A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a hoola hoop act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a balancing act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a quick change performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Miniature donkeys perform during the Zerbini Family Circus at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a tightrope performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a trapeze performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a hoola hoop act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a hole hoop act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Zerbini Family Circus performers put on a comedic act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a balancing act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a balancing act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus clown performs during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Attendees flock to the entrance of the Zerbini Family Circus ahead of their performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Mayvis Hall, 5, rides a pony ahead of the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Miniature donkeys performed during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a trapeze performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, demonstrates with Amy Tomko, Voluntary Services Officer for Butler VA Healthcare System, how veterans with wheelchairs are transported to VA appointments in one of the VA's transport vans on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, poses in one of the transport vehicles he drives for the Butler VA Healthcare System on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, is seen through the back window of one of the transport vans he drives on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, demonstrates how veterans who use a wheelchair are transported to their VA appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, left, shows Lee Dyer, another volunteer driver, how veterans who use a wheelchair are transported to their VA appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, demonstrates how veterans who use a wheelchair are transported to their VA appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Butler Football Hometown Heroes inductee Brian Minto, left, is pictured with film director DeQwan Young at the Penn Theater on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. The venue hosted the premiere of Young’s documentary “The Beast: The Final Fight”, which details Minto’s life and rise to a top 10-world ranking in the sport of boxing. Derek Pyda/Butler Eagle
John Chos, a volunteer at McConnells Mill State Park, demonstrates the manual scale inside the grist mill at the park on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle
Lucia Janosko, 5, of Pittsburgh, tries out a grain grinder Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, at McConnells Mill State Park. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle
Collins Kramer, of Butler, uses a grain grinder Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, at McConnells Mill State Park. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle
Jeanne Doperak, DO, a primary care sports medicine physician at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Chair of Orthopedics MaCalus Hogan, MD, stands in front of the hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMT Mike Crawford helps prepare lunch for the other EMTs at Quality EMS on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. EMTs are on call 24/7. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMT Kent Shoemaker practices filling syringes for epinephrine injections at Quality EMS on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMTs from Quality EMS not only work but live and eat at the department. Mike Crawford gets hamburgers ready for lunch as the EMTs wait for a possible emergency call on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
Rob Charles, left, and Kent Shoemaker make sure supplies are stocked in one of the EMS trucks since a call can come in at any time to the station on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMTs from Quality EMS Kent Shoemaker, left, and Rob Charles are two of the 24-hour EMTs that stay in the house behind them on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
An exterior shot of the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
A fire truck backs into its bay at the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
An exterior shot of the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
A fire truck backs into its bay at the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
Fire trucks lined up side-by-side in the bays of the new Harmony Fire District station at its opening on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a hoola hoop act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a balancing act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a quick change performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Miniature donkeys perform during the Zerbini Family Circus at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a tightrope performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a trapeze performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a hoola hoop act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a hole hoop act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Zerbini Family Circus performers put on a comedic act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a balancing act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a balancing act during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus clown performs during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Attendees flock to the entrance of the Zerbini Family Circus ahead of their performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Mayvis Hall, 5, rides a pony ahead of the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does an aerialist performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Miniature donkeys performed during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
A Zerbini Family Circus performer does a trapeze performance during the Zerbini Family Circus performance at the Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, demonstrates with Amy Tomko, Voluntary Services Officer for Butler VA Healthcare System, how veterans with wheelchairs are transported to VA appointments in one of the VA's transport vans on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, poses in one of the transport vehicles he drives for the Butler VA Healthcare System on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, is seen through the back window of one of the transport vans he drives on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, demonstrates how veterans who use a wheelchair are transported to their VA appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, left, shows Lee Dyer, another volunteer driver, how veterans who use a wheelchair are transported to their VA appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Jack Hutchinson, volunteer driver for Butler VA Healthcare System, demonstrates how veterans who use a wheelchair are transported to their VA appointments on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, puts the wings on his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Ron Hemphill of the Butler Aircraft Modelers Society, discusses his aircraft scale model of a 1946 Fairchild 24 at the BAMS field in West Sunbury on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Morgan Phillips/Butler Eagle
Butler Football Hometown Heroes inductee Brian Minto, left, is pictured with film director DeQwan Young at the Penn Theater on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. The venue hosted the premiere of Young’s documentary “The Beast: The Final Fight”, which details Minto’s life and rise to a top 10-world ranking in the sport of boxing. Derek Pyda/Butler Eagle
John Chos, a volunteer at McConnells Mill State Park, demonstrates the manual scale inside the grist mill at the park on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle
Lucia Janosko, 5, of Pittsburgh, tries out a grain grinder Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, at McConnells Mill State Park. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle
Collins Kramer, of Butler, uses a grain grinder Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024, at McConnells Mill State Park. Eddie Trizzino/Butler Eagle
Jeanne Doperak, DO, a primary care sports medicine physician at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Chair of Orthopedics MaCalus Hogan, MD, stands in front of the hospital on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMT Mike Crawford helps prepare lunch for the other EMTs at Quality EMS on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. EMTs are on call 24/7. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMT Kent Shoemaker practices filling syringes for epinephrine injections at Quality EMS on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMTs from Quality EMS not only work but live and eat at the department. Mike Crawford gets hamburgers ready for lunch as the EMTs wait for a possible emergency call on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
Rob Charles, left, and Kent Shoemaker make sure supplies are stocked in one of the EMS trucks since a call can come in at any time to the station on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
EMTs from Quality EMS Kent Shoemaker, left, and Rob Charles are two of the 24-hour EMTs that stay in the house behind them on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. Rob McGraw/Butler Eagle
Rob McGraw
An exterior shot of the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
A fire truck backs into its bay at the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
An exterior shot of the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
A fire truck backs into its bay at the new Harmony Fire District station, which opened on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
Fire trucks lined up side-by-side in the bays of the new Harmony Fire District station at its opening on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. William Pitts/Butler Eagle
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