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ZELIENOPLE — The American Legion national commander will visit here as one of his three stops in Pennsylvania to address Legionnaires' disease and other issues regarding veterans and current military personnel.
Daniel Dellinger will be at the American Legion Post 474, 308 W. New Castle St., from 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, according to a Legion news release.
Dellinger may discuss testimony submitted by the Legion to a March 13 hearing on the Department of Veterans Affair's $163.9 billion budget request for the 2015 fiscal year and the March 15 designated birthday for the American Legion, which marks the day the organization had it's first caucus in 1919 in Paris.
The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, mutual-help, wartime veterans organization.
It has more than two million members in nearly 15,000 posts worldwide.
SEVEN FIELDS — An engineering consulting firm is moving about 100 employees from its offices in Seven Fields and Sewickley to Pine Township in Allegheny County.According to a press release from the company called Arcadis, the move will consolidate offices into one central location and also will allow for more growth.The Seven Fields location is at 310 Seven Fields Blvd.The Netherlands-based company has its U.S. headquarters in Colorado. The company deals with civil and environmental engineering for municipalities and private businesses.The company employs 22,000 people worldwide and generates $3.4 billion annually.
CENTER TWP — There will be a public meeting at the township building at 10 a.m. Wednesday on a natural gas pipeline planned to run through the township.Representatives from EdgeMarc Energy Holdings, an oil and gas exploration and production company in Canonsburg, will be at the meeting to answer questions concerning the pipeline.The company first started seeking leases for land from township residents in August for the pipeline. The township building is at 419 Sunset Drive.
BUTLER TWP — The Butler County Vocational Technical School has received a $6,000 donation from the Nonprofit Development Corporation of Butler.Joe Cunningham, director at vo-tech, said the money will go to the school's activity funds, such as field trip fees and other equipment.Each year students at the vo-tech build a house that is sold to a low-income family with which the agency is involved.
