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Ruth DeEtta Riggle Daugherty
Loving mother enjoyed retirement, cooking
Ruth DeEtta Riggle Daugherty, 91, of Jefferson, died Saturday, December 8, 2012, in her home.
She was born February 9, 1921, in Jefferson, a daughter of the late Belle Riggle and Jesse Kent.
Mrs. Daugherty was raised by Belle and her husband, Marvin Riggle.
Mrs. Daugherty lived all of her life in Jefferson and had worked at one time in the housekeeping department for Waynesburg College.
She was a loving mother and housewife. She enjoyed retirement and cooking, gardening and sewing.
Mrs. Daugherty will be dearly missed by all who loved her.
On December 26, 1941, she married Anthony Leo Daugherty, who died June 6, 1977.
Surviving are three children, Dennis Daugherty and wife Janice of Arlington, Texas, Linda Cain and husband Raymond of Clarksville and Douglas Daugherty and wife Katrina of North Richland Hills, Texas; six grandchildren, Melinda Pendland, Tim Daugherty, Cindy Thomas, Karen Daugherty, Brian Daugherty and Megan Daugherty; and seven great-grandchildren.
Deceased is a sister, Helen Watson.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, December 14, in Jefferson Cemetery, Jefferson, with the Rev. Richard E. Bowser officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Behm Funeral Home Inc., 1477 Jefferson Road, Jefferson, Gregory P. Rohanna, supervisor. Condolences may be expressed at www.behm-funeralhomes.com.
William Robert Engle
Corrected information was received for the obituary of William Robert Engle, published Wednesday. A surviving grandson should have been listed as Tim Bickerton.
Susan Yevcinez Estock
Devoted wife, mother, sister, grandmother
Susan Yevcinez Estock passed away from this Earth into the light and grace of his heavenly kingdom Tuesday, December 11, 2012.
She was born June 17, 1923, in Monongahela, to Sophie and Metro Yevcinez.
Mrs. Estock was a sister of John and James Yevcinez and Mary Gresham and the late Charles and Michael Stanko, Annie Yevich, Helen Martello and Edward and Andrew Yevcinez.
She was a member of St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church. She spent most of her life in Jefferson as a homemaker and wonderful cook who enjoyed making holiday meals for her family. She was a devoted wife, mother, sister, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Mrs. Estock leaves behind to cherish her memory her husband of 67 years, Joseph Estock; children Joseph (Joan) of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Karen (Ron) McCann of Spokane, Wash., and Linda Estock of Ocean Springs, Miss.; grandchildren Jacquline Hubbard, Nicole Estock, Kelly Walker and Andrew, Peter and Kajsa McCann; and great-grandchildren Kaleigh, Kendall, Andrew, Ewan and Naomi.
Annie Kovacevich, Shirley, Cindy and Jen provided loving care for Mrs. Estock. Her family says: Let not thy heart be troubled, the Lord has prepared a place for you. With the saints give Susan rest, O Christ. Vichnaya Pamyat. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until services at 1 p.m. Friday, December 14, in Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home Inc., 301 Curry Hollow Road, Pleasant Hills. Interment will be in Jefferson Memorial Park. www.jeffersonmemorial.biz.
Robert Gordon
Robert "Chink" Gordon, 85, died Sunday, December 9, 2012, in Springfield Gardens, N.Y., after suffering with a long illness.
He was born October 3, 1927, in Pulasky, Va., a son of the late Willa Mae Gordon.
Mr. Gordon was raised and went to school in Washington and Pittsburgh.
He retired from the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine force and served on several submarines. He was assigned the prestigious duty as Adm. Hymen Rickover's personal chef.
Mr. Gordon also retired from the New York City Transit System.
Surviving are his wife, Ruth Durham Gordon; four children, Bobby of Canonsburg, Michael of Chesapeake, Va., Candace of Upper Marlboro, Md., and Jeffrey of Power Springs, Ga.; and two grandchildren, Lindsey and Ricky.
Arrangements are under the direction of J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home, Jamaica, N.Y. Interment will be in Pine Lawn Cemetery, Long Island, N.Y.
Harold R. Horr
U.S. Army veteran was avid horseman
Harold R. Horr, 81, of Waynesburg, formerly of West Alexander, died at 4:50 a.m. Wednesday, December 12, 2012, in Southwest Regional Medical Center, Waynesburg, after being in failing health for the past year.
He was born in West Finley Township, Washington County, a son of the late Henry Glenn and Helen Margaret Mahan Horr.
Mr. Horr had resided in the West Alexander area for several years, Graysville and West Finley Township prior to moving to the Waynesburg area in 2005.
He was a former member of Grace Bible Church in West Middletown and was a member and trustee of Maranantha Baptist Church in Holbrook at the time of his death.
Mr. Horr was a veteran of the Korean War. He served with the U.S. Army as a private first class and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.
He was formerly employed as a meter reader and service technician with Columbia Gas in New Brighton for 19 years prior to retiring in 1969, a bus driver for Grace Bible Christian School and was a self-employed dairy farmer in West Alexander until 1983.
Mr. Horr was a former member of Big Knob Grange in Beaver County and was an avid horseman and member of the Percheron Horse Association in Fredericktown, Ohio.
He enjoyed country music and square dancing.
On June 20, 1952, he married Colleen Ramona Dunn, who died in June 1996.
Surviving from this marriage are his children, Sandy, wife of Billy Reece of Coburn, Va., Steven, husband of Mary Horr of West Alexander, Dennis, husband of Elaine Horr of Goshen, Ohio, and Greg, husband of Wendy Horr of Hemet, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; four brothers, Paul Horr of Holbrook, Thomas, husband of Linda Horr of St. Helen's, Mich., W. Laverne, husband of Rosella Horr of Freedom, and George, husband of Janet Horr of Masontown; and several nieces and nephews.
On April 27, 1997, he married Maxine Lee Parson Hewitt, who survives, along with her children, Daunice, wife of Ronald Lohr of Waynesburg, James, wife of Debbie Hewitt of Graysville and Jeff Hewitt of Waynesburg; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Deceased, in addition to his parents and first wife, are a daughter, Amy Horr; three great-grandchildren, McKenzie, Trevor and Levi Horr; and a sister, Karen Young.
