WEST NILE VIRUS SPRAYING IS SET TO TAKE PLACE IN MONACA AND WEST ALIQUIPPA TONIGHT. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORREPSONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS MORE. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
THE ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK CANCER INSTITUTE MARKED A CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE AT ITS CENTER TOWNSHIP SITE YESTERDAY. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS THE STORY. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
THE HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT IS INVESTIGATING REPORTS OF A CHILD LURING AT A BUS STOP. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO SPOKE WITH THE POLICE CHIEF ABOUT THE INCIDENT. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
WEATHER FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 6TH, 2018
TODAY – SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE
MORNING AND AFTERNOON. HIGH – 85.
TONIGHT – CONSIDERABLE CLOUDINESS. A SHOWER OR
THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE. LOW – 67.
FRIDAY – CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A RAIN SHOWER.
HIGH – 81.
SATURDAY – OVERCAST. HIGH – 72.
SUNDAY – CLOUDY WITH PERIODS OF RAIN, POSSIBLY
HEAVY AT TIMES. HIGH – 66.
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.
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Not only is WBVP Radio celebrating a big anniversary this year, but one of its prominent sports shows is marking a major milestone as well. Now in it’s 30th season, listeners have been able to tune in to live interviews with area high school coaches as part of “Coaches Corner” on WBVP. For the past 18 years, the show has been simulcast on WBVP and WMBA. As the brainchild of former General Manager and sports director of WBVP, Chris Shovlin, “Coaches Corner” originally debuted as a weekly live broadcast in 1989 at the former Didio’s Restaurant in Rochester, PA. Much like it still is today, the broadcast was held on Wednesday evenings live on site at an a Beaver County area establishment where the public could come and watch the program live in person. Shovlin, along with Mark Razz and Bob Barrickman from WBVP would hold court and interview coaches of that era including Frank Marocco from Aliquippa, Frank Antonini from Ambridge, Maxie Williams from New Brighton, Larry Bruno from Beaver Falls and later on Geneva College, Karl Florie from Riverside, Pat Tarquinio from Beaver, Joe Hamilton from Blackhawk, Don Phillips from Center and Al Guandolo from Freedom and Monaca, among others, in those early editions of “Coaches Corner”.
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The show moved to The Best Cellar in Beaver Falls for the second season. The Best Cellar was located in the basement of the former Granada Theater and boasted a true night club atmosphere where nightly entertainment was featured at the venue and it gave the show a bit more of a show business atmosphere. The program spent a couple years housed in the basement level of the grand old, long since demolished, theater building in Beaver Falls before settling in at Robert’s Roadside Inn in Bridgewater, PA for season number four, and where it continues to be broadcast from even to this day, around 1991. Not long after moving to Robert’s Roadside Inn, “Coaches Corner” was extended into the winter months and began to feature guest
interviews with Beaver County, PA area high school basketball coaches, including people like John Miller from Blackhawk, Dave Podbielski from Beaver Falls, Mike Zmijanac from Aliquippa, and Dave Nichol from Monaca just to name a few. To date, somewhere around 600 “Coaches Corner” shows have been broadcast including dozens of state championship celebration editions with many local high school coaches along with their teams and fans. Many current and past head coaches that have appeared at Coaches Corner in recent days, initially tagged along with their former high school coaches as player guests to the program. To name a few, Ryan Matsook originally was interviewed on “Coaches Corner”, along with his dad and head coach, Dan Matsook, as a star wide receiver on Rochester’s 1998 state championship team and in recent years, the younger Matsook made many appearances when he served as the head football coach at Beaver Falls High School. Current Blackhawk High School head football coach, Zack Hayward, was also first introduced to the “Coaches Corner” audience as quarterback for the Cougars about ten years ago. Reon Nesmith originally piled in to the sports patio at Robert’s Roadside Inn with the rest of his 1994 Beaver Falls high school state championship basketball team as guests on the show, and has made encore appearances in modern times as an assistant with the Beaver Falls boys and head coach with the New Brighton girls basketball teams.
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In recent days, “Coaches Corner” still includes the very recognizable voice of host and anchor for the past 24 years, Bob Barrickman, along with fellow WBVP and WMBA sports announcers Tom Hays and Bruce Frey. Other announcers that have been part of the show over the years also included Jim Frederick, Kerry Lacey and Al Goehring.
Coaches Corner continues to air on Wednesday Nights throughout high school football and basketball seasons live from the sports patio at Robert’s Roadside Inn on Wednesday nights from 7 until 8 P.M.
“70th Anniversary Moments” is presented by Abbey Carpet and Floor, Albert’s Heating, Cooling and Plumbing, Aliquippa Giant Eagle, The Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, Beaver Valley Auto Mall, Beaver Valley Sheet Metal, Castlebrook Development, The Community College Of Beaver County, Farmers Building and Savings Bank, Freedom United Federal Credit Union, Hank’s Frozen Custard and Mexican food, The Health Huts, Kitchen City, Laughlin Insurance Agency, Rochester Manor and Villa and Young’s Jewelry and Coins.
An hour-long weekly work session at the Beaver County Courthouse found Commissioners Dan Camp and Sandie Egley opening the floor to guests and department heads alike. This was in contrast to the previous week where the Board of Commissioners’ updates dominated the meeting.
The main topic for Wednesday’s meeting was the continued speculation over the Watts Mill Bridge in South Beaver Township. Workin’ Bridges, an Iowa-based company that aims to restore historical bridges throughout the United States, appeared at the courthouse to talk about their interest and stake in the bridge built in 1878. Julie Bowers, who is the executive director of Workin’ Bridges, talked about the possible outcomes as she saw them:
Bowers also insisted that their passion for restoring bridges could branch out to other bridges in Beaver County; particularly the recently closed Fallston Bridge:
Meanwhile, Parks and Recreation director Tim Ishman spoke about how the heat has affected the condition of the Beaver County Ice Arena, which he also reminded those in attendance was still open to the public:
Commissioner Tony Amadio was absent from the September 5 work session due to a funeral.
AN ALIQUIPPA WOMAN FINDS HER NICHE AT THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS EXPESSION. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO NEWS CORRESPONDENT SANDY GIORDANO HAS HER STORY. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…
OVERNIGHT WORK BEGINS TONIGHT ON ROUTE 18 THIRD AVENUE IN NEW BRIGHTON. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO’S KAISHA JANTSCH HAS A PREVIEW. Click on ‘play’ to hear Kaisha’s report…
Giant Eagle is buying a former Toys R Us location near the Beaver Valley Mall. The location reportedly sold for three-point-seven-five million dollars after being put up for auction following the company’s bankruptcy. Giant Eagle officials have not announced any plans for the building yet.
Police are charging two people for dumping the body of a drug overdose victim in a vehicle in White Township. Carley Wiley and Frederick Cepris were charged last week after they allegedly left the body of 29-year-old Ryan Chiappetta of Big Beaver inside a vehicle near 23rd Street and 11th Avenue August 22nd. It’s believed Chiappetta died at Wiley’s home on the 28-hundred block of 20th Street Extension a day earlier. The two are in Beaver County Jail in lieu of 50-thousand dollars bail.