If you are seeing bright orange lights emanating from the sky this morning after Christmas, there’s a reason for that.
Late Sunday night, the Shell Polymers Monaca Facebook page posted a message to its page warning of a potential of increased reflection of light from their enclosed ground flares due to low cloud cover. The post goes on to say “The ground flares are an essential component of our plant’s safety system and function in a similar manner to a burner on a gas stove. They are typically always active, with higher flows present during plant startups and shutdowns.”
Shell says these light reflections may last for several nights.
You can email bcr@beavercountyradio.com to add a listing or to let Diane Brosius know if your item has sold. You can also list items on the Website (Beavercountyradio.com) by clicking on the Yankee Trader logo. Snail mail can be sent to WBVP/WMBA 4301 Dutch Ridge Rd. Beaver, PA 15009
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12-23-23 LISTINGS
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Panasonic Landline Cordless telephones. 5 handsets, 2 dial pads. Includes answering machine, redial, speakerphone & caller ID. PRICE: $89.00
Big selection of jewelry. Some 14-ct. gold, lots of costume jewelry.
PRICE: Make reasonable offer.
Many religious items. 18 different beautiful rosary beads. 13” tall Virgin Mary statue (for indoor use). Variety of medals.
PRICE: Make reasonable offer.
Lenox Fine bone china. 11 5-piece place settings. Eclipse pattern. In perfect condition. PRICE: $79 per setting
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News Director. Photos and Video by Keith Walsh. Published December 22, 2023 6:18 P.M.
(Daugherty Township, Pa) Emergency responders were called to a fully involved structure fire at Route 68 and Inman Drive in Daugherty Township around 2:15pm. One person was reportedly treated for smoke inhalation. We have no additional details at this time. Raw Video:
A special holiday tradition at Beaver County Radio is back for another year. 95.7 and 99.3 FM along with 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, and beavercountyradio.com will play continuous Christmas Music featuring local church, school, artists and civic choirs from 12:00 PM Sunday, December 24th through 6:00 AM, Monday, December 26th. The program schedule is listed below.
Sunday, December 24, 2023
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM- The Genevans kick off the 42 hours of non-stop Christmas music with their performance of Isaiah’s Promised Child, recorded at First Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls on December 1 and 2, 2023.
1:00 PM to 1:30 PM- The Beaver Valley Choral Society leads all in classic Christmas Carols recorded live at the 6th Annual Rochester Light Up Night on December 3, 2023.
Beaver Valley Choral Society
1:30 PM to 2:00 PM- Highlighted by their performance of Handel’s holiday masterpiece Messiah, the Beaver Valley Choral Society performs sacred songs as part of their centennial concert “A Celebration of 100 Years of Song” recorded on October 23, 2023 at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Hopewell.
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM- Local Christian music artist and New Brighton Graduate David DeMarco sings Christmas songs from his 2019 Christmas CD Believe.
3:00 PM to 3:20 PM- Jackie Evancho sings selections from her 2010 Christmas EP O Holy Night.
3:20 PM to 4:00 PM- A Harp Noel, as performed by the Northwest PA Chapter of the American Harp Society.
Vanessa Campagna
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM- Grammy-Award winning singer and Beaver County native Vanessa Campagna sings a collection of classic Christmas tunes.
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM- The late, great B.E. Taylor puts his spin on the Christmas classics that made his voice a staple of the holiday season in Beaver County and Western Pennsylvania.
Scott Paulsen
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM– The 5th Annual Beaver County Radio Live Christmas Party will be replayed, featuring Christmas tunes courtesy of The Hoot Owls, Morgan Gruber, Better Think Twice, JD Merkel, Dawn Savage, and the Beaver Valley Choral Society!
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM– Host Scott Paulsen gets into the Christmas Spirit with his latest edition of Radio Stella entitled “A Baby Cheez-Wiz Christmas”.
9:00 PM to Midnight– Local Light-Up Night returns once again to our Christmas playlist, featuring local artists playing all of your favorite holiday tunes in their rockin’ style!
9:00 pm: Valentina & Mickey Cherico 9:20 pm: Better Think Twice 9:40 pm: Frank Piscopo 10:00 pm: James Tobin 10:10 pm: Rudy Zetz and Voices 10:30 pm: The Vaccuum Tubes 10:35 pm: The Sidewinder Band 11:00 pm: The “Speed Round”, featuring an hour of singles from a variety of singers and bands such as The Forty-Nineteens, Morgan Gruber, Xenia Potter, Chip & The Charge-Ups, Ashley Marina, Yasmine Vine, and more!
