Event founders Jason and Sherry Ott posed with Pittsburgh personality Rick Sebak at Noe’s Night of Light, an annual event that combines local art, music, and cuisine in support of The Children’s Home of Pittsburgh & Lemieux Family Center, a nonprofit that ensures the health and wellbeing of medically fragile children in Western Pennsylvania.
The 25th Annual Courage House and Ed Block Courage Awards recognized members of the Holy Family Institute and the Pittsburgh Steelers who have conquered challenges in their lives. From left: Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers; Ray Morris, Courage House Award recipient; and Sister Linda Yankoski of Holy Family Institute.
The Pittsburgh Opera New Guard, a young professionals group, held its soft launch party at Evangeline. From left: Ronna Pratt, Pittsburgh Opera Manager of Special Events, and Pittsburgh Opera New Guard cofounders Danielle Katz, Hayley Haldeman, Ali Good, and Branden Moore.
Presbyterian SeniorCare Network hosted 400 guests at its annual Your Holiday Home event. The money raised at the event supported the Woodside Place of Washington capital campaign, which funds the creation of a new dementia care community at the Washington campus. Front row, from left: Christine McMurray, Christine O’Brien, and Betty Robinson. Back row, from left: Betty Courson, Connie Simon, Lucy Johnson, Carolyn Campbell, Hila Saxer, Debbie O’Dell-Seneca, Bracken Burns, Donna Lukich, and Pamela Stewart. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JEREMY HOLDORF, HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE, DAVID BACHMAN PHOTOGRAPHY, PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE NETWORK, GREEN DOT PUBLIC RELATIONS
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Mandi Pryor, executive director of the South West Communities Chamber of Commerce; Gwen Rodi and Rebecca Sray, South Fayette Township Commissioners; and the Pirate Parrot celebrated of grand opening of Dunkin’ Donut’s new South Fayette location.
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