Imagine discovering a new career path at an age when most people are contemplating retirement. And, imagine continuing in that newfound career for another 32 years.

Some might call that preposterous. The Rev. George Palick calls it his vocation.

Palick, the parochial vicar — assistant pastor — at St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen Parish in Lyndora and Meridian, will celebrate his 90th birthday June 1 with a Mass of Thanksgiving. He has no plans to retire, says he has it too good working as a priest and teacher.

Palick is the oldest active parish priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, says the Rev. Philip Farrell, episcopal vicar. Farrell adds, “His mind is still very sharp. He likes to converse with people, he's very outgoing. He does not sit around. He goes out into life.”

In previous chapters of his illustrious story, Palick was a U.S. Navy ensign and World War II veteran, a chemical engineer and a longtime Catholic high school teacher.

He first became a parish priest in 1982 at St. Philip Parish in Crafton — at the tender age of 58.

Palick credits his longevity to three disciplines: exercise, meditation and a healthy diet.

Happy birthday, Father Palick. Cheers and best wishes on a long life devoted to the service of others.

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe's re-election campaign went all the way to the State Supreme Court to get his primary opponent, Gordon Marburger, tossed from the ballot on a technicality. A lower court actually sided with Marburger, ruling that Marburger followed to the letter the instructions given to him — erroneous instructions, it turns out — by a state elections official when he filed his candidacy papers. But Metcalfe pointed out that rules are rules.In spite of the setback, Marburger mounted a write-in campaign and garnered 45 percent of the vote. That's not a victory, but it should have served as a barometer for Metcalfe that he might have some fence-mending to do with the 12th District electorate between now and the November general election. The narrow margin might have prompted Metcalfe to show a little humility. It didn't.Instead, Metcalfe celebrated his primary win by taking one last jab at Marburger, calling him “a man too incompetent to get on the ballot.”And yet a man supposedly too incompetent to get on the ballot took 45 percent of Metcalfe's electorate by write-in.Blessed are the meek? Apparently not in the 12th District May primary.

Cheers of welcome go out to the several hundred employees of PPG Industries who are moving to a new divisional headquarters in the Cranberry Woods office park in Cranberry Township.They come from an array of places such as Kentucky, Delaware and Ohio, adding to Cranberry's continuing redefinition of America's melting pot.PPG spokesman Mark Silvey says the Pittsburgh company is establishing its architectural coatings headquarters, one of many wings of the company, in Cranberry and that about 200 employees have already moved into the 120,000-square-foot facility at 400 Bertha Lamme Drive in the Westinghouse Electric complex.The building eventually will hold more than 500 employees, while the move will likely be complete by the end of this year, Silvey said.The move is the culmination of a process that started late last year when PPG in September announced it was establishing a presence in Cranberry.State officials lured the industrial company here after offering nearly $4 million in economic incentives in the form of a $1.25 million grant, along with tax credits and a loan.That's money well spent.