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Bishop Loran Mann in November, speaking at a memorial service for Jonny Gammage, 25 years after his death at the hands of police.
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Bishop Loran Mann, a velvet-voiced minister and founder of Pittsburgh’s Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ, is being remembered by city leaders as a monumental figure in the region’s landscape.
Mann died Sunday at the age of 74, the Pentecostal Temple Church announced Sunday.
“He had a gregarious nature and always an uplifting spirit,” Tim Stevens, chairman of the Black Political Empowerment Project (B-PEP), said. “He was one of those people that when they walked into a room, everyone took notice. He had a great smile and presence. I had hoped that my friend would have been with us for many years to come to enjoy his leadership and spirit.”
Matt Rosenberg | Tribune-Review
O’Hara Community Park will get six story boards in spring 2021 that detail the township’s history.
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Educational signs to be erected this spring in O’Hara Community Park will deliver bits of the township’s history, tracing back to its origins when Seneca Indian Chief Guyasuta trekked through green valleys and tree-covered hills to settle nearby and serve as an advisor to George Washington.
A small committee of historians, elected officials and Native Americans are crafting six displays that they said will represent an accurate timeline of the township.