(File Photo of the main entrance of Rochester School District taken by Curtis Walsh)
Story by Frank Sparks, Beaver County Radio
(Rochester, Beaver County, Pa.) A Beaver County Radio listener made Beaver County Radio News aware of a letter that was sent to parents in the Rochester Area School District about a reported attempted child luring as an elementary school student was on their way home from school on Tuesday Afternoon.
The letter said the incident occurred along Heller Street and a man in late 40’s or early 50’s approached the student and attempted to grab them.
The district said in the letter that the incident was reported to Rochester Borough police and school officials and that police will continue to patrol neighborhoods and that school staff and security will be patrolling the school campus.
Dr. Jane Bovalino, School Superintendent, said in the letter that ” As a school community, the safety of our children is of utmost importance. Please remind your children to always be alert of their surroundings. Children should also practice the buddy system and always walk with a friend. Please remind your children to never approach strangers.”
No arrests have been announced as officials are continuing to investigate.
As the initial hubbub from the bidding wars dies down, it’s now down to a matter of numbers for Beaver County in the case of purchasing new radio equipment. The preliminary estimates for each municipality were released on Wednesday at the Commissioners’ work session, presented by Solicitor Garen Fedeles.
“Some of these amounts,” Fedeles stated, “especially for the fire departments, are between twenty and forty-some thousand dollars for the various departments. I don’t know if, once they see the number, if this is something that they’re going to stick with.”
Fedeles said that the law department will be seeking responses from municipalities with a tentative deadline of the end of May.
(Allegheny County, Pa.) Today,Pennsylvania State Senator Wayne Fontana commended the Department of Environmental Protection for investing in electric vehicles for use in Allegheny County. Across the commonwealth, funding went to 13 municipalities and businesses for 15 projects, including a $52,500 investment in electric pickup trucks and cars that will be used by Allegheny County police, park rangers, and the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.
“I’m proud to see state funds support local efforts to reduce harmful emissions and build environments that are healthier to breathe in,” said Sen. Fontana. “The DEP reports transportation generates 47% of nitrogen oxides emissions in Pennsylvania. This is bad for the planet but also the health of young people, older people, and those with lung conditions like asthma or emphysema. These grants provide multiple benefits for Allegheny County, allowing us to take action against climate change, provide healthier communities, and reduce our dependence on gas.”
Grants awarded to Allegheny County included:
$45,000 for four electric pickup trucks and two electric cars for use by Allegheny County police, park rangers, and facilities management staff.
$7,500 for an electric car for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority.
The grants were awarded by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from the Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) program. The program supports a move toward zero- and low-emission transportation in Pennsylvania by providing funding to help municipalities, businesses, and nonprofit organizations replace older gasoline- or diesel-fueled vehicles with electric, renewable natural gas, compressed natural gas (CNG), ethanol, biodiesel, or propane gas fueled vehicles.
A list of all grant recipients can be found online.
(Pittsburgh, Pa.) Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Center for Inclusion Health, led by internist Elizabeth Cuevas, MD, has been recognized by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) with its 2022 Quality and Practice Innovation Award. Dr. Cuevas was recently presented with the award in Orlando, Fla. at the society’s annual meeting.
AHN’s Center for Inclusion Health (CIH), part of the AHN Medicine Institute, was formed in 2014 as one of the nation’s first comprehensive programs of its kind focused on meeting the health care needs of individuals in underserved or marginalized populations. Through a coordinated and compassionate care delivery model, and using evidence-based interventions, its programs address obstacles that can make it difficult for people to access care, including addiction, food insecurity, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, gender diversity, incarceration, immigration, and more.
Dr. Cuevas was instrumental in launching the Center and was named its division chief in 2020. As part of her role, she works to ensure consistent delivery of CIH’s mission to provide compassionate, accessible care to individuals with unmet health and wellness needs.
According to SGIM, the Quality and Practice Innovation Award recognizes general internists and their organization that have successfully developed and implemented innovative systems of practice improvement in ambulatory and/or inpatient clinical practice.
