Community leaders take part in the Launch Sto-Rox Incubator: Remixer event. GROW STO-ROX To open an NAACP chapter, 100 signatures are needed, each accompanied by $30 for the annual membership fee. In distressed communities that membership fee can become the […]
Special food distribution for McKees Rocks and Stowe residents Grow Sto-Rox partners are working with 412 Food Rescue and the Allegheny County Housing Authority to bring a drive-up food distribution to the area on Tuesday, June 16. What: Drive-up Food […]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, foodbanks everywhere are adjusting operations to accommodate an influx of new participants. In Stowe, operation has been expanded to a weekly basis and in McKees Rocks, a fundraising drive was launched raising more than $5,000 for […]
Stowe resident Adrienne Roberts is one of three recent additions to the McKees Rocks Community Development Corporation Board of Directors. Roberts, joins Aliya Wray of Aliya Wray’s Beauty Parlor and Eric Lawlor, executive vice president and COO at Ohio Valley […]
By Sonja Reis | MRCD “Where there is light there is hope,” said Cindy Haines, executive director, Focus On Renewal (F.O.R.), during the Jan. 31 Sto-Rox Opioid Crisis Summit. The packed event sponsored by Ohio Valley Hospital and coordinated […]
What’s thrive? Sto-Rox Community Resource Center Spends Its First 100 Days Helping Members Learn to Thrive
By Sonja Reis | MRCDC Traveling through downtown McKees Rocks, you can’t help but notice subtle changes to the landscape along the Chartiers Avenue business district. There are building facade updates, additions to the outdoor space at Rocks Landing, signs […]
Help create opportunity and impact by sharing ideas during Launch Sto-Rox, a community conversation
Launch Sto-Rox is a program to help local business and community project leaders create opportunity and impact. Your views will guide the direction of this program and future programming in McKees Rocks and Stowe Township. Focus On Renewal, the McKees […]
Focus On Renewal honors its late founder with t-shirt message urging community involvement
Lydia Morin | FOR A t-shirt honoring Father Don Fisher and all of his work in the Sto-Rox Area recently has been unveiled by Focus on Renewal. The co-founder of the social services organization, Fisher was still very much active […]
“A Gathering of Sons” opera featured during 7th Annual African American Celebration of the Arts at Ryan Arts & Culture Center
Another black man is shot by a white police officer, and we ask what comes next? How do we heal? How do we protect our children? How do we survive this state, this country, this world? In the winter of […]
Year In Review: Great Strides In Development, Nutrition, Mental Health Initiatives During 2016
The second of our annual facade renovation projects nears completion. Taris Vrcek | MRCDC During the past year, the staff and board at McKees Rocks Development Corporation have fully embraced plans unveiled in 2015 for a ‘complete community’ strategy. In […]
