Capt. David Bender compares it to Black Friday when about 50 local residents line up outside the Salvation Army of Allegheny Valley for its Thursday food pantry and community luncheon. Doors are open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., but most of the take-home food is gone by 11:30 a.m.
Brackenridge Salvation Army chef Cheryl Bieranoski doesn’t mess around when it comes to good eats. The self-described lunch lady is gleeful scooping out whopping-sized servings of sloppy Joes and fruit salad to more than 100 people Thursdays at the free Community Lunch. “Everyone is so grateful,” said Bieranoski, who has
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A gold Canadian coin donated to the Greensburg Salvation Army this week.
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Greensburg Salvation Army Capt. Ashley Luzader was sorting through the usual pile of change that had been dropped into bell ringers’ red kettles Tuesday when she found something strange an unusually heavy coin wrapped in white paper.
“I was pulling out all the dollars, and I was thinking ‘this feels really heavy.’” she said.
She unwrapped the object to find a solid gold Canadian coin bearing the face of Queen Elizabeth.
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Volunteer firefighter Dale Hutchinson rings a bell for the Salvation Army outside Bortz Hardware in Greensburg on Saturday, Dec 19, 2020. Hutchinson has been a member of Greensburg Fire Company No. 3 for 42 years and is a fifth generation
of family firefighters.
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The Salvation Army’s famous red kettles are a lot lighter than usual this year, and there are fewer of them to be found around Westmoreland County.
“As of right now, we’re not even at half our goal, and we have six kettle days left,” said Lt. Donna Hannan, assistant corps officer for the Greensburg Salvation Army. The organization had raised $29,000 of its $80,000 goal as of Friday.