Friday’s Teleforum talk show with Eddy Crow will feature Matt Nance from Tiger Pause Youth Ministry, and Norm Mitry from Heritage Valley Health Systems. Teleforum also has your shot at a 25$ gift card from Al’s Corner in Koppel! Teleforum starts at 9:10am and goes till noon on am1230, am1460, fm99.3 presented by St. Barnabas, and now also on fm95.7!
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Story by Sandy Giordano, Beaver County Radio News Correspondent
Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 12:59 PM
(Aliquippa, Pa.) A rally was held outside the city building yesterday because residents of Towne Tower want things done to the apartment complex by the owners, and they have been making allegations the city isn’t helping them enough.
(Ambridge, Pa.) At 4 a.m Thursday morning . the AMWA was notified that a water line broke under the Ambridge-Aliquippa Bridge. Merchant St. to 8th St. is closed to traffic A water authority official and police confirmed the closure of the bridge. PennDot closed Route 65 in that area, according to police.
HARRISBURG – In response to Gov. Tom Wolf vetoing the citizens’ congressional redistricting map, Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) issued the following statement:
“Under the cover of darkness, much like the development of Gov. Tom Wolf’s map, the governor issued a vague and partisan gerrymandered-filled veto of the first citizens’ congressional map ever adopted by the General Assembly. Once again, Wolf has shown his failed leadership through his unwillingness to work across the aisle with Republicans in the Legislature on a constitutionally mandated requirement.
“Instead, Wolf has picked political brinkmanship and unnecessarily requiring the courts to address congressional redistricting instead of joining the General Assembly in adopting the first ever citizen-drawn map which did not use partisan data in the development of the map.
“We went from a redistricting process that was open to every Pennsylvanian, took into account feedback from countless residents and a Legislature-approved map drawn by a citizen to the Wolf way of having a few select members of the judiciary decide which map will be used.
“I am even more puzzled by Wolf’s reasons for his veto. In one argument he vetoes the bill because he doesn’t want politicians drawing the maps, but he himself, a politician, drew a map and he further supported politicians drawing maps by his opposition to Democrat members being “cut out” of the process. He further opposed the bill because it wasn’t drawn with more Democrat districts, and he opposed the splits in four counties of which he also split in his map. Finally, he made a vague statement about a violation of a court case without any reasons as to why or how the map violated the court case. Talk about hypocritical, nonsensical ramble.
“What can we surmise from Wolf’s veto message? He wanted a Democrat gerrymandered map drawn by Democrat politicians. The Republicans in the General Assembly showed tremendous leadership by using the most open and transparent congressional redistricting process in the history of the Commonwealth to select a citizen-drawn map for the first time in Pennsylvania history to end partisan gerrymandering. However, Wolf just wants a Democrat power grab to help the failing president. Wolf is just a typical politician who has failed Pennsylvania once again.”
(Matt Drzik/Beaver County Radio)
The Aliquippa Quips football team will remain in Class 4A.
The announcement comes following a 21-4 vote by the PIAA to accept the team’s appeal Wednesday night. The Quips were originally set to play up to Class 5A despite an enrollment qualified for Class 1A due to the competitive-balance rule put in place by the state.
The appeal was brought forth after assertions by several personnel, chiefly Aliquippa superintendent Phillip Woods and football head coach Mike Warfield that moving the Quips up another classification would result in a risk to player safety, and an unfair positioning among larger schools. The Quips had previously been moved up to Class 4A for the 2020 season.
Aliquippa will have a chance to defend its Class 4A WPIAL and PIAA crowns next season, but they will receive challenging company as Central Valley will join the Quips in Class 4A following three consecutive WPIAL Championships and back-to-back PIAA titles in Class 3A. In fact, the last school to win a Class 3A WPIAL football title before Central Valley’s current run was–ironically–Aliquippa, who won the 2018 title over Derry en route to their 3rd PIAA state title.
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Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 8:59 AM
(Aliquippa, Pa.) Beaver County radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano is reporting a water line broke in front of the Aliquippa Fire Department on Kennedy Blvd. Thursday morning causing the road to be closed. Aliquippa Police Chief John Lane reported a short time ago. Motorists should avoid the area.
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Those numbers and more explained tomorrow on A.M. Beaver County, with Matt Drzik and Frank Sparks starting your morning at 6:30.
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“I think they always talk about the five most dangerous words in healthcare, and that’s ‘maybe it will get better’.”
Those words, from physician Dr. Jared Yevins of Tri-State Neuropathy in Beaver, describes the many patients who put off treatment for neuropathy for years until the pain becomes unbearable, and it leads to seeking treatment to remove the feelings of sharp jabs and numbness from the nervous system. He and fellow physician (and founder) Dr. Shawn Richey joined Matt Drzik on the January 26 edition of A.M. Beaver County to talk about the dangers of avoiding proper treatment and settling for a short-term solution.
“Most patients don’t come in and say ‘This started two weeks ago’,” Yevins stated. “Most patients come in and say ‘Hey, this started ten years ago, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago.’ This is a process that has been taking place for a long time; there’s a lot of damage and a lot of destruction in that area.”
“10 percent of Americans suffer from this,” Richey added. “That’s roughly 30 million people who are suffering. But you’re not alone…there’s a hundred reasons that cause neuropathy; we’d say the four major ones are diabetes, back issues, certain medications, and chemotherapy.”
Tri-State Neuropathy is located at 701 5th Street in Beaver, with additional offices in Wexford, Washington, Monroeville, Boardman, and Weirton. The Beaver Office can be reached by phone at (878)-313-3019, or by visiting their website at marydancedin.com for more information.
To listen to the full interview with Dr. Richey and Dr. Evans, click on the player below.
(Harrisburg, Pa.) The state Senate this week approved critical funding for hospitals and frontline health care workers who continue to keep Pennsylvanians safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47, said.
House Bill 253 would allocate a total of $225 million to hospitals and their employees. The additional dollars will be allocated as follows:
$100 million for acute care general hospitals.
$110 million for critical access hospitals, facilities with a high volume of Medicaid patients, and behavioral/psychiatric providers.
$15 million for the PA Student Loan Relief for Nurses Program.
Of that total, the major health care facilities that provide services to those living in the 47st Senatorial District are to receive a total of nearly $4.5 million. Those receiving funding include:
Butler Memorial Hospital – $837,018
Grove City Medical Center – $190,749
Heritage Valley Beaver – $811,395 (plus and additional $140,183 for its behavioral health facility)
Heritage Valley Sewickley – $455,520
UPMC Jameson North – $415,662
UPMC Cranberry Campus – $102,492
UPMC Passavant – $1,101,789
Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center – $70,092
Butler Memorial Hospital – $179,610
Mars Home for Youth (MHY) Family Services – $175,229
The legislation requires the funding to be directed to retention and recruitment programs for staff. Hospital executives and administration, contracted staff and physicians would not be eligible for payments.
The bill was also approved by the House of Representatives, sending the legislation to the governor.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s state Senate is approving veto-destined legislation to help gun owners and gun-rights organizations collect damages in court from cities that passed firearms restrictions that were found to violate state law. Despite the veto threat by Gov. Tom Wolf, the bill passed the Republican-controlled chamber Tuesday, 32-17, with three Democrats joining every Republican in support of it. The bill goes to Wolf’s desk, the latest in a long-running disagreement with the Democrat over how to deal with gun violence. Pennsylvania has long prohibited its municipalities from enforcing firearms ordinances that regulate guns and ammunition. That law is being challenged in court by Philadelphia and other municipalities.