North Huntingdon-Irwin area covid cases continue decline for the week of March 1, 2021 triblive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from triblive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Norwin school officials are planning to discuss options for more in-person instruction during a school board meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Monday. Superintendent Jeff Taylor is expected to address plans for students in grades five through 11 to have the option of returning to school for four days of in-person
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Westmoreland County residents who are behind on their rent and facing possible eviction or unable to pay huge heating bills and fearing a utility shutoff can seek help through a $12.9 million federally funded program for emergency rental aid.
“We’re seeing an increase in demand for rental assistance across the board. We know people have still not recovered (financially). We’re seeing a large amount of people who are so far behind in their rent and utilities,” said Daniel Carney, executive director of the Union Mission of Latrobe Inc.
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Ruth Shuster is greeted by friends and family as she is honored for her 100th birthday Wednesday at the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon.
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Ruth Shuster, 100, reacts with surprise as she opens the birthday mailbox filled with dozens of cards from well-wishers for her 100th birthday on Wednesday outside the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon. The mailbox was stationed outside the restaurant for locals to drop off their birthday cards for Shuster.
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Michael Deligatti, owner and operator of McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon, adds the Ruth Shuster bobble head to the display Wednesday at the museum and restaurant near Irwin. The newest bobble head was made in the likeness of the long-time Big Mac Museum employee for her 100th birthday and will remain a permanent item in the display.
• Japanese troops invade Phillippines on Dec. 8, 1941
About 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula of the island of Luzon surrendered to the Japanese Army on April 9, 1942
• Prisoners were forced to march 65 miles in intense heat to prison camps.
• Thousands died or were killed by Japanese guards in what became known as the Bataan Death March.
Source: History Channel website
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An event next month will honor those 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers who endured a 65-mile forced march in the Philippines as prisoners of the Japanese during World War II.