< PreviousSNPJ Lodge 106 Car Cruises, noon, 255 West Allegheny Road, Imperial, entertainment, 50/50, level paved parking, door prizes, dash plaques; May 16: DJ and cookout; June 13: Cool Change; July 18: Magic Moments; Aug. 15: Elvis Lives, (724) 695-1411. Cruisin’ in the Woodlands, May 28 (rain date June 4), 5-9 p.m., Clinton Park, Primantis Food Truck, DJ, 50/50 raffle, www.findlay.pa.us. Wheels, Wings and Wishes, June 13, Moon Park, benefits Make-A-Wish, wheelswingswishes.com. North Fayette PD Car Cruise, date TBA, 12-4 p.m., Donaldson Park, dash plaques, entertainment, 50/50, refreshments, awards, www.north-fayette.com/339/Parks- Recreation-Events. Moon Park Classic Car Cruise, Aug. 29, gates open 7 a.m., Moon Park, live music, free admission, benefits Moon Township VFC, moontwpfire.com/upcoming-events. Robinson Township Car Cruise, Oct. 2, 12-4 p.m., Robinson Town Centre, entertainment by Doo Wop Doctors, townshipofrobinson.com. Robinson Farmers’ Market, Mondays, 3-7 p.m., May 24-Oct. 11 (closed Memorial Day and Labor Day), Holy Trinity Catholic Church parking lot, www.robinsonfarmersmarket.org. Moon Farmers’ Market, Wednesdays, 3-6:30 p.m., Moon Park, 30+ vendors, locally grown foods and crafted items, www.moonparks.org. McDonald Trail Station Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, mid-July-September, 9 a.m.-noon, McDonald Trail Station parking lot in McDonald, 161 South McDonald St., fresh local vegetables, fruits, local honey, homemade baked goods, jams, jellies, fresh farm eggs, pre-ordering of locally raised and butchered beef, specialty animal treats, local crafts, www.mcdonaldtrailstation.com, (724) 926-4617. The Original Farmers’ Market, starts 5:30 p.m.; Fridays only in May, Monday/Wednesday/Friday remainder of summer, Bridgeville area, take left on Route 50 off Bridgeville I-79 South Exit, 151 Parks Road, www.theoriginalfarmersmarket.net. Catch a race at “dirt’s monster half mile” Want to see sprint cars reach upwards of 150 miles per hour on a dirt track as they duke it out in a circuit race? Sure you do. So, head to Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway in Imperial for those and lots of other races this summer. The racetrack, located at 170 Kelso Road, is open every Saturday night through October. There are also lots of fun, family- friendly events, $1 hotdog nights, a monster truck night, late model races and more. Plus you can watch the races from the comfort of your own vehicle should you choose. Check ppms.com for a complete schedule, to purchase tickets and find up-to-date COVID-19 information. Sprint cars race around the dirt track at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. 40 • Allegheny West Magazine • May/June 2021May/June 2021 • www.awmagazine.com • 41Outdoor Flea Markets Looking for something slightly used or unique? Then check out these plein air flea markets. SNPJ Flea Market, May 22, 8 a.m.- noon, SNPJ Loge 106 in Imperial, $5/space, limit two per person, (412) 596-8885, www.snpjimperialpa.com. Findlay Flea Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., June 5, Aug. 28, Clinton Park, $5/space, 724-695-0500 x240. ABOVE: Moon Township’s Glow 5K run lights up the night (photo from 2018 event). Check out the Moon Glow Out and 5K Run, July 3, 8 p.m. This unique 5K takes place in the evening and usually features glow sticks, neon face painting, a black light photo booth and great music. The course starts and ends at Moon Township Public Library and winds through Moon Park. An after party and awards presentation are planned to follow. Because of COVID-19, a virtual option is also being offered and capacity is being capped, so consider signing up early. Registration starts at 8 p.m. and the race kicks off at 9 p.m. To register, find the Moon Glow Out and 5K Run at runsignup.com. Registration is $20. If you’re a regular reader of this publication, then you might remember awhile back when we covered local breweries and wineries. Now that many of these establishments are able to open back up, consider stopping by for a craft brew or local varietal this summer. Many also offer takeout bottles and growlers. To make viewing our list easier, we’ve integrated our list of breweries and wineries into our app, AWMag Events. Download it at awmagazine. com. Read our profiles of each establishment and utilize our interactive maps to visit them. For the original stories, check out our January 2018 and 2019 editions under the archives tab at awmagazine.com. Also check out the Janoski’s Farm Wine Festival (see page 26) on July 10 where many local wineries will be offering samples. Please consider all risks and follow COVID-19 guidelines when visiting any establishment. Please do not drink and drive. ABOVE: Black Dog Winery operates out of the historic Hankey House in North Fayette Township. BELOW: Patricia Kavic is pictured with her brother, Patrick Fleck, at the Michael Stephen Kavic Winery tasting room in Carnegie. ABOVE: Chris Brunetti owns Helicon Brewery, located in Oakdale. RIGHT: Coal Tipple Brewery is located near Raccoon Creek State Park. PHOTOS BY JILL BORDO Visit some local breweries and wineries Imagine your website working as hard for your business as you do. 412.205.8998 | DDSWebDesign.com Websites that get results. Designed in Pittsburgh Contact us for a free website