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WHAT’S NEWS IN FOX CHAPEL AREA Mark your calendar for Nov. 14, from 6 to 10 p.m., at the Fox Chapel Racquet Club, for “An Evening with Fox Chapel’s Finest,” which brings together local restaurants to feature their favorite delectable delights for all guests to enjoy. Enjoy wonderful entertainment by Art Madness, who will be painting live at the event! These original paintings will be auctioned off in a live auction headed by WTAE’s Jim Madalinsky. In addition, there will be silent auction items, a wine pull and raffle prizes for everyone. Cost is $45. For tickets, call the Howard Hanna Fox Chapel Office at 412.963.6300. All proceeds will benefit the Howard Hanna Children’s Free Care Fund. donation is the fuel for the program and is tax deductible. Contact Community Auto at communityautolico.org or at 724.538.5081 to find out how to donate your car and give a family a hand toward self-sufficiency. AN EVENING WITH FOX CHAPEL’S FINEST PITTSBURGH OPERA PRESENTS ITS FIRST‑EVER SPANISH‑LANGUAGE OPERA ONE-OF-A-KIND CAR DONATION PROGRAM Community Auto, part of The Lighthouse Foundation, is a nonprofit low income car ownership program. It accepts donated cars, repairs and inspects them if necessary, then sells them to qualified working low-income people at discounted prices, as compared to a regular used car dealership. The organization says it’s the only one of its kind in western Pennsylvania that puts cars back into the hands of families in the Greater Pittsburgh area. The used car sitting in the garage that you didn’t sell because it was a hassle, or the car that didn’t get the trade-in value you wanted, or the one the kids used for school and is no longer needed would be the perfect car to donate. Your generous 32 724.942.0940 TO ADVERTISE ❘ Pittsburgh Opera continues its 81st season with its first-ever Spanish-language opera, Daniel Catán and Marcela Fuentes-Berain’s magical “Florencia en el Amazonas.” Florencia Grimaldi is a famous opera singer traveling to perform at the opera house in Manaus, Brazil, in the early 1900s. She also hopes to find her long-lost lover Cristóbal, a butterfly hunter who has disappeared into the Amazon jungle. Florencia journeys down the Amazon River by steamship with a cast of colorful characters, including an intrepid female journalist and a couple looking to rekindle their love. As they penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of the Amazon, the passengers and crew realize their voyage is not just a physical journey, but also a mystical one. Inspired by the magic realism of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez and his novels “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” “Florencia en el Amazonas” features lush, melodic icmags.com music and ever-changing backdrops of mysterious beauty. As always, English supertitles will be projected above the stage. Single tickets for adults start at $14; kids and teens ages 6-18 are half-price. For tickets call 412.456.6666, visit the Box Office at Theater Square, or buy online at pittsburghopera.org or culturaldistrict.org. Group discounts, including student discounts, are available. FOX CHAPEL-AREA AAUW PRESENTS ‘WHAT’S UP MOTHER EARTH?’ Date: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 9:30 a.m. (coffee); 10 a.m. (meeting and program) Location: Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church (corner of Fox Chapel and Field Club roads) Speaker: Randy Weinberg, PhD Randy Weinberg will discuss the “energy cost” of items large and small that we consume during our activities of daily living and how to reduce our own carbon footprint for the benefit of the planet. Dr. Weinberg retired from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018, where he was the head of the Department of Information Systems. AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, philanthropy, education, and research. MIRACLE ON MAIN You are invited to join in the 3rd annual Miracle on Main Street event in Zelienople on Dec. 5. The event was started to raise enough money to buy one needy family a complete living room set. In two years, enough money has been raised to purchase 15 living room sets for needy families! Several hundred coats and food for the food cupboards have also been collected. The event is free and open to the public and will include live reindeer, a live nativity, fire dancers, stilt walker, Mrs. Clause decorating cookies with children, a short parade with several characters,