(Beaver Falls, PA)  “The Best of Beaver County” with Jim Roddey presented by St. Barnabas Health System stepped onto the football gridiron this week with special guests Mike Warfield who is head coach of the Aliquippa Quips High School Football team and Rick Holman who has been elected to Ford’s NFL Hall of Fans.

 

The first segment of the show Jim talked with Mike Warfield about his first year as Head Coach of the Aliquippa Quips Football team. Warfield discussed how proud he is of his team to be able to win a state championship in his first year. He told Roddey and the listeners that it’s about more than just football it’s about teaching these young athletes that there is more than just football out there and that you need to be prepared for life after football because football is a very small portion of your life. Warfield also discussed his career as a member of the Pennsylvania State Police.

After a short break segment two started and Jim talked with Rick Holman who is an inductee into the NFL Hall of Fans. Roddey and Holman talked about him growing up in Beaver Falls and the unique way he ended up getting nominated for the first class to be inducted into the Hall of Fans. Rick told Jim of his recent trip to the Big Game and how he met Joe Namath and he thought it was cool that Rick was also from Beaver Falls. Rick told the listeners how proud he was to be picked and to represent our area.

The entire show was streamed live on Facebook. You can watch the interview by clicking on the play button below…

The radio broadcast will be replayed each week from 11:30 am to Noon on Sundays on Beaver County Radio. Tune in next week at 11:00 a.m. as Jim will be welcoming in two more of  the “Best in Beaver County”  guests presented by St. Barnabas.

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(Beaver Falls, PA.) The Beaver County Commissioners made their monthly appearance on Ask the Commissioners on 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA during Teleforum with Frank Sparks.

The Show started off with Frank welcoming in Commissioners Sandie Egley and Tony Amadio for this months show, Commission Chairman Dan Camp was not able to attend due to other commitments.

Recently during the cold snap a listener called and informed Beaver County Radio and the listeners that Beaver County Employees were allowed to go home early because of the cold and were paid for the remainder of the day. This infuriated the listeners and many listeners called to express their displeasure with this move. Frank assured the listeners that it would be the first question he asked on the show this month and he kept his promise asking Amadio and Egley right out of the box about the situation. Egley said she was against it from the beginning and felt everyone is already here why send them home. A caller ripped into both commissioners about this and Egley said “wait I was against this and I’m only one vote” the caller then apologized and Amadio answered that it was a decision that was made for the safety of the employees and it started with President Judge Rick Mancini and Camp and he felt it was best and thus the departments were aloud to go to a skeleton crew so that employees could leave early and be paid for the rest of the day. The Commissioners received phone calls of people not happy that this happened and Egley continually said she was against it and Amadio said thank you for your input it has been duly noted.

Other topics that were discussed during the show were the voting machines and the requirement by a new state law that the county has to replace the current voting machines and the situation with BCTA and the them wanting to change some of their routes and bus stops.  If you would like to see the entire interview as it streamed Live on Facebook click the play button below…

The next “Ask the Commissioners” will be on March 7, 2019 at 9 a.m..

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