Valeria Yackshaw Genetti, 83, Hazleton
The wife of Gus Genetti Jr., Val had a witty sense of humor and an endearing smile. Her favorite things were family and traveling, but mostly it was combining the two â traveling with her family around the world. She loved Neil Diamond and ABBA, enjoyed playing pinochle, reading Danielle Steele books, watching detective-cop shows and enjoying coffee in her bedroom in the mornings. She was the vice president of the Genetti Hospitality Group of Wilkes-Barre, Williamsport and Dickson City. She was a past board member of Kingâs College Century Club, past president of W-B Jaycettes, past president of Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Auxiliary, past board of directors of CYC, member of the Slovak Heritage Society and a volunteer of NEPA Red Cross Blood Center. She died Dec. 22.
Pittsburgh’s Unique Pizza Styles and Where You Can Get Them
For 75 years, the region s idiosyncratic pizzaioli have put their spin on what it means to make a pizza.
February 10, 2021
PIZZA HOUSE, BETTER KNOWN AS POLICE STATION PIZZA, OFFERS OHIO VALLEY STYLE PIZZA IN AMBRIDGE
As much as people try to wedge a definition for “Pittsburgh pizza,” the truth of it is that we don’t have a signature city style.
There are a handful of pizzerias that often come up in conversations about Pittsburgh pizza. However, with due respect to long-standing establishments such as Aiello’s, Mineo’s and Fiori’s, what they deliver is typical of the mid-century coast-to-coast boom of the American gas-oven pie, which has a slightly thicker crust and, often, a sweeter sauce than you’d find in the legacy New York City deck-oven pie-and-slice joints from which that style was derived.
Georgia Catholics remain engaged in extended election season
Jan 11, 2021 catholic news service
A bilingual voting sign is seen at St. Patrick Church polling station in Norcross, Ga., on Election Day Nov. 3, 2020. (Credit: Michael Alexander/Georgia Bulletin via CNS.)
The buzz of text messages from campaign volunteers, handwritten political postcards mailed from out of state, along with a barrage of advertisements, came to a halt after the U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5.
ATLANTA The buzz of text messages from campaign volunteers, handwritten political postcards mailed from out of state, along with a barrage of advertisements, came to a halt after the U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia on Jan. 5.
Prince Charles officially opened the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital set up at the ExCeL to treat coronavirus patients. He appeared via video link from his Scottish home.
Little Ilford Secondary School teacher Bobby Seagull won Celebrity Mastermind, thanks in part to his perfect score on his specialist subject England Men at World Cup Finals since 1990. Bobby is a former University Challenge contestant and star of TV programme Monkman & Seagull’s Genius Guide to Britain.
May
Plans to renovate the Grade II listed 15th century Old Spotted Dog pub in Forest Gate were approved by councillors. It is the oldest non-religious building in the borough. Developer Highpride Properties planned to demolish the 20th century additions and provide a bar, restaurant, lounge, meeting room and garden, and build a 68-bedroom hotel next door. The pub closed in 2004.
Msgr. Ray East, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Washington, speaks during a prayerful protest outside the White House June 8, 2020, following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man whose neck was pinned to the ground by police for more than eight minutes before he was taken to the hospital. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Washington This year, as tens of thousands of people nationwide protested racial injustices, Catholics similarly took to the streets and also joined in prayer services and discussions speaking out against inequalities and seeking a path forward.
The protest marches over the summer were primarily in response to the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis who died after being pinned to the ground by a white police officer.