16 BUTLER EAGLE - Thursday, May 14, 2015

RED APPLE AWARDS

RELIGIOUS ROUNDUP

will leave Saturday for a 10day mission trip.

The church will honor Sunday school teachers during
the 11 a.m. Sunday worship
service. The service will include the Christian preschool
graduation. The Rev. James
Mohr will be the guest pastor.
The food cupboard will be
at 6:30 p.m. Monday, and the
church will be a polling place
on Tuesday. The session will
meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
NEW LIFE
CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
New Life Christian Ministries, 139 Knoch Road, Saxonburg, will celebrate infant
and child dedications this
weekend.
Men, women and teens
13 and older can sign up
for New Lifes softball team.
Games will be at the Gospel
Fellowship field in Middlesex
Township. Sign up at the welcome center this weekend or
contact Lee Uncapher at lee93for@consolidated.net.
The May class of new
members will be recognized
at all worship gatherings this
weekend.
OLD UNION
PRESBYTERIAN
Old Union Presbyterian
Church, 200 Union Church
Road, Mars, will have its
Sunday school celebration
Sunday.
SAINT ANDREWS
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
A brief congregational
meeting for election of new
officers and approval of new
bylaws will be after the Sunday worship service at Saint
Andrews United Presbyterian
Church, 201 E. Jefferson St.
The first Sunday mission
offering will benefit the Butler
County Community Health
Clinic.
THE SOWERS CHAPEL
The Sowers Chapel, 100
Iron Bridge Road, Sarver, will
have a church cleanup day
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN
St. Johns Lutheran Church
of Connoquenessing, 100
Connoquenessing
School
Road, will celebrate Holy
Communion during the Sunday worship service.
The church council will
meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday.
ST. LUKES LUTHERAN
St.
Lukes
Lutheran
Church, 310 W. Main St.,
Saxonburg, will celebrate

Europe
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Wed rather go through

the cities than along the
highways. We want to get
the most out of it, experience people in their own
country, said Meghan,
who said before this trip
she had never been out of
the country or even on a
plane.
I think we plan on
smelling the roses a
little bit, said Emily, who
added she would like to
talk to the other pilgrims
on the Way.
We are planning to
have some Saint Benedict
religious medals blessed
before we leave so we can
give them to other pilgrims, Meghan added.
We will explain that
we are from Saint Vincent
College, a Catholic college
sponsored by Benedictine
monks in Latrobe, Penn-

Ascension Sunday this week

with Communion.
The new members/Seekers class will meet at 9:30
a.m. Sunday in the Mary Esther Room. Sunday school
will have Funday Sunday at
9:30 a.m.
The outreach ministry will
lead a 2 p.m. Sunday worship service at Saxony Center.
ST. MARYS ROMAN
CATHOLIC
St. Mary of the Assumption
Roman Catholic Church, 821
Herman Road, will host evening prayer and benediction
at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. All are
welcome for this traditional
way of joining the universal
church in prayer as sunset
approaches.
ST. MICHAEL
ROMAN CATHOLIC
An Ascension of the Lord
Mass will be at 7 p.m. today
at St. Michael the Archangel
Roman Catholic Church, 432
Center Ave.
An Anointing of the Sick
Mass will be at 2 p.m. Sunday.
ST. PAUL
ROMAN CATHOLIC
St. Paul Roman Catholic
Church, 128 N. McKean St.,
will have a welcome reception for new parishioners
at 11 a.m. Sunday in Glenn
Hall.
SUMMIT PRESBYTERIAN
Lindon Fowler will be the
guest speaker at the Sunday morning worship service of Summit Presbyterian
Church, 181 Caldwell Drive.
Sunday school will be for
adults Sunday. The youth
inquirers class will meet at
Seneca Hills Bible Camp.
The youth group will not
meet.
TRINITY LUTHERAN
Confirmation at Trinity Lutheran Church, 120 Sunset
Drive, Center Township, will
be at the 11 a.m. Sunday
worship service. Confirmands and their parents will
rehearse at 10 a.m.
The youth group will meet
at 5 p.m. Sunday at the
church.
The church council will
meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the
church.
A pasta dinner will be from
4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at
the church.
Holden evening prayer will
be at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The ladies quilting group
will meet at 9 a.m. May 21 at
the church.

