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KDKA-TV personalities and two executives from the Homestead-based Eat'n Park Restaurant chain will be the headline attractions at the city's annual "Salute to Santa Parade."

Brenda Waters and Jon Burnett of the Pittsburgh CBS affiliate and Brooks Broadhurst and Bill Bates of Eat 'n Park will serve as the celebrity guests, parade coordinator Dorothy Kuharski announced Tuesday.

City officials have said Broadhurst and Bates were instrumental in retaining the Eat 'n Park on Lysle Boulevard, Downtown, which was threatened with closure because of a new access ramp being built into the RIDC Industrial Park. The ramp's construction means that Eat 'n Park is losing part of its parking lot.

In September, the chain announced that it had reached an agreement with the city to renovate the Downtown location; stay in McKeesport for at least 10 more years; and expand its parking lot on the opposite side from its present entrance.

Broadhurst is senior vice president of Eat 'n Park, while Bates is the chain's vice president of real estate.

The parade begins at 12 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Palisades Ballroom, Fifth Avenue and Water Street, Downtown, and continues up Fifth Avenue past city hall. Before the parade, visitors are invited to have coffee and refreshments.

A free Christmas luncheon at the Palisades will follow the parade, Kuharski announced.

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McKeesport Native Michals to Speak at Carnegie: Critically acclaimed photographer Duane Michals closes a new series of lectures at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh's Oakland section.

Michals, 78, a city native and member of the McKeesport High School Hall of Fame, will deliver a talk entitled "One Artist's Journey, Told in the First Person" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the museum's theater. The lecture is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow.

The talk is the last in a three-part series of lectures at the Carnegie called "What Are Museums For?"

As a child, Michals attended art classes at the Carnegie Museum as well as classes at neighboring Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). The Pittsburgh museum currently has more than 350 of his photographs in its collection.

After graduating from McKeesport High School and the University of Denver, Michals studied at the Parsons School of Design. A self-taught photographer, he had his first show in New York City in 1963. Michals went on to photograph celebrities and news events for magazines such as Life, Esquire, Mademoiselle and Vogue.

Instead of taking highly stylized studio portraits, Michals became known for putting his subjects into their natural environments. In 1968 he was hired by the government of Mexico to photograph the Summer Olympics.

Michals talked about his youth in McKeesport in the 2004 documentary "Duaneland," directed by Steve Seliy and Joe Seamans.

* Correction, Not Perfection: This article originally said that Michals' talk was the first in a series at the Carnegie Museum. It was the third of three. The Almanac regrets the error.

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