Monday, December 25, 2022
Midnight to 1:00 AM-“In A Manger Lowly” – A treasured recording from 1963 by of The Sisters of St. Joseph Chorus in Baden. It’s a yearly tradition on “Christmas Music Around the Clock”!
1:00 AM to 2:00 AM– A throwback performance of the New Brighton Area School District’s 2014 Christmas concert, featuring the Elementary Chorus, Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and High School Choir.
2:00 AM to 7:00 AM– Christmas Potpourri— A variety of holiday classics, local contributions, and other oddities from the BCR archives.
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM– The Genevans’ performance of Isaiah’s Promised Child, recorded at First Presbyterian Church in Beaver Falls on December 1 and 2, 2023.
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM- A 2015 recording of Christmas songs from the St. Cecilia Chorus.
10:00 AM to 11:00 AM- The Big Beaver Falls Area School District present their choral Christmas concert featuring selections performed by the Middle School and High School choirs.
11:00 AM to Noon – The Beaver County Symphonic Wind Ensemble performs Christmas classics recorded live on December 14, 2011 at Penn State Beaver.
Noon to 12:30 PM- The Beaver Valley Choral Society leads all in classic Christmas Carols recorded live at the 6th Annual Rochester Light Up Night on December 3, 2023.
12:30 PM to 1:00 PM- Highlighted by their performance of Handel’s holiday masterpiece Messiah, the Beaver Valley Choral Society performs sacred songs as part of their centennial concert “A Celebration of 100 Years of Song” recorded on October 23, 2023 at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Hopewell.
1:00 PM to 1:25 PM -The annual appearance of The Border Brass with Tijuana Christmas.
1:25 PM to 1:40 PM- Jackie Evancho sings selections from her 2010 Christmas EP O Holy Night.
1:40 PM to 2:00 PM – The Eight Bells, a select men’s a cappella ensemble from Geneva College. These recordings originally aired on December 9, 2021 as part of “The Best of Beaver County” on WBVP, WMBA & 99.3 F.M.
The Eight Bells from Geneva College performing live in the Beaver County Radio Sound Stage.
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM- Local Christian music artist and New Brighton Graduate David DeMarco sings Christmas songs from his 2019 Christmas CD Believe.
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM– The Big Beaver Falls Area School District present their choral Christmas concert featuring selections performed by the Middle School and High School choirs.
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM- Grammy-Award winning singer and Beaver County native Vanessa Campagna sings a collection of classic Christmas tunes.
5:00 PM to 5:30 PM- The Beaver Valley Choral Society leads all in classic Christmas Carols recorded live at the 6th Annual Rochester Light Up Night on December 3, 2023.
5:30 PM to 6:00 PM- Highlighted by their performance of Handel’s holiday masterpiece Messiah, the Beaver Valley Choral Society performs sacred songs as part of their centennial concert “A Celebration of 100 Years of Song” recorded on October 23, 2023 at Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Hopewell.
6:00 PM to 7:00 PM– The 5th Annual Beaver County Radio Live Christmas Party will be replayed, featuring Christmas tunes courtesy of The Hoot Owls, Morgan Gruber, Better Think Twice, JD Merkel, Dawn Savage, and the Beaver Valley Choral Society!
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM– Local Light-Up Night returns once again to our Christmas playlist, featuring local artists playing all of your favorite holiday tunes in their rockin’ style!
7:00 pm: Valentina & Mickey Cherico 7:20 pm: Better Think Twice 7:40 pm: Frank Piscopo 8:00 pm: James Tobin 8:10 pm: Rudy Zetz and Voices 8:30 pm: The Vaccuum Tubes 8:35 pm: The Sidewinder Band 9:00 pm: The “Speed Round”, featuring an hour of singles from a variety of singers and bands such as The Forty-Nineteens, Morgan Gruber, Xenia Potter, Chip & The Charge-Ups, Ashley Marina, Yasmine Vine, and more!
10:00 PM to 11:00 PM: The late, great B.E. Taylor puts his spin on the Christmas classics that made his voice a staple of the holiday season in Beaver County and Western Pennsylvania.
11:00 PM to Midnight– An hour worth of classic pieces of past concerts by The Genevans.
Tuesday, December 26, 2022
12:00 AM to 6:00 AM– Christmas Potpourri— A variety of holiday classics, local contributions, and other oddities from the BCR archives.
The Beaver County Commissioners rounded out their 2023 by voting to pass the County’s budget for 2024 yesterday at their public meeting at the Beaver County Courthouse.
The final budget was set at $264,118,465 for the upcoming year, and had faced no changes from the Commissioners, row offices or the public when it was announced at the end of November.
The work session scheduled for December 27 has been canceled, and the Commissioners will reconvene with a reorganization meeting on January 2nd.
