January 11, 2023 - Pittsburgh City Paper

BY JARED WICKERHAM

James Latimer, 10, poses for a portrait with his homemade t-shirt while attending a prayer for Damar Hamlin at Sto-Rox Junior-Senior High School on Mon., Jan. 9 in McKees Rocks.

POP CULTURE CRAVING

BY KAHMEELA ADAMS-FRIEDSON // INFO@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

SIGNS FOR THE Uptown-based Back to the Foodture restaurant seem to promise dishes and decor inspired by the popular Back to the Future movie franchise sitting at a DeLorean booth, being served by a Doc Brown impersonator, and so on.

Even though you will find the Doc Brown Burger and the Great Scott Salad on the menu, the concept is a bit more than that. The restaurant-museum pays homage to pop culture icons of decades past, and the childhood nostalgia transports Gen Xers back to hours spent playing with He-Man and Cabbage Patch Kids.

After launching Back to the Foodture in 2019 in the Mon Valley town of Pitcairn, Eddie “Barnz” Magwood and Angel Magwood recently added a second

location in Uptown. They relocated their flagship to the SouthSide works in 2021.

Having met in high school, the pair reunited in adulthood and decided to combine their passions in order to make their dreams come true.

Eddie recalls coming up with the concept of combining a restaurant with a pop-culture museum when he was eight or nine years old. “Back to the Future was one of the movies that I liked. I was like, ‘Hey, I want to do a restaurant museum called Back to the Foodture,’” he chuckles.

When Angel resigned from her nursing job she found herself looking for a new vocation. At first, she wanted to open a daycare, but Eddie offered his opinion on the matter, telling her, “Let’s do a restaurant. You’re gonna be great, you’re gonna blow up.”

Angel, who now serves as Back to the Foodture’s chef, comes from a long line of women who are naturally talented in the kitchen, and the gift did not miss her. Since she was tall enough to reach the counter, she spent hours helping her grandmother in the kitchen, lovingly preparing meals for the family.

BACK TO THE FOODTURE

2767 E. Carson St., South Side and 1014 Fifth Ave., Uptown. instagram.com/back2thefoodture

But cooking professionally wasn’t necessarily what Angel thought she would be doing. As she jokingly puts it, she was going to be a “trophy wife,” So, it took some convincing on Eddie’s part.

While out running errands, Angel

came upon the perfect location for Back to the Foodture. After cashing out 401Ks and savings accounts, the Pitcairn spot was theirs.

They opened their doors just in time for a chance encounter with Herky Pollock, an executive vice president and northwest director for the CBRE development firm. One day, Pollock walked in, asked a bunch of questions, and placed a very large order. “He ordered six dozen wings, and seven fries. I didn’t hear from him for about a week. Next thing you know, he’s calling my cellphone,” says Angel.

Pollock took Angel to an available space in the Southside Works, and after confirming that she loved it, handed over the keys with a promise of a contract soon to follow. The decision was made

BLACK-LED SPOTLIGHT

After receiving so much support and generosity, the Magwoods makes sure to put that same energy right back into the community.

tion. Certain students who participate in this program go to school until 11 a.m. and feels good to teach my kids those same lessons my grandma taught me.” •

CP PHOTO: JARED WICKERHAM Magwood of Back to the Foodture

LITERARY ARTS MOTHER OF JUSTICE

BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

THOSE WHO FOLLOW the work of the late Fannie Lou Hamer know her as a Civil Rights leader and fierce advocate for the rights of Black voters and women. To Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, however, she was Mama Fannie, her devoted mother.

Jacqueline provides an intimate account of her mother’s impact both nationally and in the Mississippi Delta community in Mama Fannie: Growing Up the Daughter of Civil Rights Icon Fannie Lou Hamer. Published in February 2022, the book is touted as “an important contribution to the historical records written about one of the most significant and influential leaders in the 20th Century in America.”

When Jacqueline and Lenora, then just 18 months old, were at risk of being separated, Fannie, who had previously adopted Dorothy, stepped in and took the two girls in. To Fannie and her husband Perry “Pap” Hamer, Jacqueline came to be known affectionately as “Cookie.”

