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East suburban real estate transactions, week of May 12, 2024
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Dennis Syska sold property at 301 Greenfield Ave. to Aviedaleen Rozina Carden Miller and Maleena Matilda Escalera for $164,000. Churchill Jessica Buitrago sold property at 3310 Longbow Drive to Daniel Mankin and Kyrnan Matthias for $352,500. Mary Ann McClain sold property at 3318 Scathelocke Drive to Finnbarr
May 12
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Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta April Press Release
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta Chapter
P.O. Box 10524
Penn Hills, PA 15235
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Spring has sprung and it is time for growth and renewal! Also, it is the time of year where goal-driven, talented, and barrier-breaking individuals set the tone for their futures. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta Chapter, Penn Hills, PA, has experience when it comes to charting new paths and overcoming challenges. One of our Charter Members, Triumphant Soror LaTonya Frazier of Beaver Falls, never shied away from overcoming obstacles in her life, whether personally or socially.
Soror Frazier demonstrated to our Chapter and the community what it truly meant to be an overcomer, by persevering and staying the course during difficult and trying circumstances. In honor of her life, we have instituted a scholarship fund in an effort to see her legacy live on through inspiring and awe-striking individuals.
The Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. located in Penn Hills, PA, proudly continues its tradition of upholding the principle of Scholarship by providing two $1000.00 awards to recipients whom we believe demonstrate what it takes to be an overcomer.
The women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta Chapter, would like to personally congratulate the 2024 winners of the LaTonya Frazier Overcomer Scholarship. Congratulations Alonna Morton and Demetrius Broadnax Jr!
These individuals have shown that regardless of their circumstances, they can embody and accomplish whatever it takes to overcome. We applaud their efforts and we look forward to what the future holds for them.
We would also like to thank all the 2024 applicants from Allegheny and surrounding counties for their entries. Your work also did not go unnoticed. We look forward to the applicants for the 2025 scholarship season.
Applications will open in the early Spring of 2025, so be on the lookout for more!
Thank you,
Joan Baucum-Robinson
Public Relations Chair, Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
For more information about the Gamma Alpha Tau Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, Inc. and their upcoming events, please visit https://www.zphibgatz.org/.
About Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.:
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on January 16, 1920, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The sorority is committed to scholarship, service, sisterly love, and finer womanhood. With a rich history of empowering women and serving communities, Zeta Phi Beta continues to make a lasting impact across the globe.
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Joan Baucum-Robinson, Public Relations Chair gatz.pubblicrelations.zpb@gmail.com
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May 11
Joan Baucum-Robinson
PennHillsProgress-UGC
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‘Do good, be good’ is the motto of this Monroeville native and military spouse
An Army wife who's originally from Monroeville strives to leave a positive mark on the communities of each duty station where her husband serves.
Nicole Childs started free yoga classes on a base in New York and helped injured soldiers with their recovery. She created a community of military wives and families at a base in Italy. At her current station in San Antonio, Texas, she's volunteering with the PTO at her children's school. And she just finished a master's degree from Penn State.
Childs is among the military spouses whose contributions, support and sacrifices are acknowledged each year on Military Spouse Appreciation Day, the Friday before Mother's Day. This year's observance is Friday, May 10.
"I like to say, 'do good, be good,' because selfless service has always been really important to me," said Childs, a 2007 graduate of Gateway High School. "How can I make a difference? How can I leave where we're stationed better than when we arrived?"
Childs' husband, Ben, is stationed at Joint Base San Antonio. Prior to this assignment, they had stations in Fort Meade, Maryland; Vincenza, Italy; two different ones at Fort Drum, New York; and Fort Huachuca, Arizona. They have two children, ages 3 and 5.
As a military spouse, she is holding down the fort at home. "Service members work long hours. They work all day, five or more days a week. They go away on training," she said.
During their first assignment at Fort Drum, she was going through training to become a yoga teacher. A requirement was to teach yoga for free to any Department of Defense cardholder, and she offered to teach at a gym on base. The first ones to take the lessons were soldiers who had been injured. They told her how much it had "opened up their minds," she said.
"I loved it, it was a big hit, and it was wonderful to help people," she said.
In Italy, Childs started a pre-natal yoga workshop for pregnant women and was a leader for a soldier and family readiness group to bridge the gap between the units and families.
"We built a lot of community, and the people are still friends," she said. "It makes your heart happy."
She began her master's degree studies, in human resources and employment relations, online through Penn State World Campus during their time at Fort Meade, Maryland, in 2021. She chose that field because she liked working with people and helping people. Plus, she thought the degree would help her make a difference, which has always been her mantra.
Childs had a newborn at the time and remembers doing her course work after the kids were asleep. It made for long nights, but she had the support of her husband and was determined to succeed.
In San Antonio, she is the president of her children's Montessori school PTO. Through her service, the PTO has raised money to renovate a butterfly greenhouse, sponsor students so they could attend an outdoor school, build an accessible walking path on the school grounds, and a grant program the teachers can use to apply for materials they need.
Her sense of selfless service extended to her schooling, too. She was involved in the Penn State World Campus military service organization and its chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management, or SHRM, a national HR association.
Now that she has graduated with a master's degree, she will complete a fellowship through Hiring Our Heroes, a nationwide initiative from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to help service members and their spouses find meaningful employment in the civilian workforce.
May 10
Mike Dawson
UGC