Author: Beaver County Radio

Yankee Trader 12-6-25

12-6-25 Listings

 

 

Howie                (Vanport)           724-774-6397

 

Model Car Kits of Vintage automobiles from the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s in 1/24th and 1/25th scale. Mostly Fords and Chevy’s  Make an offer.

 

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Paul        Rochester                      724-359-4454

 

2 Arm Chairs on wheels.  Black frame with tan fabric seats.  Lightweight, stable, durable, moves easily  $10 each

 

LTB (looking to buy)  Fabric tufted armchairs-Petite size.

 

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Martha                   Chippewa               724-333-1126

724-843-5827

Light tan/beige 88” sofa. (Seating area is 65”)  Owned by an older woman whe has kept it covered.  Clean, good shape,

with solid cushions.  $100.00

 

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Dorothy          Ambridge               724-266-2752

LTB (looking to buy) a food processor or nut chopper.

 

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VAL       (Beaver)        PHONE:  724-513-9390

 

Over 1,000 Baseball and Football Trading Cards.  All kept in albums so they’re in terrific condition.  Purchase individually for $1 each or by the album.  Barry Bonds, Doug Drabek. You’ll find 2 AUTOGRAPHED John Burkett cards among them (ask about price ) He pitched from 1987 to 2003, with the San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox.  Reasonable offers accepted.

Collections, Fleer, Sunoco, Holograms, even some unopened.

Also a collection of MVP football players.

 

Christmas Items.  Lots to choose from:  Artificial trees, ornaments, wooden sleigh, home décor, Vintage ornaments, Cards, ribbon and more.  Making good deals

 

Kitchen utensils-All kinds; even a couple of cooking pots.  Includes 8 different Corning Ware dishes with lids.  Attachable handle available.  If you need something, just call.  She can send pictures or you can stop by.

 

Stainless Steel and Silver flatware service for 12 in a wooden storage box.  Boxes available separately.  Make a reasonable offer.

 

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Marilyn          Beaver            425-444-2321

 

2 Mortgage Calculators “Calculate Qualifier Plus” from Calculated Industries.  These calculate everything to do with mortgages & renting.  The larger of the 2 has a display so your client can see a display while you’re calculating.  $40 for both of these high-quality machines.

 

Michael Kors Down Jacket.  Size medium.  Gray color.  $40

 

“Sluken” Dog Ramp.  Adjustable heights. This will help your pooch get on the sofa, chair or bed.  Carpeted slats so your pet won’t slip.  Sells on Amazon for $100.  Asking only $40.00

 

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Addie             Rochester               724-728-0457

JEWELRY:  3-piece sets of Broaches & Earrings.  Some are clip and some pierced. Prices vary

Large collection of Cameo Pins (Vintage, Antique & new).  Some are 3 piece with earrings.    $15 and up.

 

Vintage & antique Buttons on cards.  Big assortment. $1-$10 per card.

 

2 large “Piano Babies” to place on you piano cover.  Also 2 sets of small Piano Babies.

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CD          Economy Boro              724-251-8449

4 tires 225-55-R18.  2 have about 37,000 miles and the other 2 a few more.  FREE or best offer. (haha)

 

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Dave                      College Hill           724-843-8483

 

Inflatable Nativity Set that lights up.  6 ½ L X 5’ H.  Brand new, never used, still in box.  $30

Frank Joseph Bedekovich, Sr. (1932-2025)

Frank Joseph Bedekovich, Sr., 93, of Hopewell Township, passed away on November 30th, 2025.

He was born in West Aliquippa on November 21st, 1932, a son of the late James and Anna (Godinich) Bedekovich. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Barbara Wable and Joseph Bedekovich. He is survived by his beloved wife, Jean Arden Gillespie Bedekovich, his children, Sylvia (Christopher) Buck, Frank J. (Michele) Bedekovich Jr, his stepchildren, Terry Orendi, Carrie (Mitchell) Ettinger and Shari (Bud) Norton. his cherished grandchildren: Lucas Buck, Frank J. Bedekovich III and David Bedekovich, his step grandchildren: Joshua, Kristi, Jessi, Sarah, Melissa and Laurel; as well as his great grandchildren: Autumn, Athena, Gabriel, Tyler and Killian; along with several nieces and nephews: Ivan Wable, Joseph Wable, James Wable, Irene Lapic and Elain Brown.

