Chippewa United Methodist Church Rummage and Bake Sale
Rummage and Bake Sale
Tuesday Sept.26 9am-6pm
Bake sale 9am-to sellout
Wednesday Sept. 27 9am-2pm
$2.00 a bag sale
@ The Community Life Center
118 McMillen Ave.
Beaver Falls (Chippewa twp.)
Huge rummage sale with 1000’s of items at cheap prices—-clothing,
jewelry, toys, baby items, household items, craft supplies (large
selection of cross stitch), some furniture and much more.
Benefits the CUMC “Women in Faith”
NEW YORK (AP) — Three artworks believed stolen during the Holocaust from a Jewish art collector and entertainer have been seized from museums in three different states by New York law enforcement authorities.
The artworks by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele were all previously owned by Fritz Grünbaum, a cabaret performer and songwriter who died at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.
The art was seized Wednesday from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Warrants issued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office say there’s reasonable cause to believe the three artworks are stolen property.
The three works and several others from the collection, which Grünbaum began assembling in the 1920s, are already the subject of civil litigation on behalf of his heirs. They believe the entertainer was forced to cede ownership of his artworks under duress.
Manhattan prosecutors believe they have jurisdiction in all of the cases because the artworks were bought and sold by Manhattan art dealers at some point.
The son of a Jewish art dealer in what was then Moravia, Grünbaum studied law but began performing in cabarets in Vienna in 1906.
A well-known performer in Vienna and Berlin by the time Adolf Hitler rose to power, Grünbaum challenged the Nazi authorities in his work. He once quipped from a darkened stage, “I can’t see a thing, not a single thing; I must have stumbled into National Socialist culture.”
Grünbaum was arrested and sent to Dachau in 1938. He gave his final performance for fellow inmates on New Year’s Eve 1940 while gravely ill, then died on Jan. 14, 1941.
The three pieces seized by Bragg’s office are: “Russian War Prisoner,” a watercolor and pencil on paper piece valued at $1.25 million, which was seized from the Art Institute; “Portrait of a Man,” a pencil on paper drawing valued at $1 million and seized from the Carnegie Museum of Art; and “Girl With Black Hair,” a watercolor and pencil on paper work valued at $1.5 million and taken from Oberlin.
The works will remain at the museums until they can be transported to the district attorney’s office at a later date.
The Art Institute said in a statement Thursday, “We are confident in our legal acquisition and lawful possession of this work. The piece is the subject of civil litigation in federal court, where this dispute is being properly litigated and where we are also defending our legal ownership.”
The Carnegie Museum said it was committed to “acting in accordance with ethical, legal, and professional requirements and norms” and would cooperate with the authorities.
In a statement, Oberlin said it was cooperating with investigators and was “confident that Oberlin College legally acquired Egon Schiele’s Girl with Black Hair in 1958, and that we lawfully possess it.
“We believe that Oberlin is not the target of the Manhattan DA’s criminal investigation into this matter,” the statement added.
Before the warrants were issued Wednesday, the Grünbaum heirs had filed civil claims against the three museums and several other defendants seeking the return of artworks that they say were looted from Grünbaum.
They won a victory in 2018 when a New York judge ruled that two works by Schiele had to be turned over to Grünbaum’s heirs under the Holocaust Expropriated Recovery Act, passed by Congress in 2016.
In that case, the attorney for London art dealer of Richard Nagy said Nagy was the rightful owner of the works because Grünbaum’s sister-in-law, Mathilde Lukacs, had sold them after his death.
But Judge Charles Ramos ruled that there was no evidence that Grünbaum had voluntarily transferred the artworks to Lukacs. “A signature at gunpoint cannot lead to a valid conveyance,” he wrote.
Raymond Dowd, the attorney for the heirs in their civil proceedings, referred questions about the seizure of the three works on Wednesday to the district attorney’s office.
The actions taken by the Bragg’s office follow the seizures of what investigators said were looted antiquities from museums in Cleveland and Worcester, Massachusetts.
