Pine Creek Journal category, Page 93
Spaghetti dinner at A.W. Beattie to help buy e-readers for Children’s Hospital patients
A Pine Township teen is holding a spaghetti dinner Oct. 12 at the A.W. Beattie Career Center to raise money to buy e-readers for patients at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh as part of his Eagle Scout project. The dinner as well as a pinewood car derby and other events...
Pine-Richland Opportunities Fund hosting fundraiser at Richland Barn
The Pine-Richland Opportunities Fund awards district students with scholarships and teachers with grants to fund innovative classroom projects, and community members will have a chance to help contribute to their mission at the annual fundraiser. This year’s event is called Sip and Savor, and it will be held at the...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of Sept. 19
Pine Showcase Properties Inc. sold property at 162 Alder Drive to William and Nancy Donatelli for $524,533. George Tunder sold property at 805 Chapel Hill Ct to James and Angela Jones for $1,025,000. Ronald Thompson sold property at 238 Greenwood Drive to Michael and Lisa Moody for $587,500. John Piocquidio...
Pine-Richland High School has four National Merit Scholarship semifinalists
Four Pine-Richland High School students are being named semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship program. They include seniors Daniel Krill, Aidan Meyer, Gina Sabol, and Justin Waltrip. These seniors were among 16,000 students, who were named semifinalists in the 65th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. About 90 percent of...
Pine-Richland Homecoming festivities slated
Pine-Richland School District will host homecoming weekend Sept. 20-21. The community is invited to the high school campus at 6 p.m. Sept. 20 for a processional made up of the marching band, auxiliaries, AFJROTC and more. The entrance to Pine-Richland High School will be closed from about 6 to 6:15...
New program coordinator has big plans for Pine Community Center
The Pine Community Center’s fall offerings include some old favorites and a slew of new programs for kids and adults. The community center recently hired Hannah Durant as its new program coordinator, and the Penn State graduate is already putting together some creative new events for kids, tweens and teens....
Valencia Road drilling will cause single-lane traffic
Drilling operations on Valencia Road (Route 4076) in Richland Township will occur Sept. 16 to 18 weather permitting. Single-lane alternating traffic controlled by flaggers will be initiated on Valencia Road from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day between Second Street and Chesstown Avenue. Crews from Armstrong Drilling will conduct...
Pine-Richland officials begin preliminary redistricting discussions
Pine-Richland School Board members and administrators will begin preliminary discussions about redistricting at a joint student and operational services committee meeting on Oct. 7. A related topic on the agenda for the evening will be updating the district’s demographic study, last conducted in 2016, as one of the strategic plan...
Pine-Richland to host dyslexia simulation workshop
For students with dyslexia, the classroom can be a frustrating and tiring place. This month, Pine-Richland School District will host a dyslexia simulation workshop for parents, teachers, staff and community members that will show just how difficult it can be. The simulation, conducted by the International Dyslexia Association, often turns...
What’s happening around town: Sept. 13-15
The International Day of Peace will be observed in the North Hills with a festival from 3 to 6 p.m. Sept. 15 at Point Grove on Lakeshore Drive in North Park. This year’s theme is “Global Peace Starts With Us.” The goal is to come together with people of all...
A look at real estate transactions in Pine, Richland the week of Sept. 10
Pine Showcase Properties Inc. sold property at 148 Alder Drive to Brad Alan and Heather Maria Biagini for $543,590. Cavalier Land Partn. L.P. sold property at 2024 Cherry Road to Dr. Adam and Dr. Lindsay Mehring for $147,150. Jarrod Rapke sold property at 404 Jack Pine Court to Richard Scott...
Wines of Gibsonia to feature Mazzotta Winery at Northern Tier Library
When Northern Tier Library Director Diane Illis stepped into the Mazzotta Winery, she was initially scouting a potential location for a book club outing. After speaking with owner Frank Mazzotta, she decided to bring the Richland Township winery to the library for a “Wines of Gibsonia” tasting event that will...
Salem Methodist in Pine packs 10,000 meals for Rise Against Hunger
On Sept. 8, Salem United Methodist Church was the site of special event where church members, friends and other volunteers spent the day packing collected food for Rise Against Hunger. These donated supplies were organized, packed and are now being delivered around the globe. More than 10,000 meals were packaged....
