In brief
Requests sought Non-profit groups in Fayette County have until Sept. 1 to submit requests for funding from the Community Foundation of Fayette County.
Bob Garrett, the foundation’s director of marketing, said eligible organizations must be non-profit (recognized under Section 501 C3 of the IRS code), tax-exempt organizations located in Fayette County. The foundation also may make grants to organizations outside Fayette County whose purposes and programs benefit Fayette County.
Grant awards of up to $5,000 are made to innovative projects and programs that meet the Community Foundation’s general criteria for improving the county. To apply or request additional information, contact the foundation’s office at 65 W. Main St., Uniontown, or call 724-437-8600.
DUI simulation planned
A simulated DUI driving course in the parking lot of the Uniontown Mall will allow licensed drivers ages 16 to 21 to drive golf carts through a marked course while wearing “fatal vision goggles,” which simulate alcohol impairment.
PennDOT is sponsoring this event, to be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, along with Crown American, the state police and Washington Regional Highway Safety. State police troopers will be on hand to conduct simulated sobriety checks and will ride in the golf carts with participants.
The course will be set up in the parking area near the J.C. Penney entrance. Only people with a valid driver’s license or learner’s permit will be allowed to drive the golf carts.
Detour outlined
PennDOT District 12 alerts motorists that Harmony Road in Perry Township will be closed and a detour will be in place from Monday, Aug. 19, at 7 a.m. to Friday, Aug. 23, at 3 p.m., weather permitting.
The limits of this project will be between the southbound lane of Route 51 in Perry Township, Perryopolis/Rathway Road and Rehoboth Church Road.
The detour will use Perryopolis/Rathway Road and Rehoboth Church Road. The detour will be in place for five days for pipe removal and replacement, and the replacement of two head walls.
Meeting scheduled
Man to stand trial
Timothy Michael Green, 33, of Washington was held for court on charges alleging that he kidnapped, restrained and robbed a McClellandtown man in June while attempting to hide from police who wanted him for allegedly committing a series of robberies.
Green, whose last known address was 603 N. Main St., Apt. 3, was ordered held for court on charges of kidnapping, unlawful restraint, robbery, theft, burglary, terroristic threats and possession of drug paraphernalia by District Justice Brenda Cavalcante on Monday.
She remanded Green to the Washington County Prison in lieu of bond.
State police in Uniontown alleged that Green watched John Joseph Sismondo’s College Avenue home June 19 while hiding in some nearby woods and entered through an unlocked window when nobody was home.
Green allegedly changed into Sismondo’s clothes, found his .308-caliber rifle and .25-caliber handgun and then fell asleep on his couch. When Sismondo came home, police said, Green forced him to drive him to his ex-wife’s home on California to retrieve his vehicle.
After they retrieved his vehicle, Green allegedly forced the victim to withdraw $200 from an ATM. When they returned to Sismondo’s house, Green duct-taped him to a chair and left in the victim’s vehicle, police said.
A short time later, state police spotted the vehicle on Route 40 near Hopwood and pursued it into Preston County, W.Va., where Green left the vehicle and was found hiding in a barn.
Police said Green is a suspect in robberies in Redstone Township, Bentleyville and South Strabane Township, Washington County.