For lack of a sink, people who gather for lunch in the Senior Center of the Passavant Retirement Community in Zelienople will have to dine elsewhere.

A state inspector says the center’s kitchen can’t serve meals without a permanent sink for hand washing. And rather than install a sink, the Butler Area Agency on Aging — with its $4.4 million annual budget and 10 senior centers in addition to the one in Zelienople — has opted to direct the 15 to 20 daily participants to take a bus to centers in Cranberry Township and Evans City to get their lunch.

It would seem more efficient — not to mention more convenient — to simply install the sink and continue serving lunches there, rather than load grandma and grandpa on a bus and take them to one of the other centers.

Cheer Congratulations to Jaime Ann “Annie” Rosellini, 21, of Butler, who will represent Pennsylvania in September at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. The 2010 Butler High School graduate, who just finished her sophomore year at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, won a $5,000 scholarship with the title.The daughter of Lucy Ann “Lou Ann” and the late Jaime V. Rosellini, Annie’s pageant platform is “Heart Disease Awareness and Prevention for Our Future” in tribjute to the memory of her father, who died of heart disease in 2010.“I chose the platform because I have been working with the American Heart Association Butler chapter” for the past three years, she said. In 2012, she was spokeswoman for Open Your Heart. She helped create a Facebook donation page that raised $54,000 in 2012.A busy year is in store for the new Miss Pennsylvania. May it be a fulfilling and happy reign for her as well.

Cheer The United Way of Butler County announced this week that its 2012-13 campaign raised $1.48 million — a healthy tally even if it’s short of the campaign’s $1.68 million goal.An untold number of our neighbors will benefit from this outpouring of generosity. Unfortunately. some of the 28 programs funded through the United Way will see cuts from the money they received in 2013, when donors gave a record-setting $1.7 million.Leslie Osche, United Way’s executive director, said fundraising efforts will step up in the coming year, and the goal will be about $1.6 million.“We know we can do better,” Osche said. She’s right.Considering Butler County has an adult population of about 90,000, if every one of us would pledge just 50 cents a week, the total would be $2.34 million.It’s infinitely doable.

Cheer A twilight cheer for ongoing efforts to sustain healthy numbers of bats around Moraine State Park. A disesase known as white nose syndrome has cut the population of little brown bats by about 75 percent. That’s significant because a colony of 100 little brown bats can consume nearly 2 tons of mosquitos in a week.The state steward of bats, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, seeks help from the public with bat counts. It’s a simple procedure that takes little time or skill. The counts help the Game Commission decide where to use limited resources to achieve the most good.Information about the bat count program can be found online at www.pgc.state.pa.us. Residents also can learn about bat counts at a program scheduled for 8 p.m. July 26 at Moraine State Park. The program will include a bat count.