(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) Several topics including safety were discussed at the Beaver County Commissioners’ work session this morning at 10 a.m. at the Beaver County Courthouse in Beaver. “How does Beaver County safeguard their residents from violent attacks?” was a question that was asked to the Beaver County Commissioners during the audience participation segment of the session. Beaver County Solicitor Garen Fedeles responded by saying the Beaver County has “an ESU unit that is second-to-none, compared to other counties in the area, ours is much more tactically advanced, much more organized, and we can say for the residents of Beaver County, we have an elite unit that’s available that if something like that were to happen.” Beaver County Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp also mentioned that the Beaver County Commssioners have recently invested this past year in hiring one person full-time that focuses on training at certain places like schools, fairs and businesses so if something like an active-shooter event occurs in Beaver County In other business, Commissioner Jack Manning talked about two siginificant and successful recent events in Beaver County. The first event Manning talked about was the inaugural Beaver County EdFest that Manning and several thousands of people, mostly teachers, attended at the Community College of Beaver County Dome in Monaca on Monday. This event celebrated teachers and education professionals in the county for their work. Manning also talked about he and Commissioner Tony Amadio attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new additions to the Pittsburgh International Airport and their new terminal will open sometime before the Thanksgiving travel starts there. Manning also said that the Pittsburgh International Airport “has a big impact on Beaver County, because it again it solidifies our geographic position for economic development.” Fedeles also mentioned that in terms of the November 4th, 2025 election in Pennsylvania, 12,259 mail-in ballots were both printed out and requested. 5,594 of those mail-in ballots have been returned and that percentage of those ballots returned was the second-highest percentage in the state of Pennsylvania at 45%. Beaver County Recreation and Tourism Director Tony Caltury also mentioned that a three-day event, the Beaver County Kennel Club’s Autumn Barkfest dog show, which will take place at the Brady’s Run Ice Arena in Beaver Falls from Friday, October 17th through Sunday, October 19th from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on those days, which has over 600 entries for dogs to be shown in front of professional judges to try to win their specfic contests.