Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to [email protected] or The Stroller, 210 Wood St.
, Tarentum PA 15084 . Please include a daytime telephone number. Free nature walk planned by Audubon Society The Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania will sponsor a free community walk Aug.
2 at Freeport Community Park. Walks will begin at 9 a.m.
and will last one hour, rain or shine. Meet in the parking lot of Laube Hall. A naturalist will lead the group and will discuss birds, beneficial insects, native plants and wildlife.
Binoculars will be available. Reservations are required. For reservations, call 724-295-3589 or visit aswp.
org . Help needed to plant flowers in Arnold Arnold Garden Club is looking for help to plant flowers in the pots along Fifth Avenue in the city. Volunteers should report at 9 a.
m. Saturday at city hall, 1829 Fifth Ave. All skill levels from master gardener to beginners are welcome.
Donations are also welcome to fund the event. For details, call Kathy Belli at 724-882-8897 . Calendar Apollo/East Vandergrift Aug.
14: Our Lady, Queen of Peace and St. James parishes will sponsor a bus trip to Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. The bus will leave at 9 a.
m. from the St. James Church parking lot in Apollo.
Cost: $35, includes driver gratuity and $20 in free play. Must be at least 21. Reservations required.
Reservations: 724-478-4958 . Cheswick Wednesday: A department service officer from the American Legion will be available by appointment from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. in the office of Pa.
Rep. Mandy Steele, 1296 Pittsburgh St. Appointments: 724-826-5151 .
Freeport Tuesday: Freeport Renaissance Association will host Freeport Days from 5 to 8 p.m. in the downtown section of the borough.
There will be live music, food trucks and vendors and businesses will be open. This month’s theme will be baseball. Harrison Monday through Friday: The Natrona Playground Summer Camp for children will serve a free lunch from 11:30 a.
m. to 12:30 p.m.
weekdays at the playground, 10 River Ave. Free classes will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Programs this week are: Tuesday, moving motion experiments with Mad Science; 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, a visit with a Pittsburgh Zoo animal; and Thursday, secret life of bugs and insects with Mad Science. Sept. 8: Table reservations are being accepted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for a craft show set for 11 a.
m. to 5 p.m.
at the post, 894 Veterans Drive. Cost: $25; with electric, $30. Details: Deb, 412-298-6175 or dmckillop@hotmail.
com . Kiski Township Tuesday: The diaper pantry at Spring Church Lutheran Church, 3623 Lutheran Church Road, will distribute diapers from 9 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. at the church.
Distributions will be the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Recipients must register in advance. First-time recipients must provide their own ID, the child’s birth certificate and a current WIC or SNAP card.
Registration: 724-478-1528 . Lower Burrell Aug. 16: Westmoreland County Marines No.
1416 is selling tickets for a $1,000 meat raffle. The winning number will be the 7 p.m.
Pennsylvania Lottery three-digit number. The winner receives $1,000 worth of meat from Sprankle’s Markets, a four-burner Char-Broil grill, grill cover, stainless steel utensils and a 20-pound propane tank. Cost: $10, includes two numbers.
Tickets: Jim Walters, 724-681-6293 or [email protected] . New Kensington July 31: A Vitalant community blood drive will be from 10:30 a.
m. to 2:30 p.m.
at Knead Community Café, 1011 Barnes St. Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. Appointments: 877-258-4825 or visit the Donate Blood button at Vitalant.
org and search with account code UK357. Oakmont Tuesdays: Taking Pounds Off Sensibly (TOPS) meets at Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1261 Pennsylvania Ave. Private weigh-ins will be from 5:45 to 6:10 p.
m. and the meeting will be afterward. The first meeting is free.
Details: 412-828-3854 or [email protected] . Through August 31: Kerr Memorial Museum, 402 Delaware Ave.
, Oakmont, is featuring an exhibit of elegant fashions of the late 1800s to the Roaring ‘20s at the museum. Items on display were donated to the museum by the W. H.
Brown Family of Pittsburgh. Hours are by appointment. Tours and information: 412-826-9295 to schedule a tour.
Saxonburg Tuesday: Butler County Master Gardeners will present a free program about basic composting at 6:30 p.m. at South Butler County Library, 240 W.
Main St. Reservations encouraged, but not required. Reservations: 724-352-4810 or director@southbutlerlibrary.
org . Tarentum Sept. 26 to 28: Summit Hose Company is accepting vendor applications for its fall festival.
No food or alcohol vendors will be accepted. Details: Carrie Fox, 724-448-1470 . Ongoing: Tarentum Area Lions Club has a variety of styles of brooms for sale.
Types available include soft and hard bristle push brooms, $16; kitchen brooms, $13; heavier duty mill brooms, $15; children’s brooms, $8; and whisk brooms, $8. Details: Jody Shumaker, 724-954-2341 ; Donna Holsing, 724-899-6277 or send a message to Tarentum Area Lions Club on Facebook. Proceeds benefit local and global Lions charities.
Vandergrift Tuesday: The YoYos Needle Arts group at Vandergrift Public Library will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the library reading room, 128C Washington Ave.
No reservations required; just stop in. All skill levels welcome; however, this is not an instructional program. Details: 724-568-2212 .
Thursday: A Vitalant community blood drive will be from 1:30 to 7 p.m. in the social hall of St.
Gertrude Church, 303 Franklin Ave. Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins are welcome. Appointments: 877-258-4825 or visit the Donate Blood button at Vitalant.
org and search with account code 100560102..
