www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection |August 2012 1 NC | CONTENTS August 2012 48 6 NORTHERN CONNECTION This Month Summertime Fun Senior Living 8 10 Family House: 29 Years of Polo and 40 Watch Your Step Helping Families in Need Barbara. A Killmeyer Education 44 SLEEP—It’s Important 14 Tech Talk: Back-to-School Health & Wellness In Every Issue Technology Marianne Reid Anderson 22 School Lunch Nutrition Lessons for 4 From the Publisher 18 Shady Side Academy Parents Claire Marshall, MS, RD, LDN, Health Marion Piotrowski Coach Specialist, UPMC Health Plan 19 Back-to-School Immunizations 6 Movers & Shakers Bellevue Pediatrics Associates 24 Is losing 20-40 lbs in six weeks with ChiroTHIN right for me? 7 Mover & Shaker of the Month: 21 School Directory Zack Abel Dr. Shawn Richey Paula Green 28 All my shoes have an ugly, worn out Features 12 Town Crier: Oh Boy— bump! Marcia Hale 6 To Ghana with Love Here Comes August 30 Living with Anxiety? Elizabeth Cessna, MS, Joek Bullic 8 St. Benedict Academy Alumnae NBCCH Bid Farewell to Campus 16 School Movers & Shakers 32 The Gifted Child, Education and 20 Just a Thought: It’s Nice to be Nice 39 Special Olympics, An Understanding Assessment Susan Oliverio, MSED, Certified to the Nice? and Opportunity Mike Doerfler School Psychologist Janice Lane Palko 48 How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular Real Estate 30 Health Tips: Don’t Get Image + Style 38 Hot August Nights...and Hot August Burned! DEALS! Jacquelyn Brinker West Penn Allegheny Health System 34 At Home Hair Removal—Your Guide 38 Ingomar Garden Club Flower Show 37 Trivia Connection: to Smooth, Sexy Skin Kelly.h A Smit Paula Green Lefty Trivia 35 Marriage on a Mission Paula Green Robert and Michele Tedder Advertorials 39 Support Our Troops: 36 Working Out with Pain, Get 29 Keeping Young Athletes Safe Dedications and Salutes Comfortable Being Uncomfortable and Strong Paula Green Joella Baker Dr. Shannon Thieroff 42 Happenings for Seniors 45 Divine Providence 46 NC Happenings Find us on under Northern Connection Magazine! @NCONNECTIONMAG 2 August 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection | August 2012 3 NC | F ROM Back To School! THE PUB NORTHERN he August issue is Northern Connection magazine’s 13th annual back-to-school issue and features some LISHER Tof the area’s finest educational facilities. 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The publication is dedicated to the people, communities, educational, religious, travel, 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 August 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection | August 2012 5 NC | M the prestigious American Public Marshall Township OVERS Works Association Re-Accreditation psychologist, Movers & Shakers Award from APWA president-elect Katharine C. Elizabeth Treadway. McCorkle, Ph.D. has published A & S Consolidated Communications Balanced Heart: The Fort Pitt Museum, part of Specific Care in two-key programs: announced it completed 10 Weeks to the Senator John Heinz History Parkinson’s disease rehabilitation the purchase of SureWest Breakthrough. HAKERS Katie McCorkle Center museum system, hosted and amputee rehabilitation. Communications on July 2. The journal their “Fourth at Fort” event on July encourages readers to reflect upon 4th to celebrate America’s 236th UPMC Cumberland their thoughts on wellness, illness birthday. A 36-foot American flag Crossing Manor prevention, personal responsibil- was raised to commemorate the resident Lena ity, creating a holistic approach to historic occasion. Cammarata turned August 2012 health and well-being. 100 years old on Old Economy Village opened a July 7. Her favorite new exhibit, “Faces and Places: hobby is cook- Photographs of Economy” featuring ing. She wrote an Lena late nineteenth and early twenti- Italian cook book Cammarata eth century photography of never at age 84 to raise seen images of Economy (now money for the Cleveland Clinic and The Children’s Home & Lemieux Ambridge). the Guild for the Blind. She attri- Family Center celebrated the butes her longevity to good eating, passage of House Bill 1960 which Butler Memorial Hospital was house work and never smoking. The Ingomar Volunteer Fire honored with an “A” Hospital Safety extends medical day care service Company held a grand opening Score by The Leapfrog Group, an from eight years to age 21. First National Bank of Pennsylvania, celebration and open house on independent national nonprofit run the largest subsidiary of F.N.B. July 29, at its newly constructed The board of directors of the by employers and other large pur- Corporation (NYSE: FNB), has Harmony Station, 9695 Harmony Butler County Chamber chasers of health benefits. announced the hiring of Richard Drive in McCandless Twp. announced a newly appointed Kradel as assistant vice president partnership with the Center for Stephanie Roskovski was pro- and business development officer. The Cranberry Township moted to the position of chief Women’s Entrepreneurship at Community Chest, CTCC has operations officer at Butler Health Chatham University (CWE) and Once Upon A Child in Pittsburgh, announced a partnership with the System. their new CWE Connect program. located at 1925 Park Manor nonprofit Associated Artists of Blvd, has gone gold. The local Butler County, AABC, to cre- HealthSouth Harmarville Allegheny County executive Rich gently-used children’s reseller was ate, display and sell artwork in Rehabilitation has earned Fitzgerald and Public Works recognized for achieving a “Gold the township through a Cranberry new certifications for Disease- director Joe Olczak accepted Standard” measurement. Chapter of AABC. To Ghana with Love rom July 2-15, Dr. William C. Christie, M.D., and his Mission Vision team were in Ghana, West Africa, seeing Fapproximately 500 patients and performing around 100 cataract surgeries at the Manna Mission. Dr. Christie’s 15-per- son team included his wife, two sons, three Scott & Christie Eyecare Associates staff members and eight other volunteers. The Mission Vision team treated eye disease, poor eye pres- sure and performed various surgeries. The team brought nec- essary medical equipment and medication, prescription glasses, sunglasses and cases for all the eyewear. Along with providing eyecare, the Mission Vision team brought clothing, soaps and shampoos; school kits; and computer equipment to donate to the people of Ghana. F 6 August 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com MOVER & SHAKER OF THE MONTH Zack Abel “Make-A-Wish” fundraiser organizer BY PAULA GREEN n the fall of 2005, six-year-old dinosaur enthusiast Zack Abel Iof Franklin Park was treated to a magical adventure. He spent the day as a paleontologist at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Carnegie Museum. After his primeval studies, he fol- lowed dinosaur tracks back to his passionate about helping those who are home, where in his yard stood his in the body. Today, at nearly 13 years going through similar situations as he very own 7 ½-foot-tall fiberglass old, he is cancer-free and giving back to did,” said Natalie. Tyrannosaurus Rex. Zack called his the charity that helped fulfill his dream.