| Highmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield has | | | | Camp scholarships |
| designated the Beaver campus of Heritage Valley | | | | Scholarships are being offered by Crafton United |
| Health System as a Blue Distinction Center for | | | | Presbyterian Church to summer camp at |
| Cardiac Care. | | | | Crestfield -- a 224-acre church camp facility near |
| It's among more than 400 facilities nationwide to | | | | Slippery Rock. |
| receive the designation, which is awarded on the | | | | The church is organizing a group of young people |
| basis of an established cardiac care program, | | | | who are completing grades 3 and older to attend |
| experience of its cardiac team, an established | | | | July 26-31 for canoeing, archery, crafts, music, |
| acute care inpatient facility and accreditation by | | | | hayrides, campouts and other events. For |
| The Joint Commission, Healthcare Facilities | | | | information, call the church office, 412-921-2293. |
| Accreditation Program. | | | | Transportation grants |
| Collecting health care items | | | | More than $180,000 in funds have been granted |
| St. Clair Hospital and Global Links, a | | | | to two agencies for transportation improvements |
| Pittsburgh-based humanitarian organization, will | | | | that will benefit older adults and people with |
| collect home health care items from 9 a.m. to 1 | | | | disabilities. |
| p.m. Saturday at the St. Clair Hospital Outpatient | | | | Focus On Renewal Sto-Rox Neighborhood Corp. in |
| Center parking lot on Oxford Drive in Bethel Park. | | | | McKees Rocks will receive $146,880 for three |
| The drive is seeking home health care items that | | | | wheelchair-accessible vehicles, and HAP Enterprises |
| include crutches, walkers, canes, manual | | | | Inc., of Beaver County, will receive $36,000 for a |
| wheelchairs and nebulizers, which are used to | | | | wheelchair-accessible vehicle. |
| treat asthma. | | | | The grants are part of a $13.2 million investment |
| Through Global Links, a humanitarian organization | | | | of federal and state funds for Pennsylvania. |
| with an environmental emphasis that was founded | | | | Beaver transit funds |
| 20 years ago, the items will be sent to countries | | | | The Beaver County Transit Authority has qualified |
| such as Cuba, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua | | | | for $387,500 to replace five small transit buses |
| and Jamaica. | | | | under the federal American Recovery and |
| Industrial development loan | | | | Reinvestment Act. |
| Selectrode Industries Inc., which manufactures | | | | Approximately $347 million in transit stimulus |
| specialty maintenance and repair welding alloys, will | | | | funds are being released to 20 public |
| receive a $1.8 million loan from the Pennsylvania | | | | transportation projects across the state. |
| Industrial Development Authority to construct a | | | | Read more: "West News Briefs" - |
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