ReuseFest aims to end 'throw-away culture' by collecting used goods for local partners
Residents can donate gently-used items at North Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
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Residents can donate gently-used items at North Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and the Westmoreland Diversity Coalition are presenting a virtual speaker series to shed light on the ways different people have been marginalized and subjected to biases and hate crimes. The third annual Growth Through Knowledge and Understanding series begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday with
The event is sponsored by UPMC and Allegheny County Parks Department.
Mandy McCoy wants you to listen. She knows that you will look. That you will see her wheelchair and how her fist steers the stick that makes it stop or go. That you might notice that her head wobbles a tad to the right, but maybe not because her smile is big and blushed with joy when her blue-green eyes meet yours. Mandy wants people to look into her eyes. “That tells me that you respect me,” she said. For that, she is grateful because respect she knows is earned, more so when your body can’t move the way it should, and especially when the muscles in your mouth can’t keep pace with th...