Douglas Cohen, a spokesperson for the district attorney, said he could not comment on the artworks seized except to say that they are part of an ongoing investigation.
PennDOT will be closing down a section of Concord Church Road along State Route 588 this weekend in North Sewickley Township. District 11 announced that the closure begins at 7 AM this Friday morning and runs continuously through Monday afternoon at 3:30 PM.
Westbound car traffic will be detoured onto Mercer Road along Route 65 to Harpers Ferry Road and Chapel Drive before returning to Route 588, with eastbound traffic going the reverse of the route beginning with Chapel Drive. Trucks will be detoured onto Route 288 from Mercer Road.
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Motorists can check conditions of the roadways by visiting 511PA.com.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mitch Keller pitched eight innings of two-hit ball, and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Washington Nationals 2-0 on Thursday.
Keller (12-9) struck out seven and walked one. The 27-year-old right-hander improved to 3-1 with a 3.07 ERA in his last seven starts.
“Just filling it up and using the cutter to lefties was huge. Using the sinker and the four-seam to righties set up the sweeper,” Keller said. “We’re able to mix things and keep a good attack plan. Mixed in the curveball again today, used some changeup there too, which was really good to see. (Catcher Jason Delay) did a great job picking spots to call them. They were really successful pitches.”
David Bednar pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 35th save. Keller was pulled after 92 pitches, 65 for strikes.
“When he went out in the eighth, the first two pitches he threw were like 91-92 (mph), so that was like, ‘Eh,’ with David there available,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. “I mean, if he comes out and he’s (throwing) 95 there, then we’re having a different conversation.”
Pittsburgh won the final three games of the four-game set against last-place Washington. The Pirates have won 11 of 16 overall.
The Nationals wasted a solid performance by Josiah Gray (7-12), who struck out 10 in 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander was charged with two runs and five hits.
“Early strikes, first-pitch strikes, finish them off with my whole array of pitches,” Gray said. “Just getting ahead early worked a lot today, just believing in my stuff. Using the whole part of the plate. It was a good day.”
It was Gray’s first big league appearance since Sept. 3 against Miami, when he allowed three runs and walked four in four innings.
“For me, it was just, how can I, not sort of simplify things, but try and bring out some properties in my delivery that I know where I feel stable, where I feel comfortable,” Gray said. “I felt good with it, felt I could roll with it. The early returns are good, but just like every day, have to come to the ballpark tomorrow and get back to work. Just continue to build off it.”
Pittsburgh jumped in front when Jack Suwinski led off the second with his team-high 25th homer on a drive to right. Alfonso Rivas connected with two out in the fifth, hitting a 411-foot shot to center for his third homer.
“I thought Gray was pretty good today. The slider was pretty effective,” Shelton said. “We had two solid homers, but I think in terms of Jack, he’s back to releasing the barrel the way he was earlier in the year.”
Washington put two runners on in the first when CJ Abrams hit a leadoff single and Lane Thomas reached on an error by shortstop Liover Peguero. But Keller retired Keibert Ruiz on a fly ball to left, picked off Abrams at second and struck out Joey Meneses.
“The at-bats today were not good. They weren’t crisp,” Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. “We chased a lot out of the zone. We have to do a better job, especially against a guy like (Keller). He’s also good. We have to get him in the zone. Today, we just chased a lot.”
(AP) The resolution of a nearly two weekslong manhunt for an escaped prisoner in southeastern Pennsylvania brought attention to the searcher who finally subdued Danelo Cavalcante: a tactically trained K-9 named Yoda.
The 4-year-old Belgian Malinois is credited for bringing Cavalcante, 34, into custody as he attempted to crawl through underbrush, still armed with a rifle he stole from a garage. When Cavalcante refused to respond to officers’ verbal commands, a Border Patrol team released Yoda to pursue him, officers said.
