Franklin Park

St. John Neumann Church will hold its annual bicycle collection for Nicaragua in the fall instead of the spring this year.

The Wheels of Love collection of bikes, bike parts, tire pumps, wheelchairs, sewing machines, small sports equipment and baby strollers will be held Sept. 16 in the upper parking lot of the church at 2230 Rochester Road.

For more information, call 412-366-5638, ext. 15.

Pine

The township is accepting applications to fill two vacancies on its environmental advisory council.

The volunteer panel meets at 7 p.m. every third Tuesday of the month to review proposed municipal or park development and private development of more than five acres. It gives an advisory opinion as to the effect of the development on the environment.

The application deadline is next Thursday. To apply, send a letter and resume to Township of Pine, 230 Pearce Mill Road, Wexford, PA 15090, or e-mail gkoehler@twp.pine.pa.us.

South Butler

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled today for a new playground at South Butler Intermediate Elementary School.

The 9:10 a.m. ceremony is to officially open the playground and end the school's $66,000 project to provide fourth- and fifth-graders with a new playground surface and new play equipment.

The project was primarily funded by the school's Parent-Teacher Organization and the community. The district and pupils at the intermediate elementary school and at South Butler Primary School collected $12,000 in a Change for the Playground two-week coin drive.

School Principal Thomas Tibbott, district Superintendent Patrick O'Toole and PTO President Nelda Burd are scheduled to attend the ceremony. A plaque to commemorate the gift of the new playground will be presented, and the fifth-grade band will perform.