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2 Pittsburgh firefighters join search teams at Surfside collapse; North Side nonprofit starts fund for victims

AP A dog working with search and rescue personnel barks to alert them after sniffing a spot atop the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condo building, where scores of people remain missing almost a week after it partially collapsed June 30 in Surfside, Fla.   How to help The North Side-based Brother s Brother Foundation has started an emergency fund for the victims of the Chaplain Towers condominium tragedy in Surfside, Fla. The 63-year-old Pittsburgh nonprofit guarantees that 100% of the money donated to the fund will go to those in need and not be spent on any overhead. BBF and its on-the-ground partner in Florida, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, are donating staff time and covering all administrative costs related to the effort.

Middle school teacher continues legacy of local Holocaust survivor

Shulamit Bastacky believed that every child should have a teddy bear. As a child during the Holocaust, Bastacky was hidden from the Nazis by a nun in her native Poland. She spent the first several years of her life isolated and without much human touch. Neither did she have a favorite stuffed animal to bring her comfort. Her childhood experiences moved Bastacky, who died Jan. 1, to launch Shulamit’s Teddy Bear Project, collecting toys for children in need. Scott Vensel, an eighth-grade language arts teacher, recalled the first time he brought Bastacky, a frequent speaker at schools, to Dorseyville Middle School in the Fox Chapel Area School District.

Jewelry designer and philanthropist Ruth Frank has died at 99

Ruth Frank at her 90th birthday party (Photo courtesy of Jonsara Ruth) Ruth Frank, a globe-trotting, larger-than-life member of the Ohringer family who became renowned in Pittsburgh and beyond for her unusual jewelry creations, died peacefully of natural causes at her Longboat Key, Florida, home on June 13. She was 99. Born in Pittsburgh to the late Abe and Helen Ohringer, Frank was married for more than 60 years to James A. Frank, who predeceased her in 2004. She was the spunky, energetic “yin” to James’s more stoic and reserved “yang,” and the two were the loves of each other’s lives, according to family members.

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