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Buffalo soldier, 98, doesn't want black history erased

Descendants help tell their untold stories

Dee Craig-Arnold, a Navy veteran, holds a photograph of her grandfather, Sgt. Alfred Jerome Franklin, a prominent member of the Buffalo Soldiers who participated in the Battle of San Juan Hill.

When Clyde Robinson was drafted into the U.S. Army's 9th Cavalry Regiment in 1942, he had never heard of the buffalo soldiers. He did not know that he would become part of the storied, complicated legacy of the all-black regiments of the U.S. military.

2/19/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Volunteers brighten hospital corridors

Donna Steinheiser, Butler Health System auxiliary president, sorts through handmade toys that will be given as gifts to children who go to the emergency room.

When Donna Steinheiser's husband died six years ago, she could not return to Butler Meals on Wheels, a place the couple had spent their time volunteering.

2/18/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Butler Health System Auxiliary

The Auxiliary is comprised of retired professionals, homemakers, and hospital employees who assist hospital staff.

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A Dose of Music

Therapy suitable for many situations

Kathryn Cotter, left, accompanies Jeannie Allen in a song during the Opus I Music Society's program last week. As a music therapist, Cotter talked about how she has used the power of song to improve lives.

ADAMS TWP — Guitar in hand, Kathryn Cotter was faced with a situation of immense sadness.

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Chinese culture

HIS Kids School kindergartners Jordan Spinetti and Jadyn Tack-Stillwell received lessons in chopstick use from Mrs. Xiaojuan (Tracy) Burtner, mother of HIS Kids students Ian and Ethan during Chinese New Year celebrations last week.

2/16/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Tips to take the dogs out in rain

Most of our dogs detest going out in wet weather, which means we’re either dragging them outside or cleaning up pee and poop in the house.

2/16/2019 Community Features 0 comments

'LOVE ME GENTLY'

Humane society launches Shelter Buddies Reading Program

Christina Wyse, 10, reads to Frankie the cat at the Butler County Humane Society recently. The Wyse family has been volunteering at the shelter since the summer, including reading to the cats.

Frankie's fluffy white ears twitched as he purred along to the soft reading of 10-year-old Christina Wyse.

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Mars library receives upgrade

Children's room gets attention

Renovations to the Mars Area Library have brought Library Director Caitlyn Boland out of maternity leave, Thursday, to oversee the installation of new furniture and additions to the library's busiest room: the kids' room.

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Valentine's Viewpoint

Pastors' message: Love more than hearts and flowers

Love is in the air. And on the airwaves. And was pretty much inescapable as Valentine's Day approached.

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Mission on a Hill

A border fence could seal off a tiny Texas chapel, but its worshipers aren’t giving up

A border patrol agent keeps watch from a levee road overlooking La Lomita church in Mission, Texas, in January. The church opposes the border wall and its 150-foot “enforcement zone” that would swallow the white-washed outpost.

MISSION, Texas — Dozens of people packed into the one-room chapel Friday to pray that the 19th century mission known as La Lomita, perched on a hill above the Rio Grande, won’t be sealed off behind a border fence.

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Ousted conservative criticizes pope

Cardinal Mueller pens ‘manifesto’

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s former doctrine chief has penned a “manifesto of faith” to remind Catholics of basic tenets of belief amid what he says is “growing confusion” in the church today.

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U.S. nuns urge church to address abuse by priests

Group calls for guidelines

Nuns sit at a cafe in Rome on Friday. The Vatican’s women’s magazine is denouncing the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and the resulting “scandal” of religious sisters having abortions or giving birth to children who are then not recognized by their fathers.

VATICAN CITY — The largest association of religious sisters in the United States has called for an overhaul of the male-led leadership structure of the Catholic Church, after Pope Francis publicly acknowledged the problem of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns.

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HIS Kids students honor state troopers

Entire school shows thanks during visit

HIS Kids Christian School students, from left, Brody Foreback, Khloe Keefer, Reese Machak and Rachel Karwoski volunteer to try on handcuffs brought to the school by State Trooper Dan Kesten during his visit to the school.

