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Category Archives: Youth
2023 Campaigns and Beyond – Quaker Valley School Board
Your Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true. – Galadriel, from The Fellowship of the Ring by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Economics, Education, Government, History, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Security, Youth
Tagged Bud Smith, Edgeworth Borough, Gianni Floro, Jessica Webster, John English, Leet Township, Leetsdale Borough, Melissa Walls, Muottas, Quaker Valley GOP, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Thomas Tull, William Jasper
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October Shorts – Books, Babies, Backpedaling, and Basketball
Banned Books Week – Muted Locally? This corner has made banned books a focus, especially over the last year or so. As such, the recognition of Banned Books Week here should be of no surprise to any regular visitor. This … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community, Development, Economics, Environment, Government, Growth, Health, History, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, Sports, Youth, Zoning
Tagged Allegheny County Library Association, Allegheny Health Network, Andy Sheehan, Ashley Birtwell, Avalon Public Library, Banned Books Week, Blacksmith's House, Buncher Commerce Park, Citizens Concerned for EMS, Edgeworth Borough, Heritage Valley, KDKA-TV, Kris Mamula, Leetsdale Borough, Leetsdale Industrial Park, Little Sewickley Creek, Miller's House, Moon Township Public Library, Norm Mitry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Preserve Edgeworth, Rize Sports, Ruth Neely, Sewickley Academy, Sewickley Public Library, Sewickley Valley Historical Society, Thomas Tull
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Summer Shorts: Walmart Taketh Away…and Giveth?
A key historical reference point in the continued opposition to the construction of a new Quaker Valley High School is the 2006 landslide at the construction site of a Walmart, on the site of the former Dixmont State Hospital in … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Development, Government, Growth, History, Local, Media, Politics, Schools, Traffic, Youth
Tagged Aleppo Township, Citizens for a Great School, Economy Borough, Edgeworth Borough, Emergency Management, Kilbuck Township, Leet Township, Ohio Township, Plum Borough, Quaker Valley COG, Quaker Valley High School, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, QV Strong, Walmart, William Jasper
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Summer Shorts: Fifty Years Gone – What Have We Learned?
Everyone of us who is the parent of a teenage child understands the problems of raising children today. Every vice seems to be hurled at these youngsters. It is almost as though we are wrestling with the Devil himself. Parents … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Faith, Family, History, Local, Media, Youth
Tagged Allegheny County Police, Betty G.Y. Shields, Boy Scouts of America, Child Sex Abuse, Cynthia Dworchak, Human Trafficking, John Besong, Juvenile Runaways, Leet Township Police, Leetsdale Police, Missing Children, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Rev. John Guest, Roman Catholic Church, Sewickley Herald, St. Stephens Church Sewickley
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In Praise of Libraries – New Pathways vs. Old Attitudes
If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time, you know that my family is rather enamored of our local library. The Sewickley Public Library is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year – my wife has held a library … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Community, Family, Government, History, Justice, Local, Media, Personal, Pittsburgh, Politics, Schools, Youth
Tagged American Library Association, Andrew Carnegie, Banned Books, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carolyn Toth, Jessica Whipple, Judy Blume, Kathleen Madonna-Emmerling, Leetsdale Borough, Moms for Liberty, Moon Township, Moon Township Public Library, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Quaker Valley School Board, Quaker Valley School District, Sewickley Public Library
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Book Bans, and Other Boogeymen
As a teenager, my interest in reading ran the gamut of the literature of the time period. I was already a voracious newspaper and magazine reader – I had a student subscription to Newsweek (courtesy of my 8th grade social … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government, History, Human Rights, Local, Media, Personal, Politics, Schools, Youth
Tagged American Library Association, Banned Books, Conservative, Critical Race Theory, First Amendment, LGBTQIA+, Quaker Valley School District, Racism, Republican Party, Sewickley Public Library
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With Wings As Eagles…
I hope that this past month has been a good one for you. I spent the first weeks of this month preparing for a trip to Colorado to observe and celebrate my son’s college graduation – a watershed moment in … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Family, Grand Junction, Media, Personal, Public Safety, Travel, Youth
Tagged Bald Eagle, Graduation, Pittsburgh
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Initiate Shutdown Sequence
Sounds awfully cold and technical for making a major change in one’s life, doesn’t it?I think so too. Sorting through things, packing, discarding, setting aside for the future – this always brings me face-to-face with the past, what was and … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Personal, Technology, Youth
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Your Christmas Break Beer Pong Headquarters
Walmart, Grand Junction, CO (West), 12/22/10 This end cap (retail parlance for the shelves at the end of an aisle) display is a recent addition to one of Grand Junction’s two Walmart stores. It has two items on it; 18-ounce … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Business, Censorship, Local, Youth
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