Cavalcante was first bitten on the forehead, then the dog clenched his thigh and held on, said Robert Clark, supervisor of the U.S. Marshals fugitive task force in Philadelphia. That’s when Cavalcante submitted and officers got him in handcuffs.
Yoda is part of the U.S. Border Patrol BORTAC K9. A full-time team is headquartered in El Paso, Texas, and agents can be deployed throughout the United States when needed for specialized missions, a spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Dogs like Yoda undergo specialized training, teaching them from puppyhood to trace human odor and follow it. The difficulty of the exercise increases over time, with the handler tasked with reading the dog’s behavior.
“The process is pretty intricate, and it takes a lot of time,” said Bob Dougherty, the law enforcement training director at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center. “Once it’s a complete process, it works very well; it’s very reliable.”
It takes a specific kind of dog to work in that scenario. Dougherty said a dog in a tactical role, like Yoda, would have to be social, calm, strong, adept at learning, not easily distractable and able to work with more than one handler, depending on the job and agency.
“Not every dog is going to be able to work with a tactical team,” he said. “Not all dogs will end up being a Yoda.”
He noted some of the photos of Yoda on the job show him laying at Cavalcante’s legs. If not highly trained, the dog could have easily made wrong decisions, he said. But Yoda was able to function with the team, take direction, find, locate and apprehend Cavalcante, and, after that, be controlled.
Law enforcement dogs work an average of eight to nine years before retiring, said Cynthia Otto, director of Penn Vet Working Dog Center. Some retire earlier due to high stress environments; others, if they’re high energy, may not retire at all. Though some dogs are kenneled, many live with their handlers and eventually retire with them.
Using a dog in a situation like this reduced the need for lethal force, Otto said.
How police dogs, particularly those who bite, are deployed has been a source of criticism. Dougherty said that officers must consider when and how dogs are used.
“When used properly, when used lawfully, I think that it’s definitely an asset,” Dougherty said.
Border Patrol agents also assisted in the Pennsylvania State Police search for another escaped prisoner, Michael Burham, in Warren County in July. Dogs were also central in that apprehension. A couple encountered Burham when they went out to see why their dog was barking in the rear of their property.
Searchers tracked Burham through the woods afterward with the help of two dogs; he was eventually taken into custody.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican David McCormick is expected to announce his second bid for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, according to people familiar with his plans, taking on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey after narrowly losing an expensive and bruising GOP primary last year to a Donald Trump-endorsed rival.
McCormick, 58, has strong support from the party establishment. With his deep pockets as a former hedge fund CEO, Republicans believe he will mount a strong challenge to the three-term Casey in a state that is critical to control of the White House and the Senate.
He has begun telling people of his intention to run and is expected to announce his candidacy next week, according to three people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to avoid disclosing private conversations.
McCormick’s impending candidacy is a huge win for Republicans, who had heavily recruited him to run again after he sought the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey last year. McCormick lost to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz in the primary by just 950 votes, and Oz went on to lose to Democrat John Fetterman in the general election, costing the GOP a seat in a critical presidential battleground state.
McCormick has floated the possibility that he would run almost since the moment he lost last year’s Senate GOP primary, and he has consolidated support by showing up at local party events and raising money for Republican candidates.
He has stayed in the public eye by making the rounds of conservative podcasts on a publicity tour for a book he published in March.
Republicans acknowledge that beating Casey will be difficult.
Casey, 63, is a stalwart of Pennsylvania’s Democratic politics, the son of a former two-term governor and the longest-ever serving Democrat in the Senate from Pennsylvania. He has won all of his Senate elections by at least 9 percentage points, and the last full fundraising quarter was his best ever.
The Democratic Party has treated McCormick as the de facto GOP nominee for months, attacking his record in business, his opposition to abortion rights and indications that he still lives on Connecticut’s ritzy “Gold Coast,” where he spent a dozen years as an executive at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.
