The West Nile Virus has found its way into Beaver County, infecting mosquitoes across the entire state of Pennsylvania. The Beaver County Conservation District is doing everything they can to prevent the further spread of the virus. Beaver County Radio News Intern, Christina Sainovich, has more on the story…
25TH RUSYN FOOD FESTIVAL AUG 2-3
A quarter of a century.
That’s how long the parishioners of St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church have been holding its hugely successful Rusyn Food Festival.
A western PA tradition, the festival features its delicious Slavic homemade foods Aug. 2 and 3.
The event is sponsored by St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church in Ambridge and is held in the air conditioned Parish Center at 722 Fifth St. in Ambridge.
Popular Carpatho-Rusyn foods available in addition to pirohy stuffed with potato/cheese or sauerkraut, will include dumpling or noodle halushky, kolbasy and kraut, holubky (stuffed cabbage), borscht (beet soup), chicken soup, potato/bean soup, Rusyn summer salads and others
Also featured this year is the parish’s award-winning potato/kobasy pirohy..
Baked goods will include traditional Rusyn favorites like nut, apricot and poppyseed rolls, the church’s famous palachinky (fruit and cheese-filled crepes), paska breads, and Rusyn torte along with other tasty specialties.
Schedule is as follows
:Aug. 2, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. –frozen foods and take out items available only.
Aug. 3, 11 a.m. -6 p.m. take out and eat in
The public is invited and admission is free.
The Carpatho-Rusyns are an East Slavic group that immigrated to the United States from the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Europe. There are about 60,000 people of Rusyn background in western Pennsylvania with another 40,000 in eastern Ohio.
St. John’s serves Orthodox families from a large area including the Beaver Valley, Moon, Coraopolis, Sewickley, and Cranberry Twp.
For more information, call 724 462-3942 or 412-518-7149.
Goldschmidt homers again, surging Cardinals nip Pirates 4-3
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — With the bases loaded with no outs in a one-run game and Pittsburgh All-Star first baseman Josh Bell walking into the batter’s box, St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Mike Maddux paid a visit to rookie Dakota Hudson and offered a reminder.
Relax, Maddux told the 24-year-old. You’re a groundball pitcher. Get a groundball and get on with it.
“That was pretty much how it was,” Hudson said. “I just went after him and tried to attack him the best I could.”
Hudson was OK with giving up one run but not two. He needn’t have worried. The way he’s dealing for the streaking Cardinals, it might be time to raise the bar.
Hudson struck out Bell on three pitches, then got Colin Moran to hit into an inning-ending double play to preserve the lead and help St. Louis hold on for a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night.
“That was the key, the bases-loaded jam with nobody out,” St. Louis manager Mike Shildt said. “It was a huge part of the game. It kind of reiterates the point of not making it bigger than it is, just bearing down and making pitches, knowing he’s two pitches away with what he has. He did a fantastic job.”
It was an exclamation point on an outing that began ominously for Hudson (10-4). He gave up three runs before recording an out — all on Starling Marte’s 17th home run — but settled down quickly. He didn’t allow a run the rest of the way, working 6 1/3 innings, giving up six hits and three walks to improve to 8-1 in his last 12 starts. Giovanny Gallegos and Andrew Miller retired the last eight Pittsburgh batters, with Miller throwing a perfect ninth for his third save.
Paul Goldschmidt, who hit a go-ahead grand slam in the 10th inning on Monday, delivered a two-run drive to the left-field seats in the third inning off Chris Archer (3-7). José Martínez put St. Louis in front with a solo shot leading off the fifth , and the pitching did the rest as St. Louis moved to 9-3 since the All-Star break to close ground on the first-place Chicago Cubs in the quickly widening NL Central.
“I think we’re going to be good,” Martinez said. “Especially winning these games, these close games, I think that gets us pumped up.”
PITTSBURGH PLUNGE
The Cardinals and Pirates were separated by a half-game at the break. The gap has expanded considerably over the last two weeks. Pittsburgh fell to 2-9 since over its last 11 games, with four of the losses to St. Louis. Pittsburgh is averaging just three runs during its slide.