The City of Asylum event is beng promoted as part of the Pittsburgh premiere of FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer on Fri., Jan. 13 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. Presented as the first collaboration between the Center, City Theatre Company, and DEMASKUS Theater Collective, the production is described as celebrating the “indomitable courage of civil rights hero Fannie Lou Hamer —

Jacqueline will appear in Pittsburgh on Sat., Jan. 14 during a talk at City of Asylum moderated by Michelle Gainey, the city’s First Lady and wife of Mayor Ed Gainey.

Jacqueline spoke with Pittsburgh City Paper from Ruleville, Miss., where she and her older sister, Lenora, were raised by Fannie after being effectively orphaned. Born in 1966, Jacqueline was only eight months old when her mother, Dorothy Jean Hamer Hall, died.

a leader in the struggle for voting rights whose activism was infused with spirituals, protest songs, and the conviction that nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”

Starring Robin McGee as Fannie, the performance promises to combine its subject’s passion for justice and music into a “hopeful rallying cry that honors the spirit of a true revolutionary.”

“It is difficult to advance justice, without a clear understanding of history and a deep connection to the Spirit that

“If you needed anything, she was going to get it for you.”

Fanny Lou Hamer

guided leaders like Fannie Lou Hamer,” says Shaunda McDill, founder and producer of DEMASKUS Theater Collective. McDill also expresses gratitude for the “tremendous gift” of welcoming Jacqueline to Pittsburgh for the show’s premiere.

Even while Jacqueline acknowledges the various books, documentaries, and other works about her mother, she says she has up till now felt left out of the storytelling process and wanted to ensure that her memories of Fannie were recorded. She draws on decades of notes and memories to tell a more intimate story about an extraordinary woman who inspired countless people with her selfless acts.

Born in 1917 to Black sharecroppers, Fannie’s life was defined by segregation and the legacy of violent racism. Jacqueline chokes up remembering how Fannie spoke about being viciously beaten to the point where “she thought she was going to die” in retaliation for her voting rights efforts.

Fannie was also involuntarily sterilized via hysterectomy while undergoing

an unrelated surgery, a practice that, at the time, was terrifyingly common for Black women in the United States.

“She didn’t even know it was done to her until one of her cousins said that’s what they did to Black women in order to keep them in the fields,” says Jacqueline.

JACQUELINE HAMER FLAKES — MAMA FANNIE: GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF CIVIL RIGHTS ICON FANNIE LOU HAMER

3-4:30 p.m. Sat., Jan. 14.

Alphabet City at City of Asylum. 40 W. North Ave., North Side. Free. Livestream also available. Registration required. cityofasylum.org

Armed with a sixth grade education, Fannie would go on to aid voting rights efforts with groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She also helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a group instrumental in bringing attention to the intimidation and other obstacles Black Americans faced in trying to vote.

According to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee website, the Party traveled to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., where Fannie spoke during the televised event. The Committee claims her testimony was so powerful that President Lyndon Johnson “called a press conference to push her off the air.”

Jacqueline remembers traveling with Fannie as she gave talks and sang at events alongside other Civil Rights greats like Martin Luther King Jr. She says King, whose iconic “I Have Dream Speech” has inspired generations, admitted he did not like to follow Fannie on the podium due to her prowess as a speaker and vocalist.

“He would ask them to let him go first because he knew she was going to take the show,” says Jacqueline.

Jacqueline says Fannie also worked closely with Harry Belafonte, the actor and musician who became an outspoken figure in the Civil Rights movement. Jacqueline recalls how Fannie traveled to West Africa with Belafonte’s thenwife, Julie, where they were called upon

As Jacqueline tells it, Fannie hesitated to meet with him because he had arrived unannounced at her hotel when she still had rollers in her hair. She adds that Julie told her that “he came to her,” so she better get down to the hotel lobby to meet him.

Even as she traveled the country and the world, however, Jacqueline says Fannie stayed committed to serving the place where she grew up and raised her family. Her voice brightens as she talks about how Fannie created a daycare and Head Start program in Mississippi to help working mothers and young children, even going as far as to procure housing and cars for those who needed them.

