Photo Gallery for Sunday 09/03/17

2017-09-05 01:00:00

Butler High School students held a 5k on Aug. 12, 2017, and raised $10,334 to go toward awareness and finding a cure for type 1 diabetes. They presented the money to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. From left are JDRF representative Richele Ward, and event organizers Liz Simms, Caroline Simms and Camden Seybert.submitted photo

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Mars Mike Carmody tries to stop South Fayette QB Drew Saxton. Mars lost at home to South Fayette 30-6 on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Mars Garrett Reinke (34) looks for running room. Mars lost at home to South Fayette 30-6 on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Mars Cade Hetzler (2) and Andrew Moyer (4) pursue South Fayette’s Peyton Tinney. Mars lost at home to South Fayette 30-6 on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Butler native Brian Ward, a golf pro in Katy, Texas; his wife, Erin, and son, Andrew, had to be evacuated Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, after a bayou about 100 yards behind their home breached a 20-foot retaining wall and flooded their neighborhood outside Houston. The Wards were among tens of thousands of people displaced by flooding after Hurricane Harvey slammed into southern Texas last weekend.submitted photo

Barb Direnzo dishes up a serving of pasta fagioli at the St. Michael Church pavilion at the first Butler Italian Festival on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Joe Mercurio of Mercurio’s Pizza places a pie in a mobile wood-fired oven at the Butler Italian Festival on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Mike Powers of Butler Township finishes off a helping of meatballs at the Butler Italian Festival on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Visitors explore the Butler Italian Festival along Main Street on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017.DAVE PRELOSKY/BUTLER EAGLE

Pictured is the 1908 Labor Day Parade in Butler. The unit passing in review is the Butler chapter of the Woodmen of the World. The first building is the Boyd drugstore; it has the sign advertising Owl cigars for 5¢. Patriotism was running high in the early 1900s and all the parades and civic functions had large crowds with many flags waving.Larry D. Parisi/submitted photo

From left are Ruby, Penny and Lucy Baker of Zelienople. Ruby came up with an idea to run a lemonade stand for charity. The end result was a donation of $3,000 for Ronald McDonald House Charities.Submitted photo

Blackwood Theater Organ Society presents a check to Make-A-Wish Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia for $22,000. The donation was raised at the annual Blackwood Pipe Organ Concert. From left are Roy Peffer, Haley Wiles and Ben Robertson, members of the society; Stephanie Pugliese, director of development for Make-A-Wish; and Carole Wolfe and Jason Wiles, members of the society. Since 1991, the society has raised more than $400,000 for Make-A-Wish to grant the wishes of more than 100 children in Butler County and the surrounding area.submitted photo