“I think obviously when you’re not scoring runs it looks like you’re pressing,” Moran said. “Just kind of in one of those ruts right now. I think we can get out of it any day.”
Time is running out.
Archer couldn’t take advantage of the early cushion and has now given up 24 home runs in 96 2/3 innings. Acquired in a trade with Tampa Bay last summer that sent future All-Star outfielder Austin Meadows and pitcher Tyler Glasnow to the Rays, Archer is 6-10 with a 5.01 ERA with the Pirates. Archer said he threw the ball right where he wanted on the Goldschmidt homer, but Goldschmidt turned on it anyway.
“Where we’re at in the season, I’m not trying to give up anything,” Archer said. “I’m not trying to tip my cap. I’m trying to get people out. And just unfortunate that those home runs were hit.”
Goldschmidt’s drive inside the foul pole in left with one on in the third gave him six home runs this month and 20 for the fifth straight season and seventh time in his nine-year big league career. Martínez, who preserved a 6-5, 10-inning win Monday by throwing out Kevin Newman at home, put the Cardinals in front an inning later. Hudson didn’t let the rally go to waste.
KELA EXPECTED BACK
Pirates manager Clint Hurdle expects the team to activate reliever Keone Kela when he returns from a two-game suspension on Wednesday. The Pirates suspended Kela, who recently completed a stint on the 60-day IL, on Monday for an unspecified violation of his contract.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: Activated right-handed reliever Mike Mayers (strained right side) from the 60-day IL and designated reliever Chasen Shreve, credited with Monday’s win, for assignment. … 3B Matt Carpenter (bruised right foot) was 0 for 2 with a walk for Triple-A Memphis and is scheduled to return to the Cardinals on Friday when he’s eligible to come off the IL.
Pirates: RF Gregory Polanco (left shoulder inflammation) met with orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Altchek in New York to have the shoulder re-evaluated. The team shut down Polanco in the middle of a rehab assignment at Triple-A Indianapolis after Polanco, on the IL since June 22, complained of lingering soreness.
UP NEXT
Cardinals: Adam Wainwright (6-7, 4.50 ERA) is 13- against the Pirates, the second-most victories against Pittsburgh among active pitchers.
Pirates: Jordan Lyles (5-6, 4.91) is winless since May 23 heading into his 17th start of the season. Lyles is coming off his best performance since mid-May, allowing one run on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings against Philadelphia last Friday.
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(Beaver Falls, Pa.) Crystal Mc Fadden, Pittsburgh Veteran Employment Program Manager for C.A.S.Y. stopped by Teleforum with Frank Sparks in the 10 o’clock hour on Tuesdy July 23, 2019. Crystal talked with Frank about The non-profit C.A.S.Y. and how they help transitioning service members, under and un-employed veterans, guard and reserve members and their spouses find meaningful employment matches at livable wage opportunities through no-cost career readiness services and gap skills training. Crystal said that CASY’s primary clients are transitioning Veterans and Veteran’s who were prior military.
Frank and Crystal discussed the many other non-profits that she works with that also help get the word out about CASY. She mentioned that she attends alot of the Veteran’s Breakfast Club meetings and that Todd DePastino taught her that she needed to share her story just like the other veteran’s that attend and that helped her put a lot into perspective. Crystal said that they offer a wide variety of services to help veterans and their spouses find careers and that the CASY program has helped place over 50,000 people nationwide. If you would like more information on CASY you can e-mail Crystal at cmcmcfadden@casy.us . You can also go on their website at http://casy.us/ and you can also check out their Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/CASY4Vets
You can watch a replay of the interview as it streamd live on the Beaver County Radio Facebook Page by pressing the play button below…
Turns out so-called “meth gators” aren’t a thing after all.
A police department in Tennessee caused quite the stir on social media last week when it posted a warning asking residents to stop flushing drugs down their toilets and sinks because of fears that it could create meth gators.
Now the police are saying the Facebook post wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
The department’s police chief says he took calls “from professionals fearing we actually had a meth-influenced gator in our custody.”
