Ms. Adrienne Roberts ‘The Role of Women in Transforming Communities’ Focus on: Adrienne Roberts By Sonja Reis McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania – During a recent NeighborWorks Training Institute program, I participated in a class entitled “The Role of Women in Transforming Communities.” […]
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 […]
