Pennsylvania
Shoppers in Pennsylvania flock to grocery stores to beat winter storm and prep for Super Bowl LIX
Grocery stores across our area were packed Saturday with shoppers looking to not only beat the winter storm but to also pick up some last-minute items before the Superbowl.
“It is supposed to snow that’s why I ran out,” said Matt Rowe.
As if shoppers needed any more motivation to hit the grocery store, but the winter storm was the push that was needed for customers looking to stock up before the Super Bowl.
“You know we in the Superbowl. You know everybody rushing to get their last-minute items to put on the grill and celebrate and root for our team,” said George Morse.
ShopRite in Cheltenham was filled with customers who said they didn’t want to get caught in the storm.
“Absolutely. I don’t want to be out in the ice storm,” said Valerie Haley.
Rosie Dudley added, “I didn’t want to be out on the roads because I heard it’s going to be kind of bad. I wanted to get a few things and get home.”
PennDOT reduced speeds on area highways due to the winter storm which is expected to bring a mixture of snow and freezing rain. The combination is expected to make road conditions slick. Brad Rudolph with PennDOT said crews are out in full force laying down salt.
“Ice is really scary. There’s not much you can do. You can treat it with salt. It’s up to the motorists to watch their speeds. Avoid travel if possible and certainly know the conditions before you go out there,” Rudolph said.
Shoppers heeded the warning but did so by knocking out two birds with one stone: getting ahead of the weather and prepping to watch their Eagles beat the Chiefs.
“You don’t go nowhere on the Super Bowl. Once you wake up for the Superbowl, that’s it,” said Shareef Bouie. “You don’t do no moving. You sit there and you turn on the Super Bowl.”
New moms now have more support with the statewide expansion of a mom-to-mom texting program through a nonprofit called NurturePA.
Six thousand moms in Allegheny County have used the free service since NurturePA started it in 2014. It’s now open to anyone in Pennsylvania who’s pregnant or caring for a child up to age five. Trained mentors, who are moms themselves, are paired with a new mom for anonymous, nonjudgmental texting support.
Sharon Welburn used the service with her firstborn child and loved having someone to vent to and learn from.
“I didn’t realize how common jaundice in babies was until my baby was jaundiced,” Welburn said. “I was panicking that I did something wrong, and then my mentor texted, ‘You’re OK. You’re not doing anything wrong. It’s something that sometimes happens. My kid had jaundice when they were born.’”
The trained mentors screen for postpartum depression eight times in the first year after the baby is born. NurturePA Executive Director Susan Crookston says the service is especially ideal for moms in rural areas who are further from support networks. She says for many new moms, having a baby can feel disorienting because so much changes.
“New baby, new everything,” Crookston said. “Your body is different … Every element of your life can be upended by a baby, and though it’s a wonderful and joyous experience, it’s also incredibly challenging.”
Nurture PA is also collecting parenting wisdom from moms across Pennsylvania to be shared across their platforms and in an art exhibit.
To share your words of wisdom or enroll in the free mom-to-mom texting service as a new mom or a mentor, go to the NurturePA website. And for more advice and local resources for new parents, go to Kidsburgh.org.
KDKA is proud to partner with kidsburgh.org.
A man died after the vehicle he was working on fell off jack stands in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, officials said.
Gage Alexander Rowe died on Monday afternoon following the fatal accident in a garage in Warsaw Township, CBS affiliate WTAJ reported.
Citing Jefferson County Coroner Greg Furlong, the news outlet reported that first responders were called to the garage on Milliron Road around 2 p.m. on Monday. Investigators reportedly said the 25-year-old man was working underneath a vehicle when the jacks holding up the vehicle gave out, killing him.
First responders were called to the home after family members became concerned when Rowe didn’t arrive at a gathering and was unreachable by phone, WTAJ reported.
The 25-year-old man’s cause of death was blunt force trauma, and it was ruled accidental. Authorities did not release any additional information.
An investigation is underway after a person’s body was found in a burned out vehicle on Tuesday, according to the Berks County Coroner’s Office.
Authorities were called to the 400 block of Friedensburg Road in Oley, Pennsylvania, around 9:43 a.m. on Tuesday, May 26 for reports of a van on fire, officials said.
Once the fire was put out, officials reported finding a person’s body in the back of the van so the Berks County Coroner was called to the scene.
The person has not yet been identified but an autopsy is scheduled for Thursday, May 28 to help authorities uncover more information.
The investigation into this case is ongoing.
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