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Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review “Butterball,” a wild turkey, perches at the entrance of the Forbes Road U.S Post Office near Hannastown on Wednesday in Salem Township. Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review A memorial was created for the wild turkey “Butterball,” which had roamed around Forbes Road until a state game warden shot the bird on Friday. Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review Josh Nuttall of Forbes Road, holds his daughter, Nixie, on Saturday in front of a sign that says “Home of Butterball The Wild Pet Turkey.”
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Not surprisingly, requests for assistance from the Bethlehem Project are up substantially this year. A partnership between Blessed Sacrament Cathedral and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg, the Bethlehem Project provides funds for emergency shelter or rental support, along with assistance to residents of three Westmoreland County shelters as they transition out of homelessness. “Like other charitable organizations, we are seeing a tremendous spike in need,” said incoming president and fundraising chair Suzanne English. “During August through October of last year, our outlays for rent support and emergency housing totaled under $3,000; this year, they total nearly $12,000 for the same period — a fourfold increase.”
4:20 At the intersection of Franklin and South Trenton avenues in Regent Square, an unassuming blue marker commemorates the spot where President George Washington once camped. Good Question! asker Taylor Stessney noticed the sign, which dates the campsite to November 24, 1758. “I was just curious, considering how it looks now with all these buildings and everything, what did this area look like at that time?” That marker commemorates Forbes Road, a historic military route across Pennsylvania built during the French and Indian War. And Pittsburgh was at the heart of the conflict. “It was just an unbelievable series of events.” Credit Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA