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Greensburg does not have a harbor, the Red Sox, or the worst drivers on the planet.
But Wednesday, the Westmoreland County seat will have a kinship with Boston: a tea party.
About 500 cities and towns nationwide -- including about 20 in Pennsylvania -- will have a Tax Day Tea Party, a protest against ineffective government.
The Greensburg party will be at the Courthouse, 2 Main St., from noon to 2 p.m. The emcee will be Rose Tennant from the Quinn and Rose show on 104.7 FM.
Another tea party will run at the same time at Station Square hosted by Jim Quinn, Ms. Tennant's radio comrade.
If you can't wait, there will be a tea party from noon to 1 p,.m. Saturday at Allegheny Landing on Pittsburgh's North Shore. Dr. Alan Keyes, who lost to President Barack Obama in an Illinois Senate race in 2004, will speak.
None of them had to save par with a 20-footer, negotiate the Church Pews or outclaw a Tiger. But all four were champions at Oakmont Country Club Friday night.
Cullen Boyer, Steven Leone, Sarah Ormay and Elizabeth Schinkel are third-graders at Redeemer Lutheran School, Oakmont. They also comprise one of only 24 teams to be judged regional winners in the 2009 Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards program.
Talk about an elite foursome. ... There were 4,388 entries nationwide, made up of 13,774 students.
Each team had to develop an idea for a future technology that would endure for 20 years, then create a Web site to be submitted for national judging in May.
The Redeemer team, coached by Debra Terhune, came up with the Holo-Smart Project. It combines Smartboard, holographic and e-paper technologies to form a lightweight, foldable education tool to be used instead of textbooks.
It's back-friendly.
Six PG East libraries are among 4,000 nationwide that will receive 17 free hardcover books from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The books will come from the We the People Bookshelf program and be for kindergartners through 12th-graders. Local recipients will be:
North American Martyrs Catholic School, Monroeville; the Forest Hills branch of C.C. Mellor Memorial Library and Trinity Christian School, Forest Hills; McKee Elementary/Middle School, Jeannette; and Latrobe Elementary School and Adams Memorial Library, Latrobe.
First Published April 9, 2009 6:19 am