So the Loretto Police Department emphasizes that the meth gator was a humorous illustration used to highlight the dangers of flushing drugs and other substances down your toilet… The meth-gator is not real.
The department is now trying to turn the confusion over its joke into something positive. It soon plans on selling T-shirts featuring the meth-gator meme to raise money for charity.
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 3.1 million people would lose food stamp benefits under the Trump administration’s proposal to tighten automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program.
The Agriculture Department said Tuesday that the rule would close “a loophole” that enables people receiving only minimal benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to be eligible automatically for food stamps without undergoing further checks on their income or assets.
“For too long, this loophole has been used to effectively bypass important eligibility guidelines. Too often, states have misused this flexibility without restraint,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement.
The proposed rule is the latest in the Trump administration’s efforts to cut back on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP, the official name of the food stamp program. It also has proposed to tighten work requirements for those who receive federal food assistance.
USDA estimates that 1.7 million households — 3.1 million people — “will not otherwise meet SNAP’s income and asset eligibility prerequisites under the proposed rule.” That would result in a net savings of about $9.4 billion over five years.
An unpublished version of the proposed rule acknowledges the impact, saying it “may also negatively impact food security and reduce the savings rates among those individuals who do not meet the income and resource eligibility requirements for SNAP or the substantial and ongoing requirements for expanded categorical eligibility.”
Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., called the proposal “yet another attempt by this administration to circumvent Congress” and that the effect would be to “take food away from families, prevent children from getting school meals, and make it harder for states to administer food assistance.”
Congress has rejected previous, similar attempts to change the expanded automatic eligibility provisions, most recently during the farm bill debate in 2018.
About 36 million people participated in SNAP in April 2019, down from more than 38 million a year earlier.
Under current law, states may automatically make people eligible for food stamps, if they meet income and other requirements for TANF. USDA says 43 states have expanded that to include households that it says “barely participate” in TANF. The provision is called “expanded categorical eligibility.”
USDA said the policy has resulted in people receiving food stamps who don’t need it and wouldn’t qualify under regular program rules.
Ellen Vollinger, legal director of the Food Research & Action Center, said the proposal was troubling and that the government should “put attention on how to help more people, not undercut supports for them and make their struggle against hunger even harder.”
She said the department didn’t seem to address a resulting loss of school meals, which she said the Congressional Budget Office included in its analyses of previous, similar proposals. “It’s another hit on hunger,” she said.
Under the proposal, to qualify for automatic eligibility, people would have to get at least $50 a month in benefits from TANF for a minimum of six months.
Perdue said the change is necessary for “preventing abuse of a critical safety net system so those who need food assistance the most are the only ones who receive it.”
The rule, expected to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, is open for public comment for 60 days.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The immigration enforcement operation touted by President Donald Trump that targeted some 2,000 people resulted in 35 arrests. Trump billed the operation as a major show of force in an effort to “deport millions” of people in the country illegally as the number of Central American families crossing the southern border has skyrocketed. It was canceled once and then rescheduled; Trump announced the day it would begin.
RESIDENTS OF HEIGHTS ROAD LAST NIGHT ADDRESSED THE HOPWELL TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS ABOUT THE FLOODING OF THAT ROADWAY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click no ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
WE HAVE AN UPDATE NOW ON THAT HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP WATER LINE BREAK. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS DETAILS. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
BREAKING NEWS: Police have swarmed a shopping center in Ross Township following a shooting involving a police officer this afternoon. Sources say the shooting happened outside the Big Lots store on McKnight Road in the North Hills. According to sources, the suspect has been killed and an undercover agent was shot twice. Sources say the law enforcement officer may be a part of the state Attorney General’s Narcotics Unit. The undercover agent may have been conducting an undercover sting operation. Sources say the suspect fired shots, hitting one of the agents. A second agent then returned fire, fatally wounding the suspect. The undercover agent was taken to Allegheny General Hospital. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Police remain on the scene. The FBI has offered assistance in the investigation.