Hermitage, PA

U.S. Air Force, Desert Storm Era

In providing for its own needs, the United States military services play vital roles in fulfilling the needs of society at large. The Shenango Valley has a family practitioner because the United States Air Force enabled Dr. Allison Angott to get her medical degree.

“Without the Air Force,” she said, “I would have had to be a specialist to pay off the debts of medical school. I say to my patients I’m your tax dollars at work. I’m here as a physician because you helped me go to medical school. And I appreciate that.” [Read more…]

Hermitage, PA

Good breaks, great decisions

The course of everyone’s life is determined, to a greater or lesser extent, by a series of breaks. Bad breaks are inevitable, but not necessarily destructive if they are followed by good breaks – which often result directly from good decisions.

Steve Garay’s first bad break occurred in 1931, when he was one year old. His father, a Czechoslovakian immigrant named Mike Garay (formerly Garaj), passed away, leaving his mother, Mary Aleksa Garay, to raise Steve and his four older siblings. But a good decision turned that misfortune around when Steve was six. His mother married John Beres. [Read more…]