WHAT’S NEWS IN SEWICKLEY
NORTH PITTSBURGH
QUILTERS GUILD
PRESENTS SPRING SHOW
North Pittsburgh Quilters Guild is a
nonprofit organization whose goals are to
further the quilting skills and knowledge of
its members. Lectures and workshops are
offered by both nationally and locally known
quilters/teachers throughout the year.
Eleven women had been meeting on
Sunday afternoons and on May 29, 1982,
at the home of one of the members, they
formed a Quilting Group. The decision was
made to move the meetings to Northmont
United Presbyterian Church. Today, it is
now a 110-member organization that meets
at Kearns Spirituality Center of LaRoche
College on the first Tuesday of the month.
Programs over the years have been
diversified, inspiring, stimulating and
interesting. Presenters have included
Jenny Beyer, Nancy Johnson-Serbro, Judy
Neimeyer, Pat Speth and Linda McCunen.
This past year the guild hosted David Sirota
and his “No More Tears” paper piecing
project, Jacolin Kelso (a certified Judy
Niemeyer instructor) and Carol Taylor,
international judge/author/multi-decorated
art quilt artist. A fun Christmas party was
held in December and Kathy Farra presented
a program on Singer Featherweight machines
in January.
The guild is looking forward to a
community sewing day in March, the April
quilt show, a bus trip to Berlin, Ohio and the
annual banquet in June.
The NPQG quilt show “Oh My Stars!”
will be held April 6, 7 and 8, at the Ross
Community Center. Over 100 quilts will be
on display. Judges are Stacey Koehler (from
Bellevue) and Fran Kordek from Elkins, West
Virginia.
Food is an important part of a quilter’s
life, thus the “Fat Quarter” came to be. This
is a break during meetings to indulge in our
favorite goodies, share recipes and socialize.
Members have shared talents through
community service projects and have made
blankets and quilts for babies, homeless
shelters, veterans and animal shelters.
Placemats for Meals on Wheels, table runners
for food bank Thanksgiving baskets, port
pillows for cancer patients and bags for beads
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of caring (children cancer patients) are only
some of the service projects the guild adopts.
For more information, email NPQG
president Clarice Sabina at
[email protected].
CAREER EXPLORATION
WITH A.W. BEATTIE
CAREER CENTER
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.
AWBCC students and staff visited Avonworth
Elementary School this past December to
participate in a fifth grade career blitz. The
blitz gave fifth grade students a 13-minute
opportunity to learn about six career fields
offered at AWBCC.
Dental students Lauren Sobek (Hampton)
and Ashlyn Babinecz (Hampton) talked
to the students about dental careers while
using a set of teeth to explain what careers
exist in the dental field. Students learned
about cyber security from Computer
Network Engineering student T.J. Cochran
(Avonworth). Rachel Booth (North
Allegheny) and Jordyn Bailey (North
Allegheny) talked about cosmetology careers,
using a mannequin head to show different
hairstyles to the fifth graders. Julia Geeting
(Northgate) and Breanna Grondwalski
(Deer Lakes) showed the students artwork
and explained the different career options
in Advertising Design. Health and Nursing
Science student Ashley Tedys (Avonworth)
explained to the students how vital signs are
taken and what a career in nursing can lead
to for the students. Fifth grade students were
also able to learn about Carpentry/Building
Construction from Cameron Galloway
(Avonworth).
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CONGRATULATIONS
TO STATE
CHAMPIONS
SEWICKLEY
ACADEMY BOYS
AND GIRLS GOLF
TEAMS
Congratulations to Sewickley
Academy’s boys and girls golf
teams for winning the WPIAL and
PIAA Championships. For the first
time ever in the sport of golf, both
the girls and boys teams from the
same school captured PIAA Team
Championships in the same year,
and, in this case, on the same day!
Visit sewickley.org/athletics
to learn more about Sewickley
Academy’s athletic program
and tradition of excellence. Go
Panthers!