Thanks to the efforts of a local Boy Scout, a court is coming to Peters Township.
Ryan Deegan of Troop 1313 is working on the project to earn his Eagle Award, with plans to construct a sand volleyball court inside the stadium at the former Peters Township High School. On Monday, the school board unanimously approved his proposal.
A high school sophomore and middle hitter on the boys volleyball team, Ryan came up with the idea after Tyler Fiely, the head coach, instituted an alternative form of training.
âDuring quarantine in the summer of 2020, when we were unable to hold indoor practices, Coach Fiely scheduled drop-ins at a sand volleyball court in Upper St. Clair,â Ryan told the school board. âNot only was sand practice fun, but it made us work harder and become stronger, both physically and as teammates.â
Temi Akinola
Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
“I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].”
She was supposed to start in October 2020, but that was moved to the beginning of February.
“My stay has been condensed,” she said. “Some of the programs that would usually take place in person, such as student workshops, question-and-answer sessions and panels, have had to take place online or via Zoom.”
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What makes Pittsburgh such an attractive movie location?
Tax credits for film companies are just the beginning, says Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office.
“We have such a diversity of locations. Pittsburgh can look like any place in the world,” she says. “The only things we don’t have are a beach and a desert.
“We do New York better than New York,” she says. “We’ve been San Francisco, Paris, Ukraine and Atlanta.”
There’s the beauty of the city viewed from the West End Overlook or Mt. Washington and downtown’s blend of modern and historical architecture, she says. Drive for an hour and you have mountains, small towns, farmland and other attractive settings.