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Elizabeth Cessna, MS, NBCCH Janice Lane Palko 38 Balance for Wellness Provides 4 From the Publisher Prescription for Total Health Marion Piotrowski Education Janice Lane Palko 6 Movers & Shakers 12 Bicycle Safety for You and Your 39 Causes of Female Hair Loss 6 Business Spotlight: Children Joella Baker HairStudio 19 Kampas Orthodontics 15 What Child Does Not Enjoy Eating? 40 The Joy of Transistion Janice Lane Palko Janet Watkiss, MOT, R/L Michele Tedder, MSN, RN, CC 7 Mover & Shaker of the Month: Christy House Health & Wellness Senior Living Paula Green 22 Women and Resilience 43 The Merry Month of May 10 Trivia Connection: Rose Gantner, EDD, UPMC Health Plan Barbara A. Killmeyer Monumental Trivia Paula Green 26 JBF Pittsburgh North Children’s & 44 Home Helpers & North Hills Medical Maternity Consignment Event Supply Provide Everything to Keep 16 School Movers & Shakers You in Your Home 32 Health Tips: 28 Why Are YOU Still Waiting? 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Breech Babies and PMS Dr. Shannon Thieroff 2 May 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection | May 2012 3 Contents NC | F ROM he May issue cover story will update you on this year’s Pitch for Hope, A Glimmer of Hope Foundation fund raiser. Pirates Manager Clint Hurdle and Pirates coaches THE T along with some of the Pirates players will be a part of this year’s event on Sunday, June 24. What is important to know about PUB NORTHERN the Glimmer of Hope Foundation is that all the proceeds that are raised from the various events are donated to breast cancer LISHER research here in Pittsburgh. Northern Connection magazine CONNECTION has partnered with Diana Napper, founder of A Glimmer of Hope Foundation, for the past thirteen years and is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s events. P.O. Box 722 Welcome to Northern Connection! The 2012 Kean Quest Talent competition concluded on Wexford, PA 15090-0722 March 30 with Master of Ceremonies Johnny Angel. Read Phone: 724-940-2444 about this year’s winners on Fax: 724-940-2447 page 8. Northern Connection Email: [email protected] Magazine is proud to be the sig- www.northernconnectionmag.com nature sponsor for the Kean Quest competition. Congratulations Laura Piotrowski President & Publisher [email protected] Marion Swanson Piotrowski to all the winners! The proceeds from the Kean Quest competition Executive Editor benefit the St. Barnabas Free Care Janice Lane Palko Fund. Managing Editor/ May is the month we celebrate Public Relations Coordinator Paula M. Green Mother’s Day and this month’s Just a Thought article shares a Marketing & Account Executive and Office Coordinator touching story about a mother’s Laura Lyn Piotrowski love. To all moms, grandmothers, godmothers, and any woman Mary Simpson Marketing & Account Executive that has had a positive influence on the life of a child, Happy [email protected] Mary L. Simpson Mother’s Day! We also celebrate Memorial Day, a day set aside to thank the many men and women that have served this great Design & Production Kostilnik & Assoc., Inc. country. God Bless you for your service to this country and may your sacrifices never be forgotten. Web Master Pat Miller, TypeLink NC Magazine’s Health & Wellness section will inform you about some health tips for women, and this month’s Trivia will Core Writers Joella Baker test your knowledge on monuments and memorials. Jacquelyn Brinker Enjoy reading all NC Magazine’s special May features along Joe Bullick with the regular monthly columns. Mike Doerfler Janice Lane Palko Thank you for your support. Together we continue to make Rosemary Garrity [email protected] Paula M. 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Northern Connection Find us on under magazine reserves the right to refuse editorial or advertisements that do not meet the Northern Connection Magazine! standards of this publication. 4 May 2012 | Northern Connection www.northernconnectionmag.com www.swansonpublishing.com Northern Connection | May 2012 5 Contents NC | M Mary Duranti, director, UPMC O Disabilities Resource Center, V MOVER & SHAKER OF THE MONTH ERS has been appointed to the Movers & Shakers Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Health Policy Board. & S Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, Christy House Volunteers Minister HAKERS St. Barnabas Health System Soldiers & Sailors announced its Paul Paris, M.D., chief medi- part of Catholic new members that were inducted announced that Dr. Anthony cal officer, Center for Emergency Health East and into its Hall of Valor ceremony to the Sewickley Community Campolo will be the recipient Medicine (CEM) and professor of sponsored by the of the prestigious Hance Award on Mar. 25. They are: US Army emergency medicine, University Sisters of Mercy during their Founder’s Day Sergeant Elmer C. Barnett, US of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, announced the BY PAULA GREEN Celebration. Campolo is a sociol- Army Major Robert W. Black, US was recognized at the EMS Today appointment of May 2012 conference in Baltimore as one of Debra Mason ogy professor at Eastern University Army Captain John F. Boyer, US Debra L. Mason the EMS 10: Innovators in EMS o many people look forward to shared, where leadership is developed and a previous faculty member Navy Hospitalman Charles W. to its Board of Directors. She will in 2011. at the University of Pennsylvania. Doerr, US Army Technician 4th serve a three-year term. Fridays, when they can unwind and hidden talents are discovered, He is the author of 38 books that Class Edward J. Dziekiewicz, The Allegheny County Medical and start their weekend. For the crossing age, social, racial and denomi- focus on inspiration and relate A Child’s Place at Mercy & S US Army First Lieutenant Alfred topics. Society (ACMS) Foundation hosted past 35 years, Fridays in Sewickley have national barriers. It is an amazing and Gentile, US Army Captain John “Pittsburgh Proud” its annual com- Operation Backpack Children’s nd welcomed a culinary custom. unique concept that the strength and Herschel Haldeman, US Army munity awards and fundraising Foundation’s 2 Annual Above Air Forces Technical Sergeant & Beyond Award Luncheon that The Christy House Tea Room faith of women have made happen and gala on Mar. 24. Franklin Park offers a weekly luncheon that is served kept strong and vibrant for 35 years,” Nathan Kline, US Army resident, Graham Johnstone, honored law enforcement and child protective service professionals Private First Class Alexander M.D. was the recipient of the on Fridays 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Sept, said Christy House volunteer, Mildred was held on Apr. 16. The annual S. Kormos, US Army Staff 2011 Physician Volunteer Award. through June. The dining facility is (Mid) Ice. The money raised from both the lunch- invitational event coincides with Sergeant Nick Panchik, US Other award recipients included: National Child Abuse Prevention closed on Fridays near Christmas, New The Women of St.