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The Revs. Gary and Lisa Lyon, co-pastors at Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church in Leechburg, offering “Ashes to Go” in sticker form due to covid-19 restrictions outside their church on Main Street during Ash Wednesday.
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The Revs. Gary and Lisa Lyon, co-pastors at Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church on Main Street in Leechburg braved frigid temps on Ash Wednesday offering their annual “Ashes to Go” to the public. This year due to the pandemic, they offered a no-contact sticker option in place of the traditional ashes applied by hand to the forehead.
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A Leechburg church congregation is continuing their love of helping others.
A free Pot Love Dinner, offered to the public each month, has entered its tenth year at Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church.
The meal is normally served inside the church, but due to covid-19 restrictions, the meals are currently offered as takeout.
“It will go back to a sit-down meal once the pandemic restrictions are lifted,” said co-pastor The Rev. Gary Lyon. Dinners are held the third Saturday of each month and require reservations.
Lyon said the dinner appeals to many that live alone.
“People want to be together for fellowship and food rather than eating it in their apartment or dwelling by themselves. A lot of people don’t have a community of any kind,” Lyon said.
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Armstrong County businesses that were forced to close last month because of restrictions imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf could be eligible for emergency grant money under a program announced Tuesday.
Armstrong County Commissioners said $250,000 is available through the county’s Covid-19 Emergency Business Grant Program.
Eligible businesses can receive a one-time emergency grant of up to $2,500. Eligible businesses include bars, social clubs, fitness centers and gyms, churches, bowling facilities and locally owned dine-in restaurants in Armstrong County.
The grant money comes from $5.8 million in CARES Act funding awarded to Armstrong County last year.
The tumultuous falling-out between Billy Brownless, his ex-wife Nicky and her new partner and Billy s former best mate Garry Lyon appears to have mended after the three of them spent Christmas Day together with their children.
Five years after the marriage break-up that shocked the football world and caused a seemingly irreparable rift between the trio, they were able to break bread together.
The former close mates and Footy Show co-hosts went from friends to foes in 2016 when Lyon left his wife and started a relationship with Brownless wife of 18 years, Nicky.
Both men s marriages had ended prior to Nicky and Lyon announcing that they were dating, but Brownless still felt betrayed because they d previously told him they were just good friends .