Human Interest

WesBanco Donation Will Help STEAM Instruction Ellwood City, PA – Lincoln Junior Senior High School is set to receive a $25,000 donation from WesBanco, the financial institution has continued to reach beyond the brick and mortar walls of their buildings to have a direct impact in lives of local students. The funding is part of a plan to generate STEAM programs at Lincoln Junior Senior High School.  The new Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics programs will enable the Ellwood City Area School District to prepare the next generation workforce. “We want our students to engage in project based learning…

Caring for others has always been a lifelong passion for Eileen McKelvey. Her caring and concern for others that originally started with children has now expanded to caring for senior citizens. The personal gratitude that she has received while working with seniors was the inspiration to create her business, In Your Home Senior Care. Her business focuses on the non-medical needs of senior citizens, catering specifically to the elderly who have the ability to stay at home with their families. In your home senior care provides assistance with the daily needs of the senior, allowing family members the freedom to…

Windy Ridge Dairy is one of the most popular dairy stores in the Ellwood City area. The store rests at the edge of their 150 acre farm, mainly consisting of corn fields and their dairy producing cows. Lindsey, one of the store owners, said that they have roughly 80-90 cows, 40 of which are used as milk producers. They always have fresh milk for sale and at different times of the year they provide different varieties of milk and ice cream flavors. For the fall season their most popular flavor is pumpkin. Lindsey said that she wishes more people could…

As many of you can most likely recall, EllwoodCity.org’s previous journalist, Jonathon Cortez, posted months earlier bringing almost constant updates about St. Agatha’s destruction in order to build a new CVS Pharmacy; he even wrote a lengthy opinion piece about his thoughts of it. He stated that he believed the destruction of St. Agatha was a mistake, mainly because it was one of the oldest buildings in Ellwood and it should be protected as such. He emphasized that there are other similar pharmacies in the area and a Rite Aid across the street from the proposed CVS, so it seemed…

Christopher Brant is a 17 year old Boy Scout member who attended last nights council meeting and bravely presented his proposed community project to council. Brant started by introducing himself, “My name is Christopher Brant and I am a Boy Scout of Troop 806 here in Ellwood City. I am currently a Life Scout and I am working towards my Eagle rank.” He then proceeded on with why he was seeking their approval for his project, “One of the requirements (to become an Eagle Scout) is to do a service project for my community. I would like to build a…