Laurels & lances: Ligonier, light, lessons and love

Laurel: To preserving a little piece of the past. Ligonier Township leaders don’t want lose their connection to a treasured longtime landmark. Instead, the municipality is interested in buying Ligonier Beach to keep the private pool from floundering after the owners filed for bankruptcy. Details are still up in the air, but supervisors unanimously voted to make an offer on the property which “carries a lot of memories for a lot of people.” Hopefully, the plan makes a big splash and locals will be hitting the beach for years to come.

Lance: To unnecessary traffic delays. There’s nothing worse than waiting at a light — unless it’s waiting and waiting and waiting with no end in sight. A temporary signal at the Butler-Logan Road bridge in Frazer went haywire, backing up weekend traffic with wait times of up to 10 minutes. While PennDOT said it was working on the issue, Frazer police took to Twitter to urge alternate routes, with the not-at-all encouraging note that the lights “are estimated to be in use until September.”

Laurel: To a little advice on the big house. Proving that once a teacher, always a teacher, Abby Lee Miller offered advice to actress Felicity Huffman on how to survive being famous behind bars. Huffman might get prison time after her recent plea in the college admissions fraud scandal, in which she paid $15,000 to have her daughter’s SAT answers corrected to up her score. Miller, who did her own short stint in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud, offered to be Huffman’s consultant, recommending she “take a breath,” “be respectful” and “be kind to people.” Seems like the teacher became a student in prison.

Laurel: To love living on. Eli Bussotti died in an October car crash, but a piece of him lives on. Literally, two pieces of him are alive and well in Chad Ravotti, who received the 17-year-old’s pancreas and a kidney. Other organs were also donated. Ravotti met Eli’s parents, Joy Krumenacker and David Bussotti, this week. It was a gathering filled with love, joy and gratitude.

“I wish I met him, but I know that I know him,” Ravotti said.