Loaded with tents, sunscreen and enough supplies to last the entire 3,700-mile journey from Washington, D.C., to La Push, Wash., a small group of veterans stopped in the South Hills on their cross-country bike journey. Warrior Expedition is a nonprofit outdoor therapy program that provides ...
Life Changing Service Dogs for Veterans (LCSDFV) will hold its fourth annual golf tournament fundraiser in Midway next month. LCSDFV is a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit that helps provide veterans with service dogs. The golf tournament will take place May 16 at Quicksilver Golf Club at 2000 ...
The unshakable brotherhood Russell “Russ” Granger found among a ragtag group of men within a converted Catholic rectory was unlike anything he had experienced since he retired from the Air Force a decade prior. The Cornerstone Residence Recovery Home for Veterans - a nonprofit sober ...
There’s “no trick” to living to be 105, said Julia Plasko. Clean living might have helped, said her daughter, Cindy Levo. Plasko never drank, and never smoked. But she’s managed to fit in a lot more in her 105 years, from serving in World War II to decades of contributions to the ...
For the second year, members of a Greene County non-profit visited with veterans in Waynesburg on Veterans Day to show their appreciation. Twenty-one members of the Patriots’ Dream Riding Association (PDRA) dropped off donated items to veterans at four assisted living facilities as part of ...
Last year on Memorial Day, Dean Stewart noticed that many of the flags marking the graves of veterans at Robinson’s Run Cemetery were falling over. Bob Moreau, superintendent of the McDonald graveyard, said Stewart offered a fix. “He approached me and said he noticed a lot of the flag ...
