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Greenfield Healthy Active Living Center hosts annual Lunar New Year celebration
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Today marks the start of the Chinese New Year and this year is the Year of the Dragon.
Lunar New Year traditions, including spending time with family, cash gifts for children, and deep cleaning of the home, are all to usher in good luck for the coming year.
Pittsburgh celebrates the coming Lunar New Year at the Pittsburgh Playhouse
Many people got a jump on things on Friday at the Greenfield Healthy Active Living Center.
That’s where they gathered to celebrate the Asian culture.
“It’s for the same reason we celebrate New Year for ourselves, to ring in good fortune, to get your family and friends together, share things that you learned and done throughout the year, and to kind of commemorate and celebrate the culture that we do have here,” said Thomas Horam the Director of the Greenfield Healthy Active Living Center.
Friday was an annual tradition that takes place in Greenfield.
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Pittsburgh-area high school senior diagnosed with brain tumor honored on senior night
UPPER ST. CLAIR, Pa. (KDKA) — The Upper St. Clair community is rallying behind one of their own who just received a devastating diagnosis.
The bleachers at Upper St. Clair High School were packed on Monday for the lacrosse team’s senior night. There was a sea of black, with a tinge of sadness, for No. 4 Sam Levine.
“We love this community, and there was no doubt that people would show up,” Michele Fennell of Upper St. Clair said.
Days ago, Levine was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Before Monday’s game against Bethel Park, there was a big push in the community to fill the stadium to honor the senior midfielder.
“Our hearts are breaking,” Fennell said.
Arm and arm with his father, Steve, and his mother. Kara, Levine took to the field during the pregame ceremony to a standing ovation.
Before the game, KDKA-TV met with Sam Levine’s coaches. They said he had been practicing and playing this season, but he started getting headaches and earaches. An MRI confirmed the cancer diagnosis.
“We found out late last week right before we were heading into practice,” said Ryan Shorts, co-head coach of Upper St. Clair’s lacrosse team.
“This is a great time to rally around Sam, rally together and just a great cause to come together and be strong together about Sam,” he added.
“Sam is one of our three captains on this team,” said Matt Trella, co-head coach of Upper St. Clair’s lacrosse team. “He is a leader amongst these guys. That’s why it’s difficult. They look up to Sam.”
Sam Levin’s father is a teacher at Fort Couch Middle School. Two of his teacher’s aides came out to show their support.
“We do have a tremendous community,” Cindy Rooney said. “A lot of love, a lot of hope. We are all pulling for them.”
Levine’s mother said her son will go through radiation for several weeks. The family said it will pursue whatever treatments doctors advise.
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4th egg in Pittsburgh peregrine falcon nest has failed to hatch
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — While four eggs were laid in the peregrine falcon nest on top of Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning, it looks like there will only be two chicks this year.
The first egg hatched on April 22, and the other two eggs quickly followed. The aviary on Monday pointed out that dedicated viewers of the Peregrine FalconCam may have noticed that the fourth egg hasn’t hatched.
National Aviary Ornithologist Bob Mulvihill said an egg fails to hatch for several reasons. It’s possible the embryo wasn’t being successfully fertilized, there was inadequate incubation or a defect interfered with development.
That leaves only two chicks in the nest after the third egg to hatch died last week. The aviary said the chick struggled during feedings and showed other signs that it wouldn’t survive.
“It’s important to remember that the Peregrine FalconCam gives us a view into the wild world of birds, and while it’s not our role to intervene, we can learn a lot from studying these behaviors,” the aviary wrote in Monday’s update.
It was a sad season for Pittsburgh birdwatchers. The Hays bald eagle nest is empty this year after the couple’s single egg broke in March. The eagles in the nest at U.S. Steel’s Irvin Plant laid two eggs, but only one, named “Lucky,” hatched.
People can still watch Carla and Ecco’s other two peregrine falcon chicks grow up. They’re expected to fledge the nest in June, the aviary says.
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