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Zoom in and join Rotary March 03, 2021ALTON Last Thursday, at its weekly Zoom meeting, President of the Alton Centennial Rotary Club, Bob Regan, declared March as the club s Rotary Membership Development Month. Our objective is to reach out and invite anyone who hold (or be retired from) a professional, propriety, managerial, executive or community position, and live and or work within the vicinity of Alton, Barnstead or New Durham, to join us, said Regan. Rotary International is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious service organization dedicated to saving and improving lives both locally and globally. Rotary has 35,000 member clubs worldwide, a membership of 1.22 million Rotarians in more than 200 countries. ....
Blue Acre Rescue Centre may not have enough money to feed its horses this winter The Blue Acre Horse Rescue Centre is facing a crisis and may not have enough money to feed its animals this winter. The charity on Ham Island in Old Windsor was started in 2002 by Caron North and Bob Regan and covers a 42-acre site. It is dedicated to the rescue, care, rehabilitation and where possible, re-homing of abused, neglected or abandoned horses and ponies. Over the years it has also looked after sheep, goats, pigs, rescue dogs, chickens and ducks. It runs on a small core team of volunteers all of whom dedicate their time for free with funds generated by public donation. ....
Paola Corso recalled a walk through her late father’s neighborhood in Brackenridge. “Luckily, it was windy that day, and I spotted a pair of concrete steps under some leaves,” said Corso, a poet, photographer, literary activist and Harrison native. “I thought about the days my father and grandfather walked those steps.” She wrote a poem about the journeys Mariano Corso and his father, Anthony Corso, took on those slabs of concrete to and from what was then known as Allegheny Ludlum’s Brackenridge Works. The work begins “Snapshot of my father as a young man standing at the top of hillside steps wearing a double-breasted suit and tie, pants creased, shoes polished, his back to the steel mill in the valley behind him, his back to the jackhammer he used to drill. …” ....
Photo: Paola Corso Steps leading up to the Rachel Carson Bridge, connecting Downtown Pittsburgh to the North Side Every time Paola Corso’s grandmother saw a church, she made the sign of the cross. Corso adopted her grandmother’s tradition when she crossed a bridge over one of the three rivers in Pittsburgh: “In the name of the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the holy Ohio, amen, became Corso’s personal prayer. In Vertical Bridges (Six Gallery Press), a new collection of poems and photos, Corso brings a similar reverence to one of Pittsburgh’s hidden landmarks: the steps that connect city neighborhoods. ....