McGiffin

BUTLER TWP — Linda McGiffin is retiring this month as senior vice president of Lifesteps' Program Development and Children/Family Services after 30 years.

She began her professional career at Children's Rehabilitation Center in Saxonburg, where she worked for 10 years before coming to Lifesteps in 1980.

Initially hired as the director of Adult Program Services for the agency, then known as the Easter Seal Society of Butler County, McGiffin has helped to develop many of the key programs Lifesteps has today.

Born and raised in Saxonburg, McGiffin graduated from Hampton Township High School in 1965. She received two degrees from Slippery Rock University in psychology and communication, with a minor in education.

Following her retirement, McGiffin plans on spending time with her son, Ben, a senior at Seneca Valley High School.

Blairsville — Marion Waelchli of Fombell was installed as president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs at the 90th BPW State Convention on June 10-12 in Blairsville.She is a member of the New Castle Local Organization in District 2, which covers Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Indiana, Jefferson and Lawrence counties.She has served on the local, district and state levels of BPW.BPW/PA is a leading advocate for working women and promotes equity and economic self-sufficiency for working women.

FOXBURG — Dr. Thomas Murray Baker will join the A.C. Valley Medical Center and begin seeing patients around the start of September, according to Clarion Hospital.He now is with Charles Robbins Associates, providing care to veterans at Veteran Affairs clinics in New York and Wisconsin.In the late 1990s, Baker was a U.S. Army physician in South Korea and at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Fort Campbell, Ky.Throughout his career, he has been both a family physician and as an emergency and urgent care physician.He attended medical school at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. Baker is board certified. He and his family plan to relocate to the Foxburg area.In addition to this change, Clarion Hospital also has installed new X-ray equipment at the medical center, which allows images to be sent instantly to the radiologists at the hospital for review.The medical center is at 855 Route 58 across from the Allegheny-Clarion Valley Elementary School.

The Butler County Chamber will host a summer social and fundraising event.The South Beach Party will be July 16. It will run from 6 to 11 p.m. when The Atrium will be transformed into South Beach, Miami.Food, entertainment, crab races and a cigar bar will be offered.Admission is $40 per person and will include wine tasting courtesy of Rustic Acres Winery, beer sampling from the North Country Brewing Co. and foods with a South Beach flair.For more information or to register, call the chamber at 724-283-222.

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. — Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it will probably not have supplies for some 40 varieties of medications recalled earlier this year until at least 2011, after closing a key manufacturing site.In late April, J&J's McNeil unit recalled a variety of children's and adult over-the-counter medicines due to numerous manufacturing problems at its Fort Washington plant.The company says in a statement it has not decided when to resume operations at the plant, which was shut down in May.Products made at the plant generated about $650 million in annual sales in recent years. J&J, based in New Brunswick, N.J., reported total sales of $61.9 billion last year.

• Mitchel Levitt of Ohio has joined the Burt Hill firm of Butler as national director of business strategy. He will open an office in Columbus, Ohio.