Norwin area: Dinner for senior citizens; liquor license transfer approved, more

Norwin to host dinner for senior citizens

The Norwin High School Student Council will sponsor its annual free Senior Citizens Dinner for Norwin residents age 55 and old from noon to 2 p.m. March 2 at the high school cafeteria.

The doors will open at 11:30 p.m. for the dinner, which will have the theme of “A Knight Back at the Castle.”

The dinner has attracted more than 600 senior citizens, which also features performances from the Norwin Show Choir and Select Orchestra. A prize raffle will be held. Those residents age 55 and older from Irwin, North Irwin and North Huntingdon who want to attend, are asked to send a self-addressed stamped envelope with their name and mailing address to:

Norwin High School Student Council, 251 McMahon Dr., North Huntingdon, PA 15642. The letter should be addressed with: ATTN: Mrs. Hufnagel Sr. Citizens’ Dinner

Dinner requests must be received by Feb. 20. Requests received after that date can not be honored.

Program set on historic Civil Rights sit-in

A free program on the 65th anniversary of the history Sit-In Movement by four Black students from North Carolina Architectural & Technical State College in Greensboro, N.C., who sat at a whites-only lunch counter, will be presented at 1 p. m. Feb. 1 at the Westmoreland History Education Center at Historic Hanna’s Town at 809 Forbes Trail Road in Hempfield.

Kelton Edmonds, director of African-American studies at Penn West California, will present the program that will launch the Westmoreland Historical Society’s celebration of Black History Month. The students who refused to leave before the F.W. Woolworth’s would serve them a meal, was an act of defying Jim Crow laws that were enacted to maintain segregation in the South.

Their actions sparked the non-violent and student-led wave of protests that ultimately resulted in the desegregation of F.W. Woolworth and other racially discriminatory businesses that had white-only facilities. More than 50,000 Black students and sympathizers participated in the sit-ins of 1960.

Space is limited and reservations are recommended. For reservations call 724-836-1800 ext. 210.

North Huntingdon OKs liquor license transfer

The operator of a venue for small weddings and other celebrations has won approval from North Huntingdon officials to transfer a liquor license from a defunct banquet business in Irwin.

The township commissioners approved the liquor license transfer on Jan. 15 from the former Banquets Unlimited hall at Caruthers Lane, Irwin, to Splat Lab LLC , which operates Elements Venue at 3000 Commerce Loop.

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board lists the status of the license as being in “safekeeping” and not active for alcohol sales.

Banquets Unlimited was part of the July 2018 personal bankruptcy filing by Ronald and Joy Tarquinio.

Harry Stratigos, owner of Stratigos Banquet Centre in North Huntingdon acquired Banquets Unlimited for $346,000 during a hearing in November 2022 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Pittsburgh. Stratigos’ company, AGEO Inc. of White Oak, paid an additional $60,000 for the rights to purchase the liquor license through the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.