Ten educators were honored Wednesday night at the annual

Red Apple Awards ceremony at the Atrium in Franklin Township. Winners, from left, are: Sarah Beneigh, Butler School
District; Darcy Marie Silbaugh, Mars School District; LeeAnn
Clutter, Butler Vo-Tech; Joanne DeCola, Butler Montessori

School; Darlene Bullock, Slippery Rock School District; Joy

Heilman, Karns City School District; Tamra Andrake Schiappa, Slippery Rock University; Nancy Lintelman, Seneca
Valley School District; Mindy Bish, Moniteau School District;
and Kathy Voltz, South Butler School District.
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10 educators earn praise

Awards honor
dedication

Eagle Staff Report

FRANKLIN TWP
Teachers were honored
Wednesday night at the
Red Apple Awards ceremony.
The Education Impact
Council of the United Way
of Butler County and XTO
Energy hosted the annual
event at the Atrium.
Red Apple award winners are Butler County
educators who exemplify
leadership and outstanding dedication to students
and the community.
Winners are selected
from nominees from each
public school district, the
Butler County VocationalTechnical School, Slippery Rock University, and
preschool educators.
Each winner receives a
$500 grant for items to use
in the classroom.
Here are this years winners:
Joanne DeCola, Butler
Montessori School preschool and kindergarten
teacher
DeCola has taught at
Butler Montessori School
since 2008. She has a
bachelors degree in early
childhood and elementary
education from SRU. The
mother of two volunteers
teaching 4- and 5-year-olds
at her church.
Sarah Beneigh, Butler High School guidance
counselor
Beneigh has worked in
sylvania.
Id really love to see St. the Butler School District
for 12 years as a guidance
James tomb at the end.
Thats a very famous land- counselor. She spent 10
years at the junior high,
mark, she said.
and has been at the high
I saw the opportunity
school for the past two
to use it to strengthen our
years. She has a masters in
faith. Its a chance for us to
secondary school counselreconnect with God, said
ing from SRU. The Butler
Emily.
resident is married with
They expect to complete two elementary-aged chilthe trip they have been
dren.
planning for three or four
Joy Heilman, Karns
months in about 18 days
City Junior/Senior High
and have scheduled a
flight home May 26.
Meghan plans to do an
internship this summer
with the Watson Institute
where she will be an aide
to two autistic children,
By Associated Press
while Emily plans to
LOS ANGELES Nick
intern in the finance deFradiani
is the latest winpartment of PNC Bank in
ner of American Idol.
downtown Pittsburgh.
The 29-year-old rocker
Both will return to Saint
of Guilford, Connecticut,
Vincent and its varsity
bested soulful 22-year-old
soccer team in the fall for
vocalist Clark Beckham
their senior year.

School English teacher

Heilman earned both
her bachelors in English
and her masters in teaching English from Indiana
(Pa.) University. She is a
member of the National
Council of Teachers of
English, where she has
presented to colleagues at
the national convention,
and she is a member of
the National Writing Project, where she served as
the technical liaison for a
local chapter and did inservices on the teaching of
writing. The Ford City resident is married with two
elementary-aged children.
Darcy Marie Silbaugh,
Mars High School English
and speech teacher
Silbaugh has been an
English teacher in the
Mars School District for
nine years, teaching English, creative writing and
public speaking.
She has a bachelors degree in secondary education and English/communications from Penn State
University and a masters
degree in English education from SRU.
She is the Class of 2018
sponsor, the charity musical sponsor, and the creative writing club adviser.
Silbaugh is married with
two sons.
Mindy Bish, Dassa
McKinney
Elementary
sixth grade math teacher
Bish has taught in the
Moniteau School District
for 13 years. She has a
bachelors degree in elementary education from
Clarion University and a
masters degree in math
and science from SRU.
Bish was inspired to
teach by her own second
grade teacher, Mrs. Conti,
who made extra efforts
to make her students feel
special and valued. Those
are the same qualities
Bish hopes to pass on to
her own students.
She organizes the yearly
overnight field trip to Gettysburg, is a member of the
Dassa McKinney School-