Friends will be received from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday in Rush Funeral Home Inc., Rogersville, where funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 15, 2012 with the Rev. Vernon K. Berdine officiating. Interment will follow in West Alexander Cemetery. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Maranantha Baptist Church, 353 Maranantha Road, Holbrook, PA 15341. Graveside military rites will be accorded by representatives of the U.S. Army and Claysville American Legion Post 639. Family and friends may view the obituary and send condolences and flowers at www.rushfuneralhomeinc.com.
Leon J. Ike
Vietnam War veteran was avid fisherman
Leon J. "Lee" Ike, 62, of Canonsburg, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012, in Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Pittsburgh.
He was born April 7, 1950, in Dover, N.J., a son of Shirley Kennerup of Tucson, Ariz.
Mr. Ike was a graduate of Trinity High School, Washington, and Dean Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh.
He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Service Medal, Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Campaign Medal and the Republic of Vietnam Cross of Gallantry.
Mr. Ike worked as a truck driver for Carbon Express in Wharton, N.J., before retiring.
He was a Trophy Lifetime member of North American Fishing Club and was an avid fisherman.
On November, 12, 1977, he married Cindy L. Hans, who survives.
Also surviving are three sons, Richard (Maryann) Ike of Greensburg, Bradley J. (Lauren) Ike of Canonsburg and Kevin D. (Tabby) Ike of Monongahela; a brother, Donald S. Sensky of Tucson, Ariz.; seven grandchildren, Cortney, Jordan, Austin, Autumn, Hailey, Carter and Aubrey; and a great-grandchild, Keirsten.
Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday in Nation Funeral Home Inc., 220 East Lincoln Avenue, McDonald, where services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, December 14, with the Rev. Ben Robinson, pastor of Midway Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in National Cemetery of the Alleghenies, Cecil Township. The family suggests memorials be made to Washington Area Humane Society, 1527 Route 136, Eighty Four, PA 15330. Condolences, photos and additional information are available at www.nationfuneralhome.com.
Andrew R. McGeever Sr.
Pilot for Conoco Aviation, WWII Army veteran
Andrew R. McGeever Sr., 86, of Pleasant Hills, died Saturday, December 8, 2012.
He was husband of the late Jeanne Alton McGeever; beloved father of Andrew R. (Sandy) McGeever Jr. and the late Lorri Anne McGeever; loving grandfather of Codie Leigh and Carly Ann McGeever; and brother of Janet Sanford and the late Norma Tempinski.
Mr. McGeever was chief pilot for Conoco Aviation at the Allegheny County Airport, a World War II Army veteran and a member of Quiet Birdmen, OX5 aviation and the Mon Valley Boat Club.
He enjoyed flying, boating, playing golf and photography.
Family and friends will be received from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, December 15, the time of a memorial service, in Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home Chapel, 301 Curry Hollow Road, Pleasant Hills. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Humane Society, 1527 PA Route 136, North Strabane, PA 15330.
Anna L. Monaco Powner
Hallmark clerk enjoyed bowling
Anna L. Monaco Powner, 95, of Bridgeville, formerly of Cecil, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012, in Broadmore Assisted Living at Lakemont Farms.
She was born February 12, 1917, in Cecil, a daughter of the late Panfilo and Flaminia Pronio Monaco.
Mrs. Powner was a member of Italian Sons and Daughters Association.
She enjoyed bowling, reading, playing cards, traveling and spending time with family.
Mrs. Powner worked as a clerk for Hallmark Cards in Bridgeville and South Hills Village.
Surviving are three daughters, Janice (Dave) Harvey of Freedom, Judy (Dave) McDowell of Lawrence and Debbie (Bill) Sweetie of Cecil; two grandchildren, Erik (Sherry) McDowell of Carnegie and Heather McDowell of Bridgeville; three great-grandchildren, Brandon and Maleya McDowell and Emma P. Dreher; and a stepson, Paul (Carol) Love of Cecil.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Powner; a daughter, Paulette Powner; four brothers, Anthony, Joseph, Dominick and Elidio Monaco; and three sisters, Lillian Ventresca, Jennie Monaco and Lola Ventresca.
Friends will be received 2 to 8 p.m. Friday in Coleman-Taylor Funeral Services, 3378 Millers Run Road (Route 50) Cecil, where a circle of life service will be held at 8 p.m. Private interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery, Cecil. Contributions may be made to Washington Area Humane Society, P.O. Box 66, Eighty Four, PA 15330, or CORE, 204 Sigma Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15238. Visit www.coleman-taylorfuneralservices.com.
J. Louise Prete
Co-owner of Prete's Twin Twister
J. Louise Prete, 82, of Bobtown, died at 8:23 p.m. Tuesday, December 11, 2012, in Golden Living Center, Waynesburg.
She was born October 10, 1930, in Maidsville, W.Va., a daughter of the late Jacob Hicks and Greta Arbogast Hicks Sanford.
Mrs. Prete resided most of her life in Bobtown, where she was a member of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish and the Rosary Altar Society of the church. She was a member of Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Greene County Court and Shannopin Civic Club, where she served many offices, including president. With the civic club, Mrs. Prete assisted in many philanthropic endeavors in her community. In addition, she served on the board of directors for Greene ARC, was a member of Washington ARC and was active with Special Olympics in Westmoreland and Washington counties. For many years, Mrs. Prete co-owned and operated Prete's Twin Twister in Dilliner.
She was an avid traveler.
On October 15, 1948, she married Louis A. Prete, who survives.
Also surviving are a son, Gary L. Prete of Smithton; a daughter, Donna K. Pekar and husband Les of Clarksville; four grandchildren, Tracy J. Pekar, Kristie K. Rohrer, Jennifer E. Skumlien and Jessica L. Garnek; six great-grandchildren, Dylan Rohrer, Karissa Rohrer, Stephen Skumlien, Timothy Skumlien, Isabella Garnek and Isaiah Garnek; a brother, Kenneth Hicks and wife Anna of Newcomerstown, Ohio; three sisters, Shirley Beck of New Harmony, Utah, Carolyn Haney and husband Charles of Mineral City, Ohio, and Ruth Rager and her husband Brian of Canton, Ohio; and several nieces and nephews.