Frank was a dedicated member of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife Jean regularly attended Mass. He served with pride in the U.S. Army as a Private First Class in the 82nd Airborne Division. He belonged to several organizations including the American Legion, the 82nd Airborne Association Leonard Funk Chapter, the US Power Squadron, the Croatian Fraternal Union, the Beaver Valley Yacht Club, and music ensembles such as Ansambl Sventi Nikola, Sevdah and various other groups. He spent his career as a pilot for HJ Heinz. He was also a general aviation student instructor and was the owner of the Prop Shop for 25 years. Later, he founded F&J Associates Leisure Time Travel.

A memorial service for Frank will be held at a later date. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Anthony Mastrofrancesco Funeral Home, Inc., 2026 McMinn Street, Aliquippa.

 

To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Frank Joseph Bedekovich please visit the Sympathy Store of the Anthony Mastrofrancesco Funeral Home, Inc. by clicking here.

Marlene T. (Piroli) Sarver (1940-2025)

Marlene T. (Piroli) Sarver, 85, of Aliquippa, formerly of San Clemente, California, passed away on December 2nd, 2025. She was born in Aliquippa on March 9th, 1940, a daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Piroli. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 55 years, Robert Sarver, two brothers, John and Art Piroli and a sister, Rose Demma.
Marlene met the love of her life in 1954. They met as young teenagers and shared the love of a lifetime! They married and spent 55 blissful years together with many adventures along the way. Although Marlene was born and raised in Aliquippa, her heart was in California. She and Robert moved to San Clemente, California and purchased the Picadilly Deli. They made many lifelong friends at the deli working together, side by side. Marlene enjoyed plants and truly had a green thumb. Her home was adorned with foliage and not one plant was ever brown. She also had a passion for animals, especially cats. Marlene took in several stray cats over the years who gave her so much love, especially Mia. Every morning Marlene also fed the birds and squirrels, making sure all her neighborhood animal friends had food.
Marlene is survived by her sister-in-law, Betty Jane (Sarver) Schaeffer, her niece, Leah Piroli and her special friend, Patty Avery, who were with her to the very end.
Marlene also had many loving friends, including her neighbor, Michelle Zajac, who has helped her through the years and last but not least her Deli Girls from California who always remained in her heart.
In accordance with Marlene’s wishes, there will be no services. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Anthony Mastrofrancesco Funeral Home, Inc., 2026 McMinn Street, Aliquippa.

To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Marlene T. Sarver, please visit the Sympathy Store of the Anthony Mastrofrancesco Funeral Home, Inc. by clicking here.

Former Western Beaver quarterback Jaivin Peel re-enrolls at Lincoln Park

(File Photo of Western Beaver’s Football Stadium (Rich Niedbala Field) in Industry)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Midland, PA) Former Western Beaver High School quarterback Jaivin Peel has now transferred from the Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania and went back to Lincoln Park during his junior year. Peel transferred to Lincoln Park for the second time because the first time he did that was back on July 23rd, 2024 after he was enrolled at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh. Lincoln Park athletic director Mike Bariski confirms that Peel re-enrolled at the charter school based in Midland during the middle of the 2025 high school football season. Bariski also noted that Peel is making plans to play football for Western Beaver in 2026 during his senior season. This Monday, December 8th, will be when the WPIAL Board of Directors will hold an eligibility hearing for Peel, who has a postseason eligibility restriction for football which he can appeal. Peel owns the WPIAL single-season record for most passing yards by a freshman when he threw for 2,898 yards in 2023. Peel will join a Western Beaver High School football team in 2026 that is coming off of an incredible 2025 season, in which they finished with a 10-2 record and won the Midwestern conference championship outright for the first time since 2007. However, Steel Valley High School defeated Western Beaver 34-7 in the WPIAL 2A semifinal on November 14th, 2025 at Dormont Stadium in Dormont, Pennsylvania.