JEFFERSON TWP — There was no reason for alarm when police cars filled the parking lot at HIS Kids Christian School, 650 Saxonburg Road, recently.

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Not a morning person? Look at genes

Study identifies associated DNA

Perhaps you are one of those peppy people who spring into action with the sunrise.

2/13/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Fancy Nancy fun

Two-year-old Cora Murtha of Butler, above, and 3-year-old Adalyn Knapp of Cranberry Township, below, celebrate with about 35 children and 20 adults at a Fancy Nancy tea party Saturday at the Butler Public Library, 218 N. McKean St.

2/12/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Social Security Q&A

Tax season is approaching, and Social Security has made replacing your annual Benefit Statement even easier. The Benefit Statement is also known as the SSA-1099 or the SSA-1042S. Now you can get a copy of your 1099 anytime and anywhere you want using our online services.

2/12/2019 Community Features 0 comments

EXCELLENT DELEGATE

SV senior wins Model U.N. title

Seneca Valley High School senior Martina Beggy won her fourth Model United Nations award last month at a competition at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

A senior at Seneca Valley was recently recognized for delivering insightful knowledge of past history.

2/11/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Service, friendship focus of women's club

Intermediate League members complete scores of projects

Pat Montag, left, and Kris Bearer set up a quilt, planned for a raffle, to display it during a GFWC Intermediate League of Butler meeting at the Butler YWCA earlier this month.

The best clubs bring friendships, memories and community service, said Judy Rathfon.

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Black History Month

Multiple events planned at SRU, where celebration has deep roots

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University will celebrate Black History Month in February with a theme of “The Dream in Motion.”

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Elks donate

COMMUNITY EFFORT — Butler Elks Lodge 170 recently presented community donations totaling $31,000 to individuals and groups.

2/9/2019 Community Features 0 comments

What makes a great date

BC3 employees, students speak up

Butler County Community College employees and students, including Allison Jones and Kaylan Coriale, list caring and kindness as desirable attributes in a significant other.

Conversation and chemistry are the key to a great date, at least according to a sample of Butler County Community College employees and students. And kindness and a sense of humor are the top attributes when they are looking for that special someone.

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22 Seneca Valley students make district festival

Twenty-two Seneca Valley students participated in the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 5 Band Festival in Beaver.

Twenty-two Seneca Valley instrumentalists were selected to participate in the 2019 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) District 5 Band Festival Jan. 24-26.

2/8/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Santa Fe trip yields teaching experience

SRU students make music in New Mexico

Danielle Kepple of Karns City, a senior music education major at Slippery Rock University, teaches a class at Ramirez Thomas Elementary School in Santa Fe, N.M. Kepple was one of four SRU students who participated in the Field Experience Immersion in Music course during which they traveled to New Mexico to observe, assist and teach in Santa Fe schools from Jan 6 to 19.

Slippery Rock University student Danielle Kepple lived one of her dreams.

2/8/2019 Community Features 0 comments

DELIVERANCE AND HEALING

Broken Places hosts speakers, musicians

Cheri Readie said she started the Broken Places ministry, which meets every Tuesday at the Holly Pointe Building on Main Street, a little over a year and a half ago. “It's a ministry that is pretty much based on deliverance and healing,” she said.

It's a place for people who are struggling through something and just need a place to come as they are and find encouragement and love.

2/7/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Texas church mosaic has nearly 1M pieces of glass

BEAUMONT, Texas — After years of planning and construction, St. Jude Thaddeus Church has revealed a colorful mosaic composed of almost 1 million minuscule pieces of glass from Italy.

2/7/2019 Community Features 0 comments

Town & County

CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY Tuesday is Connor Pflugh, 4, son of Ryan and Ashley Pfl ugh of Eau Claire.
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BELATED BIRTHDAY WISHES go out to Ken Davis of Butler, whose birthday was Jan. 18.

Items for Town & County should be submitted on weekdays no later than 4 p.m. the day before requested publication.

Verse

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:6-7

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