Deceased is a daughter, Sharon A. Hockin.
Family and friends are welcome from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday in Yoskovich Funeral Home (724-966-5500), Martin J. Yoskovich, funeral director, 300 South Vine Street (Route 88), Carmichaels, where a blessing service will be held at 10:15 a.m. Saturday, December 15, followed at 11 a.m. by a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Ignatius of Antioch Roman Catholic Church, Bobtown, with the Rev. Lawrence V. Holpp as celebrant. Interment will follow in Monongahela Hill Cemetery, Mapletown. A vigil service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Special Olympics of Pennsylvania – Washington County, P.O. Box 14, Strabane, PA 15363. For additional information and to sign the guest book, please visit www.YoskovichFH.com.
Jennie Valencic
Jennie Valencic, 88, of Meadow Lands, died Wednesday, December 12, 2012, in Donnel House, Washignton.
Arrangements are incomplete and are being handled by Salandra Funeral Service Inc., 304 West Pike Street, Canonsburg, 724-745-8120.
Francis L. Williams
Former brick mason enjoyed his Harley
Francis L. Williams, 51, of Monongahela, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012.
He was born July 1, 1961, in New Eagle, a son of the late Francis R. and Palmera Filippelli Williams.
During high school, he worked at Lenzi's Service Station in Monongahela. After graduating in 1979 from Monongahela High School, he moved to Florida, where he worked as a brick mason until returning to Monongahela in 2004.
Mr. Williams enjoyed hunting, fishing, watching the Steelers and riding his Harley.
He was Catholic.
Surviving are three sisters, Claudia J. Williams, Francene Williams and Helen L. Williams, all of Monongahela, and a niece, Cassidy Drilling.
Interment was held in Monongahela Cemetery. Marshall Marra Funeral Home, 216 Chess Sreet, Monongahela, 724-258-6767, marshallmarrafuneralhome.com, was in charge of the arrangements.
Martha Lee Yeckley
Washington-area restaurant employee
Martha Lee Yeckley, 53, of Washington, died Thursday, December 6, 2012.
She was born August 1, 1959, in Birmingham, Ala., a daughter of George Yeckley and the late Virginia Henry Yeckley.
Ms. Yeckley was employed by several restaurants in the Washington area.
Surviving are a brother, Hank Yeckley of McMurray; a sister, Connie Yeckley of Washington; and two nephews.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Beinhauer Funeral Home (724-941-3211). Memorial donations may be made in her memory to Washington City Mission, 84 West Wheeling Street, Washington, PA 15301. Please add tributes at beinhauer.com.
Frances Zacour
Additional information has been provided for the obituary of Frances Zacour, published Wednesday. Surviving are a granddaughter, Ashley Belcastro and husband Anthony.
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Bethel continues discussion on lowering graduation requirements
Bethel Park School District officials plan to continue a discussion about lowering the credit requirements for high school graduation at a curriculum committee meeting scheduled for Feb. 6.
District administrators have recommended lowering the requirements from the current 27 credits, although the number of credits has not been decided. Discussion at the Jan. 15 meeting was possibly lowering the credits to 21, the state minimum for high school graduation. According to the district website, students now must complete four credits in the subjects of English, social studies, mathematics and science. They must also complete one credit in physical education and a half credit in health. Two credits in fine/practical arts and seven and a half credits of elective classes round out the requirements.
If the district lowers the number of credits needed, students who wish can still take as many requirements as they choose and the district does not plan to reduce the high level classes, said Donna Cook, board president at the Jan. 22 meeting.
Cook said reducing the number of required classes will give students who need to take remedial classes to pass the state required Keystone Exams time in their schedules. It will also give students time to explore opportunities for apprenticeships and mentoring programs, she said.
"We have to look at quantity verses quality," said school Director Jim Means. "With 27 credits, we are making kids take classes they don't want and don't need."
Board members have also said that they expect the lowering of the credit requirements to result in a cost savings for the district. The changes being considered would be phased in beginning with ninth graders entering the high school and the district would see the savings over time, through staff attrition or furlough.
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The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission released a list of the top places for anglers looking for certain species of fish, and a couple of local waterways made the cut as the best in the state.
Cross Creek Lake topped the state not only in the best lake of 50 to 500 acres for largemouth bass, but crappies as well.
That should come as no huge surprise to many in the area.
Somewhat more surprising was the inclusion of Whiteley Creek in Greene County as the top smallmouth bass destination among warmwater streams in the state.
• The WPIAL rifle season is about at its midway point, and the postseason races are beginning to take shape.
With the addition of Waynesburg's rifle team, the WPIAL split rifle into three sections, with the top two teams in each section earning a spot in the WPIAL tournament.
Currrently, McGuffey, Trinity and Avella would be involved in the six-team WPIAL championship tournament.
In Section 1, McGuffey leads the way with a 5-0 section record. The Highlanders are 5-2 overall. In second is Avella at 3-1, 3-3, with Washington third at 2-2, 2-4.
In Section 2, Trinity dropped a match to Woodland Hills, 798-60X to 798-56X to fall into a tie with the Wolverines at 4-1 in section action. The Hillers are 5-1 overall, while the Wolverines are 6-1.
Mt. Lebanon currently sits in third place in Section 2 at 3-2, 5-2.
Section 3 is led by the WPIAL's lone unbeaten team, Butler, which owns a 3-0 section record and 6-0 overall mark. Hempfield is second at 2-1, 3-1, while Plum is third at 1-2, 2-3.
• When the Pennsylvania Game Commission's Board of Game Commissioners meet later this month for its quarterly meeting, it will have its full compliment of eight members.
Bradford County's Charles E. Fox has been approved to fill the seat of expired commissioner Thomas Boop for Region 5.
• People are continuing to find smallmouth bass with lesions on them in the Suquehanna River, an issue that has been affecting smallmouths in that waterway for more than a year.
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Lebo tops Big Macs; Clinch playoff berth
Justin David's third consecutive 3-point field goal from the corner baseline vaulted Mt. Lebanon to victory, 49-46, over Canon-McMillan in a pivotal Section 4-AAAA boys' basketball game.
