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Plum Mustang Foundation creates bracelets to honor victims of house explosion
PLUM, Pa. (KDKA) — The Plum community continues to rally together more than five days after being rattled by a deadly house explosion.
People in Plum are showing up for those impacted by Saturday morning’s house explosion that took six lives.
Multiple organizations are doing what they can to support, including the Plum Mustang Foundation, which provides funds for teachers and students in the school district. The president of the nonprofit organization, Danielle Bajus, said when they learned what happened, they wanted to do something.
“Let’s sell some bracelets and give back,” Bajus said.
Her friend brought up the idea of silicone bracelets.
“This is sort of like the cool thing for the younger kids these days,” Bajus said.
It didn’t take long to move forward. The organization got 2,000 wristbands in yellow and purple that read “Rustic Ridge.” Immediately, 900 bracelets were sold in preorders. Bajus also brought some to the Midget Football Association.
“One of the children who passed away was a football player here. So, they have requested them, and I dropped off 800 bracelets there,” Bajus said.
Now, they’re almost sold out, along with t-shirts donated by B3 Marketing. Mike Caliguiri refounded the Mustang organization.
“It’s just about coming together to help, and that’s it, and this community has responded amazingly. They’re fantastic. Unbelievable,” Caliguiri said.
Over at Amplify Church, campus pastor Christina Sandor said it opened its Thursday night service to the borough, to serve their grieving members and anyone else needing a little guidance.
“Plum community is more than just a community. It’s a family,” Sandor said. “We thought what’s one way that we know that we can impact and help this community? And we said prayer.”
Folks are lending a hand, in times of tragedy.
“It’s community, right? And if it were us, we would hope that other people would do that for us,” Bajus said.
For more information on the bracelets and t-shirts, click here. Over the next few days, other groups will be raising money through a pizza dinner and car wash.
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Pittsburgh Steelers offense could throw new twist at Ravens in playoff clash
PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers will not be benching Russell Wilson against the Baltimore Ravens, but they could use Justin Fields more. Now fully recovered from an abdominal injury he suffered against the Philadelphia Eagles, head coach Mike Tomlin acknowledged that he is open to using Fields against the Ravens.
The ‘Justin Fields package’ has been talked about extensively this season, but circumstances have consistently pushed back the possibility of Fields getting more involved with a package weekly.
Now, Tomlin says that could certainly happen as Fields is healthy, and the team clearly needs a spark.
“I’m certainly open to utilizing Justin. He has an awesome skillset and we’ve done some of that in the past,” Tomlin said. “We’ve done that less in that last couple of weeks because he experienced an injury that slowed some of that. But in an effort to win this game, I am open to any combination or combinations of divisions of labor in an ability to do so.”
Fields missed two games with an abdominal injury. Before that, the Steelers had used Fields as a runner and, sometimes, a passer, which had mixed results throughout their package’s deployment.
While it seems that Fields will not start against the Ravens, he could see some time where he could make an impact, whether on the ground or through the air.
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Sebastian Aho’s overtime goal lifts Hurricanes to 4-3 win over Penguins
Sebastian Aho’s goal at 1:30 in overtime led the Carolina Hurricanes to a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday night.
Aho added two assists. Seth Jarvis had two goals and Jalen Chatfield also scored for the Hurricanes, who improved to 3-0 against Pittsburgh this season. Dustin Tokarski had 16 saves for the Hurricanes.
Kevin Hayes, Michael Bunting and Erik Karlsson scored for the Penguins. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 26 shots for Pittsburgh.
The Penguins built a 2-0 lead in the first six minutes of the game. Hayes and Bunting beat Tokarski for the early advantage.
Aho set up Jarvis’ first goal and then fed Chatfield to tie the game at 2-2 with 7:15 left in the second period. Jarvis made it 3-2 with an assist from Andrei Svechnikov with 3:42 left in the second.
Penguins: Pittsburgh has struggled on the road since a 9-2 win at Montreal on Dec. 12. Production from stars Sidney Crosby (1 goal, 1 assist) and Evgeni Malkin (0 goals, 3 assists) has been scarce in those road losses.
Hurricanes: Falling behind 2-0 in the first period felt like a continuation of Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Minnesota. Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour is looking for more consistency. The Hurricanes have alternated losses and wins in their past six games.
The Hurricanes penalty kill, second-best in the NHL, held up late in regulation when Chatfield was sent to the box for a delay of game with 3 minutes left in the third period.
Aho’s overtime goal was his 600th career point in his ninth season with Carolina. Jarvis’ second-period assist was the 100th of his career.
The Penguins host Columbus on Tuesday while the Hurricanes travel to Tampa Bay on Tuesday.
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