Local briefs
Center offers course Pet First Aid
is a handy reference guide for cat and dog emergencies. Created by the American Red Cross and The Humane Society of the United States, Pet First Aid provides assistance to people whose pets are ill or injured. Sign up for this course at the Center in the Woods. The class is being offered on Monday, March 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. A certified American Red Cross instructor who is also an R.N is teaching the course. The cost of the class is $40. Registration is accepted by mail, credit card via the telephone or by walk in registrations prior to March 7. For more information, call the Center in the Woods at 724-938-3554 any weekday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Park offers activity
The Washington County Department of Parks and Recreation will be offering a Winter Ramble on Saturday. The group will gather at the Mingo Creek Park Office at 1 p.m.
Participants can chase the winter blues away with an exhilarating hike in Mingo Creek County Park, as well as enjoy the winter landscape and observe the first signs of spring. It is recommended to dress for the weather and moderate hiking.
There is no fee for this program.
Reservations are required and can be made by calling the Washington County Department of Parks and Recreation at 724-228-6867.
Mingo Creek County Park is located 12 miles east of Washington off of Route 136.
Deadline today
The Washington County Cooperative Extension Office is going to hold its 93rd Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 3. The meeting will be held at the Western Area Career and Technology Center beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The cost to attend the meeting is $14 and everyone is invited to attend. The students at the Career and Technology Center will cater dinner.
Comedian Randy Riggle will provide entertainment. Following the comedian will be a short business meeting, special recognition of county master gardeners and board elections. The evening will end with a benefit auction supporting the flood-damaged children’s garden and 4-H horse program food and announcers booth.
Make reservations by calling the Extension Office at 724-228-6881. The last day for reservations is today.
Discussion scheduled
GREENSBURG – Seton Hill University’s National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education will host a panel discussion of “Nostra Aetate,’ the 40-year-old Vatican document upon which the center’s work is based, today at 7:30 p.m. in Lynch Lecture Hall.
The event is free to the public.
Lois Sculco, Seton Hill vice president for administration and student life, will moderate the panel, which includes Dr. Abdul Mawjoud Dardery, Seton Hill’s visiting Fulbright Scholar from South Valley University in Egypt and current “Islam: Religion and Culture’ professor at Seton Hill; Rabbi Sara Rae Perman, Congregation Emanu-El Israel; and the Rev. Roger Statnick, vicar general, Diocese of Greensburg. For more information, phone 724-830-1033 or e-mail ncche@setonhill.edu.
Service planned
Brownsville Area Ministerial Association will host a community Lenten service Thursday at 7 p.m. at First Christian Church in Brownsville, with the Rev. Roger Diehl as preacher. Other services include: March 3 at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Vincent Gigliotti as preacher; March 10 at Allison Christian Church, with the Rev. Aleda Menchyk as preacher; and March 17 at Calvin Presbyterian, with the Rev. Gail Mason as preacher. Services will be followed by a time of fellowship and refreshments.
Course offered
The Center in the Woods in California will host Pet First Aid, a course that provides assistance to people whose pets are ill or injured, Monday, March 7, from 6 to 9 p.m.
In the program, created by the American Red Cross and The Humane Society of the United States, a certified Red Cross instructor who is also a registered nurse, will teach the course. There is a cost for the class.
Registration is accepted by mail, credit card via the telephone or by walk-in registrations prior to March 7. For more information, call the Center in the Woods at 724-938-3554 any weekday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Annual meeting set
The Washington County Cooperative Extension Office will hold its 93rd annual meeting Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Western Area Career and Technology Center.
There is a cost to attend the meeting, and everyone is invited to attend. Students at the center will cater the dinner. The last day for reservations is today.
Comedian Randy Riggle will provide entertainment. A short business meeting, special recognition of county master gardeners and board elections will follow the comedian. The evening will end with a benefit auction supporting the flood-damaged children’s garden and 4-H horse program food and announcer’s booth.
For reservations, call the extension office at 724-228-6881.
Meeting to be televised
The Laurel Highlands School Board meeting from Feb. 17 will be televised tonight at 8 on Channel 21, CUTV.