The city of Aliquippa finalized and approved its 2024 budget of $6,825,637 at their council meeting on Wednesday night.
Within the new budget, land millage has been set at 14.88 mills while building millage is set at 3.18 mills, and the earned income tax rate is set at 1.2%.
At the same meeting, the council approved the retirement of longtime fire captain Dave Childs, who will officially retire effective January 2nd. Childs had served as a firefighter for Aliquippa for 20 years since he started in September of 2003.
Mayor Dwan B. Walker, City Manager Sam Gill and Councilman Donald Walker thanked everyone for their cooperation in 2023, including their recent removal of the Act 47 designation for distressed communities.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden believes “serious scrutiny” is warranted for the planned acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel, the White House said Thursday after days of silence on a transaction that has drawn alarm from the steelworkers union.
Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council, indicated the deal would be reviewed by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which she participates in and includes economic and national security agency representatives to investigate national security risks from foreign investments in American firms.
She said in a statement that Biden “believes the purchase of this iconic American-owned company by a foreign entity — even one from a close ally — appears to deserve serious scrutiny in terms of its potential impact on national security and supply chain reliability.”
“This looks like the type of transaction that the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment Congress empowered and the Biden administration strengthened is set up to carefully investigate,” she said. “This administration will be ready to look carefully at the findings of any such investigation and to act if appropriate.”
Under the terms of the approximately $14.1 billion all-cash deal announced Monday, U.S. Steel will keep its name and its headquarters in Pittsburgh, where it was founded in 1901 by J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie. It will become a subsidiary of Nippon. The combined company will be among the top three steel-producing companies in the world, according to 2022 figures from the World Steel Association.
Chaired by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, the CFIUS screens business deals between U.S. firms and foreign investors and can block sales or force parties to change the terms of an agreement for the purpose of protecting national security.
The committee’s powers were significantly expanded in 2018 through an act of Congress called the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, known as FIRRMA. In September, President Biden issued an executive order that expands the factors that the committee should consider when reviewing deals — such as how the deal impacts the U.S. supply chain or risks to Americans’ sensitive personal data. It has on some occasions forced foreign companies to divest their ownership in American firms.
In 2020 Beijing Kunlun, a Chinese mobile video game company, agreed to sell gay dating app Grindr after it received an order from CFIUS.
United Steelworkers International, which endorsed Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, swiftly opposed the new transaction.
The union “remained open throughout this process to working with U.S. Steel to keep this iconic American company domestically owned and operated, but instead it chose to push aside the concerns of its dedicated workforce and sell to a foreign-owned company,” said David McCall, president of United Steelworkers, in a statement after the transaction was announced, adding that the union wasn’t consulted in advance of the announcement.
“We also will strongly urge government regulators to carefully scrutinize this acquisition and determine if the proposed transaction serves the national security interests of the United States and benefits workers,” he added.
Political allies of Biden in Pennsylvania — a presidential battleground state that is critical to his reelection campaign — also objected to the sale this week, and released statements pressing Nippon to make commitments to keep U.S. Steel’s workers, plants and headquarters in the state.
Some also described it as the latest example of profit-hungry executives selling out American workers to a foreign company.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey said it appeared to be a “bad deal” for the state and workers, while Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman — who lives across the street from U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thompson plant just outside Pittsburgh — said he will attempt to prevent the sale based on national security issues.
“It’s absolutely outrageous that U.S. Steel has agreed to sell themselves to a foreign company,” Fetterman said.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the committee, a Treasury spokesperson said: “CFIUS is committed to taking all necessary actions within its authority to safeguard U.S. national security. Consistent with law and practice, CFIUS does not publicly comment on transactions that it may or may not be reviewing.”
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Sullivan wants the Pittsburgh Penguins to get comfortable playing the type of responsible hockey required to win the litany of taut, low-scoring games that likely lie ahead.
The Penguins took what they hope is a significant step in that direction on Thursday against Carolina.
Sidney Crosby scored his 19th goal of the season in regulation and then beat Pyotr Kochetkov in a shootout as Pittsburgh beat the Hurricanes 2-1.
Alex Nedeljkovic made 23 saves against his former team and turned away all three Carolina attempts in the shootout as the Penguins beat the Hurricanes for just the third time in 13 meetings.
“This year, last year, all the games they look very similar to that and we didn’t find a way to win them,” said Crosby, now tied for fourth in the NHL in goals. “So to kind of get over the hump and get on the winning side, I think that’s big and hopefully that’ll boost our confidence in a tight game like that.”
Teuvo Teravainen scored his 12th of the season for the Hurricanes. Kochetkov stopped 24 shots and Carolina’s penalty kill turned away all five Pittsburgh opportunities with the man advantage, including one in overtime. Yet Kochetkov couldn’t get his glove on Crosby’s wrist shot from in close in the shootout.
