: WCCC honors African American high school students
A group of distinguished high school students and their guests heard a message titled, “Believe, Succeed, Dream,” during the annual African American High School Achievement Awards Ceremony and Reception, held Feb. 25 in the impressive new Student Achievement Center on the Westmoreland County Community College Youngwood campus. Guest speaker Adriel...
Out & About: Pitt-Greensburg students host annual soul food feast
The mouth-watering menu included hickory smoked pork with barbecue sauce, fried chicken wings, jambalaya, catfish, mac and cheese, collard greens and more, but the Feb. 27 Soul Food Dinner at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg was more than just good eats. The annual dinner was an opportunity for members...
Out & About: Student artists display talents in annual SAMA show 
For Kristin Miller, the “Artists of the 21st Century” exhibition at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley is “my passion.” Speaking at the Feb. 29 opening reception, Miller, the site coordinator, said the annual showcase of student art helps keep art alive in area schools — and...
Out & About: Inaugural daddy-daughter dance has ‘Frozen’ theme
About 10 miles from Norvelt, more special couples gathered for another enchanted evening to remember. It was the inaugural Daddy-Daughter Dance hosted by Latrobe-GLSD Parks & Recreation, held Feb. 22 at Greater Latrobe Senior High School in Unity. The Center for Student Creativity was decked out like a scene from...
Out & About: Popular Me and My Special Guy Dance draws hundreds 
The American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Mt. Pleasant continued its popular Me and My Special Guy Dance with a doubleheader on Feb. 22 in Roosevelt Hall in Norvelt. The event has grown so much over the years that, for the second time, the organization offered two sessions to...
Out & About: ‘Picture This’ is young artist’s first solo exhibition
A young Greensburg artist has her first solo show with the current Picture This at the Library exhibition in the Greensburg Hempfield Area Library. Jasmine Lear, 24, who says she is self-taught through books, the internet and just drawing from life, is showing works in mediums including watercolor, gouache, alcohol...
Out & About: Fort Ligonier happy hour toasts George Washington
According to the official website of George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon, our first president had “an enlightened, modern attitude toward the consumption of alcohol” and particularly enjoyed port and Madeira wines, along with a drop or two of rum punch, porter and whiskey. So it was entirely fitting that Fort...
Out & About: From joy to despair, ‘The Art of Love’ covers it all 
From joy to despair, all aspects of love are covered in “The Art of Love,” a group exhibition running through Feb. 29 in the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center. As curator and exhibitor Mary Ellen Raneri put it, artists were “invited to explore love in all its splendor and non-splendid...
Out & About: Reception offers first view of African-American art
Members and patrons of The Westmoreland Museum of American Art were invited to a Feb. 15 preview reception on the eve of the opening of “African American Art in the 20th Century,” a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Attendees heard remarks from Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO Anne...
Out & About: Animal Friends hosts Monopoly-themed cash bash
The guest of honor entered the Animal Friends of Westmoreland cash bash both giving and receiving kisses. “She’s the sweetest thing. She’s the shelter favorite,” said volunteer coordinator Kim Crosby about Rhyann, a 9-year-old pit bull who was surrendered by her owner and has been in the shelter for five...
Out & About: ‘Pasta Palooza’ benefits humane society mission
If you’ve ever wondered what a “Pasta Palooza” looks like, you’ll have to attend the Humane Society of Westmoreland County’s next Have a Heart Buffet. Held Feb. 9 at Ferrante’s Lakeview in Hempfield, the annual event featured a hearty meal of tortellini, rigatoni and stuffed shells with both meatballs and...
Out & About: Love was in the air at Action for Animals event
Love was in the air at the 14th annual Love Is in the Air — Celebrating the Human-Animal Bond event hosted by Action for Animals Humane Society. About 125 guests gathered Feb. 8 at Rizzo’s Banquet Hall in Crabtree to show their love for animals served through the organization. In...
Out & About: Library board members show their artistic talents
You can visit the Greensburg Hempfield Area Library to borrow books, movies and music; read magazines; use computers; or take in one of their many programs. While there, you also can view the work of local artists in regular “Picture This at the Library” exhibitions, a joint venture of the...
Out & About: ‘Candyland’ artworks touch on international politics
Just as a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a candy coating can sweeten a serious message. Artist Sheila Cuellar-Shaffer calls her work on display at the West­moreland County Community College Youngwood campus “Candyland: The Land of Hope.” The bright pinks, lilacs and blues of the paintings are...
Out & About: Seton Hill art show ponders the weight of nostalgia
A young curator and 11 young artists have explored the bittersweet theme of nostalgia in “Joy Takes Time,” an exhibition on display through March 10 in Seton Hill University’s Harlan Gallery. During a Feb. 6 opening reception in the downtown Greensburg art center, curator Emma Vescio of Pittsburgh said the...


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