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A Killmeyer 7 Mover & Shaker of the Month: North Allegheny Special Education 20 Fine Dining is Anything But Ordinary Image + Style Parent Networking Group at the St. Barnabas Communities Paula Green 42 A Fabulous Fall Wardrobe with Health & Wellness Transitional Dressing Kelly.h A Smit 11 NC Happenings 44 Getting Beyond Your Limiting Beliefs 15 Naturally Soergel’s 22 Happenings for Seniors Donna Summers Moul, MSEd 26 Just a Thought: LIVid About the 28 Parkinson’s Disease Stephen Perkins, MD, Election Vice President, Medical Affairs, UPMC Health Plan Real Estate Janice Lane Palko 32 Allegheny Imaging of McCandless, 46 What is the Velocity of Money and LLC is Now Offering Cardiac MRI 32 Health Tips: How Does It Impact Home Loan Navigating Rates? Jacquelyn Brinker Your Care West Penn Allegheny Health System Advertorials 41 School Movers & Shakers 9 Divine Providence Oktoberfest 45 Support Our Troops: 17 Divine Providence Natalie Grant Howard Pfeifer 33 Are You Tired All the Time? Paula Green Dr. Shannon Thieroff 47 Town Crier: Fall Into September Joek Bullic 48 Trivia Connection: The War of 1812 Trivia Find us on Paula Green under Northern Connection Magazine! On Our Cover: Photos Courtesy of Jeff Comella and Jennifer Groesbeck Visit www.northernconnectionmag.com @NCONNECTIONMAG to view entire magazine on our web site. 2 September 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection | September 2012 3 NC | F ROM Fall Fantasy THE PUB NORTHERN s fall quickly approaches, the September issue of Northern Connection magazine offers our readers a LISHER Awide variety of activities and events that are featured CONNECTION in the Fall Fun section and in the Happenings. Take some time out of your busy schedule to enjoy these fall events with your family and friends! With the election around the P.O. Box 722 Welcome to Northern Connection! corner, this issue features an interesting article on how to Wexford, PA 15090-0722 read the polls. It is interesting to Phone: 724-940-2444 understand what counts and why Fax: 724-940-2447 certain polls are more predictable Email: [email protected] than others. The Trivia this www.northernconnectionmag.com month is a history test on The Laura Piotrowski President & Publisher War of 1812. I must admit, I [email protected] Marion Swanson Piotrowski forgot a few facts. Gluten-free Executive Editor diets have been in the news Janice Lane Palko lately, and to help us better Managing Editor/ understand what a gluten-free Public Relations Coordinator diet is and why it is important Paula M. Green for some people to follow one, Marketing & Account Executive we have an informative article from Judy Dodd, corporate and Office Coordinator nutritionist from Giant Eagle. Check out the Image and Laura Lyn Piotrowski Style section this month for first-hand tips on Fall Fashion Mary Simpson Marketing & Account Executive Enjoy reading all the articles and regular monthly [email protected] Mary L. Simpson columns. Thank you for your continued support, and Design & Production together we make our community an outstanding place to Kostilnik & Assoc., Inc. live and work. Web Master Pat Miller, TypeLink Core Writers “It is better to deserve honors and not have them Joella Baker than to have them and not deserve them.” Jacquelyn Brinker By Mark Twain Joe Bullick Mike Doerfler Janice Lane Palko Rosemary Garrity [email protected] Paula M. Green Barbara A. Killmeyer Donna Summers Moul, M.S.Ed. Janice Lane Palko Marianne Reid Anderson Kelly Smith Michele Tedder, MSN, RN, CC Distribution Coming in Northern Linda Watkins Lori Palmer Dominion Distribution Connection Magazine: Paula Green [email protected] October issue: Glimmer of Hope, Breast Cancer Awareness/ Northern Connection is published twelve times a year by Swanson Publishing Co., Inc. Women’s Health, Fall Fun (P.O. Box 722, Wexford, PA 15090-0722, 724-940-2444) and is distributed free of charge to the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh. Subscription can be purchased from the CALL TODAY AND SEE HOW NORTHERN publisher at $25 for one year. CONNECTION MAGAZINE CAN HELP YOU GROW The mission of the Swanson Publishing Co., Inc. is to connect the northern suburbs of YOUR BUSINESS BY HELPING YOU CONNECT TO Pittsburgh by publishing the area’s finest community publication, Northern Connection. The publication is dedicated to the people, communities, educational, religious, travel, THE COMMUNITY! and recreational needs of the area. The contents of Northern Connection magazine may not be reproduced or copied in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Northern Connection magazine reserves the right to refuse editorial or advertisements that do not meet the standards of this publication. Find us on under Northern Connection Magazine! 