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Kacin Construction Superintendent Matt Flinn hands the keys to the new Delmont Public Library building to librarian Denni Grassel.
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
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Through grants, community donations and fundraising, Delmont Public Library officials raised more than $1 million in four years and, this week, they will welcome the public into a new library building.
The new library is 4,150 square feet with several “green” features, including solar paneling, LED lighting, geothermal heating and cooling, two charging stations out front for electric vehicles and a cistern that will collect stormwater from the roof to use for irrigation, landscaping and watering the library’s butterfly garden.
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Greensburg plans to use nearly $194,000 in federal CARES Act money to aid small businesses, provide rent assistance and help feed those in need.
Municipalities received coronavirus relief funds through the existing Community Development Block Grant program.
Greensburg submitted its application about three months ago, and recently learned it had been accepted, according to Mayor Robert Bell.
Greensburg’s plans for the money have not been finalized, but leaders have determined three priorities, Bell said.
The city will partner with the Greensburg Community Development Corporation, spending about $100,000 of the Cares Act money to help city businesses struggling due to the pandemic.
$250,000 grant will fund ultra-cold-storage units to keep COVID-19 vaccines safe [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Dec. 18 Now that the COVID-19 vaccine has arrived, health care facilities that distribute it need a way to keep it very, very cold.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine introduced in the U.S. earlier this week requires an ultra-chilly storage temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius, and a vaccine from Moderna, expected to receive Food and Drug Administration approval Friday, requires storage conditions of minus 20 degrees Celsius more like a typical household freezer.
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh plans to purchase the cold-storage units needed to maintain the vaccines’ efficacy with a $250,000 grant awarded recently by the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
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The Richard King Mellon Foundation has awarded $250,000 to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh for the purchase of ultra-cold storage units – to help them hold and distribute the covid-19 vaccine.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first doses of which were administered last week, requires storage in extremely cold temperatures – about negative 70 degrees Celsius.
“It’s fitting to end the year in this way, considering that we started back in March without any real understanding of where this was all going to end,” said Sam Reiman, foundation director, of the vaccine effort. “I’m not sure it’s really sunk in yet, for the American public, just how momentous this is.”
Shirley McMarlin | Tribune-Review
Shirley McMarlin | Tribune-Review
Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra prepares to record its virtual “Home for the Holidays” in The Palace Theatre in Greensburg Dec. 11.
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“Pivot” is a word that’s been used a lot during the pandemic, as businesses, organizations and individuals adapt to ever-changing conditions.
Westmoreland Cultural Trust CEO April Kopas used it to describe what’s been going on at The Palace Theatre in Greensburg, where a new livestream video system has allowed the show to go on.