Cheer Cheers to the kindhearted volunteers who are working with the Slippery Rock School District to ensure that children are not going hungry at home.The district’s Weekend Food Program program, launched during the 2014-15 school year at Moraine Elementary School, is intended to help needy families struggling to provide adequate nourishment for their children. It’s been expanded to Slippery Rock Elementary this year, with 10 families at each school targeted as beneficiaries, says Superintendent Alfonso Angelucci.With help from the school nurses and guidance counselors, the students are sent home with food in their backpacks Friday afternoons. The distribution is done discreetly, as it should be.Angelucci reports the program has been well received and supported. It’s paid for entirely with contributions and fundraisers — no tax money is involved.The plan is to expand to Slippery Rock Middle School.Anyone interested in donating money to the food program can contact the superintendent’s office at 724-794-2960.

Jeer Jeers for Abigale “Abby” Lee Miller. The unlovable star of the reality-TV show “Dance Moms” was indicted last week in Pittsburgh on 20 counts of concealing income from her performances on the show in 2012 and 2013.Miller, 50, formerly of the Pittsburgh suburb Penn Hills, is charged with bankruptcy fraud, concealment of bankruptcy assets and false bankruptcy declarations. She’s accused of hiding $755,000.Miller’s Abbey Lee Dance Co. dance studio in Penn Hills reorganized in 2010, according to the indictment, which charges Miller with defrauding the bankruptcy court by hiding income from “Dance Moms” and other reality-TV spinoffs.FBI officials said their investigation began after the judge in Miller’s bankruptcy case saw “Dance Moms” on TV and grew suspicious about where her earnings from the show had gone.According to United States Attorney David Hickton of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western Pennsylvania District in Pittsburgh, Miller faces a potential five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each count of the indictment — $5 million total.Miller’s main claim to fame “is emotionally abusing children to manipulate their fame hungry parents,” according to the celebrity gossip blog Jezebel.“Dance Moms” debuted on Lifetime in 2011. Since then the network has aired three spinoffs. Season five of the original series has taken Miller to Los Angeles, where she has opened a new studio.

Cheer Congratulations to Specialty Outreach Services. The organization, best known for its partnership with the Cubs Hall Boxing program, has bought the 114-year-old former Institute Hill School on First Street.Specialty Outreach Services began in 1985 as the Boxing Outreach Program, but later changed its name to Specialty Outreach Services to encompass the wide range of services it offers — from assisting students who have gotten in trouble at school or with law enforcement, to counseling parents going through difficult divorces.The organization has operated out of the second floor of Cubs Hall on McKean Street, but Executive Director Brenda Alter says it outgrew the space as it has continued to grow.The move will separate SOS from the boxing program, but their partnership will remain, Alter says.Don Spinetti, director of the boxing program, agrees with Alter. He says move was needed.Butler Physical Therapy, which previously occupied the building, was bought recently by UPMC and relocated to Pullman Square.

Quotable “Uncoachable kids become unemployable adults. Let your kids get used to someone being tough on them. It’s life, get over it.” — Patrick Murphy, Alabama softball coach