US Steel to resume steel production at Illinois plant shut 3 years ago

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A giant ladle glows red after pouring molten iron in to a vessel inside the basic oxygen furnace as part of the processes of making steel at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility Thursday, June 28, 2018, in Granite City, Ill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Steel said it will resume making steel slabs at its Granite City Works plant in Illinois as demand rebounds.

The company shut down the last blast furnace there in 2023, and it even moved to wind down its steel processing mill there in September.

However, it reversed its stance on the processing mill, under pressure from the White House, and now says it is going a step further by resuming steel making by reopening the blast furnace it idled three years ago amid strikes by the United Auto Workers.

U.S. Steel on Thursday cited “customer demand” in beginning the process of restarting a blast furnace at the plant in Southern Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis.

“After several months of carefully analyzing customer demand, we made the decision to restart a blast furnace,” CEO David Burritt said a statement. “Steel remains a highly competitive and highly cyclical industry, but we are confident in our ability to safely and profitably operate the mill to meet 2026 demand.”

The Pittsburgh company expects to resume steel production in the first half of next year after it hires and trains workers and gets equipment in safe working order. It will need to hire 400 of the 500 workers necessary to operate the plant, the company said.

The American Iron and Steel Institute reported that domestic steel mills in October shipped 7.7 million net tons, a 9% percent increase over the same month a year ago. Year-to-date shipments through October were up 5% over the same period in 2024, it said.

Analysts say a robust U.S. steel market has been strengthened in recent years due to tariffs under President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden.

The decision by U.S. Steel, comes less than six months after Japan-based Nippon Steel sealed a deal with Trump to buy the iconic American steelmaker for $14.9 billion.

To resolve national security objections to the acquisition, Nippon Steel agreed to give the federal government a say in certain company decisions involving domestic steel production, including over closing or idling U.S. Steel’s plants.

It also pledged to invest some $14 billion in steel production in the U.S., including building a new electric furnace.

Under the national security agreement, protections expire in 2027 for Granite City Works, but last until 2035 for U.S. Steel’s other facilities.

Granite City Works makes rolls of sheet steel for the construction, container, pipe and automotive industries.

Day 4 of Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing is postponed because he’s sick, judge says

(File Photo: Source for Photo: Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in New York. (Curtis Means /Pool Photo via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — A pretrial hearing on Luigi Mangione’s bid to exclude evidence from his state murder case was postponed Friday because the defendant is sick, his lawyers and the judge said.

The hearing is slated to resume Monday.

Mangione is seeking to exclude a gun, notebook and other items police officers say they found in his backpack when he was arrested Dec. 9, 2024, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in Manhattan. He and his lawyers are also trying to suppress some statements he made to police.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The hearing, which started Monday and could extend through the end of next week, applies only to the state case.

“Apparently the defendant is ill today,” Judge Gregory Carro said, addressing the courtroom around the time a fourth day of testimony was supposed to start.

“Yes,” Mangione lawyer Marc Agnifilo said.

The evidence is key to prosecutors’ case. They have said the 9 mm handgun found in the backpack matches the firearm used in the killing, that writings in the notebook laid out Mangione’s disdain for health insurers and ideas about killing a CEO at an investor conference, and that he gave police the same fake name that the alleged gunman used at a New York hostel days before the shooting.

Thompson, 50, was shot from behind as he walked to an investor conference. He became UnitedHealthcare’s CEO in 2021 and had worked within parent UnitedHealth Group Inc. for 20 years.

Manhattan prosecutors haven’t yet detailed their arguments for allowing the disputed evidence. Federal prosecutors have maintained that the backpack search was justified to ensure there was nothing dangerous inside, and that Mangione’s statements to officers were voluntary and made before he was under arrest.

Southbound Route 65 Lane Restriction Saturday in Ben Avon

(File Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that tomorrow, weather permitting, a lane restriction on southbound Route 65 (Ohio River Boulevard) in Ben Avon Borough of Allegheny County will occur. From 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow, a single-lane restriction will occur on southbound Route 65 between Brighton Road and Dickson Avenue and during this time frame, that restriction will be in place to safely accommodate pedestrian traffic utilizing the sidewalk.