“Congratulations to Dr. Cuevas and to the entire team for this much deserved recognition. The CIH team’s highly skilled, selfless approach to caregiving impacts their patients’ lives beyond measure, and is a shining example for how health care can and should transform lives,” Susan Manzi, MD, MPH, chair of the AHN Medicine Institute.
(Allegheny County, Pa.) PennDOT is announcing short-term traffic stoppages on northbound Interstate 79 in Glenfield Borough and Aleppo Township beginning today.
Short-term traffic stoppages of 15 minutes or less will occur on northbound between the Neville Island Bridge and the Kilbuck Street on-ramp to northbound I-79. Work will occur weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through mid-May. Crews will conduct bridge jacking operations for bearing pad replacement work.
The work is part of the $26.49 million I-79 improvement project. Future improvements include four bridge deck replacements, one bridge preservation, milling and resurfacing, preservation work on seven sign structures, installation of five new ITS signs, guide rail improvements, signage updates, and pavement marking installation. Crossovers will occur on I-79 in 2022 and 2023 for bridge deck replacement work. The majority of the project will conclude in the fall of 2023.
(McKees Rocks, Pa.) A 26-year-old man was shot multiple times last night at the corner of Helen and Ella streets in McKees Rocks.
The Allegheny County Police Department said that
first responders found the victim shot multiple times. The victim was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. No other information is available as Police Officers are investigating.
(AP Photo/Morry Gash)
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Corbin Burnes struck out 10 and allowed two runs in seven innings to earn his first win of the season as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2. The Brewers won their third straight despite getting held to a season-low three hits. The Pirates had a season-low four hits. Rowdy Tellez and Hunter Renfroe homered for the Brewers. Daniel Vogelbach and Josh VanMeter had solo shots for the Pirates. Burnes gave up four hits and didn’t walk anybody.
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has confirmed a positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a flock of commercial layer chickens in Lancaster County.
Also known as “high path AI”, there is no immediate public health concern since no human cases of avian influenza have been detected in the United States. However, it can cause sudden death, lack of energy and appetite, decreased egg production and more in infected birds.
Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said an interagency task force is working to address the threat from the disease and protect the state’s $7.1 billion poultry industry.
“Biosecurity is most important for anyone who owns or works with poultry,” he said. “Anyone visiting a farm should be aware that your vehicles and shoes may carry the virus from other places you have traveled. Clean them thoroughly and stay away from the poultry barns unless you have to be there.”
This is the first positive case of high-path AI in commercial poultry in the state since an outbreak in 1983 and 1984. Infections in commercial and backyard poultry flocks have been confirmed in 29 states, including most surrounding Pennsylvania.
The Department of Agriculture has quarantined the farm and all commercial poultry facilities within a 10-kilometer radius of the infected flock. Jeff Warner, acting deputy secretary of animal health and food safety, said it’s important for poultry producers in the state to ensure biosecurity practices are part of their daily routine.
“The ability to identify where poultry flocks are located in a disease outbreak is important to help animal-health officials stop the spread of the disease quickly, he said. “Using premises’ ID, state officials can quickly notify all flock owners of a dangerous disease in their area and recommend testing if needed to rule out the disease.”
By Mark Peterson. Published April 20, 2022, 6:00 A.M.
(Beaver County, PA) Guglielmo Marconi was born on April 25, 1874. He was an Italian inventor and businessman who was the most responsible for creating what we all enjoy, love and know as radio. Beaver County Radio will honor Marconi and the business he gave birth to on his birthday with a special line up of guests highlighting the discovery and development radio.
Ken Mueller
From 9 to 10 A.M., Ken Mueller will join Teleforum show host, Eddy Crow. Ken will take you on a trip all the way back to the late 1800’s when great men like Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Telsa, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz and Reginald Fessenden made it possible for you to “tune in” to the radio today. Ken Mueller graduated from Geneva College with a degree in broadcasting and has a master’s degree in mass communications from Penn State University. He began his radio career right here at WBVP from 1982 through 1984. Ken then held other positions in the radio industry in Lancaster, Philadelphia, and New York, at both the local and network levels. Additionally, he spent 13 years as the Radio Curator at the Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media) in NYC and Beverly Hills. He is currently the Director of Public Relations and Development for the Occupational Development Center in Lancaster, PA.
