around your townClearview Pavilion Dedicated at ParkLEFT TO RIGHT: Moon Township Supervisor Andrew Gribben, Supervisor FrankSinatra, Ralph Canterbury, vice president, marketing and technology, ClearviewFederal Credit Union; Jim Vitale, chairman, Moon Township Board of Supervisors;Christianne Gribben, assistant vice president, marketing, Clearview Federal CreditUnion; Dana Kasler, director, Moon Parks and Recreation.Moon Township and Clearview FederalCredit Union unveiled Moon Park’s newClearview Federal Credit Union Pavilion tothe community on May 25. Representativesfrom the Moon Township Board ofSupervisors and Clearview Federal CreditUnion cut the ribbon on the pavilion andwelcomed residents to the new picnic area,which is now open for reservations.The newly-developed picnic pavilion ispart of a new ten-year partnership betweenMoon Township and Clearview Federal CreditUnion, which will also continue itssponsorship of Moon Township’s AnnualIndependence Day Celebration.“We would like to thank Clearview FederalCredit Union for their continuedrelationship with the township,” said JimVitale, chairman of the Moon TownshipBoard of Supervisors. “Clearview hasbeen a tremendous partner.”Located next to Moon Park’s tenniscourts, the picnic pavilion is the latestproject in Moon Township’s long rangeparks improvement plan, which willcontinue to evolve in Moon Parkthroughout the next several years.The pavilion, which was constructed witheco-friendly building materials, canaccommodate as many as 100 people andis furnished with new picnic tables andoutdoor grills as well as water and electricservice.Community ProjectMoon Area High School senior Emme Kelly recentlycompleted a community service project that benefits theFamily Hope Connection, a licensed adoption and fostercare agency located in Squirrel Hill. Along with apartner, she organized a dance at Moon Middle Schoolthat raised more than $1,400. Emme donated her portionof the profit to the Family Hope Connection.Emme chose the Family Hope Connection because hermother works at the agency, and her grandparents wereformer foster parents. While she does not know most ofthe individuals her grandparents foster-parented, hermother became very close to one of them, and she hasalways been regarded as “family.”Said Emme, “I know how hard life is without the extrathings that they go through thrown in. I thought that if Icould help out just a little bit by donating money to helpthem, that is the least I can do.”Emme requested that the majority of the money shedonated to the Family Hope Connection be used forbooks to be given to the foster children with whom FamilyHope Connection staff work. So far more than 70 bookshave been bought.RIGHT: EmmeKelly with some ofthe books thatwere purchasedfrom the proceedsof her communityservice project.PHOTO SUBMITTED18 <strong>Allegheny</strong> <strong>West</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> <strong>July</strong> <strong>2011</strong>
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