Category: default || By jt3y

Deep items from a shallow mind:

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Duquesne High School Booster Club: This couldn't have come at a better or worse time, depending on your perspective:

Two juveniles face multiple charges after a stabbing outside a convenience store in Duquesne. Police said two groups were fighting Tuesday night on Grant Street.

Lariia Sloan, 39, who works at a nearby convenience store tried to break up the fight. Sloan was stabbed in the back. She is expected to make a full recovery.

The suspects are being held in a juvenile detention center and face multiple charges, including aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy. (WPXI-TV)

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Thank You Sir, May We Have Another?: Wal-Mart has confirmed what's been known for at least 10 years --- it's building another store on the old Lincoln Hills Country Club property in North Huntingdon.

To ease the pain on the nearby downtown Irwin business district, they're donating $2,500 to the borough's "Main Street Redevelopment" project, reports Pat Cloonan in the Daily News.

Based on Wal-Mart's $11.3 billion 2006 profit from 6,600 stores, that works out to about two minutes' worth of sales at a single Wal-Mart store. I sure hope they can spare it.

I'm not sure how much that $2,500 will represent in terms of unemployment checks for people laid off from other Norwin-area businesses, but my advice to Irwin is, don't spend it all in one place.

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On The Road Again: Friend of the Almanac and Mon-Yough area historian Brian Butko has a new book out, written with his wife, Sarah. Judy Laurinatis has the details in the Post-Gazette.

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Life is a Rock: About 300 people attended last weekend's "McKeesport: Past and Present" reunion at Harrison Village, according to the P-G.

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Oh, Really?: Chris Briem of Null Space calls the Tube City Almanac "inimitable." Yeah, but so were the Hindenberg and Le Petomaine. As another flaming gasbag, we fit right in.

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Hooray For Hollywood: In entertainment news, Mark Evanier came to Pittsburgh and found it that it isn't so bad. Good thing, too, because I would have hated to see the wrath of the usual civic-boosters descend upon him. At least Mayor Opie "Luke" Ravenstahl didn't bug him while he was in town.

Meanwhile, Radar confirms rumors that Bob Barker is a bit of a jerk. (The secret of his $100 pocket? He wasn't wearing underpants. OK, I made that up.)

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To Do This Weekend: Pittsburgh Area Jitterbug Club has dancing at the Palisades, Fifth Avenue at Water Street, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Call (412) 366-2138. ... McKeesport Summer Concert Series presents the Beatles tribute band "Come Together," 7 p.m. Sunday, Renzie Park bandshell.