The Cornerstone of Beaver County and community partners provide warming centers in Beaver County this winter

(File Photo of the Cornerstone of Beaver County Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver Falls, PA) The Cornerstone of Beaver County has now coordinated with partners in its community to provide warming centers this winter to benefit those that are experiencing either housing-related crisis or homelessness in Beaver County. Warming centers provide relief from extreme cold and wind chill as well as inclement and potentially dangerous winter weather. Those who go to the Cornerstone of Beaver County for service involving warming centers can also access both housing resources  and basic needs as part of its programming that is both regular and year-round. According to a release today in Beaver Falls from the Cornerstone of Beaver County, here are the locations and the opening dates and times for warming centers in Beaver County that were provided as well as more information about contacting The Cornerstone of Beaver County if you need help:

Local Warming Center Locations and Hours of Operation:

The Cornerstone of Beaver County 

600 6th Street, Beaver Falls

Monday-Friday 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Koppel Volunteer Fire Department

5525 5th Avenue, Koppel

Monday-Friday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

New Brighton Municipal Building

610 3rd Avenue, New Brighton

Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Uncommon Grounds

380 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa

Tuesday-Thursday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

YMCA of Beaver County

2236 3rd Avenue, New Brighton

Monday-Friday 5 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Saturday 6 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday 12p.m. – 5 p.m.

Anyone experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness or housing-related crisis at anytime can call The Cornerstone of Beaver County at 724-846-6400 for assistance or you can visit their website cornerstonebeaver.org, which contains a resources page that can be accessed by clicking here which provides the warming center information and a list of organizations in its community that offer clothing, groceries, meals, groceries, as well as other assistance.

Congressmembers Deluzio, Bonamici, Moylan Restart Push to Protect Workers from AI and Robot Bosses

(File Photo of Congressman Chris Deluzio)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington D.C.) Congressman Chris Deluzio, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici and Congressman James Moylan reintroduced legislation yesterday in Washington D.C. which would protect workers from Artificial Intelligence-based discrimination and strengthen transparency in management and hiring decisions called the No Robot Bosses Act. This bill would fight back against discrimination from hiring tools that are AI-based by adding protections for job applicants and employees related to automated decision systems and also requires employers to train users on responsible system management and disclose when and how these systems are being used.

Helen M. Hunter (1944-2025)

Helen M. Hunter, 81, of Darlington Township, passed away on December 4th, 2025, while under the care of Good Samaritan Hospice in Wexford. She was born in Darlington on May 13th, 1944, a daughter of the late John E. and Ethel (Veon) Hill. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Ronald J. Hunter, Sr; two sons, Ronald J. Hunter, Jr. and Christopher L. Hunter; and two brothers, John and Bill Hill. She is survived by her special friend, Jack Pitzer, her children, Spencer (Lisa) Hunter, Douglas Hunter and Kathleen (Randy) Johnston, her grandchildren: Michelle (Justin) Patton, Colleen Johnston, Aaron Johnston, Nicole (Jake) Dixon and Spencer Hunter and his fiancée, Sarah Allison, Kasidy Hunter, Alaina Hunter, and Douglas Jr. (Morgan) Hunter; as well as her great-grandchildren: Garrett Patton, Makenna Patton, Adam Zikeli, Alanna Zikeli, Killian Johnston, Cullen Dixon and Juliana Dixon; as well as her two sisters, Patty and Penny.

Helen found strength in God’s promise and lived her days with integrity, dedication and devotion. She loved being outdoors, gardening, quilting and traveling.  She was an avid Pittsburgh sports fan who enjoyed attending Pirates games and watching Steelers football. Above all, she was devoted to her family and found great joy in entertaining family and friends.

Friends will be received on Sunday, December 7th from 12 noon-5 p.m. and Monday, December 8th from 10 a.m. until the time of services at 11 a.m. in the GABAUER-LUTTON FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICES, INC., 117 Blackhawk Road, Blackhawk Road, Beaver Falls, who was in charge of her arrangements.

Interment will take place in St. Mary’s Cemetery, 2045 Darlington Road, Beaver Falls.