David knocked down the long range shot with four seconds to play and the Blue Devils tacked on a free throw with one second to play to seal the victory and clinch a playoff berth.
With the win, Lebo improved to 7-6 in the league and 10-11 overall. The triumph also avenged an earlier 82-77 loss to the Big Macs, who slipped to 5-8 in the section. They too are 10-11 overall.
While Lebo heads to league-leader Upper St. Clair (17-3, 12-1) for the section finale on Friday, Feb. 8, the Big Macs square off against Peters Township, which also remained in the playoff hunt. The Indians are also 5-8 in the league after their loss to Baldwin, 42-41.
David, who finished with a team-high 11 points, scored nine of his points on treys in the final four minutes of play. He gave the Blue Devils two-point leads of 40-38 and 45-43 but in each instance the Big Macs responded with their own long-range shot.
Brett Haney buried a three with 2:21 to play lifting the Big Macs back into the lead, 43-42. With under a minute to play, Sam Bohn cashed in on a triple to give CM a 46-45 edge.
Haney dropped in four treys. He finished with a game-high 20 points. His first seven points thrust CM into a 13-8 lead in the first frame. The Big Macs led at intermission, 22-18, thanks to Haney's trey and back-to-back 3s by Seth Combs.
David's brother, Jonny, led a spirited third-quarter comeback by the Blue Devils. In the quarter, Lebo outscored CM, 16-12, to tie the contest at 34.
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CANONSBURG – Temporarily setting aside finance reports and construction projects, Canonsburg Mayor David Rhome opened Monday's council meeting with some stirring words.
"I believe that we all take life for granted, and so often it passes us by so fast," Rhome said. "Please don't take life for granted. This young man right here is a living testament of that."
That young man was 15-year-old Johnathan Ayres of Houston, who collapsed during a Tae Kwon Do class at Kang's Black Belt Academy in Canonsburg May 18. Ayres' breathing and pulse came to a halt, but a parent, a Canonsburg police officer and the academy owner performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Ayres until paramedics arrived and connected him to a defibrillator. He was then flown to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, where he has since recovered.
For their heroic efforts, Officer Jonathon Cornell, academy owner Jeff Jox and Lisa Takash, of Canonsburg, were each awarded a mayor's certificate of commendation at the meeting.
"I'm just happy to see he's doing well," Cornell said. Cornell also received an honorary black belt certificate on behalf of Kang's Academy.
"(Johnathan is) here today because of a group effort, and we were happy to have you there with us," Jox said to Cornell.
Ayres, who had not seen Takash or Cornell since the incident, bashfully joined them at the front of the council chamber and thanked them "for helping me get through this."
Ayres, a student at Chartiers-Houston High School, was diagnosed with a heart defect called a right bundle branch block. Doctors kept him in a paralytic state for several days to reduce the risk of brain damage and swelling. He then underwent heart surgery, and a device was implanted to prevent future cardiac arrests.
Jox said Ayres will return to classes as soon as he receives the go-ahead from doctors.
"He's a competitive martial artist. He's competed at state and local tournaments and done really well," Jox said. "Those are the things that he enjoys doing."
An event called "Kick-A-Thon 4 John-A-Than" will be held at Kang's Academy July 27 to raise money for Ayres and his parents. There will be raffle prizes, and certificates will be awarded to students who participate and kick pads nonstop for nearly four minutes.
"It's a vehicle to get everyone in the mood and pumped up," Jox said.
After that event, Jox hopes to host a free, public CPR and first-aid training session at the academy.
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BRIDGEVILLE – Before every game, Shai McKenzie gets inspiration from one of the greatest running backs to play Washington High School's football program.
Brian Davis.
Seems McKenzie, the 6-0, 215-pound junior fireball tailback for the Prexies, found a video of Davis on Youtube and watches it before every game.
"Before each game, I watch "The Legend of Brian Davis" on Youtube," said McKenzie. "He's an amazing back."
McKenzie might be even more amazing.
He came into the game needing 176 yards to eclipse the single-season rushing record for the Washington-Greene County area. Mike Vernillo held that record with 2,539 yards from his sophomore season in 1997 at Fort Cherry. The emphasis is on the word held.
McKenzie had four touchdown runs on a cold Friday night to lift Washington to a 26-14 victory over South Fayette in the WPIAL Class AA semifinals at Chartiers Valley High School.
McKenzie rushed 42 times for 293 yards and now has 2,656 yards, leaving Vernillo's record in the rear view mirror. McKenzie has a chance to add to that record and help the Prexies win a WPIAL title when they take on Aliquippa Friday (5 p.m.) at Heinz Field.
Maybe McKenzie will watch the Davis video three times
"My dad told me about Brian Davis," said McKenzie. "He told me he was one of the best athletes he's seen in his life. I want to be better than him."
McKenzie's father, Sean, played basketball with Davis at Washington and was in the stands for the glorious four-year playoff run the Prexies had with Davis leading the way. Now, it's McKenzie's turn.
"He's such a great player," said Wash High head coach Mike Bosnic. "We rode him tonight, and he took us all the way. I told the players before the game that I felt like we were a team that was destined to make it to Heinz Field."
McKenzie left a good South Fayette team grasping at air, wrapping their arms around a ghost that seemed to break free no matter how many times they appeared to have him cornered.
"We knew he was going to get his," said South Fayette head coach Joe Rossi. "He made us miss."
On McKenzie's most important run of the game, he broke a tackle on a play that seemed destined to be an ordinary three-yard gain and raced 56 yards for a touchdown that gave Washington a 20-14 lead and seemed to break the Lions' spirit.
"What we have is one of the best running backs in the state," said Washington quarterback Josh Wise. "They'll be chasing him for a while. We don't throw the ball a lot, and I don't run the ball a lot. We're just a bunch of role players."
Maybe, but that's selling the team short.
On McKenzie's first touchdown, an eight-yard run, Wise was brilliant with his hard count, pulling South Fayette offside on a fourth-down play to keep the drive alive.
On McKenzie's fourth TD, a seven-yard scamper off right tackle, Jaylin Kelly and Wise had two key runs for first downs that kept the drive going.