Jacqueline hopes her book shines a light not only on Fannie’s activism work but on who she was behind the scenes.

“If you needed anything, she was going to get it for you,” says Jacqueline.

“She was a great mother. You would think it would be hard for her adopting four girls. But it wasn’t hard for her. It came so naturally to her.” •

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MLK READS

BY AMANDA WALTZ // AWALTZ@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

ON MON., JAN. 16, the country will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a federal holiday meant to highlight his many accomplishments. His powerful words have not only been committed to television and film, but also to numerous books written by and about him. See below for a list of titles recommended by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, a Georgia-based nonprofit established by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King.

Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Center calls this award-winning book by Stephen B. Oates an “extensive and well-researched biography” that “allows the reader to experience the life of Dr. King and the times in which he lived.”

My Uncle Martin’s Big Heart

Anyone who wants to introduce their young child to King should consider this 2010 book written by his niece, Dr. Angela Farris Watkins, and illustrated by Eric Velasquez.

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Published in 1958, King’s first book serves as a memoir of the events leading up to the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, a seminal event during which the Civil Rights leader and countless other Black Americans protested segregation on public transit.

What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Read this in-depth account from the late Lerone Bennett Jr., a former college classmate of King’s who also served as the editor of Ebony magazine, among other achievements. •

PITTSBURGH NEWS ROUNDUP

BY JAMIE WIGGAN AND JORDANA ROSENFELD // JAMIE@PGHCITYPAPER.COM // JORDANA@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

IT TOOK SEVERAL DAYS and fifteen rounds of votes for Congressional Republicans to elect a new speaker in the form of Kevin McCarthy (R-California). Talking to Pittsburgh City Paper on Jan. 3 after the first round of stalled negotiations, newly elected U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Aspinwall) expressed frustration.

“And so now we are waiting for our Republican friends to try to get themselves in order so we can do the people’s business,” Deluzio tells City Paper. “Unfortunately, the House is not ready to do this.”

Looking forward, Deluzio says his

POLITICS CONGRESS RESUMES WITH NEW FACES FROM PITTSBURGH POLITICS STATE OF THE HOUSE

MEANWHILE, the Pennsylvania House prevented a similar showdown by electing a centrist Democrat who subsequently renounced his party

constituents gave him a clear mandate to fulfil. “My sense of things — and folks heard it from me on the campaign trail — is they want our democracy to be [protected]. They want reproductive rights to be protected. They want some basic decency around their economic status,” Deluzio tells CP during an interview last week. He adds, "All of those things are things that I’m planning to fight for.”

Other new faces from the Pittsburgh area include Summer Lee (D-Swissvale), the first Black woman elected from Pennsylvania, and John Fetterman of Braddock, who now represents Pennsylvania in the Senate.

vacated their seats for higher office, while veteran lawmaker Tony DeLuca died shortly before Election Day. Until their seats are filled by special elections, Republicans maintain a narrow lead.

The new assembly includes many new faces from this side of the state, including La'Tasha Mayes, the first Black, lesbian woman elected to the House, and Arvind Venkat, its first Indian-American.

as a “pragmatic progressive,” Doven now faces scrutiny for tweets from 2015 that local LGBTQ outlet QBurgh calls “antitrans, anti-LGBTQ, and racist.”

In response, Doven tweeted a lengthy thread insinuating the QBurgh piece was part of a “coordinated Twitter attack,” writing that she believes in “tolerance, understanding, and quite frankly — loving each other.” Doven also criticized Hallam for voting to delay certification of the midterm election results, rehashed her criminal record, and accused her of sexual assault and “drunk tweeting from a bar and doing egregious sexual acts live on camera.” •

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ROCKS RALLIES FOR DAMAR

AS NEWS SPREAD OF Damar Hamlin's collapse during an NFL game in Cincinnati, his family and friends back home watched on in horror.

Hamlin’s uncle, Dorian Glenn of McKees Rocks, last week spoke to CP about the pain and shock that followed.

"It was like a gut punch," Glenn said. "It hurt my heart seeing my nephew collapse on the field like that. No one knew what was going on."

