Allegheny Township

Allegheny Township officials received a $1,610 grant for sewage enforcement from the state Department of Environmental Protection. The grant, secured by state Rep. John E. Pallone, D-New Kensington, and state Rep. Joe Petrarca, D-Vandergrift, will be used to reimburse half of all eligible expenses from inspection and enforcement, including the regulations surrounding on-lot septic systems.

Westmoreland County

PA Cleanways of Westmoreland County has received a $3,441 grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection. The grant, obtained by state Rep. John E. Pallone, D-New Kensington, paid for a household hazardous waste collection last year.

Youngwood

Four civic leaders have been named to the board of directors of Westmoreland County Community College Education Foundation.

They are Greensburg lawyer Morrison F. Lewis Jr., who previously served as a college trustee; Ralph H. Padgett Jr., of New Stanton, a computer instructor who is representing the alumni association; grant-writing consultant Norma F. Samide, of Latrobe; and Barbara J. Terry of Jeannette, a health care executive who served on the board in the late 1980s.

Former board members named to the emeritus board include David S. Dahlmann, of Greensburg, Edwin R. Hogan, of West Newton, Jack Millstein, of Youngwood, and John A. Robertshaw, of Greensburg.

Irwin

Tax collector Louis Bennett has moved the Irwin tax office to the Matta & Matta Real Estate Building, 411 Main St. The office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday, and from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The number is 724-864-6983.

Borough and Westmoreland County tax bills have been mailed. The discount period ends on April 30. Mrs. Bennett will open the office daily from April 24 through 28, the final week of the discount period.

Norwin

Norwin High School senior Christopher R. Confer, of Irwin, has been awarded a full-tuition $90,000 scholarship to Saint Vincent College, Latrobe.

The award was announced by Saint Vincent admission counselor Patrick Conroy during a ceremony last Thursday.

Mr. Confer was among 270 seniors with at least a 3.0 grade point average who applied to St. Vincent. All took the college's Wimmer exam in November to test general knowledge, mathematics and writing. Test results produced five scholarship winners.

Greensburg

The Carmike 15 at Westmoreland Mall in Hempfield is one of four venues for the 13th annual Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, which kicks off today and runs through April 2. The Pittsburgh-area premiere of the award-winning film, "Live and Become," will be featured at 7 p.m. Wednesday. A joint French-Israeli film with subtitles, "Live and Become" won the Audience Award at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival. It recounts the story of an Ethiopian boy saved from his country's 1984 famine by the secret American-Israeli mission, Operation Moses.

The film festival is a program of the United Jewish Federation. For tickets or additional information, call 412-992-5203.

Pittsburgh sculptor Peter Calaboyias will present a "tour" of Greece via a free lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday in Village Hall at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. Mr. Calaboyias, an artist who was born in Icaria, Greece, is probably best known for his sculpture at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He will speak on an "Odyssey Through Greece and the Aegean Islands."

His appearance is a tie-in with the school's study of Greece.

Mr. Calaboyias also will be the judge for the Pitt-Greensburg art show, featuring the works of students, staff and faculty. It will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. March 30 in Village Hall. For more information about either event, call 724-836-7741 or visit www.upg.pitt.edu.

Latrobe

Educator, writer and activist Jonathan Kozol will appear at 8 p.m. March 30 at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, as the next scheduled speaker in its annual Threshold Series. Mr. Kozol came to national attention in 1967 with the publication of "Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools," which drew upon his experiences as a fourth-grade teacher in a troubled school district.

In 1995 he produced another study based on his experiences among schoolchildren in the South Bronx, a subject he revisited in 2001 with the publication of the book, "Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope."

His topic March 30 will be "The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation." For reservations, which are required, call 724-537-4556.