[naviga:h3]Nurse retires from ER after 58 years[/naviga:h3]

LANCASTER — A nurse who was a calming presence in the operating room for 58 years has finally retired, leaving behind an impact that colleagues say is impossible to measure.

Sandra Glatfelter's last day at UPMC Pinnacle Lancaster was Friday, her 80th birthday.

She started there when it was known as St. Joseph Hospital, LNP newspaper reported. As she neared the end of her nursing education, she was asked what department she wanted to work in. She requested the OR and never left.

“When you graduate training, you think, 'I'll get a few years here under my belt and then go out and conquer the world,”' she said. “Well, I must be a slow learner, because I'm still here.”

Glatfelter remembers a time when surgical gloves were reused and stitches were sewn with ordinary silk thread, but as technology changed the field Glatfelter remained a constant. The reason, she said, was her love of the operating room's urgency.

“I've always loved the big bad cases,” she said. “The craniotomy, the ruptured aneurysm.”

[naviga:h3]2 women chain selves to building

PITTSBURGH — Two women chained themselves to the doors of a downtown Pittsburgh building that houses U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's office to protest the Senate's tax bill.

They told a Pittsburgh newspaper they have a host of objections to the Senate Republicans' passing of their $1.5 trillion tax bill early Saturday.

One of the women, Chelsey Engel, says it was “rammed through Congress irresponsibly and hastily by Toomey and his fellow Republicans.”

Among their complaints is it allows drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and drops the requirement in Obama's health care law that people pay a tax penalty if they don't purchase health insurance.

Engel says blocking the building entrance Monday morning “is nothing compared to the havoc Republicans have just decided to unleash on the economy.”

They wrapped up the protest by late morning.