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Look who is 10 months old today.... Princess Faith Marie!!

Remembering JFK - The Assassination Took Place 56 Years Ago Today  -------   SEE ARTICLE AND VIDEOS   ;     https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/remembering-jfk-assassination

She is so beautiful, thanks for sharing her pictures!

She is so beautiful, thanks for sharing her pictures!

She is so beautiful, thanks for sharing her pictures!

She is so beautiful, thanks for sharing her pictures!

From Brandi-
To my PCA Force patients, friends and family....
It was a difficult decision to make but this will be my last week at PCA Force. 
For those of you who I didn’t get to say goodbye to, I want you to know, it has been an honor and privilege serving you as your nurse. You’ve all become family to me and I love you, I will miss you all. Working with Dr. Albanese has been the greatest experience of my life, aside from being Faith’s mom 😉.  She has been a great teacher, educator and friend. I also want you all to know that Baby Faith is ok it’s just that she needs my 100% devotion so that we may continue to watch her grow and she can continue to Defy the Odds and Prove that there is Power in Prayer!
On the bright side, Pic of the Day shall recommence!

Faith Marie can not go trick or treating, but that didn’t stop her Mom & a far away friend from buying her some outfits!!

Brandi took these last night when I was talking to her on the phone, it was on speaker. Faith was listening intently to Grandma & babbling right along with us. 😂

Such a sweetheart little baby girl!

Such a sweetheart little baby girl!

Just ❤️this outfit a friend of mommy’s got Faith, 🥰

On Oct 6th Faith Marie was baptized again. This time under much better circumstances, she was in the NICU the last time. Everything is much better now then then. God sure does love Faith, how could He not, He made her perfect!! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Faith Marie turned 9 months today!!

What a doll she is ... thank you Bon for updating her progress.

Yesterday was Faith Marie’s 8th month birthday. She is 13# & 24 1/2” long. She loves most baby foods, loves to “talk”, & knows who is talking to her. She has been learning so much stuff this past month. Her appt in Pitts went well, so well in fact, the Drs said that Faith would live past her 1st birthday.  With all the prayers this little girl has in our area, state, and country, God hears them, and He has healed most of the problems she was born with! Thank you Jesus!!
 

RIP Wiener Dog (Harley Ann) July 1 2007 - Sept 23 2019  We got you & you died on a rainy day. 😢

Investigation underway after second death within 3 years at Elk County landfill
by Chelsea Johnson
Wednesday, September 18th 2019 AA   Greentree Landfill (WJAC)     FOX TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WJAC) — Authorities say one man is dead after an accident at an Elk County landfill.
Elk County Coroner Michelle Muccio pronounced 56-year-old Gary Haupt of Penfield dead at Greentree landfill Tuesday evening.
Since then, OSHA has confirmed to 6 News that a compliance officer is investigating the incident and a Pennsylvania Department of Environment Protection investigator was expected to arrive at the landfill Wednesday afternoon.
Muccio said Haupt was trapped between the back of a tractor-trailer and a tipping device Tuesday afternoon. Muccio said he was pronounced dead shortly after 5:30 p.m.
This is the second death at Greentree landfill in two years.
In 2017, William Pierce, a Clearfield County man was killed in a landslide while working there.
Months later, the "Root Cause" report filed after Pierce's death said waste streams within the Greentree landfill, among other factors, contributed to the deadly incident.
The DEP approved that report -- and Advanced Disposal agreed to pay a civil penalty of $600,000.
According to Advanced Disposal’s website, Greentree landfill received its permit in 1986 and handles 3,000 tons of trash a day.
6 News asked the DEP for a list of violations since Greentree Landfill has been in operation.
There were six in total.
In the case of William Pierce, the DEP reported that there were significant cracks and settling in the active disposal area since mid-January 2017, which were not reported until days before Pierce’s death.
Following that incident, there were four more violations in 2017 reported by the DEP that included another significant crack in the landslide violation reported in April of that year.
The most recent violation was in April of 2018, where the DEP reported that Advanced Disposal failed to meet intermediate cover requirements in the landfill.
Advanced Disposal released a statement Wednesday, saying:
In the meantime, Advanced Disposal said Greentree Landfill is operational as the investigation continues.                   SEE VIDEO REPORT  ;     https://wjactv.com/news/local/investigation-underway-after-second-death-within-3-years-at-elk-county-landfill
 

This just came across my news feed.
ELK COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — Elk County Coroner Michelle Muccio announced one person died today from an accident Tuesday at the Greentree Landfill in Fox Township, Elk County.
Muccio said a 56-year-old man was trapped between the back of a tractor trailer and a tipping device just after 3:00 p.m. She said the man was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:36 p.m.
Muccio said the cause of death is blunt force crush injuries to the lower abdomen.

For anyone that doesn't know, a tipper is a stand alone piece of equipment that the tractor trailers back onto to dump their loads in the landfill. Most dump the trailer after the truck uncouples, but some will lift the entire truck and trailer

When that deck is in the down position, it is normally angled from back to front, so the trucks have to back slightly uphill. The big blue wall the truck is backed into is called the backstop, and the way I read that story the employee was pinched between the truck and the backstop. It's doubtful the truck was in neutral with the brakes off and just rolled into him. This is just a very sad, scary story, and another sad example that I shared with all of my operators at lunch today.
We see 130-160 trucks per day, and several times per day we will interact with these trucks with either a man on the ground, or a piece of heavy machinery. Trucks can get stuck and have to be pushed or pulled, spotters will be on the ground, trash can get hung in the chute in the tipper...
The cardinal rule is always make contact with the driver before doing anything around, or to, their truck. Landfills are busy places, trucks and equipment never stop moving. Many drivers get paid by the load, not by the hour, so everyone is in a hurry. We deal with a lot of weight and a lot of horsepower, so very few accidents are small. Almost every accident results in significant damage to equipment, and my fear is always what would happen if it ever involved a man on the ground.
This is what would happen. It's so sad. It's a preventable accident, and if a driver was in fact driving the truck when it ran into that man, he will have to live with that for the rest of his life. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, and my biggest fear is having to call one of my employees' wives one day and tell her daddy isn't coming home
 

Sweet little baby girl!

This just came across my news feed.
ELK COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — Elk County Coroner Michelle Muccio announced one person died today from an accident Tuesday at the Greentree Landfill in Fox Township, Elk County.
Muccio said a 56-year-old man was trapped between the back of a tractor trailer and a tipping device just after 3:00 p.m. She said the man was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:36 p.m.
Muccio said the cause of death is blunt force crush injuries to the lower abdomen.

I sprayed a few times with a homemade solution of Dawn detergent, water and vegetable oil. More for aphids and other tiny  pests. I'm skeptical it kept the beetles away. Formulas available online.

Did you do anything special to not have seen Japanese beetles? Every year we're inundated with them, I'm not a violent person, but when it comes to beetles, those disgusting horn worms, snakes and anything NE Patriot.....I just get the urge to hit something