Photo of Tristan Donica, submitted by Beaver Valley Choral Society

Beaver Valley Choral Society awards the 2023 Philip H. Inman Excellence in
Choral Conducting Arts Scholarship to Grove City College student, Tristan
Donica, of Meyersdale, Somerset County. The award ceremony takes
place on Sunday, March 26 at 4pm during the Choral Society performance
of “God So Loved the World” at Our Lady of the Valley Saints Peter & Paul
Parish, 200 Third Street, Beaver.
Tristan, son of Travis and Victoria Donica, Meyersdale, is a junior Music
Education major with concentration in vocal studies at Grove City. He is a
2020 graduate of Meyersdale Area High School. In addition to his vocal
studies Tristan is proficient at playing the saxophone and tuba.
Tristan’s interest in music began when he first performed in high school
musicals and leading worship at his home church, Meyersdale Grace
Brethren Church. He fell in love with choral music while singing in the
honors choir festivals sponsored by the Pennsylvania Music Educators
Association.

At Grove City College Tristan is featured vocalist with the Jazz Ensemble
and was baritone soloist in Faure’s Requiem Mass during the joint
performance of the Concert and Touring Choirs. Tristan also sings with
the College Chamber Singers and is a musician with the College Marching
and Concert Bands, Orchestra and Sax Quintet. Tristan frequently
performs at various Grove City recitals and events.
Tristan furthers his studies as featured vocalist with the Mercer Community
Band; as a student assistant for the Pittsburgh Youth Choir; volunteer youth
leader at Meyersdale Grace Brethren Church; and by assisting high school
choir and marching band students. He plans to become the director of a
junior or senior high school choir after he graduates from Grove City.
Tristan’s outside interests include spending time with friends, being with
nature, reading, listening to music, and going for drives.
The Inman Scholarship was established in 2001, in recognition of Philip H.
Inman (1932-2019), Artistic Director of the Beaver Valley Choral Society.
He was a former music educator at Rochester Area High School, in addition
to directing the Choral Society for 30 years. The $500.00 scholarship is
awarded annually to a music student who is focusing on the Choral Arts.
Colleges participating in the scholarship program are Carnegie Mellon and
Duquesne Universities and Geneva, Grove City and Westminster Colleges.

NATRONA HEIGHTS, PA – Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has embarked on a $12 million expansion project to enhance the imaging and radiology department at Allegheny Valley Hospital (AVH).
The new 8000-square-foot imaging center at AVH will expand the hospital’s current imaging department capabilities and absorb the services currently offered at AVH’s outpatient radiology center, located just a short two miles away from the hospital at 2801 Freeport Road in Natrona Heights. The Freeport Road radiology center will close in late summer.

When completed, the new AVH imaging facility will offer a full spectrum of radiology services and technologies, including additional breast imaging and mammography capabilities, as well as dual x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanning. DEXA measures bone density and helps to diagnose conditions such as osteoporosis.

AVH’s current imaging services include ultrasound, 3D mammography, CT scanning, MRI, and general radiography.

“This investment in Allegheny Valley and its radiology department will further advance our caregiving team’s ability to make the most accurate diagnosis possible for our patients, which helps us to address their health needs in a timely and clinically appropriate manner,” said Vicenta C. Gaspar-Yoo, MD, MBA, CHCQM-PA, Allegheny Valley’s president.

AVH is also in the process of building a new mobile imaging pad, which will allow for rotating MRI and PET-CT scan capabilities starting in August.

The Allegheny Valley service region continues to see robust demand for imaging services. In the last year, the Freeport Road radiology center performed 12,000 outpatient imaging procedures, and the AVH radiology department performed 31,000 imaging procedures.

“To better serve our diverse patient populations and communities, it is critical to have comprehensive imaging care close to home,” said Bethany Casagranda, DO, chair of the AHN Imaging Institute. “By combining our Natrona Heights location with AVH, patients will have everything they need conveniently located under one roof. This arrangement will help our patients live their best and healthiest lives. And that’s what our Living Health model is all about.”

Staff currently working at the AVH Freeport Road outpatient imaging location will be joining the expanded AVH imaging center, or they will have the opportunity for redeployment elsewhere within the AHN footprint.
AVH’s renovated radiology department is the latest in a series of recent investments in the hospital by AHN and Highmark Health. In January 2023, the hospital began a $3.4 million parking garage project to upgrade the structure’s integrity and drainage.

AHN and Highmark Health have invested approximately $400 million over the past several years to enhance the technological capabilities of the AHN Imaging Institute and expand its patient care capacity across the region.

In this weeks episode of Highmark Heroes, Jim Roddey speaks to Dr. George Eid,  Chair of Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at Allegheny Health Network. Later in the show Roddey is joined by Michelle Wilcox of Daugherty Township in New Brighton who served as a Navy Corpsman.

“Heroes” is presented by Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield and the Allegheny Health Network, airing Saturdays at 10:00 AM and Sundays at 12:30 PM on Beaver County Radio. Archived editions of “Heroes” can be heard at the Beaver County Radio Podcast Library.

Jeff Bost and Dr. Maroon talk about hard end of life decisions and hospice care this week on “Living Well”

Dr. Joseph Maroon is a world renown neurosurgeon with extensive experience in neurosurgery. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery to speed recovery for his patients. He is a sports medicine expert and innovator in concussion management, personal fitness and nutrition. Dr. Maroon is also the Pittsburgh Steelers team doctor.

Jeff Bost is a consultant to the St. Barnabas Health System. Bost is also a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a consultant to the WWE, and Clinical Assistant Professor at Chatham University. He has a special interest in minimally invasive spine and brain surgery and have collaborated on scores of scientific medical papers and books in these areas. Over the last 15 years he has researched, lectured and written on the use of alternative treatment for pain control.

Bost, along with Dr. Joseph Maroon have authored two books on the use of omega-3 fish oil, including: Fish Oil: The Natural Anti-Inflammatory, currently in its forth printing with over 75,000 copies sold and recently, Why You Need Fish Oil. He has given over 100 invited lectures, 24 national posters and oral presentations, 29 coordinated research projects, five workshops presentations, 35 scientific articles and 10 book chapters.

You can rune into “Living Well” every Saturday morning at 8:30 on 95.7 and 99.3 FM, 1230 WBVP, 1460 WMBA, and beavercountyradio.com.

You can also listen to all previous episodes of “Living Well” by going to beavercountyradio.com clicking on the Listen Live Button, Then chose Beaver County Radio and click on Podcasts in the upper right hand corner.

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Pastor David Grove of the Church of the Redeemed of Beaver Valley provides a message on the importance of the word of God this Saturday on “Wake Up Beaver Valley”.

“Wake Up Beaver Valley” airs every Saturday morning from 9 AM to 10 AM on Beaver County Radio and is presented by the Church of The Redeemed of Beaver Valley. Archived editions of “Wake Up Beaver Valley” can be heard at the Beaver County Radio Podcast Library.

Story by Sandy Giordano – Beaver County Radio. Published March 10, 2023 10:17 A.M.

(Hopewell Township, PA) Community Outreach Coordinator Nora Janicki  announced last week that 18 inch by 12 inch wooden Easter eggs are available in the township office to be decorated.  In a statement she said, “Work your magic to make your egg one of a kind. Take a photo of your egg and forward it to Nora at njanicki@hopewelltwp.com by March 20, 2023. The hunt begins on Friday, March 24, 2023. Eggs are to be displayed before kickoff. Nora will let you know where to display it.