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Peters Township Drug Take Back October 22

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On Saturday, October 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Peters Township Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its 12th opportunity in six years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.  Bring your pills for disposal to any of the following sites from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Peters Township Library
616 East McMurray Road
McMurray, PA  15317

Giant Eagle
4017 Washington Road
McMurray, PA  15317

Market District Express
2840 Washington Road
McMurray, PA  15317

Heisler’s Market
601 East McMurray Road
McMurray, PA  15317

The DEA cannot accept liquids, needles or sharps, only pills or patches.  The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.

Last April, Americans turned in 447 tons (over 893,000 pounds) of prescription drugs at almost 5,400 sites operated by the DEA and more than 4,200 of its state and local law enforcement partners.  Overall, in its 11 previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners have taken in over 6.4 million pounds—about 3,200 tons—of pills.

This initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue.  Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs.  Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety and health hazards.

For more information about the disposal of prescription drugs or about the October 22 Take Back Day event, go to the DEA Diversion website.

Simple Steps for Starting Your Business

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SCORE Pittsburgh has partnered with the Peters Township Public Library and the Peters Township Chamber of Commerce to present FREE seminars focusing on starting your own small business. Simple Steps for Starting Your Business will be hosted at the library on Thursday, October 27 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. This introductory seminar focuses on the basics of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. Presenters from SCORE will present an overview of the skills and tools needed when deciding to start a business, including advantages of owning a business, business formation, marketing, cash flow and funding sources.

SCORE Pittsburgh is handling the registration for this propgram. To register, go to https://pittsburgh.score.org/localworkshops .

Friends of the Library Breakfast Social

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This week is National Friends of the Library Week – October 16-22! As a THANK YOU to our “Friends”, The Peters Township Library Foundation is hosting a breakfast social to celebrate on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 9:30 am in the Reading Room on the second floor.  We’d love to have YOU join us. This will also be an opportunity to meet the new Foundation Board and to discuss possible projects for the PTPL Friends. Please bring along any new ideas and of course any friends that you think would like to become involved in event-planning, helping with our used book sales, or other library volunteering opportunities. Thanks again for your continued support of the Peters Township Public Library!

 

Get an overview on completing the FAFSA®

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In partnership with the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), the Peters Township Public Library will offer a free FAFSA Completion Overview on Monday, November 7 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the library. This workshop, for college-bound seniors and their parents, offers help in completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®) by providing an overview of each step of the form.

Registration is required for this program. Register online or call 724-941-9430 #1.

Important changes have gone into effect beginning with the 2017–18 FAFSA®:

  • You’ll be able to submit your 2017-2018 FAFSA® as early as Oct. 1, 2016, rather than Jan. 1, 2017. The earlier submission date will be a permanent change, enabling you to complete and submit a FAFSA® as early as October 1 every year.
  • You’ll use earlier income and tax information. Beginning with the 2017–18 FAFSA®, students will be required to report income and tax information from an earlier tax year. On the 2017–18 FAFSA® you will report your 2015 income and tax information, rather than your 2016 income and tax information.

“Ghosts of Havana” Author Todd Moss

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The Peters Township Public Library welcomes bestselling author and former deputy assistant secretary of State Todd Moss on Monday, October 24 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss his fact-finding trip to Cuba earlier this year.

Registration is required for this program. Register online or call 724.941.9430 #1. A book signing and light refreshments will follow the program.

The White House had not yet announced steps toward normalization with Havana, when Todd Moss first conceived his new thriller about the U. S. and Cuba, “proving yet again that even the most intractable foreign policy logjams can break at any time… and what comes next is always unpredictable “says Moss. Drawing on a true historical episode and inspired by the author’s experiences working inside the United States Government, Ghosts of Havana is infused with timely relevance.

A few weeks before President Obama’s high-profile historic trip to Cuba, Todd Moss took his own fact-finding trip and wrote about it in this article for USA Today . Moss writes “There are constant reminders that Cuba is a totalitarian state, …[but] I left with the sense that Cuba was on the verge of major transformation.” That’s the Cuba we see in Ghosts of Havana, a country on the brink of change, but still holding onto the ghosts from its past.

todd-mossTodd Moss is COO and senior fellow at the Washington think tank Center for Global Development, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. In 2007-2008, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of African Affairs, where he was responsible for diplomatic relations with sixteen West African countries. Previously, Moss worked at the World Bank and the Economist Intelligence Unit, and taught at the London School of Economics.

Free Document Shredding @ BBB Secure Your ID Day

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The Better Business Bureau will offer free on-site document destruction in the library parking lot on Saturday, October 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m..  BBB volunteers will guide cars through a moving line, offload their disposable items, shred them on the spot and distribute goodie bags with educational ID theft and fraud prevention materials.  Each vehicle may dispose of a maximum of 3 boxes / bags of paper-based materials. For more information, call the BBB at 877.267.5222.