The Beaver Area Memorial Library will hold its annual Lunch at the Library on Saturday, March 3rd from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Homemade soups, breads and desserts will be served.
The cost of a bowl of soup with bread is $3.00 and dessert is $3.00.
Take-outs will be available after 1:00 p.m.
The event will be held in the meeting room of the library, 100 College Ave. in Beaver. The event is sponsored by the Friends of the Beaver Library and all proceeds will benefit the library.
For more information, call the library at 724-775-1132
3rd Annual Wings, Suds & Songs benefits the Beaver County Humane Society. It will be held at Center Stage on Old Brodhead Rd. In Center Twp on
02/24/18 from 6:30 to 10:00 P.M.
Beat the winter blues with an evening of fun with karaoke, dancing, good food, beverages, a fabulous cookie table, photo booth and great auction items.
Enjoy a family friendly event with a free showing of WONDER on Friday, February 23 at the New Brighton Borough Municipal Building, 610 Third Ave. The movie will start at 7:00 P.M.
R-ACT Theatre Productions is a non-profit community theatre group located in Beaver County with membership and participation open to anyone with a love of the performing arts.
Starting February 16th and again on the 17th, 23rd & 24th, R-ACT will be presenting Fractured Fairy Tales at the Avenue Theater on Brighton Ave in Rochester, PA. Showtime is 7PM.
Fractured Fairy Tales are edgy, twisted one act plays that are NOT the children‘s stories you may be expecting. You’ll see:
The Many Wives of Bluebeard
Nora the Narcoleptic
Not So Charming
Hansel & Gretel
The Piper
Tickets can be purchased at the door or on showclix.com.
Every adult in Beaver County should attend the Citizen’s Police Academy. It’s an informative, ten week classroom series that gives an inside look at the Beaver/Vanport Area Police operations. The purpose is to promote a greater awareness and better understanding of all local law enforcement’s continuously changing role in the community.
A different area of Police work – like criminal law and procedures, street crime enforcement/investigations and Youth programs –is covered each week with a variety of presenters.
Classes start March 12th. Applications may be picked up Monday through Friday from 8 to 4PM at the Beaver Police Department or the Vanport Township Building
This year commemorates the 70th anniversary of when Beaver County’s first radio station, WBVP, was heard over the airwaves for the the first time on May 25, 1948. To mark the historical event, each week, another “70th Anniversary Moment” will be showcased on the airwaves and published on the station’s online feeds.
Roy “Mickey” Angst (right) accepts an award for WMBA from the state in 1958. Photo courtesy of Mark Marek, Coal Region Connections.
In 1954, a group of eight people that made up Miners Broadcasting Service, Inc., headquartered in Pottsville, PA, purchased a ten acre plot of ground on a hill in Bell Acres that would eventually become the tower site for WMBA. Miners Broadcasting Service was already operating WPAM in Pottsville, which came on the air in 1946. The Angst brothers, John “Bud” Angst, and Roy “Mickey” Angst were both involved with the operation at WPAM out east as talented talk show hosts. Both men loved politics and Bud even served as a Commissioner in Carbon County at one point in time. Roy was sent out west in 1957 along with Managing Partner, Ken McGuire, to help get their new radio station in Ambridge, WMBA, on the air. Roy also served as WMBA’s first General Manager.
One of the things that Roy brought over from WPAM was the concept of the local call in talk show. In the early era of WMBA, Roy hosted a show called “Air Your Opinion”, that continued to air on the station for decades, later on hosted by Nick DeSantis, Barb Trehar and Rick Bergman, among others. Roy’s interest in politics was an asset to the on air conversation and most of the time, he was able to blend in his opinion on local issues quite successfully. His staunch opposition to and almost daily disputes over policy, procedures, issues in town, or really, almost anything, with then Ambridge Mayor, Walter Panek, made for very entertaining programming. So heated were their feuds that on more than one occasion, Angst found himself in a courtroom having to answer to charges filed by Panek, one such case going all the way to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court before being dismissed in 1962.
Roy Angst continued to work for WMBA until 1972, after which he moved back east.
Former competitors, WMBA and WBVP, began simulcasting programming in 2000, when the owner of WBVP at the time, Iorio Broadcasting, Inc., bought WMBA from Donn Communications.
“70th Anniversary Moments” is presented by Freedom United Federal Credit Union and Rochester Manor and Villa. Archived editions can be viewed on the 70th Anniversary Moments page.
Saturday, March 24, 2018. Class time: 1 PM to 3 PM
Learn to illustrate a flower in watercolor. Instruction will be given on basic techniques in composition, color value, and watercolor technique. COST: $65, all materials included.
Do you love to make people smile? Enjoy visiting with the elderly? The Crimson Line Auxillary Volunteer organization at Brighton Rehab & Wellness (formerly Friendship Ridge) is looking for volunteers of all ages. The group plans events and activities with the Brighton Rehab residents, which have included playing cards, reading & dancing. Help is needed for the many activities as well as simply visiting One on One…a listening ear, a kind face. Individuals can volunteer as little as one hour per month.