McCormick insists he lives in Pittsburgh, in a house he bought there in early 2022 and has stressed his hometown roots in Pennsylvania, including growing up on a Christmas tree farm near Bloomsburg that he still owns.
So far, McCormick has a clear GOP primary field and Republican Party brass is solidly behind McCormick.
McCormick has drawn pledges of support from two major Senate GOP donor committees — the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC linked to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — even in a primary.
In recent days, a McCormick ally has been circulating a letter of support for McCormick featuring a who’s-who of party brass, including the state party chair, the party’s two national committee representatives and 36 of 67 county party chairs.
A Sept. 30 state party meeting is approaching, and GOP circles are alive with talk that McCormick will seek an endorsement vote there.
McCormick boasts a resume that spans from the military to the highest levels of government to business.
The son of Pennsylvania’s first state university system chancellor, McCormick graduated from West Point, won a Bronze Star for his service in the Gulf War, got a doctorate from Princeton University, served in senior positions in former President George W. Bush’s administration and reached Wall Street celebrity as CEO of Bridgewater.
He ran last year amid carpetbaggery cries as one of three wealthy, connected Republican candidates — including Oz, the heart surgeon best-known as the host of daytime TV’s now-ended “The Dr. Oz Show” — who moved from blue states to run in swing-state Pennsylvania.
Ultimately, McCormick lost the primary after spending $14 million of his own money on the race. McCormick has reported assets of over $100 million, and could again spend heavily on the 2024 next race.
(Beaver Falls, Pa.) On Tuesday September 19, 2023 Tom Young from 1st Consultants, Inc. in Beaver will join Eddy Crow on “Teleforum” and co-host a guest segment on 99.3 FM and 1230 WBVP to discuss the 30,000-foot view. Why does 95% of everybody end up dead or dead broke? The discussion will reveal the deep secrets of the Government, Wall Street, and the Banks. This is information everyone needs to be able to make great money decisions. What is Velocity of Money and how it will make me rich. Macroeconomic analysis is a must to find the answers and the secret to Opportunity Cost. Where’s the Money? Tune in to find out the answers to your questions. The special show starts at 9:10 A.M. as part of an ongoing monthly series of multi media forums.
Tune in on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, the special multi media presentation begins at 9:10 A.M. on Beaver County Radio.
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FILE – Former President Donald Trump points to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a rally July 22, 2022, in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from two defendants who are set to go to trial next month in the case accusing them all of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro had filed demands for a speedy trial, and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee set their trial to begin Oct. 23. Trump and other defendants had asked to be tried separately from Powell and Chesebro, with some saying they couldn’t be ready by the late October trial date.
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen celebrates as he stands on second base after driving in a run with a double off Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Corbin Burnes during the fifth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
PITTSBURGH (AP) — All signs point to Andrew McCutchen remaining with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 36-year-old designated hitter is scheduled to become a free agent in the offseason but has said repeatedly he wants to remain in his adopted hometown. General manager Ben Cherington agrees. Cherington says McCutchen made the Pirates better when he returned to the club during the offseason and there’s no reason the partnership can’t continue. McCutchen’s season ended earlier this month when he partially tore his left Achilles tendon while legging out a double against the Milwaukee Brewers. He is expected to make a full recovery.
Pittsburgh, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) reminds motorists to remain alert when traveling in low visibility conditions such as fog.
Increasing fog on roadways creates dangerous conditions for both drivers and pedestrians. Motorists should drive slowly to allow enough reaction time as slower moving cars and pedestrians may be more difficult to see during foggy conditions. If fog becomes so dense that you cannot see, it is best to pull completely off the road and turn on hazard lights to make your vehicle more visible.
Pennsylvania Law requires moving vehicles to have headlights turned on when traveling in unfavorable conditions. This includes fog, rain, and other conditions where visibility is low. Be sure to use low beam headlights as high beams will create a glare and make it more difficult to see the road ahead.
To prevent commute disruption, PennDOT offers the following safety tips for driving in fog: