Aliquippa resident Bernice(Medade)Mason will be honored Friday evening by Franklin Center  at an event entitled:AMONG THE LEGENDS;’AN EVENING WITH THE ICONS  OF BLACK HISTORY”, according to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. MC for the event is Betty Asche Douglas, artist, musician, and educator from Rochester.   CCBC  executive v.p., and provost Dr. Roger Davis will be introduced, , according to Valerie  Mcelvey. Mrs. mason graduated from Aliquippa high School in 1949, attended and graduated college in Hampton, Va,  where she earned a degree in elementary education. She taught in Hampton and Richmond while there.  Later she taught in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Coming back to Aliquippa  she taught GED and Badsic Education classes at CCBC for 5 years.  She served as a substitute teacher at ther alma mater, and even taught band. she added. Later, she became a full time prevention specialist with the Beaver County Prevention Project , retiring in 1992. She served on the B.F. Jones memorial Library Board , and founded medade Educational consultants. she commented: in a phone interview: “I used to be very busy in the community.  She suffered a stroke in 2009. Mrs. Mason said. Traditional Southern foods will be served, Mrs. Mcelvey (who will portray Harriet Tubman said and  otherperformances in commemoration of Black History Month will be featured. she said in a press release. No tickets will be sold at the door.  They may be purchased at Franklin Center or hair Holics.  Cost is $20 each..

There are still about 15-hundred Duquesne Light customers without power across Beaver County this morning after high winds moved through the region last night. Some of the hardest hit areas are Bridgewater in Beaver County and Bell Acres in Allegheny County. Most of the Duquesne Light outages are in Sewickley (1,157). Spokeswoman Jessica Rock tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that they expect power will be totally restored to the region by 6:00 tonight.

Monaca’s acting police chief Dave Piuri was promoted to chief at council’s meeting earlier this week, according to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. Piuri was named acting chief  following Bill Petures’s retirement . Petures is now working at the Beaver County Emergency Services Center as deputy director of the EMA. Chief Piuri  and borough manager Mario Leone were unavailable for comment.

Hopewell School Board accepted the resignation of board member Daria Minton at Monday night’s meeting, according to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano.  Ms. Minton moved out of the district.   Ms. Minton was appointed to the board and her term would expire at the end of 2017.Martin Byrnes, high school soccer coach resigned effective yesterday.  Spelling bees  for fourth graders were held at the district’s 3 elementary schools and  the winners will compete in the Scripps Howard Spelling Bee  at Robert Morris University on Saturday, March 11. Hopewell Elementary winner is Jenna Willy, Independence Elementary, Kristen Albertini, Margaret Ross Elementary, Emily Peroni.

The Beaver County Board of Commissioners’ regularly scheduled Wednesday work session was cancelled for today. No reason for the cancellation was given. The commissioners are expected to appear during our “Ask the Commissioners” segment during Teleforum on Beaver County Radio during the 9:00 hour Thursday morning. Guest host Frank Sparks will ask questions of the commissioners and will also take questions from listeners who call in to the show during this time.

Litter on state roadsides in several county towns is evident  with the coming of spring.  According to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, local police that were contacted said that the task is up to PennDOT. A PennDOT  spokesperson contacted yesterday said the state  road cleanups are seasonal. Several listeners who called in to Teleforum on Beaver County Radio complained to guest show host Frank Sparks about the littered roadsides.

State St. Elementary School in Baden,  is commemorating Dr. Seuss’s birthday tomorrow,  as  are other districts in the county. Kim Roppa, ACADEMIC BEHAVIOR COACH  said yesterday that children  and staff may come to school  as Dr. Seuss characters .  According to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano, prizes for dress and trivia will be featured, Ms. Roppa said. DROP EVERYTHING AND READ   will be for 15 minutes for the entire school she said. STAR  behavior award winners  received prizes last week a 6th grader won a $25 gift card to Target,the 2nd place winner won a gift card  for Subway for the student and a friend .A second grader won 3rd prize, a Sheetz gift card.  A district bus driver who identified winners won a Sheetz gift card, also.