Indiana, PA / WDAD AM1450 & 100.3FM
Dec 24, 2020 7:44 AM
Catholic school students and parishioners in the Catholic Diocese of Greensburg are helping to make the holidays a bit brighter for those hospitalized and cannot see their loved ones due to Coronavirus concerns.
Students and parishioners donated nearly 1000 gifts along with many Christmas cards to four hospitals in the diocese, including Indiana Regional Medical Center and hospitals in Greensburg, Kittanning and Uniontown. The gifts include rosaries, blankets, pocket prayer shawls, prayer cards and scapulars that have been blessed by the new Bishop-elect Larry J. Kulick.
The effort was made possible through two outreach efforts in the diocese: One of those a request for aid by Diocesan Mission Director Anthony J. Carbone and the other is the Christmas Care Card project which involved 800 Catholic school students as part of the Pope John Paul II Tuition Opportunity Partnership.
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An Indiana County teen was fatally injured in a vehicle crash Wednesday after a motorist swerved into the path of the vehicle she was riding in, according to Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman.
Brittany Eileen Keith, 14, of Cherryhill Township, was treated by a Citizens’ Ambulance Service crew and was taken from the crash scene to Indiana Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, Overman said.
Overman had yet to rule on the cause and manner of her death, pending an autopsy.
Brookville, PA / KOOL 103.3 FM WKQL
Dec 24, 2020 11:11 AM
A 14-year-old girl from Penn Run in Indiana County passed away in a crash yesterday on Route 553.
Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman, Jr. said that Brittany Eileen Keith was killed in a crash on Route 553 near Route 422 east at 4:47 PM. Overman says that Keith was a backseat passenger of a vehicle that tried to avoid a head-on collision with another vehicle that had crossed the center line and gone into its path. After going off the roadway, Keith’s vehicle hit a tree.
Keith was treated on scene and transported to Indiana Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
I would like to express my profound thanks to the hospital workers of Western Pennsylvania.
Early on the morning of Nov. 23, I was struck by an acute myocardial infarction, which has only a 12% survival rate if it takes place in a hospital. The emergency room staff at Indiana Regional Medical Center was able to restore my heartbeat and breathing after 20 minutes, then inserted a stent and a balloon (some party). I suffered no brain damage from lack of oxygen. After nine hours, I was transported to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where I was cared for another
12 more days.
I am home now and recovering well, thank you, but I am still amazed by the professionalism, expertise and, well, love experienced in my journey to health. Truly the health system as evidenced in Western Pennsylvania is another product of the genius of America.
Dec 16, 2020 7:57 AM
Lawrence Charles Hardick, 84, of Indiana, passed away on Sunday, December 13, 2020 at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
Lawrence was born on April 18th, 1936 to John and Ann Hardick of Punxsutawney.
Lawrence attended Harmony School, a one room school house, until the sixth grade and then graduated from St. Adrian High School in 1954. His dad took him to the railroad workshop, where Lawrence determined it to be “too loud, too dirty, and too dusty”. He joined the Army for three years in the fall of 1954. He spent most of his enlistment in Japan and had fond memories of the culture and people there.