Winner crowned for

14th season of Idol

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of White
House,
Te n n e s see,
to
win
the
14th edition
of
the Fox
t a l e n t
Nick Fradiani
competition.
This is amazing, he
told Idol host Ryan
Seacrest. This is the best
day of my life.
Fradiani joins such
champions as Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson,
Phillip Phillips and Kris
Allen, as well one more
winner to be determined
next year. Fox announced
earlier this week that the
next season would be the
last for Idol.
Before he was revealed
as the winner on Wednesday, Fradiani dueted with
singer-songwriter
Andy
Grammer.
I cant even think right
now, Fradiani said after
Seacrest informed him
that he received the most
viewer votes without
revealing the exact number cast.

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Team, helping organize
the Dassa Dash and Basket
Bingo events.
Bish is married with
three sons.
Nancy Lintelman,
Haine Elementary School
second grade teacher
Lintelman has been
teaching at Haine Elementary School for 35 years.
I am at the age now
where I have taught some
of my old students children. Hard to believe that
I am closing this book
of my life to start a new
book, she said of her retirement.
She has been married
for 35 years, and has two
grown daughters.
Darlene Bullock, Slippery Rock Elementary
physical education teacher
Bullock has been working at the elementary
school since 1992. She also
has taught methodology
classes at SRU for many
years.
Over the years, working
at both the elementary
and college levels, she
implemented the several
extracurricular activities,
including Pee Wee Globetrotters, Gymnastic Gems,
mini-Olympics,
Fifth
Grade Track & Field Day,
Intramurals, Hot Shots,
Rope
Jumping
Team,
Dance Competition and
Survivor & Jump Rope for
Heart Event.
Along with teaching,
Bullock is a state licensed
auctioneer. She also provides auctioneering services to benefit the Feed
My Sheep food cupboard
and other causes.
Kathy Voltz, Knoch
High School math teacher
Voltz has been teaching
math at Knoch for 18 years.
Inspired by her eighth
grade algebra teacher, she
received a bachelors in
secondary math education
from Indiana (Pa.) University and a masters in math
from Ball State University.
She has been involved in

church and school, including tutoring students, and

assisting with homebound
instruction.
The mother of five grown
children encourages her
students to pursue math
and science professions.
Lee Ann Clutter, Butler Vo-Tech advertising
design teacher
Clutter has been helping students build their
careers in the arts for 18
years, having spent the
past eight years as a teacher and the 10 years prior
as an instructional aide at
the vo-teach.
A vo-tech alum, she studied graphic design at Pittsburgh Technical Institute,
Butler County Community
College and Indiana (Pa.)
University.
Tamra Andrake Schiappa, SRU associate professor, Department of Geography, Geology and the
Environment
Schiappa began her academic career at SRU in
2002.
She received her PhD in
geology from the University of Idaho, a masters in
earth science education
from Boise State University, and a bachelors degree
in geology from SUNY
Plattsburgh.
She has been nominated
for the SRUs Presidents
award for Excellence in
Teaching and has received
the GGE Professor Laureate award in 2004, 2012 and
2015.
She leads numerous
field investigations internationally and throughout
the United States.
Schiappa lives in Grove
City with her husband and
daughter.
The sponsors which are
donating the money for
the $500 grants are paeyc,
Grace Youth and Family
Foundation, Armstrong,
The Utz Agency, Hunter,
BASF, Butler County Community College, XTO Energy, UAW Local 3303, and
state Sen. Scott Hutchinson.

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