WHAT’ S NEWS IN FOX CHAPEL AREA
SQUAW RUN GARDEN CLUB ANNUAL PLANT SALE
The Squaw Run Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale on Saturday, May 5, from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m. at Squaw Valley Park in O’ Hara Township. A wonderful selection of annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets and planters will be on sale, in addition to the always popular perennial plants freshly dug from member gardens.
Proceeds from the sale will benefit local community projects including Squaw Valley Park, Aspinwall Riverfront Park, Cooper-Siegel Library, Lauri Ann West Community Center and Camp Guyasuta. Additionally, the club provides educational grants to local schools.
AWBCC PROVIDES CAREER EXPLORATION
A. W. Beattie Career Center( AWBCC) has been providing career exploration to elementary schools for the past three years as part of the school’ s career readiness plan. Last November AWBCC Assessment and STEAM Coordinator Clifton Bossong visited Fox Chapel Area’ s Kerr Elementary fifth grade to discuss the 20 career programs at AWBCC. Bossong spent 45 minutes interacting with the students in a question-and-answer session on how Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math / Medicine relates to the different career fields.
The 20 career programs were placed into five career clusters: Automotive, Computers and Engineering, Health, Building Construction and Human Services. Students actively answered questions about each cluster and how they thought STEAM is used in the careers. At the conclusion of the talk, students were treated to a robotics demonstration using Leonardo, a NAO humanoid robot. Bossong showed Leonardo’ s functionality by running a number of programs to demonstrate the agility and sensors employed by the robot. The career session ended with a dance party in which students were able to play Simon Says and watch Leonardo dance to the“ Macarena,”“ YMCA” and“ Thriller.”
MUSHROOM WALK
Join the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club on Saturday, March 24, at 10 a. m. for its Mushroom Walk through the Todd Nature Reserve, located at 347 Kepple Road in Sarver. WPMC identifier and vice president Adam Haritan will lead the walk, and the event is free and open to the public.
For more information, email cs4wpmc @ gmail. com or visit wpamushroomclub. org.
PFMC BIENNIAL CONVENTION
PFMC will be holding its Biennial Convention April 18-21 at the Pittsburgh North Marriott Hotel on Rt. 228 in Cranberry Township.
PFMC is a music organization that has existed since the late 1800s with the purpose of promoting American music and to encourage American performers and composers to reach their highest potential. PFMC is part of the National Federation of Music Clubs— the largest philanthropic, non-profit music organization in the world. NFMC is chartered by the U. S. Congress and a music organization member of the United Nations. The local affiliate, Opus I Music Society of the Mars / Cranberry Twp. area, is actively involved in planning and preparing for the April PFMC Convention.
One of the goals of the convention committee is to reach music teachers( piano in particular) and music appreciators in the local area, and invite them to attend the programs and workshops. A national guest will be present to speak about American music and a new NFMC emphasis on jazz. The National Young Artist Winner in Piano will perform on Friday evening. A Keystone Salute( PFMC’ s highest honor) will be presented posthumously to Rev. Charles Kenney who spent many years of his life promoting American heroes of music, often overlooked by society. One in particular was Harry T. Burleigh, who hailed from Erie.
For more information, email Linda Maurhoff at pfmcpres203 @ hotmail. com.
AAUW PRESENTS‘ PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARKS: PAST AND PRESENT’
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 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: Jennifer Tober, Founder and Artistic Director, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks
Join in a special preview of Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ 14th season, as Jennifer Tober and another member of the company enliven the presentation by performing humorous passages from some of Shakespeare’ s works. Tober will share the story of what inspired her to combine theater with nature and how that vision grew into one of Pittsburgh’ s tremendous cultural resources. Find out what the upcoming season has in store for lovers of the bard!
The public is welcome to attend this free AAUW-sponsored presentation. AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, philanthropy, education and research.
For more information, contact Lindsay Bond Totten, Publicity Coordinator, Fox Chapel Area Affiliate, AAUW, at lbtotten @ comcast. net.
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