WHAT’ S NEWS IN PETERS TOWNSHIP
THE ULTIMATE GARDEN TOUR
Don’ t miss the 2018 Town & Country Tour on Sunday, June 24. You’ ll visit 15 beautiful gardens in Mt. Lebanon, Upper St. Clair and Bethel Park. Garden owners will be on site to discuss their gardens. Both self-guided and bus tours are available. Each 24-passenger bus reaches the first garden by 9 a. m., and includes a fabulous lunch by Rania’ s in the lovely Davidson Event Center at Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. For more information, visit PittsburghBotanicGarden. org or call 412.444.4464.
RACE TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF CHILD ABUSE
Please join Watchful Shepherd USA and PULSE— a state-of-the-art fitness studio located at 3339 Washington Road in Peters Township— to help prevent child abuse on Sunday, April 15, from 10 a. m. to noon in the RACE TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF CHILD ABUSE. Simply register at watchful. org by donating $ 100 for an individual or $ 400 for a team. Each stationary bike will have teams of four with the race consisting of 15-minute heats and all team members sharing and riding relay style. You can help by recruiting your friends, family and colleagues to join you in person, on a team or donating in your name. This is the second year that PULSE has donated its time, talents and location to raise awareness during April, National Child Abuse Awareness Month.
18TH ANNUAL‘ MEATBALLS & MUSIC’
The PT Music Boosters sponsored the 18th annual Meatballs & Music event on Saturday, Jan. 27. The spaghetti dinner was held in the PTHS cafeteria from 3 to 8 p. m. with musical performances provided in the gymnasium by Peters Township School District’ s music groups. The spaghetti dinner is a wonderful event that takes place each year, and is the largest group fundraiser for the PTHS music department. Dinner included spaghetti and meatballs with homemade sauce, garden salad, roll and beverage.
Dessert was served in the PTHS gymnasium where attendees could sit and enjoy the entertainment provided by the district’ s music students. Performances began with some of the district’ s elementary and middle school groups. Then, the high school orchestra and wind symphony performed, followed by the
SYMPHONY OF FOOD
Symphony of Food 2018 was an evening of wonderful food, wine, live entertainment, basket raffles, paddle auctions, Mindy’ s Mystery boxes and a wine cart raffle. The event took place on Jan. 26. This year marked the 11th Symphony of Food event, and money was
middle school choir, the high school choir and Room 100— the high school’ s show choir. The evening’ s entertainment wrapped up in a spectacular fashion with the jazz band, the winter guard and finally the Peters Township Mighty Indian Marching Band.
Meatballs & Music also featured a huge basket raffle with over 100 beautiful baskets donated by area businesses, organizations and PT Music Booster members. There was also a 50 / 50 raffle during the event with tickets sold throughout the evening.
raised to help local women and children in need. Local chefs from Toscana Brick House, Au“ Grottens” Café and Catering, Girl Friday Cooking Co., Whole Foods Market, Cannon’ s Chophouse, Nothing Bundt Cakes and Costco donated their signature dishes for culinary enjoyment. n
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