4 September 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection | September 2012 5 NC | M O Movers & Shakers V ERS Dr. Carol Utay, co-founder and Cranberry Township’s Business & S executive director of Total Learning Hub – its service center for local Centers, was selected as the businesses – has awarded the first winner of Inspired Woman Award three designations to local organi- HAKERS for 2012. She was honored on zations honoring their practices as July 13 at a luncheon held at the sustainable businesses. The three Pittsburgh Marriot North. initial honorees include: Piedmont Plastics, RJ Development and the K. Scott Baker will join the senior Cranberry Township government staff of UPMC as vice president itself. September 2012 and chief government affairs offi- cer on Sept. 1. Cranberry Township is imple- menting its own Bicycle and Erin Colvin, clinical director for Pedestrian Connection Plan, the Children’s Home of Pittsburgh which the township’s board of & Lemiuex Family Center, has supervisors adopted in December Family House launched a compressed natural gas guest shuttle that was been selected as the 2012 2010. For more information, purchased through a generous grant award from EQT Foundation. A special recipient of the Loving Heart visit www.cranberrytownship.org/ press conference and blue ribbon cutting ceremony was held on Aug. 14. Award. The honor was presented CycleCT. by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Children’s Heart Foundation, Curves of Wexford is celebrating The Pittsburgh Social Exchange Marshall Township Volunteer Fire for supporting a family during 10 years of business. When Nikki held their 2nd Annual Pittsburgh Department. Regina asked for no their son’s heart transplant and Williams, owner of Curves opened Presidential Salute Your Troops gifts from her guests in lieu of con- recovery at Children’s Hospital of the business in Sept. 2002, the Gala. Proceeds from this event tributions to the MTVFD. Pittsburgh of UPMC. mission was to give the women benefit Team River Runner, an in the Wexford community a com- organization with a mission of pro- Janet Gledich, of A Luminaria ceremony to plete aerobic and strength training moting the healing and health of Shaler Township, celebrate cancer survivors and workout in a fun, supportive envi- veterans through engaging them in was elected to remember those who have lost ronment. To celebrate, Curves of water boating activities. the board of direc- their battle with the disease was Wexford is offering a Sign-Up for tors of Women’s held during the American Cancer Just $10 Promotion in September, The Ananda Family of Marshall Business Network, Society Relay for Life of the with fun events planned for all who Township donated money Inc. (WBN). She Greater Cranberry Township and visit. For information, call (724) from their daughter Regina’s will serve as the surrounding areas on July 21. 934-1007 or www.curves.com. Confirmation Party to the organization’s vice president. New Novel by Local Author Northern Connection and Pittsburgh 55+ magazines congratu- lates its executive editor, Janice Lane Palko, for publish- ing her debut novel St. Anne’s Day. Set in Pittsburgh, the romantic com- edy has been described as Cheers meets The Taming of the Shrew. It is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords. Visit her site for more information about St. Anne’s Day at www.thewritinglane. blogspot.com. 6 September 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com MOVER & SHAKER OF THE MONTH North Allegheny Special Education Parent Networking Group BY PAULA GREEN “Coming together is a beginning Keeping together is progress Working together is success.” — Henry Ford eamwork can often lead to successful and fulfilling results. The Parent Networking Group in the North Allegheny School District strived to launch Tan informative website about their resourceful organization. The initiative began in 2011 when PNG member Carla Tonzo agreed to spearhead the Internet project. She sought help for the web design through neighboring school, Beattie Tech in McCandless. “I joined the group then, and since I’ve developed websites in the past, I offered to help. Overall, it ended up being an enormously collaborative effort by many people.