(File Photo of the Penn State Beaver Logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Monaca, PA) Jim and Evelyn Piazza, a couple from New Jersey, will speak at a special event on Wednesday, November 12th from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Penn State Beaver Auditorium in Monaca. This free event that is open to the public is to raise awareness about the negative effects of alcohol because the son of the Piazzas, twenty-year-old Timothy Piazza, died on February 3rd, 2017 at Penn State University after a night of hazing which involved alcohol. The couple has also educated teens at colleges across the country about important life skills like binge drinking, social media, being a good friend, and doing the right thing. The Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law has been yielded from the work of the Piazzas, and their appearance at Penn State Beaver is part of a two-year program there to educate young people about the dangers of both drinking and drugs.