The middle two touchdowns? Well, those were vintage McKenzie runs. He patiently waited for the hole to open on the right side of the line, then burst through for a 58-yard tun that gave Wash High a 14-0 lead. On the first series of the second half, it was nearly an identical play, except it covered 56 yards.
"I don't know what else I can say about him," Bosnic said. "He's one of the best running backs in America."
So good, in fact, that someday another talented back might someday find inspiration from watching "The Legend of Shai McKenzie."
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The timing of the supply chain ramp-up falls in line with expectations, as Apple introduced the last two new iPhones during the third quarters of both 2011 and 2012.
Beyond the timing, component orders suggest the next iPhone will not be significantly different from the current iPhone 5. This also follows Apple's standard iPhone pattern. The iPhone 5S, as it is expected to be called, will use the same chassis as the iPhone 5. That means it will have the same basic size and weight, and probably the same 4-inch display.
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The iPhone 5S may have a companion, however. Rumors of a lower-cost iPhone continue to come from analysts and suppliers who believe Apple will add a second iPhone to its lineup this year. Speculation suggests such a device will have a plastic shell rather than metal casing, to offset costs. Apple has not commented on any of these reports.
An iterative update to the iPhone 5 calls into question the believability of Apple's Phil Schiller, who recently blasted Android and Samsung. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Schiller berated the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem and said, "Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone." That experience, however, has remained largely the same since the iPhone's debut in 2007.
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Santa Fe resident and College of Santa Fe professor Robin Romm's second book, The Mercy Papers, is an intense memoir of the three weeks before the author's mother's death. The book's very first review appeared in The New York Times, which was quickly followed by favorable reviews from papers across the country, including People magazine. In an exclusive interview, Romm tells SFR the details about the book's creation and the public's response.
SFR: Why write The Mercy Papers? Or, more specifically, why publish it?
RR: [At the time that I started this book], I couldn't write fiction because everything was so urgent in my life. I was on leave [from San Francisco State University], and my professor at the time said, "Just do an independent study with me, and just write whatever's happening."
So this book was written in real time?
It was started in real time, when I was at my parents' house while my mother was sick. I started writing in the upstairs of our house in Oregon, and I probably wrote about 30 pages. The scene that the book opens with, the Robin being mean to Barb scene, was written when I was sitting up there, waiting for [Barb to leave]. Then, about two or three weeks after my mom died, I went back to California and I just wrote everything else down. And then I stuck it in a drawer. I had no intention of publishing it. None.
But then when I sold The Mother Garden, of course the publishers always want to know if there's a second book, so they could buy that too. I wouldn't show this book. My agent would ask me every once in a while, and I'd say no. But I was taking it out and working on it, and I felt like it was still alive—it wouldn't die. Then suddenly I was confronted with an opportunity in the spring of 2007. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know whether to say yes or no. I decided to say yes to Scribner, and I thought that if I didn't want to later I could just tell them, 'Never mind.' But of course once you're in, you're in.
If I'd given myself more time [to think about whether or not to publish] I probably would have chickened out, because it is so personal and risky. And no one knew what would happen to this book in the world, either, because it's dark and sad and honest, really honest. People think people want 'dog-on-vacation-in-France' books, but I think there is a need for honest books.
How was your experience writing The Mercy Papers different from The Mother Garden?
You don't know what's going to happen in a fictional story. You really have to be willing to tolerate a lot of mystery with writing fiction, which is hard—I think one of the hardest skills that any writer has to learn. The only way a story is going to be good is if you don't know what's going to happen in it. That's a difficult psychological space for any person, that giving over to the unknown. But with memoir you know what happened. Everybody knows what's going to happen in my memoir from the first page. It's not like you're turning the pages to find out what happens. With nonfiction, you know where you're going, but the trick is knowing what to include, what not to include, and also knowing what you can reveal about humanity through what's going on in your own life.
While I felt like I was dealing with difficult material in some of the stories I wrote in The Mother Garden, I feel like I took a lot more risk in The Mercy Papers. Just because it was a personal book, there was no fictional veil to hide behind. And if someone is going to hate the book, they generally hate me. There's no room for saying, 'Oh, this character wasn't well-developed!' It's usually more like, 'She was selfish!' So, that's hard.
There really wasn't anything in this book that made the reader feel very tenderly toward your mother. There wasn't any of this, 'I sat in her arms and she smelled like soap'—the kind of sentimental stuff that you get in memoirs about the death of a loved one. Can you speak on that?
My mom never smelled like soap. [laughs] I think that, in writing a book about someone dying of cancer, one of the biggest mistakes you could make would be sentimentality. Part of the project of that book was to resist all the easy ways that people talk about cancer and death and mother-daughter relationships. I had a lot of people shoving literature at me that really didn't ring true, like the pamphlet that the hospice nurse gave me. There are other books that people give you when you have a mom that's dying, but they didn't feel like my life. And I wanted to uncover something authentic—not sentimental, but true. My relationship with my mom didn't feel full of cliché. It felt really particular. So I just wrote about that.
Does the honesty in this book ever grate on you?
[long pause] No.
[laughs] Not yet. I really believe that there needs to be more honesty rather than less, so I just went for it.
You say in the afterword that you don't believe in healing; that the girl dealing with her mother's illness is still inside you. But that suggests that a new you has then come to the surface of the self; perhaps a more functional you. Couldn't one call that healing?
I think what I don't believe in is easy healing, total healing. You never get over loss. Loss lives inside of you and you just incorporate it. And I felt like that was missing from a lot of the condolence cards and the pamphlets and the books—the idea that it's okay if it's always with you, if it's always painful. I think that what I was trying to say was that you certainly move on and certainly do more things, and there will certainly be lots of pleasure in life, but there will also be this pain that is palpable and real and will go on forever—and that that's okay. That doesn't mean you're damaged or bad. That just means there are things in life that are big that you can't ever make sense out of.
A few months before the book came out, you put out a call for support groups or hospices that could possibly use the book. What came of that?
I did that because we thought that that might be an interesting way to reach out. I don't know that the book is going to appeal to too many hospice workers.
'Cause you talk so much shit about the hospice workers?
