This Saturday is Light Up Night, and just a few days later we’ll officially usher in the holiday season with Thanksgiving. It’s time to embrace the cheer — or not — with festivities around Pittsburgh this weekend. Here are five ideas for things to do.

(Editor’s Note: Penn Township resident Robert Szypulski and his son, Scott Szypulski of Oakland, share their latest trip to Canada. They are regular visitors to our nation’s national parks.)

After three straight losses here in the WPIAL finals, three words summed up Central Catholic’s mood this week: “Enough is enough.”

Xxavier Thomas is about to play in his fourth WPIAL championship game, a rather rare feat accomplished by the Central Catholic senior.

On Saturday, the WPIAL will crown two football champions with the playing of the district Class 4A and 6A title games.

Anyone who’s climbed “Cardiac Hill” for a basketball game or class at the University of Pittsburgh will tell you — perhaps after catching their breath — that having an upper and lower campus can be taxing.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff warned Pittsburgh Jews that former President Donald Trump and his movement will inflame antisemitism to a fever pitch if Trump is elected president.

Nurses at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital will be the first in UPMC to have a minimum hourly pay rate over $40 under a new three-year contract, union officials say.

Charles “Teenie” Harris photographed a young Roger Humphries, at age 4, in black and white, sitting behind a miniature drum set with two drumsticks in his hands, playing in a classroom. Humphries was tagging along with his older brothers before he was of age to attend school and sat in on lessons.

It’s been a chilly week, but the temperature will be jumping back up this weekend. Get up, get out, shake off those cold work week blues and see what’s going on around town this weekend.