John Poister
The spirit of invention that Guglielmo Marconi embodied will be further exemplified from 10 to 11 A.M. That is when well-known Pittsburgh radio personality and historian, John Poister, will be Eddy Crow’s special “Marconi Day” guest on Teleforum. John will take a look at a very exciting time for our region. Specifically, back to the 1920’s when radio stations were first coming on the air in Pittsburgh. John will talk about the formation and startup of the five original Pittsburgh radio stations including KDKA, KQV, WCAE, WWSW and fellow St. Barnabas Radio Network Station, WJAS. John Poister has been a radio junkie since he was 6 years old. After graduating with a Communications degree from Ithaca College, John got his professional start right here at WMBA in Ambridge. Along the way, John also lent his talents to WEBO-Owego, NY, WIXZ-McKeesport, KQV-Pittsburgh, WTAE-TV and Radio-Pittsburgh, WPGH-TV-Pittsburgh, WSHH/WJAS/WPTT-Pittsburgh, WPXI-TV-Pittsburgh and WMNY-Pittsburgh. In addition, John served briefly as Allegheny County Communications Manager and was the media spokesperson for the State Department of Environmental Protection’s Southwest Region. He is currently the afternoon news anchor for WHJB -FM in Greensburg.
The final hour of Teleforum on Marconi Day will celebrate the hobby and tradition of Amateur Radio. Representatives from the Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association will talk about the popularity of doing more than just listening. Since its beginning, wireless communication has always been an amazing way to exchange information between people. Initially, radio waves were used to send and receive Morse Code signals back and forth between individuals. Here is a sample of our stations call letters, WBVP, WMBA and WJAS, translated to Morse Code:
Being connected with other people around the world with wireless communication is very important and it has become a big part of our everyday lives. Long before the internet and cellular phones made this type of communication commonplace, radio pioneers were the ones who first envisioned and then introduced it. While it has evolved over the years, two-way radio wave voice communication continues to proliferate today in an F.M. bandwidth that is a little higher than the one in you can pick up in the dashboard of your car. Amateur Radio operators work their craft between 144 and 148 Megahertz. Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association will open the door to this amazing word as part of Marconi Day on Beaver County Radio.
International Marconi Day takes place this year on April 23, 2022. The day is a 24-hour amateur radio event which celebrates the career of Italian wireless communications pioneer, Guglielmo Marconi. The event takes place each year on the Saturday closest to Marconi’s birthday, which was on April 25, 1874. The on-air tribute to Marconi and the special segments on Beaver County Radio will take place on Marconi’s birthday, Monday April 25, 2022.
(File Photo) Story by Frank Sparks and Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio (Aliquippa, Pa.) Pa State Police at the Beaver Barracks are reporting that they have filed criminal homicide charges against 29-year-old Tyquan Cornell Johnson of Aliquippa.
Troopers say that Johnson murdered 22-year-old Isaiah Alston, of Aliquippa at the intersection of Irwin and Meadows Streets in the early morning hours of April 10, 2022. Alston sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Shortly after police arrived on scene they received a report of a person being shot in the 1200 block of Franklin Ave. in Aliquippa. When police arrived they found Johnson had been shot multiple times. Johnson was transported to a Pittsburgh hospital for his injuries. Aliquippa Police asked PSP to take over the investigation.
Aliquippa Police Chief John Lane told Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano that “PSP did an outstanding job. This is the way all of our crimes against persons should be handled, and the families deserve swift justice.”
State Police have charged Johnson with criminal homicide, prohibited person from possessing a firearm, possession of a firearm with manufacture number altered/obliterated, firearms not to be carried without a license, recklessly endangering another person.
He is currently being housed in the Beaver County Jail awaiting a preliminary hearing.