Yeah, I talk shit about the hospice workers. But that's actually more where I can see the book getting interest—how to deal with families of dying people. People who are caregivers, they face this kind of fury and grief; in the face of that, doctors often just become blank and sterile. A lot of medical schools are trying to talk doctors through patient narratives and family narratives and humanize the profession a little bit. And I feel like The Mercy Papers could be a really interesting book for that purpose. My editor thinks it would be a great book to use to train hospice workers. But I have no idea if hospice workers would feel that way or not.
Can you tell me about the cover?
Sure. It was a struggle to find a cover for this book. The designer, Rex Bonomelli, read the book, and he responded strongly to it. He's the one who thought of the popsicles. I thought it was really lovely and beautiful and simple. In the book, my mom is eating these popsicles and dropping them by the end and they're cracked and broken. So there's this way that something starts out whole and ends up melted and disintegrated. It's a very intriguing cover, I think. I really love it.
While it doesn't necessarily have answers, the book feels like it wants to teach the reader something. How has your experience actually teaching creative writing at the College of Santa Fe affected you in a bigger scheme?
I'm interested in what you think the book is trying to teach.
I feel like the book wants to have answers of how to deal with something like this, how to go on after something like this. Throughout, there are a lot of places in the book where you say what you wish would be happening instead of what is happening or that, in hindsight, such-and-such should have happened. Or it feels like you want to be a Virgil type character, leading the reader through the underworld.
I remember being in the house alone, trying to deal with all the stuff I was dealing with during those months that my mom was dying... And I had all these friends who knew what was going on who would ask—'How are you?' And the book's kind of the answer to that. I could not answer those questions. I felt like this is so intense, this is so full of questions and rawness, the only way I'll ever be able to express this is if I just write it all down. So in a way I suppose the book is trying to honestly respond to people who had no idea.
With regard to teaching at the College, I certainly don't feel like I sit the students down and tell them about my mom's death. That's not what I'm trying to do in there. But I do hope that people will think about why art is important, what it can really do, how to make human connections through it. I hope that it can sink in and become something more universal, [that their writing can] grapple with what it means to be alive. I think that's when a book goes from being just fiction to being literary fiction, or something that you might even be able to call art.
What has been your reaction to, your experience of, this explosion of praise?
I don't know if it's been an explosion. I think that the one thing that has struck me more than anything else is that I was a nervous wreck about this book. I've been really scared about putting this book out. I don't know if it was scarier to think that it might just come out and nothing would happen, that it would be this roar of pain that, like most roars of pain, just gets swept away—or I was scared that people would dislike me or say hurtful things. It would be very hard not to take those things as an attack on my actual being and my actual life. This one was going to be a much harder and I knew that.
And there were times when I just thought—'I'm such a dumbass for writing this book. I shouldn't have done it. I should have been more careful. I'm gonna regret it.' But then I actually got the Times review a little bit early, and all of the feelings that I had that were so painful and weren't being validated anywhere during my mom's death were suddenly being validated—by the New York Times!
It was a really emotional thing, because it felt like it wasn't just about the book for me. It was about the taboo feelings that the book seeks to uncover. The critics were saying, 'Wow, this seems human and this seems alive and this seems different from the books that are out there.' And that's a huge relief. I'm pretty blessed.
Do you fear future loss? Could you bear something like this happening again?
I think everybody fears future loss somewhere in their psyches. People bear all kinds of things. There's so much horror and tragedy in the world and so many stories of people who survive so much worse and have found ways to go on—but maybe never be the same person they were before all that loss. I think about books like Night by Elie Wiesel, books about genocide. The authors of those books, it's not like they sit around mourning day in and day out. They may be doing that all the time in some small way, but there's also coffee to be had and books to be read and books to be written. So I think people do continue to go on, full of all kinds of different loss. That's part of being a person.
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Well considering New Adventures does take place in space, I say that this world (and many others) could be possible places visited while He-Man and She-Ra are in space.
Sooo... sun-man is better than every other hero 'cause they say so when trash talking about the other heroes?. Pass.
That yellow cape-wings thing... it's... I can't stand to watch it, aesthetically unpleasing.
Although I have to say that the Catra-double trouble equivalent is far superior to the original dolls, I don't know if doll Catra can turn into a panther in those mini comics, but the butterfly-woman villain can at least turn her face very cat-like and apparently you can't see a knob, it's hidden by hair; double trouble just goes from face to angry face, I guess it's supposed to be another person's face, but it looks the same to me.
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Well considering New Adventures does take place in space, I say that this world (and many others) could be possible places visited while He-Man and She-Ra are in space.
'Tis the wind and nothing more.....
Congratulations, thorns02 !
Your collection is really awesome !!!
'Sun Man' is one of the most obscures american collections of all time (like TigerSharks, for example).
The late characters are really hard to find, specially MOC.
On the other hand, SM is the best series I know that fits very well next to vintage MOTU (maybe 'Warrior Beasts' and 'Defender of the Planets' could be in this way). But I really do not consider SM as a Knock-off series...
Finally got a couple of pics of the variant Pig Head for us Sun Man fans. Met a cool dude on another forum who has the fig in his collection. The body is of another mold that some may recognize, but I dont. Check out the all blue boots and how "bubbly" they appear. The crotch piece is quite different and the hands look a little different too. Anyone by chance have one in their collection and didn't know it?
Once again, thanks for your pictures !
Are you sure this figure is legit ?
Does the owner confirmed this Pig Head has the "HONG KONG" or "OLMEC" sign on this back ?
I think he is not compatible with the others Sun Man figures...Infact, I never saw a Sun Man like that !
I had a opportunity in see the Pig Head variant from an Orger collection two years ago.
I think the only difference was in his spiked armor.
If someone here has this variant I mentioned above, please post imagens to us !!!
Its legit for sure. Olmec used different molds for later versions Sun Man and Pig Head. Check out onlinetoyshow.com and look up the Sun Man line. Refer to the J Hook version of Sun Man and you will see the same "bubbly" feet on Sun Man as you see in the Pig Head variant above.
Ive never seen a different spiked armor. Id love to see how it differs from the original version.
