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In a never-ending tradition, CV high school commences preparations for its seniors final year this is the Class of 09
Special Report
Retirement:
Fresh Start for Seniors.
Christmas,
Hanukkah,
Kwanzaa
Share Your Holiday Memories
What was your most memorable holiday season?

Was it the time a loved one made a surprise appearance at the front door?

Or the day you spent serving dinner to the homeless?

Or the winter you were stationed overseas, listening to the strains of "White Christmas" and thinking of home (or at home thinking of your loved one overseas).

Or maybe you nearly shot your eye out with a official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range-model air-rifle.

We're looking for holiday stories -- serious, hilarious, memorable -- for our December holiday issue.

Share yours (we'll take anecdotes, photographs,
mementoes) by contacting us
at info@mcmags.com by November 25.
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Chartiers Valley Source
Kane Woods Trail. Photo by Erin Goldberger
What Makes Chartiers Valley So Lovable?
Its a fierce loyalty that residents show when asked why they love living in Chartiers Valley. Sometimes the reasons given are obvious, other times outsiders might have a hard time grasping the point. Our editors and writers have come up with a list of the good, the bad and the more mystifying observations of why residents love Chartiers Valley.
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Collier Flag Day
Always a special occasion for Collier Township residents. Once again they celebrated Flag Day on June 14. The township has a special connection with the holiday, as Collier native William Kerr...
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Focus on Education
By Brian Knavish
Are Todays Seniors Ready for College? Bill Moushey has been a college journalism professor for 21 years the first 14 at Pitt and the last seven at Point Park and during that time hes encountered outstanding students, horrible students and everything in between...
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Student Diary: The Big Move to Kent State
By Michael Moses
This fall, scores of recent Chartiers Valley graduates are heading to college, trade schools and their first career jobs. Michael Moses has agreed to keep a journal of his experience as a CV graduate diving head first into modern-day college life...
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Professional Portfolios
Financial Planning: By Ruth A. Forsyth
Physical Training: By Gary Udit
Career Development: By Jennifer Cekus
Genealogy: By Aaron Beinhauer
Chiropractic: By Dr. Steve Mustin
Senior Care: By Chris Francis
Home Remodeling: By Jeff Morris
Automotive: By Carl Baker
Insurance: By Daniel L. Henry
Chartiers Valley Source
Special Focus:Seniors, A Fresh Start
When seniors reach retirement age, they face some hard decisions. To give up working for leisure or having to continue working instead of enjoying their leisure. Here we discuss a series of options for seniors confronting a different kind of journey
Retirement, Now and Then
It wasnt so long ago that, to most people, retirement was a kind of a finish line, a few years of well-deserved rest following a lifetime of hard work....

Options
The massage therapist, who runs her own business out of her home in North Fayette, lives with her 72-year-old mother. Alma, who had her hip replaced years ago, and Linda, who worried about her mother falling....

Hefting a Sledgehammer at 70
Steve Noe spent 30 years working in the cutthroat business of corporate sales. Thats three decades of driving to sales calls, often in horrendous weather, monitoring monthly sales reports, and mastering the grueling art of closing...

Volunteering for Senior Service
For many senior citizens, volunteering is a way to make a difference in the community as they experience a new stage of life. For the volunteer programs in which they serve, they are the lifeblood of the organization...

 
Departments
On My Mind
It has been an exciting time, bringing out four magazines
(soon to be five with the addition
of the Bethel Park Source)...
A Sporting Chance
I'm not a golfer. Unless banking a shot off the mini-golf windmill and into the alligators mouth counts. In my 31 years on this planet, Ive played....
Whats Up, Doc?
When we want advice concerning various medical questions, theres no better place to get the answers than from a hospital doctor...
Making the Grade
Kindergarteners &
the Plant People

Kindergarten classroom K221
was busy planting and growing throughout April! The students, along with long-term substitute...
Campus Beautification
Vanessa Cruises class
recently completed a campus beautification project with the help of the Walden Organization....
Big Ben BBQ Assembly
Ben Roethlisberger visited CVIS on June 10th for an assembly to present awards to the schools top sellers in the Big Ben BBQ fundraiser....
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