Hamlin now appears on track for a steady recovery and his fundraising efforts for children in his hometown community have soared above $8 million. On Jan. 9, family, friends and supporters gathered for a vigil at Sto-Rox football field in solidarity for his ongoing recovery.

GABE FONTANA DAY

ITTSBURGH HONORED retired cobbler Gabe Fontana Jan. 4 with Gabe Fontana Day in the city. After learning the trade in Italy at age 6, Fontana emigrated to America and ran a shoe repair store on Forbes Avenue for 48 years before shuttering in December.

Before his retirement, CP profiled Fontana for a Nov. 16 cover story, in which he described the ups and downs of a long career in a dying trade.

NEWS JAN. 11

MOON OFFICIALS MOVE TO STAMP DOWN LGBTQ LIBRARY CONTENT?

OF Moon’s public library board tell CP they are concerned about recent moves by the township to replace library board trustees with individuals they say are “distinctly unqualified” political appointments. Library trustees believe this conflict stems from a December 2021 moral panic over a library Facebook post about featuring a children’s book about drag queens. They fear supervisors are intent on censoring content about LGBTQ people. •

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Supporters and members of the community attend a prayer for Damar Hamlin at Sto-Rox Junior-Senior High School on Mon., Jan. 9 in McKees Rocks.

CP PHOTO: JARED WICKERHAM Gabriel Fontana at work

SCREEN THE ART OF SURVIVAL

BY HANNAH KINNEY-KOBRE // HANNAHK@PGHCITYPAPER.COM

DOES ART MATTER? This is a very stupid question. We know it is stupid because it dissolves itself when looked at for more than an instant. Part of this is that we barely even know what art is: what good art is, what bad art is, what brilliant art is. Our sense of aesthetic pleasure might even be too dull for us to figure it out, mired by a haze of overstimulation and supposed subjectivity. So let’s start with an only slightly less stupid question: do artists matter?

Documentarian Laura Poitras — best known for her films documenting government abuses and the individual actors caught up in them — takes up this

question in her latest work, All The Beauty and The Bloodshed.

Poitras was brought on board by producers who were initially pitched by the film’s subject photographer Nan Goldin. Goldin’s initial vision of the film was to document the work of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) an activist group founded by Goldin and dedicated to shaming the Sackler family, with an eye towards the art world’s laundering of their reputations for donations.

Instead, Poitras developed a interest in Goldin’s life and work as an artist. The film makes clear that Goldin’s work as an artist and an activist is entirely tied up

with her life. The best example of this is her most well-known work: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. The photo series chronicles her life alongside the lives of her friends and lovers — including photographer David Armstrong, actress and writer Cookie Mueller, and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Her lens captures them as they fuck, dance, kiss, perform, take drugs — lit up with flash and saturated with color.

In what Goldin has described as the “central image” of Ballad , she photographs herself after being beaten by a boyfriend. Her red curls turn dark brown in the harsh light, her skin pale, the bruises around her eyes dull. There are just two stabs of color: the blood pooling

in the white of her eye, and her lips –painted blood red to match.

The drug-use Goldin documented in her photographs became an addiction for her, one she recovered from ,only to relapse in 2014 when prescribed Oxycontin after a hand injury. When Goldin saught treatment, she learned how the Sackler family — heirs to the Purdue pharmaceutical fortune — sold Oxycontin as a safe cure for pain, all while knowing how potently addictive it was. Compelled to act, she formed P.A.I.N.

“My anger at the Sackler family, it’s personal,” Goldin says.“I hate these people.”

The film is structured

around

PHOTO: COURTESY OF NEON Nan in the bathroom with Bea Boston, 1970s

meetings in Goldin’s apartment and the resulting actions. We see the members of P.A.I.N. cluster around Goldin in her apartment or sit in cars with her, rhythmically placing stickers on pill bottle props used in demonstrations (“I love working in a material I know: blue Valium bottles.”). It’s a familiar scene to anyone who’s done some form of political work: the terse faces occasionally broken up by bleak jokes, the push and pull of logistical jockeying.

