In Brief: Live-stream Christmas Eve services, virtual tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and more in Pine, Richland

‘Christmas Carol’ virtual performance

Hear the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s and the ghosts of Christmas Past in a virtual performance of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” by the Steel City Shakespeare troupe.

The Dec. 18 listening party begins at 6 p.m. and benefits the West View Hub charitable organization.

The cost is a $20 donation. Register online at https://bit.ly/HUBListeningParty.

Listening party participants will receive a Zoom invitation to view the performance.

Live-streamed Christmas Eve services

Hampton Presbyterian Church will celebrate four Christmas Eve services Dec. 24 and broadcast a virtual service on its website at hamptonpresbyterian.net and YouTube channel.

The 3:30 and the 6 p.m. services are geared toward families and will conclude with candle-lighting during the singing of “Silent Night.” The 8 p.m. “Watch Night” service is more meditative and includes candle-lighting and Communion. The 10 p.m. service is more traditional, with brass and bells and candle-lighting. Communion also will be served.

Access to the virtual service starts at 3:30 p.m.

The church is at 2942 East Hardies Road in Gibsonia.

Recycling event nets 6 tons of old electronics

The Nov. 21 electronics recycling event Pine held in conjunction with the ECS&R company in Butler collected enough old electronics to fill a 53-foot trailer, according to township officials. The Township is planning to hold its next event — the annual Recycle Rama — in May.

Here’s how many pounds of each item were collected for recycling last month:

• Tube TVs: 2,807

• Projection TVs: 336

• Flatscreen TVs: 2,114

• Wood cabinet TVs: 427

• Computer monitors: 926

• Computers: 1,724 lbs

• Items with Freon: 1,293

• Other electronic waste: 710 lbs

• Towers and peripherals: 1,724 lbs

• Other electronics: 3,106

Pine to participate in radon survey

Pine Township has been selected by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the American Lung Association for inclusion in their Targeted Radon Survey campaign.

The campaign aims to increase public awareness about radon and test for it in our area.

Residents will receive a letter from the state DEP and the lung association outlining details of the campaign.

For more information and questions about the survey, contact Denise Bleiler or Robert Lewis at 1-800-237-2366 or 1-717-783-3594.

Allegheny County hiring park rangers

The Allegheny County Parks Department is accepting applications for seasonal park rangers, including positions in North Park.

Park rangers learn valuable skills patrolling and interacting with visitors, leading public programming, building and maintaining trails, working on resource management projects such as tree plantings and invasive species removal, teaching outreach groups and managing volunteers.

Applicants must have a minimum of 45 college credits in parks and recreation management, biology, environmental science or a related field of study.

An equivalent combination of education and experience can be substituted. Applicants also must be certified in CPR when they are hired. The pay rate is $10 an hour.

More information about the qualifications and duties and a link to the application is available online.

Pine resident new CEO at Buncher Co.

Long-time Pine Township resident David B. Heaton has been named the new chief executive officer for Buncher Co., a Pittsburgh-based real estate development and construction company.

He succeeds Thomas J. Balestrieri, who will now serve as president emeritus.

Heaton is a graduate of Penn State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering.

Before joining Buncher, Heaton worked for 20 years with Oxford Development Co., where he served as a project manager, director of construction and vice president of development before being named the company’s CEO.

“I look forward to continuing Tom’s (Balestrieri) legacy and keeping Buncher going in the direction he and his team have set while maintaining those values,” Heaton said. “The thing that attracted me to Buncher was the company’s integrity and its longstanding respect in the industry and the community.

“The company and I have similar values with regards to that reputation, which I plan to carry on and enhance,” Heaton said.

Richland completes mandatory stormwater project

Richland Township has completed a stream stabilization project along a section of West Branch Creek as part of a federal mandate that municipalities take steps to reduce stormwater runoff.

The $72,500 project was done on a section of the creek along Route 910 between the intersections of Lori and Allison roads. The work was paid for out of a $187,000 grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority.

The project, which is designed to remove silt from the waterway, included the installation of a high-performance turf reinforcement mat and a variety of shrubbery and grass on the stream bank to reduce erosion.

A build-up of silt can destroy plant and marine life and cause more erosion by redirecting the flow of water.