Feb 16, 2021 11:42 AM
Morris “Moose” Anderson, 85, of Creekside passed away Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 at the Indiana Regional Medical Center.
The son of Andrew and Mantie (Wells) Anderson, he was born in Brockway, PA on June 8, 1935.
Moose grew up in Creekside, PA, where he became a lifelong fixture in the community.
A graduate of Indiana High School in 1953, he served in the United States Army (1957- 1959), where he spent time in Korea, Japan and Okinawa. During his military service, he distinguished himself on the basketball courts and the baseball fields, earning positions on regimental squads, divisional squads and All-Far East teams.
Moose worked for Fisher Scientific almost ten years and, eventually, for PENELEC for 28 years. He retired in 1994. At PENELEC he was a part of the mobile maintenance crew and during that time, many lifelong friendships were made.
A series of projects brought forth by Santa Clarita Valley-based organizations and agencies to aid the local homeless population could soon receive thousands of dollars from the city of Santa Clarita.
City Council members are expected Tuesday to discuss whether to approve six community proposals and distribute a total of $126,493 to fund each one via the 2021 Homeless Innovation Fund Grant.
The city’s grant allocation is part of $6 million from Los Angeles County, which the Board of Supervisors approved in 2019 to distribute to cities so that they can “develop and pilot new and creative services or to further assist individual cities (to) implement goals in their action plans,” according to a city agenda report.
Jan 21, 2021 8:02 AM
George K. Overman, 89, of Indiana, passed away on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
He was born on May 12, 1931 in Homer City to Thelma (Gardner) Byers and George M. Overman.
George began working at age eleven gathering firewood and doing odd jobs. He used his earnings to help support his family. As an adult, he was employed by Henry Hall, Inc. before he was drafted into the United States Army in 1952. George was stationed in Pirmasens, Germany at a transponder station. Upon his return to the United States, he took the Civil Service exam and began working as a clerk at the Indiana Post Office in 1963, eventually becoming a night clerk. During his 33 years of service, George was the President of the Local 5225 American Postal Workers Union from 1972 to 1989. He was the local Secretary for the A.P.W.U. from 1989 to 1993 and the local Steward after that. At one point in his career, he was the Vice President of the A.P.W.U. for
Los Angeles County has awarded Santa Clarita more than $126,000 in grant funds to support organizations with innovative solutions to address the local homeless population.
With grant funds available of $126,493, the city is now accepting applications from interested local organizations for Innovation Fund grants, according to a city news release Thursday.
“The Innovation Fund is to be used by local agencies to develop innovative solutions that will assist in implementing the goals outlined within the Santa Clarita Community Plan to Address Homelessness,” read the release.
Overall goals, which the Santa Clarita homeless task force has been working on accomplishing, include topic areas of preventing homelessness, subsidized housing, and increasing income and affordable/homeless housing.