Investments In Mt. Lebanon Retirement Community May Be Lost

Myron Cope spent most of the last two years of his life at Covenant at South Hills in Mt. Lebanon and, while he was happy with his apartment there, he worried about the retirement community's financial problems.

Now, the money the legendary Pittsburgh sports broadcaster invested there could be gone, said his daughter, Elizabeth. Cope, along with other residents, learned about Covenant's cash shortage long after he moved in, she said.

"He was mad, to say the least, but what could he do?" Elizabeth Cope said during a break in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing Friday to decide issues on creditors' rights, the retirement home's continued operations and a pending sale to a family that owns a senior living complex in West Virginia. That sale could be decided July 28.

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Lebo Gardens Featured In Documentary

The Holocaust Memorial Garden at Temple Emanuel of South Hills in Mt. Lebanon will be one of three area sites featured in a broadcast at 8 p.m. Thursday on WQED-TV.

The WQED-produced "Gardens of Pennsylvania" also features Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and the gardens of Kennywood Park in its look at seven gardens across the state.

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Temple Emanuel Receives DHS Grant

U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair, on Friday presented Temple Emanuel of the South Hills a check for $85,500 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The grant money is to enhance security around the temple grounds and buildings. A condition of the award is that the temple match 25 percent of the federal funds.

Temple Executive Director Saralouise Reis, who wrote and submitted the grant application, said the money will be used to replace the existing monitoring and recording system; add cameras; erect additional fencing; install intercoms in all nursery school and center classrooms; and more.

A press release from the Department of Homeland Security said the awards "support target hardening and security screening activities in selected nonprofit organizations that are deemed at high risk of a potential terrorist attack."

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