analysis. Affordable Custom Designs Responsive Sites | Content Management SEO | E-commerce | Hosting | Maintenance NOW HIRING! Oces located in Robinson Twp. & Monaca 412.494.2000 ExpressPros.com Full-time and part-time job opportunities in a variety of positions: Administrative, Professional, Industrial, Skilled Labor, Skilled Trades, and Skilled Professional. Call to schedule your interview! No Fees! 42 • Allegheny West Magazine • May/June 2021Check out these programs at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden just outside of Oakdale offers regular programming for all ages. If you’re not familiar with the PBG, see our story on page 10. Visit PittsburghBotanicGarden.org for more. Young Artists in the Garden (kids), Saturdays, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Free with admission. Each week, young artists in the garden will be provided with activities like coloring, reading books, making a craft and playing games. Join the fun in the Weisbrod Learning Pavilion, located in the Garden of the Five Senses. Visit PittsburghBotanicGarden.org to reserve your timed ticket. Perennials That Pack a Punch Presentation (adults), May 19, 6-7:30 p.m. Get the most horticultural bang for your buck by choosing perennial plants that are easy to grow and have long-lasting ornamental qualities. Education director Dr. Mark Miller will highlight some of his favorite perennial plants that grow well in western Pennsylvania and that feature bold and beautiful foliage and interesting form. Bring color and movement into your landscape or perfume to your garden. The lecture will be followed by a plant walk in the gardens nearest to the welcome center. Visit PittsburghBotanicGarden.org to register. Cost is $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Health and Wellness Programs The garden hosts a variety of indoor and outdoor health and wellness programs, including forest bathing, meditation, yoga and tai chi. Check the events calendar at PittsburghBotanicGarden.org for details on dates, times and program fees. Grow the Garden Day (ages 14+), May 26, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Join the PBG’s horticulture staff and volunteers as they work to maintain the PBG’s gardens and woodlands. All levels of gardening experience are welcome. Pre-registration is required. Contact Moira Aulbach, volunteer coordinator, at aulbach@ pittsburghbotanicgarden.org or at (412) 444-4464 ext. 235. The lotus pond is a highlight at the Pittsburgh Botan- ic Garden. May/June 2021 • www.awmagazine.com • 43 At the beginning of May, St. Clair Health celebrated the opening of its new Dunlap Family Outpatient Center in Mt. Lebanon. The 280,000 square-foot, seven- floor building expands on the footprint of St. Clair Hospital, which was originally constructed in 1954. The project is the health system’s largest construction project in 67 years. The opening of the center also coincides with another important milestone: the hospital’s rebranding as St. Clair Health. According to Jim Collins, CEO of St. Clair Health, the rebranding is the first in the hospital’s history and took some careful consideration. “It’s not a decision you take lightly,” says Collins. “But we were coming off a 15-year run of growth and achievement that was pretty remarkable. We currently are on a three-year run as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, something only 32 hospitals in the country can claim. We’re in the top 2% in patient safety, having received 18 straight-A grades for patient safety. And of course we’re the region’s only affiliate of the Mayo clinic.” According to Lindsay Meucci, St. Clair Health’s vice president of marketing, communications and advocacy, the health system chose the name in order to reflect its growth and evolution from a 329-bed hospital to a health system with physicians across the area. Along with the new branding, the health system has coined the tagline, “Expert care from people who care.” “We have a very proud, long-existing relationship with our community so we didn’t want to lose sight of that patient-centric care that we provide and the compassion that we’re known for,” says Meucci. “However, we also wanted to recognize our expert physicians and the advancements and technology that we offer across our system.” Collins says that while planning the current expansion, St. Clair leadership visited numerous other hospitals across the country, including Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, the University of California Hospital in San Diego, Advocate Health Care in Chicago and the University of Miami Hospital. “We spent a great deal of time with those organizations touring, talking to them, and seeing what they were doing or planning,” says Collins. What hospital leadership came away with were numerous innovative ideas centered on efficiency and patient care, but something that was still, as Collins describes it, “uniquely St. Clair.” Typically, outpatient procedures and screenings can involve multiple different steps that require patients to visit different suites throughout a hospital. The Dunlap center, however, was designed to have multiple procedural areas on one floor or even in one suite, effectively bringing care to the patient rather than the other way around. “If you were coming to the hospital