Carolina now has points in each of its last six games and is drifting toward the top of the logjam in the Eastern Conference as Christmas approaches. A solid penalty kill, which has now allowed just one goal in its last 34 chances, has helped.
“I think the way we’ve been playing the last few games is a little bit more the way we want to play (overall), so that’s a good thing,” center Jack Drury said. “We just have to keep building on it.”
The Penguins are still searching for consistency, though there have been signs of late that they are settling into the more mindful approach Sullivan is trying to get them to play more frequently.
While there’s more work to be done, Pittsburgh avoided hanging Nedeljkovic out to dry by taking unnecessary risks, a positive development for a team that at times can get caught focusing too much on offense.
“I thought we did a pretty decent job. We didn’t give up any sort of dangerous odd-man rushes, two-on-ones, things of that nature,” Sullivan said. “I thought we had numbers back for a lot of the night.”
Pittsburgh’s Rickard Rakell — stuck in a goal-less drought that reaches to April — nearly broke through with a nifty backhand in the first period that deflected off the post. Rakell set up Crosby minutes later with a beautiful spinning backhand pass that found Crosby streaking across the goal mouth. Crosby’s deflection caught Kochtkov off guard and flicked into the net to give Pittsburgh the lead 8:51 into the game.
Carolina started to turn the pressure up in the middle of the second period, pinning the Penguins in their end while generating opportunities around Nedeljkovic. Tervainen finally broke through with more than a little help from Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang, who saw Tervainen’s centering pass smack off his skate and into the Pittsburgh net to tie it 14:52 into the second.
The tempo finally turned up over the final period and into overtime, but the Penguins couldn’t find a way to sneak a shot past Kochetkov, who got help from a post on a blast by Crosby in the waning seconds that deflected off the iron and out of harm’s way.
Story by Curtis Walsh – Beaver County Radio News Director. Published December 21, 2023 6:56 P.M.
(Rochester, Pa) A ceremony was held Thursday evening outside of Beaver County Transit Authority in Rochester to honor the lives of those who died while homeless in Beaver County.
Those who attended participated in a candlelight memorial on the longest night of the year along W Washington Street to honor those who passed while homeless.
At least one Beaver County resident died while homeless in 2023, 9 deaths were reported in 2021 and 7 in 2022. Beaver County Continuum of Care Coordinator Dina Ciabattoni stated that the goal is to have no homeless deaths in the county in 2024.
The event was hosted by the Beaver County Continuum of Care, The Cornerstone of Beaver County, The Housing Authority of the County of Beaver, Trails Ministries, Housing Opportunities of Beaver County, Cornerstone Recovery & Supports, Pinnacle, and the Active Community of Real Estate Entrepreneurs.
(Photo of the Hoot Owls, Headliners for the Notes on Entertainment Christmas Show)
(Brighton Twp., Pa.) Beaver County Radio will be broadcasting the 5th Annual Notes on Entertainment Christmas Show at 9:10 AM Thursday morning, December 21, 2023. Beaver County Radio’s Eddy Crow and Mike Romigh along with Scott Tady Entertainment Editor for the Beaver County Times will host the show. The 5th Annual Notes on Entertainment Christmas Show will be live on the air as well as video streamed on the Beaver County Radio Facebook Page and Youtube Channel.
The Show is being presented by the Tusca and East Rochester Shop n’ Save’s along with the True Value Hardware Store located beside the Rochester Shop N Save.
American Idol contestant and Beaver County resident Morgan Gruber will be joining an already impressive line-up for the 5th Annual “Notes on Entertainment” Christmas Show on Thursday December 21, 2023 from 9AM to Noon.
Morgan is planning on singing her newly released Christmas song “O’ Come All Yee Faithful” She will also be singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “White Christmas” along with her recently released single “What Ever Gets You Through It”.
Local Band the Hoot Owls will get the show started at 9:10 AM. Gruber will perform at 10:10 AM right after the news. After Morgan Beaver County Radio’s Curtis Walsh and his band “Better Think Twice” will perform. Next up will be Beaver County Radio’s JD Merkel. At 11:00 AM the big guy himself, Santa Claus will be in the house. After that at 11:35 The Beaver Valley Choral Society will perform and we will finish the show up with New Brighton native and country singer Dawn Savage.
The 5th Annual Notes On Entertainment Christmas Show will also be presented via Facebook Live on the Beaver County Radio Facebook Page. Just Click the link below at 9:10AM:
If you can’t tune in you can click the link below to listen on-line via beavercountyradio.com:
