The police department is reminding residents not to leave donations on their porches for Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 91, which is conducting a fundraising campaign and is soliciting donations from residents. Ingram police belong to FOP Lodge 91.

Solicitors have been contacting residents, asking for cash or a check donation for the police. Residents are being told to leave the donation in an envelope on the front porch where it will be picked up.

In checking with the FOP and its soliciting company, police chief Jack Doherty said the solicitations are legitimate, but he advised against leaving a check or cash on a front porch. He recommended that individuals should make a check payable to FOP Lodge 91 and either mail it to the FOP or forward it to Ingram police.

The meeting room in the McDonald Trail Station on the Panhandle Trail at 160 S. McDonald St., McDonald, is available for rent for family gatherings or parties.

Room rentals include tables, chairs and a kitchen. Rental proceeds benefit the McDonald Redevelopment Association. Call either Rich at 724-926-8808 or Alice at 724-926-4617.

For the 17th year, Moon Community Access Television will broadcast election results beginning at 10 p.m. Tuesday on Comcast channel 14 and Verizon channel 35.

The results for Moon supervisor, Moon Area school directors, real estate tax collector and magisterial district justice will be gathered from 13 voting districts in Moon and two in Crescent.

• Curbside brush and tree limb pick ups begin Monday and will coincide with the rubbish schedule through Nov. 25 with these guidelines:

• Brush should not exceed six feet and should not have a diameter of more than four inches.

• Items should not be bundled or tied and should not be placed in bags or boxes.

• Materials should be at the curb by 8 a.m. on the day of pick-up.

• Public works employees will not pick up leaves.

Trees and branches can be dropped off from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 6 at the Downes Garage on Beaver Grade Road at Ewing Road. Residents may bring brush and leaves to the site to be chipped by the road department.

Volunteers this month planted the Liberty Tree Grove, which will be part of the community park under construction next to Donaldson Elementary School.

The seven trees are offspring of those associated with historic Americans, including Betsy Ross, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Wright Brothers, Abraham Lincoln and the astronauts who visited the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission.

Resident Frank Blaskowitz, along with grass-roots community service group Action for Change Today, spearheaded the $7,500 project, funded by donations.

Mr. Blaskowitz said benches, signs, walkways and other amenities will be added. He hoped to hold a dedication ceremony in the spring.

• Supervisors have approved a $60,150 contract with Tri-State Grouting of Newark, Delaware, to repair 15 manholes in The Pointe at North Fayette.

The company was the lowest of five bidders and was expected to do the work next month.

Hydrogen sulfide gas produced by a sewage pump station near some of the shopping center's restaurants caused deterioration in the concrete manholes, officials said.

• Supervisors have agreed to allow the police department to participate in the West Hills DUI Task Force to help enforce laws regarding driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Police Chief Jeffrey Falconer said the task force would set up occasional sobriety checkpoints and conduct roving patrols within the township.

He said officers could participate in the task force by getting special training then working overtime hours, paid for by the Pennsylvania DUI Task Force.

• Supervisors have accepted a $100,700 proposal by HRG Engineering, of Pittsburgh, to develop a traffic impact fee program that would require developers to pay for road and transportation improvements.

The board also adopted a resolution Oct. 10 that says pending the traffic fee ordinance, land development applications may be subject to a fee of $1,000 per evening peak hour trip that the development would generate.

The resolution created a seven-member advisory committee to consist of residents and businesspeople, with at least three of the members representing the real estate, development and building industries.

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