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Turkey Bowling Goes Over Big

Rotary clubs gobble up funds for mission to eradicate polio

Logan Maxwell, co-owner of the Germinator, shows good form during the “Turkey Bowling in Diamond Park” fundraiser Wednesday. Below, Crichton Bly, 4, receives a little help from his mother, Audrianna Bly. The Butler A.M. and P.M. Rotary clubs raised $500 for Rotary International's “End Polio Now” campaign in honor of Oct. 24, which is World Polio Day.

The Butler A.M. and P.M. Rotary clubs had fun and raised funds on Wedensday by bowling in Diamond Park using frozen turkeys and a makeshift alley.

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Performing Under Pressure

Moniteau standout brings intensity to nursing

Alazia Greaves interlocked her fingers and began compressions.

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Clinic helps take care of pets

Erica Daniels of the spay-neuter clinic gives a dog a vaccine during the Butler County Humane Society's vaccination day at Alameda Park on Saturday.

The monthly Butler County Humane Society vaccination clinics held at Alameda Park are over for 2020 and will restart in the spring.

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Homecoming Royalty

Jaden Davinsizer was crowned queen and William Scabilloni king during Seneca Valley’s Homecoming pregame festivities on Saturday at NexTier Stadium.

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'Monsters' walk in Butler

Butler Parks and Recreation hosted around 150 children and their families for the annual Monster Walk on Saturday at Alameda Park.

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All aboard Caboose tours offered; donations accepted

Items for food bank requested

The little red caboose from Cooper Station made its way to its new home in Cabot alongside the Buffalo bike trail on Sept. 11. Tours will be offered this Saturday; a donation to the food bank at Cabot United Methodist Church is requested.

Tours of the red caboose recently moved to the Butler-Freeport Community Trail's Cabot trailhead will be offered on Saturday.

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Robotics haunted houses

Alex Kamerer and Noah McCall, both 10, of Butler, work together on the final touches of a robotics haunted house equipped with motors, sensors and LED lights. The six-week program was hosted by Kid’s Innovation Playground, which was founded by retired Moniteau teacher Lorraine Shaffer.

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COVID-Adapted Celebration

Portersville church begins bicentennial

The Rev. Dana Opp, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Portersville, 1297 Perry Highway, said his church has begun events marking its 200-year history.

PORTERSVILLE — “We're just trying to figure it out,” said the Rev. Dana Opp, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Portersville, describing how the church has begun to celebrate its bicentennial year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Homecoming Royalty

Charlie Kreinbucher and Aubree Tack were named the 2020 Tornado prince and princess at Butler High School’s homecoming Friday. Charlie is the son of Chuck and Kathy Kreinbucher of Butler. Aubree is the daughter of Mike and Jen Tack of East Butler.

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Volunteers help with fall cleanup

Volunteers Gaye Wright, Amanda Snyder and Rich Cotherman helped with the Fall Great American Cleanup of PA on Saturday in East Brady.

Volunteers in East Brady and from surrounding communities participated in the Fall Great American Cleanup of PA on Oct. 17.

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Rotary group spruces cemetery

Right toppled tombstones, clear brush

Daniel McFarland and Jamie Antoszyk work to replace fallen tombstones at Saxonburg Cemetary, part of the Saxonburg Rotary's efforts to fix up the cemetary which includes graves that date back to the 1800s.

SAXONBURG — Frost was still on the grass in the Saxonburg cemetery Saturday morning when chain saws fired up.

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Chucking for a Cause

Cornhole tournament raises money for park

0662: Matt Sheppeck, left, tosses a cornhole bag on Saturday at Pullman Park.

Several dozen men gathered at Michelle Krill Field at Historic Pullman Park for a cornhole fundraiser Saturday.

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TRICK OR TREAT HOURS

Adams Township, trick or treat, 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31

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Gauge holiday virus risk based on event size, strategies

While the novel coronavirus pandemic has interrupted many of annual traditions, it seems many families are dead-set on celebrating Halloween during quarantine, according to Good Housekeeping

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Halloween, Safely

Maintaining traditions, with precautions

Trick-or-treaters visit socially distanced candy stations in Cranberry Township's Candy Graveyard during its Halloween Outdoor Celebration Thursday. Families are finding ways to celebrate the fall festivities with coronavirus precautions.

It's like something out of a horror movie: a monster roams the countryside as families huddle behind locked doors in fear. But this Halloween, it isn't the wolfman abroad under Oct. 31's full moon. It's the coronavirus that's still stalking the land.

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Super Evening in Cranberry

“Super Girl” Lily Martin, 4, of Cranberry Township runs ahead of her mom and sister to the next reading station Thursday evening at Cranberry's Halloween Outdoor Celebration. The free event included socially distanced trick-or-treating stations, the reading walk and an outdoor showing of a movie.

Witches, warriors, super heroes, princesses and a few junior first responders took over Cranberry Township Municipal Center Thursday, kicking off an early start to Halloween.

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Community agency hosts driving Trunk or Treat

Kathy Perry, adult day services coordinator at Community Care Connections in Connoquenessing Township, hands out candy and treats to Robin Swope, back seat, and Darl Leise during the agency's Trunk or Treat Halloween event Thursday.

Social distancing, face masks and gloves didn't get in the way of a good time during the Community Care Connections' Trunk or Treat Halloween event Thursday.

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Homecoming Court

BUTLER – The Butler High School homecoming princess and prince will be crowned before the 7:00 p.m. football game tonight against Blackhawk High School.

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White Cane Awareness Day

Nat'l. Blind Federation promotes education

Kadyn Czepiel, a sixth-grader at Dassa McKinney Elementary School, practices using his cane Tuesday with Jessica Sloan, his orientation and mobility teacher. The National Federation of the Blind conducts White Cane Awareness Day on Oct. 15 each year.

Jessica Sloan, vision teacher with Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV, works on orientation and mobility with more than 40 area students with visual impairments.

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Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland is coming back

Bill Kiser, project manager for Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland, tightens the lightbulbs on the lighted tunnel at the Big Butler Fairgrounds on Wednesday. Over the next six weeks, Kiser and his crew will work seven days a week, rain or shine, to install nearly 1 million lights.

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Mechanical Mission

Mars robotics students launch effort

Above, Mars Robotics team members Lindsey Gourash, 15, and Mitchell Kulfan, 14, work on the prototype designs for this year's competition robot. Below, Jacob Noe, 12, works on a prototype shooting mechanism for this year's Mars Robotics Team robot.

Kids in the Mars Robotics Association presented plans for uses the potential Mars Discovery Center may hold to local and NASA officials.

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Emily Brittain students support SOAR program

Students at Emily Brittain Elementary School support Butler Area School District's SOAR program Friday by wearing yellow shirts provided by the school's Parent Teacher Association.