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McVey - Burnside Community calendar Keeley Bevin McVey and Chad Brian Burnside, both of Fayette City, are announcing their engagement. Keeley is the daughter of Virginia and the late Lawrence McVey of Grindstone. Chad is the son of Vickie and Chester Burnside of Fayette City. The bride-elect is a 2004 graduate of Brownsville Area High School. She then graduated from Laurel Business Institute in 2008 with a degree in therapeutic massage therapy. She is currently employed with Chaney’s Natural in Monongahela. The groom-to-be graduated from Belle Vernon Area High School in 2004. He then graduated from Triangle Tech in 2006 with a degree in electrical maintenance and construction trade.
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He is currently employed with Siemens Energy and Automations, in New Kensington, as a nuclear and electrical engineer. The couple will exchange vows on Sept. 7 at the First Christian Church in Brownsville with a reception to follow at West Overton Barn in Scottdale.
GERMAN TOWNSHIP CLASS OF 1959 will hold their monthly luncheon at noon on Tuesday at the IHop restaurant, Route 40, Uniontown. Those wanting to attend are asked to note the change of the luncheon meeting place. All classmates, their spouses and family members are welcome. Questions can be referred to Betty at tbgorman@atlanticbb.net or Dolores at sofranko95@atlanticbb. net. U N I O N T O W N S E RV I C E L E A G U E
THRIFT SHOP will hold a Mother’s Day sale 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at 41 W. Main St., Uniontown. All ladies dresses, blouses, slacks and shoes will be half price. Money that is raised from the sale will go toward supporting local charities. WEST OVERTON GARDEN SOCIETY will host the ninth annual May Mart Plant Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the West Overton Museum basement Overholt
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Room, 109 W. Overton Road, Scottdale. The event features heirloom and hybrid tomatoes and vegetable plants, annuals, perennials, herbs, unique houseplants, hanging baskets, Oglevee’s geraniums and flowers for Mother’s Day. Guests are invited to bring a plant and take a plant from the Swap Table. In addition to plants, there will be vendors selling pastries and fresh roast coffee, hot chocolate and teas. Admission is free, and free parking is available
by the Amish Pantry. Proceeds benefit the garden society. For more information, call Jan Brubacher at 724-640-4180. POLICY — Items must be mailed to Community calendar, HeraldStandard, 8 E. Church St., Uniontown, Pa. 15401 at least one week prior to desired publication date. A telephone number must be included. Items may also be faxed to 724-4397559 or emailed to hscalendar@heraldstandard. com. For more information, call 724-439-7565.
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Sympathy cards need to include return addresses Dear Heloise: A friend of mine recently had a death in her family. Many relatives and friends left Mass cards and remembrance cards at the funeral home. Unfortunately, most of the cards had only the person’s name. My friend said she had to spend several hours LOOKING UP NAMES AND ADDRESSES on her computer. My hint is, please, friends and relatives, put your address on the cards. They are supposed to be acknowledged with a thank-you note. It’s just a simple thing, but it’s more helpful than you can imagine. — A Friend of the Family, via email Your hint will help a lot of people. Also, please put a last name down — you’d be amazed how many Tom and Sues or Bill and Janes there are! — Heloise PET PAL Dear Readers: Linda Little sent a photo of her schnauzer, Doc, posing by the water. Doc looks just like my little schnauzer Cabbie, whom I love dearly. To see Doc’s portrait, visit my website at www. Heloise.com and click on “Pets.” — Heloise TENNIS-SHOE HELPER Dear Heloise: My daughter isn’t very fond of having to tie her tennis shoes. Seems she is always in a hurry. So instead of purchasing costly lockingtype shoestrings, which make tie shoes into slip-ons, I recently purchased a handful of “cord locks” on the Internet. They are very inexpensive — a few cents each. These things will look familiar, and they are so easy to use. Just lace the shoe as usual, and slide a cord lock on the ends of both sides of the laces. From there, tie a small knot at the end of
Uniontown Hospital Auxiliary’s annual Basket Bonanza fundraiser will be displayed in the facility’s main lobby from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily from May 7 to 17. Baskets have been prepared by local businesses and hospital departments depicting themes including snack time, technology and office, evening at home and more. In addition, a hand-made afghan will also be on display. Tickets are available on-site. Raffle winners will be announced at noon on May 17 in the main lobby. Pictured are Uniontown Hospital Auxiliary’s Basket Bonanza co-chairwomen (from left) Elaine Kozel and Liz Myers.
Heloise the laces, and use the cord lock to slide the laces tighter or looser. It works great and is a great way to make all tie tennis shoes into “slip-ons”! — Susan in Ohio HEARING-AID CLEANING HINT Dear Heloise: My hearing aids have a vent hole, which accumulates wax from wearing. The tool that I was given to clear it out is a thin, plastic, wirelike device that never has been sufficient. One day, I bought some brushes sold for cleaning braces in a person’s mouth. The small, round brush is the perfect length and width to clear out the vent hole. They usually are made of a soft plastic, are washable and are inexpensive. I hope this can help some of your readers! — A.S. in San Antonio HANDY SEAM RIPPER Dear Heloise: I read your column in the (Greenville, Texas) Herald-Banner, and finally have a hint to send in! My co-worker just asked me if I have one of those itty-bitty screwdrivers for eyeglass frames. I checked, but all I had was a seam ripper. She tried it out of desperation, and lo and behold, it worked! Thanks for all the awesome hints you and your readers share! — Sharon D. in New Orleans
Hart: Hormonal birth control and 15-year-olds. Seriously? BY BETSY HART
Our culture has abandoned the protection of our girls. That, of course, has huge implications for the well-being of our boys, too. As a mother of four — including three girls, ages 11, 14 and 16 — few things scare me more. This week, the Food and Drug Administration ruled that girls as young as 15 can get the Plan B One-Step (or so-called morning-after) pill without a prescription, or even having to go to the pharmacy counter. The pills are not designed to abort, but to provide emergency hormonal contraception following unprotected sexual intercourse. A report in a recent edition of the journal Pediatrics says that about 14 percent of teen girls have had sex by their 15th birthday. While some find that number low, I find it shockingly high. In any event, the FDA decision would be silly if it weren’t so serious. These are girls who cannot work without a permit, can’t drive a car by themselves, can’t choose to drop out of school — or, in many cities and towns, avoid a legal curfew. We don’t trust them to make good decisions about any of these things on their own. (By the way, unless a girl brings a passport to the drugstore, she’s not going to have ID to show she’s 15, as school IDs typically show only a girl’s current school year, not a birth date. So
even this ridiculous age “limit” will be abused.) Yet FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a statement: “The data reviewed by the agency demonstrated that women 15 years of age and older were able to understand how Plan B One-Step works, how to use it properly, and that it does not prevent the transmission of a sexually transmitted disease.” Are they serious? These young women weren’t responsible enough, if that’s
the right terminology, to use birth control before sex, but we have no worries that they will use it properly afterward? Putting aside the health issues, here’s an even bigger problem: Is it really likely that a 15-year-old girl — a child — is seeking out full sexual intercourse in the first place? Or is it more likely that her fantasies revolve around romance and kissing, petting, being told she’s beautiful and loved? Well, the data backs up
what we know intuitively: According to a Guttmacher Institute report published in late 2011, 60 percent of girls who had first sex at the ages of 15 to 17 either didn’t want it to happen at all or had mixed feelings about it. Sixty percent. For boys in that age range, that number is only 34 percent. That’s still significant, but yes — duh — there’s a difference between men and women, and young men and young women, when it comes to sex.
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