for a knee replacement, you can now have all of your pre-admission testing done in one location,” says Michael Flanagan, St. Clair Health senior vice president and COO. “You can have a chest x-ray, EKG, physical exam, all of that located in one center. Instead of going to multiple buildings and having an uncoordinated service, this coordinates clinical care.” Dr. John Sullivan, St. Clair’s chief medical officer, says that the design was largely influenced by a Mayo Clinic model that evolved as doctors needed to efficiently treat patients visiting from far away. “It’s a little bit different than a lot of concepts that are more developed around the system rather than the patient,” says Sullivan. “But it really adds to the patient experience, this sense that you have a place from the time you get there until the time you’re leaving.” When patients do walk through the door at Dunlap, what they find is something much different than what they might expect at a hospital. With comfortable lounge seating throughout, the common areas feel more like a hotel than the cold, uncomfortable waiting rooms most people are used to encountering in a hospital. The center even has a café in the lobby area for added convenience. Also located in the lobby is something else most people wouldn’t normally see in a hospital: a Walgreens. Collins says that St. Clair rebrands as health system opens new outpatient center St. Clair Health opened its new Dunlap Family Outpatient Center in May. The center’s lobby, pictured below, was designed to feel more like a hotel than a hospital. Throughout, much thought went into patient comfort, convenience and care. PHOTOS BY RICH WATERS 44 • Allegheny West Magazine • May/June 2021partnership came about after visiting Advocate Health Care and seeing an in-house Walgreens there. Like Advocate, Walgreens is also based out of Chicago. At Dunlap, that partnership is facilitating a “meds to beds” program, where the pharmacy fills prescriptions that are sent to patients’ rooms. Doing so ensures that patients get the medications their doctors want them to take rather than requiring the patient to fill a prescription after leaving the hospital on their own. Collins says that fills a gap in care that has the potential to cause patients to delay taking their medications, which can land them back in the hospital. “Certainly that’s convenience but it’s also quality patient care,” he says. Across the new center, many different related procedure areas have been consolidated. In the cardiac testing center on the seventh floor, for instance, patients will be able to see a cardiologist and, should their doctor think additional tests are warranted, they can have them done right there. Patients can have an EKG, cardiac nuclear imaging study, stress eco- cardiogram and a cardiac nuclear imaging study, all in one suite. The sixth floor, meanwhile, features 10 operating rooms, six endoscopy suites, two procedure rooms and 54 pre- and post-anesthesia care rooms that are just steps away from where procedures are performed. “Generally what happens today is a patient is prepped in an area that is only separated by curtains,” says Flanagan. “At Dunlap, a patient will be assigned a private room where they can leave their things and their family members can wait for them. This greatly improves privacy.” The opening of the new center comes as the country is entering what is hoped to be the end of the COVID-19 era. Collins says it’s a time that made the hospital realize just how important it is to the community. To date, the hospital has administered over 22,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. While doing so, Meucci says that hospital personnel visited 15 senior congregate facilities and utilized St. Clair’s fleet of shuttles to transport additional seniors so they could get shots. Collins says he’s received numerous letters of thanks from seniors who were finally able to get vaccinated and are now looking forward to seeing their family members again. “It’s a reminder of how important we are to this community,” Collins says about the effect COVID-19 had on the hospital. “We’ve always taken our role in this community very seriously. We’re one of the most important civic assets for 34 communities. The public places a great deal of trust in us and we want to earn that trust.” ABOVE: Located in the Dunlap Family Outpatient Center’s lobby is a cafe (top) and a Walgreens (bottom), which will be filling prescriptions for patients before they leave. BELOW: The outpatient center also has new, state-of-the-art operating rooms (left), a cardiac nuclear imaging scanner (below) and CT scanner (bottom). May/June 2021 • www.awmagazine.com • 451XFirebeatFirebeat BY JOE KULIK Joe Kulik has been a member of the Kennedy VFC since 2002. One may think that volunteer firefighters only fight fires. However, volunteer firefighters are also regularly asked to perform a variety of other tasks. We’re the ones who are called out to help search for a missing person, clean up an oil or gasoline spill, or perform another duty that requires an emergency response. A large number of calls volunteer firefighters respond to, for instance, are vehicle accidents. We may be called upon to help extricate someone from a vehicle or render aid to someone trapped in a vehicle. While doing