In this case, if this version is not fake as you said, I can realize he is more 'MOTU vintage' than the regular version - and I consider Pig Head himself as one of the best action figures that fits very well next to a MOTU vintage.
I sent a message to the owner of the Pig Head variant (he is an orger) but he did not answered me yet
I remember he send me 3 pictures of his collections and one of them was a Sun Man collection...it's curious the other two pictures are still in my inbox; but the Sun Man picture is inative right now...
I recently purchased a knockoff that has the same bubbly boots, smooth crotch and pretty sure the same torso. I didn't see any markings anywhere. Need to get the pictures on here.
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Ok, here he is. Looks to be a Native American character, which would make sense for the Sun Man line. Not saying he was part of the line at all, but they DO share sculpts, so they are connected somehow.
Looks like the arms of the Pig Head variant and this one are the same too, but Pig Head has the piping or bracelets around his wrists.
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Thanks for share, Master !
Nice KO figure...
I sent a p.m. again for the owner of the Pig Head variant I saw years ago.
He's an Orger but I realized his last post was in April 2012.
I hope he still be here.
I recently picked up what appears to be a new version of Pig-Head I have not seen before. Check out the individual and comparison pictures below.
The new version on the left appears to have unpainted tusks with slight red tips, unpainted nostrils and no red dots on his eyes. It also appears the pink on his helmet horns, wrists, and tops of his boots are a lighter shade of pink than the typical version I'm used to seeing. Lastly, there are no country of origin or Olmec markings on the back belt and body nor on his spiked "sash" as you'd normally see on other versions of Pig Head.
I first thought the pink had just faded over time and some kid may have picked or scraped the white if his tusks, but taking a closer look, there is nothing to indicate there was ever any white on his tusks to begin with and I think the light pink was his original released color. I thought the same for the lack of red in his nostrils and eyes, but it seems to be this particular figure was never painted in these areas. Strange, right?
Anyone have a similar version or seen one like this before?
Anyone have any luck with new Olmec Sun Man finds? Still searching for Space Sumo and Halographo.
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I was watching that lot just to see the demand for the figures. There were many lines represented, but I think the Sun Man figs drew a lot of collectors in. I didnt notice a lot of their weapons, but still a good looking lot. Maybe some day Illl find myself an MOC Space Sumo and/or Halographo.
I think Sun Man was almost completed...
The others were without weapons...
That lot had hard to find figures from most of 80's MOTU KO lines: Mara (Blackstar), Skullman & Wolf Warrior (Warrior Beasts), Jewel Thief (Conan), Ribs & Crossbones (Pirates of the Galaxseas) and of course, the four Sun Man figures...
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I remember once when I was a small dude being at our local Toys 'R Us (for some reason I feel like I was looking at NA He-Man figures, but that could have been another time) and they had a good spread of the Sun-Man figures. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing all of them on the shelf; at the very least Sun-Man, Pig-Head, Space Sumo and Zap-Man were there.
I do have one fundamental problem with Sun-Man, though, and it has nothing to do with its creation, races of the figures, or any real world influence. Take a look again at the promo poster:
Count the villains: One.
That is a seriously one-sided fight! No wonder Pig-Head is a jerk; I'd be edgy too if nine dudes were kicking my butt seven days a week! Heck, Zap-Man could probably take him out by himself from fifty yards!
I seriously hope he has King Hiss on speed-dial for some backup.
You recall seeing a Zap Man figure?! This is groundbreaking...From all my contacts and research, the only conclusion everyone and myself came to was that Zap Man was never produced and sold at retails stores. (Along with Kikto, Hypno, and Duplico) I would love to see Zap Man if any one has ever had one.
I never herd of Sun-Man.
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Thanks, man !
Have you ever tried to contact Yla Eason or her son (facebook, twitter, etc)?
I think they could confirm which figures were produced...
Maybe they have pictures of prototypes or test shots...
I have not tried to contact them, but would give it a try if I had accurate contact details. I did find a little info on the artist who did the artwork on the cardback for the first release of Sun Man. I cant recall is name off the top of my head, but that could be a start.


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The Mt. Lebanon school board turned its attention to the 2013-2014 budget at the Feb. 11 discussion meeting. It reviewed a preliminary budget of more than $84 million, as well as strategies for cost savings in a year likely to bring more cuts to programming. Also on the agenda was discussion of the high school rifle range, which may be left out of the district's high school renovation project.
Next week, the board will vote on a preliminary budget of $84,469,784, in order to preserve its right to apply for exceptions to the index limitation on real estate taxes for the 2013-2014 school year. While the preliminary figure is a rough number, school board president Elaine Cappucci emphasized that this year's budget would mean more difficult decisions on spending cuts.
"Even if we apply for all the exceptions to the index, we would be looking at cuts," she said. "The superintendent and his staff will evaluate the possibilities and return with a list, as well as an assessment of impact on programming."
She highlighted several areas the district could realize savings: allowing positions left empty by retirements to go unfilled, sharing some staff between buildings, eliminating a teacher in-service day and possibly modifying the district's elementary foreign language program.
"Closing a school is an option we should at least look at," Cappucci concluded.
The budget shortfall the district faces is driven primarily by a decrease in state funding and rising pension and healthcare costs. A more exact amount will emerge in the spring, once the district has more detailed information on retirements, health care, staffing and student course selections. The final state budget will also have a major impact on the district's fiscal position.
Given these budgetary pressures, the board is moving forward with a $6 million capital campaign. Board vice president Larry Lebowitz explained Pursuant Ketchum had been selected as campaign consultant. This was the same firm that conducted the campaign feasibility study in the fall of 2012. According to Lebowitz, the next step would be to identify a campaign director.
Finally, the board heard from both athletic director John Grogan and rifle coach Dave Willard regarding the high school rifle program. At present, no rifle range is included in the district's high school renovation, due partly to its $410,000 price tag. The proposed range includes special ventilation, a new spectator area and features to comply with the American's with Disabilities Act.
According to Grogan, the Mt. Lebanon rifle program has been around since 1937 and has 25-30 students each year. "It gives some student athletes a chance to participate in sports who would not typically participate in other sports," he said.