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Thu., Jan. 12-Thu., Jan. 19. Harris Theater. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $11. trustarts.org

One of those demonstrations takes place at the Guggenheim, which, at the time, had an arts education center bearing the Sackler name. The members of P.A.I.N. throw paper prescriptions into the air of the building’s atrium — a reference to a 1996 quote from Richard Sackler where he said “the launch of Oxycontin tablets will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition. The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white …” And so they make it literal: we see the blizzard of prescriptions raining down from above, fluttering to the floor. The music rises, and the camera tilts up towards the white slips in a moment that feels like freedom. There’s a dramatic sensibility here that’s not dissimilar from the one we see at work in Goldin’s photography. P.A.I.N.

member Megan Kapler recalls looking up in the Guggenheim and being “in awe of the visual it created.” The same impulse that animates her painted lips in the photograph also animates the staging of these demonstrations. The invisible is not just made visible, but so vivid that you’re unable to look away. The tormented ties of love and violence, money and power, are forced upon us by Goldin’s aesthetic sense.

All The Beauty and The Bloodshed finds a unity between Goldin’s aesthetics and her ethics, while making it clear that it’s the result of a life that never allowed her to separate the two. Her art career was borne from photographs that transfigured her life into her material; her artwork hangs in museums that run on money from a family whose drugs killed her friends and almost killed her.

But these kinds of connections are not unique, either. We are all haunted by them. Our work, our suffering, our sex, our love, our death: all of these things are tied together by a system of economic and political imperatives that we are mostly too frightened to look at closely. Goldin’s choice to fight on her own terrain — the art world — may be exceptional, but for her, it is a natural extension of the way she approaches everything else.

“Photography was a way to walk through fear,” Goldin says at one point. The distance of a lens allowed her to document how she saw the world, which allowed her to bear it and then change it. It also made her an artist — something that, in the end, might matter after all. •

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PHOTO: COURTESY OF NAN GOLDIN

“Self Portrait With Scratched Back After Sex, London 1978"

THU., JAN. 12.

ART • BLOOMFIELD

The World at Our Feet. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Continues through Feb. 10. BoxHeart Gallery. 4523 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. boxheartgallery.com

THEATER • DOWNTOWN

Pittsburgh CLO pays tribute to the Queen of Country with a new production at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Here You Come Again celebrates the songs of Dolly Parton with a “touching and rollickingly funny” musical about a man quarantining in his parents’ Texas attic after a breakup. Written by award-winning writer and Broadway actor Bruce Vilanch and starring Tricia Paoluccio as Parton, the show promises to be a rhinestone-studded extravaganza. 7 p.m. Continues through Sun., Jan. 29. 350 Forbes Ave., Downtown. $25-50. pittsburghclo.org

FRI., JAN. 13

FAMILY • ASPINWALL

Cabin Fever: Indoor Movies, Games & Snacks. 5-7 p.m. Allegheny RiverTrail Park. 285 River Ave., Aspinwall. Free. alleghenyrivertrailpark.org

FILM • DOWNTOWN

Skinamarink. 7:30 p.m. Continues through Sat., Jan. 14. Harris Theater. 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $11. trustarts.org

COMEDY • DOWNTOWN

Super Late Night Variety Show. 9:30 p.m. Arcade Comedy Theater. 943 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $10-15. 16 and up. arcadecomedytheater.com/events

SAT., JAN. 14

FAMILY • POINT BREEZE

Frick Winterfest 2023 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Mon., Jan. 16. 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze. Free. thefrickpittsburgh.org/winterfest

SWAP • MILLVALE

Clothing Swap. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Millvale Community Library. 213 Grant Ave., Millvale. Free. millvalelibrary.org

THEATER • DOWNTOWN

The late Fannie Lou Hamer was an activist, a community organizer, and a Civil Rights leader. Her legacy drives the latest premiere at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. Co-presented by City Theatre and DEMASKUS Theater Collective, FANNIE: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer will, honor a revolutionary known for integrating “spiritual hymnals” into her life’s work through music and song. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Continues through Mon., Jan. 16. 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown. $40. awc.culturaldistrict.org

LIT • BLOOMFIELD

Poetry Book Launch: All the Hanging Wrenches by Barbara Edelman.