so, we even need to sometimes direct traffic. Many years back, I was doing just that at an accident scene on Clever Road. Despite having reflective gear and a flashlight, one car approached the scene and kept moving forward, which forced me to have to place my hands on the car and push myself away from the front of the vehicle. Too often, people seem oblivious to the circumstances and clear danger that firefighters place themselves in while working at the scene of a vehicle accident. Just a couple of weeks ago, a volunteer firefighter in Clintonville was struck by a truck while directing traffic at the scene of a crash. Many years ago, Pennsylvania enacted a “Steer Clear” law. This law requires motorists to move to a lane that is not adjacent to the scene of an “emergency response.” This can include a police stop, a vehicle accident, or even a tow truck picking up an abandoned vehicle. The law provides that, if drivers cannot move over because of traffic or other conditions, they must at least reduce their speed. Unfortunately, there were a number of specific details that were lacking in the law. Nevertheless, law enforcement agencies were able to use the law to issue citations against people who speed past accident scenes or otherwise show a disregard for first responders. The fact of the matter is that there have been far too many first responders who have been needlessly struck and killed by moving vehicles. In 2019, 44 first responders or other personnel were killed at accident scenes. Of those were 18 police officers, 14 tow truck operators, three mechanics and nine firefighters/EMS personnel. Whether it was an actual accident scene, or simply one involving a disabled vehicle, reckless drivers caused these senseless fatalities. Information from the National Fire Protection Association shows that the numbers of both fatalities and injuries continue to increase. To address the serious problems that exist, Pennsylvania has now enacted a “Move Over” law, which took effect at the end of April. This new law requires drivers to be extra careful around emergency situations. The new “Move Over” law comes with various additional restrictions and penalties. Instead of simply steering clear of any incidents, as set forth before, drivers are now required to “move over,” with the goal being to keep people along the side of the road safe. The “Move Over” law started April 27 and replaced the “Steer Clear” rules. The duties imposed under the new law are quite clear. When approaching or passing an emergency response area - including where police officers are conducting a traffic stop, systematically checking vehicles or directing traffic - a person, unless otherwise directed by an emergency service responder, shall: “pass in a lane not adjacent to that of the emergency response area, if possible; or if passing in a nonadjacent lane is impossible, illegal or unsafe, pass the emergency response area at a speed of no more than 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit and reasonable for safely passing the emergency response area.” For many roads in our area, the posted speed limit is 35 miles per hour or sometimes 25 miles per hour. If you approach an “emergency response area,” that means you must pass at 15 to 5 miles per hour. As a result of the death of a person who was attempting to offer assistance, the law also sets forth obligations for disabled vehicles. When approaching or passing a disabled vehicle, a person shall: “pass in a lane not adjacent to that of the disabled vehicle, if it is possible to do so; or if it is impossible, illegal or unsafe to pass in a lane not adjacent to the vehicle, pass the disabled vehicle at a rate of speed that is no more than 20 miles per hour less than the posted speed limit and reasonable for safely passing the disabled vehicle.” Among other things, the new law: • Creates a new point system that imposes two points for failure to merge into the lane that is not the lane next to the emergency response area. • Establishes various fines, ranging from $500 for first-time offenders to $1,000 for a second offense, and as much as $2,000 for a third or subsequent offense. • Requires a 90-day license suspension for a third or subsequent violation of the law. The license suspension also applies to any incidents in which another person has been seriously injured or killed. If the person injured or killed is an emergency service provider or was near a disabled vehicle, the suspension is six months. • Sets additional fines of up to $10,000 for violators who injure or kill an emergency service responder or a person in or near a disabled vehicle. • Doubles fines for certain traffic violations when committed in an emergency response area when first responders are present. Emergency responders are always at great risk of injury. When we are handling matters at an accident scene, our attention must be on the person who may be trapped, or the presence of live electrical wires or putting out a fire in the vehicle. Please be cautious, please move over, and please slow down. Traffic poses a significant, and needless, risk to firefighters and other first responders 46 • Allegheny West Magazine • May/June 2021PITTSBURGH PA PERMIT NO. 5605 Hughey Publications, LLC P.O. Box 220 McDonald, PA 15057 Allegheny West MagazineNext >