The Southwestern Pennsylvania Household Hazardous Waste Task Force will sponsor a household hazardous waste collection from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Bradys Run Park on Route 51 in Brighton.

The fee is $2 per gallon, payable in cash. Neither checks nor credit cards will be accepted.

These items will be accepted -- aerosol cans, automotive fluids, motor oil, transmission fluid, antifreeze, brake fluid, batteries, chemistry sets, compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs), gasoline, kerosene, household cleaners, ammonia, drain openers, acid cleaners, oven cleaners, mercury, paint products, latex, oil based, alkyd based, arts/crafts chemicals, rust preservatives, creosote, water sealers, paint thinners, furniture strippers, pesticides/herbicides rodent killers, insecticides, weed killers, mothballs, fertilizer, photo chemicals and pool chemicals.

These will not be accepted -- ammunition, appliances, bulk waste, commercial and industrial waste, compressed gas cylinders (including propane tanks), drugs, explosives, flares, fluorescent tubes, leaking containers, medical waste (including needles), PCBs and dioxin, radioactive materials (including smoke detectors), and tires.

For information, visit www.swpahhw.org or call the Pennsylvania Resources Council, 412-488-7452.

Heritage Valley Health System is working with Pittsburgh-based Global Links to recover mattresses that would have been discarded as part of an international humanitarian aid effort to supply equipment to hospitals in developing countries.

More than 350 mattresses that were replaced at The Medical Center, Beaver, and Sewickley Valley Hospital, materials have been recovered and will be sent to hospitals and senior care homes in Cuba.

That's where last year's hurricanes caused extensive water damage to medical facilities throughout the country.

Many hospitals on the island were forced to dry their mattresses in the sun in order to reuse because they had no replacements.

Impermeable mattresses being replaced at Heritage Valley will replace these mattresses in the near future.

A re-enactment of 18th-century laundry practices will be featured from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday as part of a new programming series at Woodville Plantation, 1375 Washington Pike, Collier.

Admission is $5 for adults and $10 for families.

Necessary Domestic Duties: a Thousand Little Occurrences Never Foreseen shows practices required for washing and ironing clothing and linens at the plantation.

Woodville Plantation, the home of John and Presley Neville, was built in 1775. It interprets life during the period of 1780-1820, the Era of the New Republic. Guided tours are offered from 1 to 4 p.m. each Sunday.

For information, visit www.woodvilleplantation.org or call 412-221-0348.

Traffic on Route 60 (Beaver Valley Expressway) has been reduced to a single lane in each direction between the Hopewell (Exit 9) and Aliquippa (Exit 10) interchanges for a $5.3 million improvement project.

The left lane closures will continue around-the-clock through late this month.

At least one lane will remain be open in each direction at all times. Crews will continue improvements in median crossover areas.

The overall project involves lengthening acceleration and deceleration lanes, reconstructing and realigning ramps, paving, upgrading drainage, guide rail, and shoulders, widening and installing new signing and pavement markings.

Also, it involves new ramps at the Monaca-Shippingport interchange. The overall project will be completed in early 2010. The prime contractor for the project is Swank Associated Companies, Inc. of New Kensington.

The Community College of Beaver County, in partnership with the Northwest Regional Key, is offering a Child Development Associate program for preschool caregivers.

Under a grant offered through Northwest, students pay a one-time fee of $200 to enroll. The fee covers nine college credits and the cost of books.

To be eligible, students must be at least 18 years old, hold a high school diploma or equivalent, be employed at a STAR 1 or higher certified childcare center, and must be observed working as a lead caregiver with a group of at least eight children aged 3-5 in a group setting.

Students will enroll in two courses per semester and complete the program in one academic year. If students wish to continue their education, they can enroll in the Early Childhood Education program at the college.

For information, contact Jacqueline Black, faculty/Early Childhood Education, at 724-775-8561, Ext. 139.

Eight alumni of Center Area High School will be inducted into the Center Alumni Hall of Fame on Oct. 23 and honored Oct. 24 at a banquet at St. Frances Cabrini Church Hall, 115 Trinity Drive, Center.

Tickets are on sale for $25 at the high school office.

The inductees are:

• Andrea M. Bartko, class of 1980, a partner in the Business Group of Pietrangallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP.

• Michele Bendekovic, class of 1986, Director of Attorney Recruiting and Professional Development with Steptoe and Johnson PLLC, a firm with offices in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.

• Charles J. Betters, class of 1967, the head of an interstate commercial general contracting firm that is active in cities in the eastern United States.

• Edward Currie, class of 1967, is a psychologist in private practice in Beaver, who PA, and has served as school psychologist for the former Center Area School District (now Central Valley School District) for 15 years.

• Dr. Daniel DiCola, class of 1970, chief resident at Latrobe Area Hospital who specializes in family practice.

• Larry D. Lucci, class of 1976, CEO of Z&G Enterprises which does business as Cabinet World, a firm headquartered in Center that offers kitchen remodeling, products and installation

• Michael Sisk, doctor of chiropractic, class of 1979, opened his practice in Monaca.

• Michael G. Zeglinski, class of 1984, vice president, Strategic Initiatives for CVS Caremark Corporation, Pittsburgh.

There will be traffic restrictions this week during maintenance by state Department of Transportation crews on these Beaver County roads:

• Brush Creek Road, Marion -- Crack sealing between Route 989 and Wises Grove Road.

• Elmwood Road, New Galilee & Darlington -- Shoulder improvements between New Galilee and Darlington.

• Gringo Independence Road, Hopewell -- Drainage repairs between Gringo Clinton Road and Lexington Drive.

• Ifft Road, New Sewickley -- Patching between Zeigler and Zehner School roads.

• Lake Road, Franklin -- Crack sealing between Route 288 and Franker Road.

• Mercer Road, Daugherty -- Pipe installation between Ferry and Kench drives.

• Mercer Road, North Sewickley -- Ditch repairs between Bennets Drive and Grandview Road.

• Monaca Road, Hopewell & Center -- Crack sealing between Franklin Avenue and Constitution Boulevard.

• North Tower Road, Franklin -- Crack sealing between Route 288 and Tower Road.

• Pine Grove/Doyle Road, Industry -- Paving between Pine Grove and Midland Beaver roads.

• Ridge Road Extension, Ambridge & Harmony -- Crack sealing between Route 65 and Solar Drive.

• Riverview Road, Marion -- Crack sealing between Celia Road and Route 588.

• Route 30, Hanover -- Crack sealing between Frankfort Road and the Allegheny County line.

• Shippingport Hill Road, Greene -- Patching between Lincoln Highway and the Shippingport Bridge.

• South Heights Hill, Hopewell -- Drainage repairs between Brodhead Road and Jordan Street.

• Thirteenth Avenue, Conway & Economy -- Crack sealing between Route 65 and Freedom Road.

• Tuscarawas Road, Brighton & Ohioville -- Shoulder improvements between Pine Grove and Willowbrook roads.

• Zelienople Road, Franklin -- Crack sealing between Lawrence County and Moody Road.

A festival to raise money for the LaCroix New Testament Mission in Haiti will feature music, Haitian foods and Haitian-made items from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday 10/4in Hillside Christian Community Church, 1050 Campbells Run Road, Robinson.

Pastor Vaugelas Pierre, who worked in the small village of St. Croix for three decades and who has partnered with Hillside Church will speak at 4 o'clock.

Festival proceeds will help pay to rebuild houses that were destroyed by a hurricane and flood in Sept. 2008 in the Caribbean country.

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