Towns

Bethel Park

• The PRIDE Youth Program will hold a spaghetti dinner from 3 to 7 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Benevolent Order of the Elks, 2425 South Park Road in Bethel Park.

The PRIDE team is a group of high school students committed to drug abuse prevention and education among their peers and elementary pupils. They also promote a healthy lifestyle through community service and outreach activities.

Tickets for the dinner will be $6 for adults and $4 for children 3 to 12 years old; children under 3 eat free. The proceeds will benefit PRIDE team activities. Tickets are available at the door or at the Bethel Park Recreation Office, the Elks or from PRIDE members.

• The high school will present "Clue: The Play" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15-17 in the auditorium. Based on the movie, which is taken from the popular Parker Brothers board game, the show is a whodunit with three endings.

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. Senior citizens and elementary pupils will be admitted free. For more, call 412-854-8514

Mt. Lebanon

• A roving cocktail and hors d'oeuvres party will be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Monday in Mt. Lebanon's central business district. Participants can visit shops, restaurants and businesses for refreshments.

Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. at the municipal building, 710 Washington Road. Tickets cost $25 and may be purchased at the Mt. Lebanon Recreation Center or municipal building customer service desk. Proceeds will benefit the Mt. Lebanon Partnership and the Mt. Lebanon Main Street program.

Scott

• How climate change is affecting our state and what can be done about it will be the focus of the Scott Conservancy's annual meeting, set for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at Scott Park Lodge.

Sharon Pillar, of Sewickley, who is the Western Pennsylvania global warming outreach coordinator for PennFuture, a statewide environmental group, will talk about global climate change and its local effect.

She will also provide information on the latest research in climate change and on the status of legislation in Harrisburg that focuses on energy efficiency and the efforts to reduce emissions that contribute to global warming.

Pennsylvania is responsible for one percent of all the global warming gases generated throughout the world.

The first 50 people who attend the meeting will receive a free compact fluorescent light bulb, which uses 75 percent less electricity than an incandescent bulb and lasts 10 times longer. Each bulb, when installed, saves $48 in electricity costs over its lifetime and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1,000 pounds.

Schools

Upper St. Clair

• Eleven former students and a staff member were welcomed into the Upper St. Clair High School Hall of Fame last month during Homecoming weekend, in the eighth annual induction ceremony.

Honorees were inducted in three categories: athletic, arts and academic.

Athletic Hall of Fame members inducted were:

• Amy Lienhardt Hochanadel, Class of 1984, a former softball player teaching English at Perrysburg High in Ohio.

• Merel Hommen Wilson, Class of '94, a former NCAA swimmer working as a physiologist and massage therapist in Denver, Co.

• Nathan Meerstein, '01, who has trained with the U.S. national volleyball team and is currently playing in Porto, Portugal.

In the Arts, honorees were:

• Jacqueline Bayne, '94, an actress/singer who has performed on Broadway.

• Marcy Froehlich, '77, an award-winning costume designer who has worked on Broadway, television and film productions.

• Ponny Conomos Jahn,'86, an actress, director and teacher of theater arts who has taught theater classes at USC.

• Daniel Mazzarini, '99, an interior designer for the Ralphn Lauren international wholesale development team.

In Academics, honorees were:

• Terrence Hammons, Jr., '91, who was an academic All-American football player and now works as an international lawyer in Allentown, Pa.

• Dr. Rebecca Norman Harbaugh,'77, a former teacher now the assistant superintendent at Conewago School District near Gettysburg, Pa.

• Dr. David Mathews, '74, an orthopedic surgeon in Honolulu, Hawaii involved in medical missions in Asia.

• Dr. Sarah O'Brien Zirwas, '92, a pediatric hematologist/oncologist in Columbus, Ohio.

• Walter Henricks, a former associate high school principal in Upper St. Clair for 26 who was influential in implementing many of district's current instructional programs.

• Commissioners will hold a special meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday to vote to approve or deny the bids for the building and outdoor swimming pool of the proposed Boyce Mayview community recreation center. If approved, bids will be awarded.

Consultant Ken Ballard, president of Ballard King, which conducted an economic/project analysis of the recreation center early in the process, will be present to answer any questions.

• The board Monday approved the purchase by the township for $150,000 of a building at 2005 Washington Road owned by the volunteer fire department.

The vacant single-family dwelling is adjacent to the fire station parking lot.

The fire department previously used it for training purposes. The location may serve as a future site for the police station.

• The board approved a 2008 contract for $37,500 for deer culling with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services. The one-year agreement is for 12 nights, beginning in mid-January. The aim is to remove 200 deer or more.

The current three-year contract for $20,000 annually was for 8 nights each year. Last year, 147 deer were removed.

The goal is to lower deer-vehicle collisions, which last year numbered 130.

• The board approved amending the township code to implement a new program of the Pennsylvania American Water Co., which bases residential summer sewer rates on the winter water average use. That way, if a household uses a lot of water in the summer, say to fill the swimming pool, it won't be reflected in the sewage bill.

The change becomes effective May 2008.