Pine-Richland hosting Allegheny Valley Marching Band Festival
Pine-Richland High School will be hosting the Allegheny Valley Marching Band Festival on Sept. 18 at the PRHS Stadium. The festival starts at 7 p.m. and bands from Avonworth, Northgate, Riverview, Fox Chapel Area, Hampton, Shaler Area, North Hills, and North Allegheny will perform in addition to the PR band....
U.S. Brig Niagara’s historical significance to be shared at Northern Tier Library
Edd Hale was a longtime U.S. history teacher whose courses covered the time period around the War of 1812, but he’s learned more about that era during his retirement as a volunteer crew member of the U.S. Brig Niagara than he thought possible. His passion now is sharing that knowledge...
DUI Task Force a cooperative effort between North Hills police departments
The North Hills DUI Task Force was established in 1994, but this year’s agreement between the participating police departments has an important addition. It will now include language to reflect the law passed this summer in Pennsylvania allowing police from multiple jurisdictions to collaborate on DUI checkpoints. On May 31,...
Richland native shines in International Triathlon
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) student-athlete John Reed of Gibsonia, an Aquinas Academy alum, was 3,780 miles away over Labor Day weekend, competing in the International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Triathlon Grand Final in Lausanne, Switzerland. Reed, a junior who runs cross country and track at RPI, had an excellent race,...
Taste of Greece hosted by Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in McCandless
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church hosted its annual Taste of Greece Aug. 28 through Sept. 1. The celebration included Greek food such as Chicken Oreganto, Fish Pkali, Pastitsio, Souvlaki, Moussaka, Souzoukakia and Pork Yeero. There was also Greek dancing, tradition and more. The church, which is celebrating the opening of...
Chef Carol Nardello hosting cooking classes at Richland’s Northern Tier Library
When chef Carol Nardello was living and working in Hawaii as an instructor at the Culinary Institute of the Pacific, her multicourse menu using chocolate as the star ingredient was featured on a television show about entertaining in paradise. She’s now bringing that menu and others to Northern Tier Regional...
Team Tessa family offers heartfelt thank you to Pine-Richland community
If kindness and generosity could have cured Tessa Tarasovich, her mother said, the little girl would be alive and healthy today. That, sadly, is not the case, but Melissa Tarasovich and her family now want to thank the Pine-Richland community and all those who gave them support and strength over...
Officials: PNC Bank in Cranberry robbed
A Cranberry Township bank was robbed Wednesday evening, according to Butler County 911 dispatchers. Officers responded to PNC Bank, located at 20940 Route 19, around 5 p.m. for reports of the robbery. Further details were not immediately available Wednesday night. This is not the first time that PNC Bank has...
Ed Pfeifer: Blacktopping is hard work, but it used to be much worse
Professional driveway coaters are hard workers doing a dirty job. If it is daylight between May and October, they are covered, nose to toes, in tar. The black splatter dots their tanned skin like freckles and dyes their clothing the color of a Starbucks French roast. Blacktopping is tough work...
WPIAL football Week Zero: Pine-Richland opens against Penn Hills
Pine-Richland’s title defense begins tonight. The Rams football team, winners of the past two WPIAL Class 6A titles, open the 2019 season against defending PIAA Class 5A champion Penn Hills. The game will begin at 7 p.m. at Pine-Richland Stadium. There will be a live video stream on the TribLive...
Pine-Richland students impress superintendent as they address teachers, administrators
Pine-Richland School District officially launched its “portrait of a graduate” initiative on Aug. 19, the first day back for teachers. The new measure addresses the preparedness of students for entering the real world. Students spoke to teachers on each of the four elements of the initiative: Eighth-grader Michael Lattari talked...
Pine applies for grant to update Route 19 adaptive traffic system
The Township of Pine will apply for a Multimodal Transportation Fund grant to help bring the adaptive traffic system on Route 19 up to date. The board of supervisors voted to apply for the grant at its August meeting. PennDOT installed the system that uses cameras, computers, radar and laser...