7-8 p.m. White Whale Bookstore. 4754 Liberty Ave., Bloomfield. Free. RSVP required. Livestream also available. whitewhalebookstore.com/events

SUN., JAN. 15

ART • DOWNTOWN

Rising Voices 2: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Feb. 19. 937 Gallery. 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown. Free. trustarts.org

MUSIC • NEW

KENSINGTON

Restless Spirit. 7-10 p.m. Preserving Underground. 1101 Fifth Ave., New Kensington. $10. preservingunderground.com/shows

MUSIC • SOUTH SIDE

An Evening with Dixon’s Violin. 8 p.m. Doors at 7 p.m. Club Cafe. 56-58 South 12th St., South Side. $15. 21 and over. ticketweb.com/clubcafe

SUN. JAN 15

SEVEN DAYS IN PITTSBURGH

BY CP STAFF

PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST

Rising Voices 2: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters at 937 Gallery

THU. JAN 12

MON., JAN. 16

HOLIDAY • EAST LIBERTY

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Kelly Strayhorn Theater during an event inspired by the late Civil Rights leader. The Audacity to Believe welcomes everyone to enjoy familyfriendly activities celebrating the legacy of King and “Pittsburgh activists past and present.” There will also be performances from the Hill Dance Academy Theatre, Alumni Theater Company, and K-Theatre Dance Complex, as well as Jacquea Mae. 12-3 p.m. 5941 Penn Ave., East Liberty. Pay What Moves You. kelly-strayhorn.org

TUE., JAN. 17

FILM • ALLENTOWN

‘80s Movie Parties: The Breakfast Club. 7:30 p.m. Bottlerocket Social Hall. 1226 Arlington Ave., Allentown. $5. bottlerocketpgh.com/film

WED., JAN. 18

DANCE • STRIP DISTRICT

Salsa Night. 6:30-10 p.m. Kingfly Spirits. 2613 Smallman St., Strip District. $10. kingflyspirits.com/events

MUSIC • SHADYSIDE

Alex Luketich Trio. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Con Alma. 5884 Ellsworth Ave., Shadyside. $10. conalmapgh.com/jazz

PHOTO: COURTESY OF PITTSBURGH CLO

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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January 25, 2023 at 1:45 PM.

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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PUBLIC AUCTION

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PUBLIC AUCTION

Public notice is hereby given that property placed in storage by the following persons at the following locations will be sold via public sale to satisfy Guardian Storage liens for unpaid rent and other charges. Bidding for property of persons renting space at the following locations will be held online at www.selfstorageauction.com ending on January 24, 2023at 10:00 am, and day to day thereafter until sold at which time a high bidder will be determined.

350 Old Haymaker Road Monroeville, PA 15146: Unit #3718D Robert Twining

4711 William Penn Highway, Monroeville, PA 15146: Unit #11311 Jim Thrift, Unit #23507 Michele Hunter

901 Brinton Road, Pittsburgh, Pa 15221: Unit # 10209 Jene Glenn, Unit #12201 Tamika Davis, Unit #12309 Veronica Howell, Unit #12405 Marcus Newton, Unit #2115 Chimere Moore, Unit #2304 Rodney Carpenter, Unit #8108 Kenyale Cottingham, Unit #8304 William Roberts, Unit #9119 Earnest Johnson

5873 Centre Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15206: Unit #1609 Terra Holloway, Unit #3305 Jozo Grgic, Unit #4706 Luibeehah Hall, Unit #5112 Robbin Branch, Unit #5407 Thea Jarrett, Unit #7108 David Gloster, Unit #7404 Yvonne Strothers

2839 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15222: Unit #4219 James Wilson, Unit #4404 John Arocha, Unit #4604 Anthony Dorsey, Unit #5203 Bill’s Bar and Burger, Unit #6805 Ebon Harris, Unit #L06 Samantha James 750 South Millvale Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213: Unit #5213 Yanique Murphy, Unit #5508 Gennadi Ryan 1002 East Waterfront Drive, Munhall, PA 15120: Unit #1310 Bethany Neutrelle, Unit #3617 Omega Walden

