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WHAT’S NEWS IN PETERS TOWNSHIP ABBEY PLAYERS PRESENT ‘ELF, JR.’ Spread some holiday cheer as the Abbey Players sing out loud for all to hear! On Jan. 6 through 8, St. Benedict the Abbott Church's Abbey Players will present “Elf, Jr.,” a delightful, fun-filled musical perfect for all ages. The show will feature students from Peters Township, Canon-Mac, Upper St. Clair, Mt. Lebanon and Lincoln Park Performing Arts schools, and will star troupe high school seniors Joe Belfiore as Buddy the Elf, Emily Koerbel as Jovie, Laura Shope as Emily and Sarah Gotkiewicz as the tap dancing store manager. Performances will take place in St. Benedict the Abbot’s Pope Benedict Center on Friday, Jan. 6, and Saturday, Jan. 7, at 7:30 p.m., and 2 p.m. matinee showings will be held on Saturday, Jan. 7, and Sunday, Jan. 8. Tickets will be available at the door. Proceeds from the show’s bake sale will benefit Relay for Life and proceeds from the gift basket raffle will benefit Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. Abbey Players is a community theater troupe for kids in grades 7 through 12. For more information, contact Lorra Brannen at [email protected]. 32 724.942.0940 TO ADVERTISE | Peters Township Front row: Kaitlin Kaleel, Deb Lenart-Costellone, Hai-ming Wu, Ginny Barnicoat, Jen Ficthner, Eileen Radolec (Captain), Gail Denton, Donna Brusco (Co-Captain), Stacey Rhodes, Kelle Cunningham (Manager) Back row: Michele Smeklo, Katie Shea, Esha Gorman, Terri Samolovitch, Kim Kness, Vida Komer, Diana Otero-Santacana, Phyllis DiRienzo (Coach). Not Pictured: Alli Botti, Becky Heflin, and Pam Jones. 10SNE1 MAKES IT TO 2016 USTA NATIONALS The USTA tennis team 10SNE1 (Tennis Anyone) won their local division 10 to 0, playing teams in the south and north areas of Pittsburgh. The team is made up of 19 women based at the Glen Creek Tennis Club in Library. They continued on to Sectionals in Princeton, NJ, and won 5 to 0, playing teams from New Jersey, Delaware, Philadelphia, Central and Eastern PA. After making it to Princeton twice in previous years, this year the team finally made it through to Nationals. Nationals was held in Rancho Mirage, California. Though the team did not place, they enjoyed playing teams from Wyoming, Texas and the Caribbean. 10SNE1 was one of 17 teams to make it to Nationals, out of the 6,000 teams that competed in the USTA leagues. For more information about the event or 10SNE1, contact Eileen Radolec at 412.953.4252 or 724.942.7206. ANGELA ROBERTS HONORED WITH HIGHEST AWARD IN GIRL SCOUTING Angela Roberts from Peters Township High School recently earned the highest achievement in Girl Scouting: the Gold Award. This award, presented to Angela by Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania, recognizes girls in grades 9 through 12 who demonstrate extraordinary leadership through sustainable and measurable “Take Action” projects that address important community needs. Angela is a senior at Peters Township High School and serves as Brass Captain for the Mighty Indian Marching Band. As a Girl Scout member for 13 years, she is a Girl Scout Ambassador of Troop 54327 and was supported in her Gold Award efforts by her project advisor, Alyson Boyer, and her troop leaders, Amy Shope and Rochelle Koerbel. Her Gold Award project was completed in May. Angela held a journalism class for students in grades three through six at her local library. She introduced students to the structure of articles and the basics of journalistic writing, as well as the rich history of reporting. Angela led her class of 17 students on Mondays and Thursdays for five weeks, assisting each child in writing an article. At the end of the course, she assembled the students’ articles in a newsletter, which she distributed to both the parents of the children and the Peters Township Library. Angela plans to attend college to major in journalism upon graduation. The Gold Award is a national award, with national standards, and it represents a Girl Scout’s time, leadership, creativity and effort contributed to making her community better. Not only do Gold Award projects help communities, they also give girls important leadership skills, teaching them to seek out the work that needs doing in the world. There are other benefits to “going gold” as well. Some universities and colleges offer scholarships unique to Gold Award recipients, and girls who enlist in the U.S. Armed Forces