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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Military Connections to Hold Open House

The event will be held Friday, June 1.

A local organization that helps military soldiers will be holding an open house this week. Military Connections operates out of Penn Hills and is run by Summer Tissue, Plum resident and Oakmont Chamber of Commerce director. An open house will be held Friday, June 1, at 7 p.m. at 312 Auburn St. in Penn Hills. There will be food, fun, shopping and raffles at the organization's care package headquaters. There will be door prizes every 15 minutes. To RSVP, call 412-496-8941 or email militaryconnections@hotmail.com. Donations will be accepted for the organization's care package program. For more information, see www.militaryconnections.org. _______________________ Plum-Oakmont Patch is on Facebook and on Twitter. Don't forget to sign up for…

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Get Rid of the Junk: A Local Spring Cleaning Guide

If you're clearing out the house, there is a potential new place for each item with which you're parting.

Our possessions reproduce rampantly over the winter months — it's a known fact. From the time you bought replacement mittens only to find the lost pair an hour later to the hoarding of clothes you might fit into in a season, a year can mean a lot of stuff. Even if you do an annual spring cleaning, life has a way of giving us an entire collection of things we don't need — leftover macaroni covered in paint from your second-grader's school project, "unique" sweaters from grandma, empty aquariums and socks missing their match. Usually when you're done sorting, though, you're left with looming piles of junk and an even more looming question — what do I do with all this? Sometimes the process of getting rid of the stuff is as much work — if not…

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