1300 Lebanon Church Road, West Mifflin, PA 15236: Unit #12204 Levon Pratt, Unit #32306 Christine Vock, Unit #32521 Tammy D’ercole, Unit #41324 Miriam Maletta 1599 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017: Unit #5112 Mindi Hendricks, Unit #51114 Pamela Cargile, Unit #53818 Angelina Bonilla, Unit #6133 Vinnie Richichi 1067 Milford Drive, Bethel Park, PA 15102: Unit #23824 Cassie DiMarzio, Unit #23831 Kurt Kaskie, Unit #23936 Johnathan Highfield 7452 McKnight Rd, Pittsburgh, Pa 15237: Unit #212 John L Sisk 4750 William Flynn Hwy, Allison Park, Pa 15101: Unit #31114 Anthony Griggs

401 Coraopolis Rd, Coraopolis, Pa 15108: Unit #12824 Joy Marble, Unit #21005 Elise Moultrie, Unit #21024 Robert L Unger, Unit #22132 Vincent Adams

Purchases must be made with cash and paid at the location at the above referenced facility to complete the transaction. Guardian Storage has the right to refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF GRANGER, DARIA, DECEASED OF PITTSBURGH, PA

Daria Granger, deceased of Pittsburgh, PA No. 022207479 of 2022. Dennis Brunner, Adm., 206 Santa Fe Drive, Bethel Park, PA 15102. Or to D. Scott Lautner, Esquire. 68 Old Clairton Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236.

ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF WARNER, BEATRICE J., DECEASED OF PLEASANT HILLS, PA

Beatrice J. Warner, deceased of Pleasant Hills, PA No. 022206261.

Donna M. Kuhn, Ext., 220 Tiffany Drive, North Huntingdon, PA 15642. Or to D. Scott Lautner, Esquire. 68 Old Clairton Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236.

ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF CRAWFORD, JACQUELINE H., DECEASED OF PLEASANT HILLS, PA

Jacqueline H. Crawford, deceased of Pleasant Hills, PA No. 022207894.

Michael H. Crawford, Ext. 251 Colleen Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15236. Or to D. Scott Lautner, Esquire. 68 Old Clairton Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236.

NAME CHANGE

ESTATE NOTICE

ESTATE OF MUELLER, RICHARD L., DECEASED OF CARNEGIE, PA

Richard L. Mueller, deceased of Carnegie, PA No. 022207444 of 2022. Kathleen Wallace, Ext., 202 Quarry Drive, West Newton, PA 15089. Or to D. Scott Lautner, Esquire. 68 Old Clairton Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236.

NAME CHANGE

ESTATE

OF MINJOCK, JOHN H., DECEASED OF FORWARD TOWNSHIP, PA

John H. Minjock, deceased of Forward Township, PA No. 022207478 of 2022. Cindy L. Minjock, Ext., 4163 Miracle Ridge Road, Monongahela, PA 15063. Or to D. Scott Lautner, Esquire. 68 Old Clairton Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15236.

ESTATE OF

GUTHRIE, VIRGINIA L., DECEASED OF SWANTON, MD

Virginia L. Guthrie, deceased of Swanton, MD No. 022207110 of 2022. Audra Ihrig, Ext., 3616 Oakleaf Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15227. Or to D. Scott Lautner, Esquire. 68 Old Clairton Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15236.

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-14529 In re petition of Kimberly Renee Ward for change of name to YeKimberly Leedea El Ike Bey. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 17th day of February, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for.

IN The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: No. GD-22-015236

In re petition of Sophia Mira Yurkovetsky for change of name to Sophia Mira Tonkonozhenko

Yurkovetsky. To all persons interested: Notice is hereby given that an order of said Court authorized the filing of said petition and fixed the 14th day of February, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., as the time and the Motions Room, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA, as the place for a hearing, when and where all persons may show cause, if any they have, why said name should not be changed as prayed for. Andrew M. Gross, Attorney for Petitioner. Address: 300 Corporate Center Drive, Suite 130 Moon Township, PA 15108. Phone: (412)264-6467