Tonight’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned, Steel Valley 50 at Sharon Speedway has been canceled. With the forecast for continued rain on an already saturated track and facility, Speedway and Series officials have been forced to cancel the event.
Anyone who purchased advanced tickets to the Steel Valley 50 will receive a refund. Please mail tickets along with name, address, and phone number to: Sharon Speedway, PO Box 159, Hartford, OH 44424.
Tune into the Lead Lap at 10:00 A.M. Tomorrow morning for update information on all the local racing action scheduled for this weekend.
The Blackhawk School Board has postponed its Thursday meeting another week. Items on the agenda of this meeting included an employee layoff vote and discussions on a bond to finance renovations on Northwestern Primary School. The announcement did not give any explanation for the delay, but board members have since said that not every member was able to attend the originally scheduled meeting, and they felt each member should have a say in these important decisions. The meeting is now re-scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on April 28th in the high school library.
The Aliquippa School Board approved two programs at last night’s meeting to help students k-3 to transition into the next grade level. This is according to Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano. She says that Dr. Pete Carbone says the program Jumpstart is targeted for k-1. It begins in August and ends August 11th. No services will be held on Friday. The k-3 program is for reading and math and begins Monday, June 6 and ends June 30. Funding is from the Kto program for both elementary teachers. Mrs. Debbie Frank, Mrs. Renee Bufalini and Mrs. Pam Owen, elementary teachers, will attend the KtO conference in Hershey June 20-23.
As expected, some bad news regarding the K-Mart Store in Chippewa Township. Beaver County Radio’s Greg Benedetti broke the story on AM Beaver County today that the Sears Holding Company has added the store to its list of Sears and K-Mart closures in the region. Sears had already announced the closure of the Sears store at the Beaver Valley Mall. The K-Mart in Chippewa will hold its liquidation sale in late April and early May. The Chippewa store closing is one of a half dozen closings in the Pittsburgh area.
Today…people all around the world celebrated the 46th Earth Day. Beaver County was no exception. New Brighton borough partnered with some local businesses to celebrate. The borough, the New Brighton Area School District and Campbell Laboratory and Waste Management united to bring Earth Day celebrations to our area. Doug Campbell – owner of Campbell Laboratory – tells Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak that more than 130 students and adults represented by the elementary, middle and high schools from the New Brighton Area School District – banned together this morning to clean up the community by picking up litter.
(Beaver County, PA) Ted and Ricky Young from Young’s Jewelry and Coins in Rochester appeared as special guest experts on Teleforum this morning with Host Mike Romigh. Ted and Ricky shared their lifetime of experience in coin collecting with WBVP and WMBA listeners. They also discussed values of other collectible items. Go look now in your attic for what you might have and then make plans to tune in to the next show with the experts from Young’s Jewelry and Coins, tentatively scheduled for May 27, 2016 beginning at 9:10 A.M. If you’ve got coins, you can’t afford to miss this valuable show! Listen to Beaver County Radio WBVP and WMBA for more details.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony “Smoke” Stewart has been cleared by his doctors and NASCAR to return to the driver’s seat of his number 14 Stewart-Haas racing Chevrolet effective this weekend at Richmond International Raceway. NASCAR has also announced Stewart will be receiving a waiver from NASCAR that will make him eligible for the chase later this year if he can win a race and be in the top 30 in points or somehow race his way in. Stewart was injured in a nonracing accident earlier this year breaking his back and requiring surgery. He has missed the first 8 races of the season. Tune into The Lead Lap with Frank Sparks this Saturday from 10 to 10:30 a.m. for more information on this developing story.
Riders gather in front of WBVP and WMBA on 7th Avenue in Beaver Falls, PA prior to the start of the 2015 “Run For McGuire”.
(Beaver County, PA) As Sunday August 7, 2016, the date for this year’s “Run For McGuire, A Special Ride For Special People“, gets ever closer, Beaver County Radio is making a special appeal to all local motorcycle enthusiasts to sign up for this year’s event. “Our goal this year is to have over 200 participants and raise over $5,000 for McGuire Memorial”, offered ride committee member Chuck Quinn at a recent meeting. Interested riders can visit the registration page at beavercountyradio.com to download and print a registration form.
This will be the third year of WBVP and WMBA sponsoring and organizing the annual fundraiser for the McGuire Memorial Foundation. This year’s motorcycle ride will again start on 7th avenue in front of WBVP and WMBA and end at Brady’s Run Park with a picnic for all participants.
“This Year’s Run For McGuire, A Special Ride For Special People”is sponsored by American Legion Riders Post 474 in Zelienople, Associates of Vietnam Veterans Chapter 862, Fischer’s New Brighton Foodland, Hyatt-Fennell,LLC, RAK Enterprises, Rochester/Beaver Lions Club, and Texas Roadhouse in Monaca.
Last year, over $2,000 in net proceeds was donated to support the ongoing mission of caring for God’s Special people at McGuire Memorial.
Pictures from the 2015 “Run For McGuire”
For more information, call WBVP and WMBA at 724-846-4100.
Beaver County – and Southwestern Pennsylvania as a whole – gets an “F” grade for air pollution. That’s the finding of the American Lung Association’s annual “State Of The Air” report. The report says that nationwide, air quality is improving overall, but pollution still threatens the health of more than half of all Americans.
Beaver County Radio News has spoken with all three players in the 15th Legislative District Democratic Primary controversy. Yesterday we spoke with Democratic Party candidate Michael Rossi and his opponent, former county commissioner Dennis Nichols, who recently switched from Democrat to Republican. Nichols told us he stands by his accusation that Rossi is in the race simply as the result of a political ploy, a plant by Republican State Representative Jim Christiana, in an effort to take Nichols out of the race so that Christiana doesn’t have to face him in the November elections. Nichols told us he’s convinced that Rossi and Christiana cut a deal based on their mutual support for Commissioner Dan Camp. Nichols told us he has a source who told him that Rossi and Christiana were seen together being friendly in a social situation within the last few weeks. Both Rossi and Christiana denied the accusations on the air, saying they haven’t seen each other in months. Today Christiana called the whole thing a “crazy conspiracy theory”.
