The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg's 12th annual Children's Literature Conference will run tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Smith Hall.

Authors Jack Gantos -- a Mount Pleasant native -- Megan McDonald and Rebecca O'Connell will speak.

The cost is $70. For more information, call 724-836-7741 or e-mail upgclc@pitt.edu.

Seton Hill University will celebrate the reopening of historic St. Joseph Chapel with a special Mass at 5 p.m. Saturday.

It will be at the chapel and Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt will serve as principal celebrant. But because of space restrictions, only members of the university community and invited guests may attend.

The restoration of the chapel began in 2008 and was completed last week. The Allegheny Foundation awarded a $300,000 grant to Seton Hill to repair and repaint the walls and ceiling, sand and refinish the floor and pews, install a new sound system and repair windows.

Westmoreland County Community College's annual commencement will begin at 6 p.m. next Thursday in the Founders Hall gym on the Youngwood campus.

S. Hartley Johnston, the college's initial president in 1970, will deliver the keynote address. About 635 degrees and diplomas will be distributed.

Cia's of Irwin, which sells jewelry, gifts and art and marked its first anniversary yesterday, will have a designer show next Thursday through May 10.

Cia's is in Irwin Plaza, Route 30, 1 mile west of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. For more information, call 724.864.9828 or go to www.ciasgallery.com.

Irwin's Main Street Program, a state-funded component of its downtown revitalization, has gotten national recognition.

Washington, D.C.-based National Main Street Trust, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Downtown Center in Harrisburg, annually recognizes programs that have effectively followed recommended criteria. Irwin is among 800 towns nationwide to get this designation.

The Irwin revitalization project is in its fourth year. The borough's Main Street Program was implemented 15 months ago.

Borough council hired Donn Henderson as Main Street manager in February 2007. He formerly managed a Main Street Program in Charleroi.