He did not believe it would be feasible to share facilities with Bethel Park, which recently built a rifle range with its own high school construction project, citing a troubled relationship with the Upper St. Clair rifle team. "[Bethel] took St. Clair on as a short-term solution. My understanding is there has been communication from their administration asking when that short-term solution is going to end."
Coach Willard said he did not believe it was feasible to maintain the quality of the program at an off-site location. The inconvenience would make it difficult to train year-round. In addition, retrieving equipment from off-site storage on competition days would be both tedious and time consuming. "My opinion is $410,000 is an inflated number," he said. "It's not a real expensive thing to build a range. You need a backstop and some concrete block."
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I'm thankful for many things. For example, I'm pretty healthy, and I don't have to figure out who the Pirates' starting right fielder should be this year. But I'm even more thankful that I'm not female, the child of an actress mother and married to a rock star. Because if I were, I might have a chance of turning into another Gwyneth Paltrow.
Paltrow ("Shakespeare in Love," the "Ironman" movies) is the daughter of actress Blythe Danner. Neither mother nor daughter, in my estimation, has an abundance of talent, but each is rather beautiful. An excess of beauty coupled with paucity of acting skills is rather common, so I can't blame Gwyneth for her success. Neither can I begrudge her for marrying British musician Chris Martin. He's a good-looking guy, and his talent as a singer-songwriter for the band Coldplay is at least as marginal as Paltrow's talent as an actress. Good match! Heck, for managing to snag a real babe for a wife, I'll even forgive Martin for doing more to destroy pop music than did all four Gibb brothers combined.
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• An R13 glossed-leather biker jacket: $1,995
• A Valentino studded-leather iPad case: $795
• Gianvito Rossi satin-trimmed leather pumps: $750
• A Marini leather and crystal necklace: $740
If you're female and spent three hours over the weekend at Wal-Mart looking for an Easter outfit whose cost didn't seriously limit the amount of chocolate bunnies you could afford, I think we can safely stop here while you allow yourself to seethe. Now go to your closet and calculate the cost of the first five items you find. If they add up to more than $10,275, Gwyneth and Chris would like to have you over for brunch next weekend. Oh … maybe you'd better wear trousers. Yves Saint Laurent leather skinny pants ($2,890) would be appropriate.
Fly over in your private plane. They'll keep the caviar chilled. Chris will write another insipid song and earn another $2 million while you're airborne. Gwyneth will use the downtime to try to pare her fall fashion must-have list down to $350,000.
On May 3, Ms. Paltrow will reprise her role as Pepper Potts in "Ironman 3." But perhaps her subsequent role should be that of Marie Antoinette who, when told the peasants had no bread, supposedly responded, "Then let them eat cake!" This may be apocryphal, but who cares?
Screenplay treatment: Fade in to the palace at Versaille. Marie Antoinette – wearing a Nostradamus peplum-back leather jacket ($3,570), Les Chiffoniers velvet-trimmed stretch-leather leggings ($1,070) and Valentino Studded patent leather flats ($895) — yawns and tosses aside her iPad in its studded, quilted-leather sleeve ($128).
THE QUEEN: "We are bored."
COLDPLAY ROADIE: "Madame, the peasants are complaining that they have no bread."
THE QUEEN: "Why … let them eat my famous Molten Chocolate Cake … the recipe for which they can find in my cookbook: 'My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness.' Available at all bookstores for only $30!"
She hides her smirk behind an Alexander Wang Diego textured-leather shoulder bag ($875).
You may think all this sounds like sour grapes. Maybe so. But only because Bottom Dollar was out of molten chocolate.
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Next week's House Democratic Policy Committee hearing in Washington on environmental testing will be held without anyone attending from the agency at the focus of the hearing.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has declined to attend.
State Rep. Jesse White, D-Cecil, will host the hearing beginning at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the public meeting room of the Washington Courthouse Square building, 100 W. Beau St.
White, who has been at odds with the DEP, said the hearing is designed to examine the department's policies and procedures related to air and water quality testing near Marcellus Shale drilling sites in the state.
DEP Secretary Michael Krancer declined an invitation to attend. In a news release, White noted he was disappointed but not surprised.
Katy Gresh, director of DEP's communications office, noted Krancer is willing to attend meetings if they are productive and professional.
"DEP's attention is focused on our core mission of protecting the environment, not wasting time on political theater. When our staff and the secretary are invited to legislative hearings and other meetings that are productive and professional, we are willing to attend," she replied in an email.
White said the hearing will not be a debate about natural gas drilling, but rather an examination of how DEP is operating when it comes to environmental concerns stemming from natural gas drilling.
Scheduled to testify are several Pennsylvania residents critical of DEP's handling of issues on their properties, and a coalition of environmental organizations, including Earthworks and PennFuture.
White proposed new legislation, H.B. 268, which would require the DEP to provide full results from any testing.
"If DEP is truly doing everything as well as they claim, you would think they would welcome the opportunity to prove it in a public forum; their refusal to do so really says quite a bit about the DEP's lack of commitment to transparency and public accountability," White said.
Gresh noted that the agency has communicated to White twice by letter in November explaining how the testing is done and results evaluated.
The House Democratic Policy Committee, chaired by state Rep. Mike Sturla, D-Lancaster, hosts public hearings across the state to help judge the impact that state policies and legislation have at regional levels. The hearings provide lawmakers with public input on the House Democratic Caucus' policy initiatives.
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The Steelers are in the market for a new wide receivers coach after Scottie Montgomery left the team to accept a position at Duke University.
The former Duke star is the third Steelers coach to leave since the end of the 2012 season. Offensive line coach Sean Kugler accepted the head coaching position at the University of Texas-El Paso, and special teams coordinator Amos Jones left to take the same position with the Arizona Cardinals.
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has filled those positions, hiring Jack Bicknell Jr. as offensive line coach and Danny Smith as special teams coordinator.
According to the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer, Montgomery's position with the Blue Devils has yet to be determined. But the Blue Devils currently have the positions of associate head coach, recruiting coordinator, passing game coordinator, special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach open on David Cutcliffe's staff.
Montgomery had been with the Steelers since 2010 when Tomlin lured him away from Duke.
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